Overview
The purpose of the Moral Compass Essay assignment is to define and articulate your own thoughtfully reasoned system of values, principles, and practices as a framework for personal integrity, business and professional value creation, and conscientious leadership. This assignment primarily targets the first BLHV learning objective to foster your personal moral intelligence and wellbeing.
- Word count: 1200-1500 words. Your essay may be longer, but not shorter.
- Visuals and media (optional) to enhance your narrative.
- Citations in APA format required to document references to visuals, media, course materials, and authoritative wisdom tradition sources.
- The Moral Compass Essay is an individual assignment written entirely in your own words and based on your personal experience. DO NOT write an essay about what a moral compass is. Use the BLHV Moral Compass framework to write about your own Moral Compass.
- Prepare before you write by reading the BLHV Moral Compass WorkbookActions and working on the exercises that seem useful to you.
- Consult the Values Toolkit (Chapter 11 of The Leadership Labyrinth), Moral Foundations Theory,Links to an external site. and authoritative sources from your own wisdom tradition in organizing your Moral Compass Essay.
- Thoroughly discuss every element of the Moral Compass as honestly and forthrightly as you can with personal examples.
Following is the sample format:
Personal Integrity Statement and Wisdom Traditions. 3 points What is your understanding of a Moral Compass as a foundation for personal integrity? From which Wisdom Tradition(s) do you draw in constructing your Moral Compass? What do you appreciate and question about this Wisdom Tradition? Why? II. Moral Vision. 3 points What is your vision of a good life? What symbol, song, image, or story represents your moral vision? How does your Wisdom Tradition influence your moral vision? How does your moral vision inspire and motivate you? III. Moral Code. 3 points What are the rules or principles of your moral code? How does your moral code align with your moral vision? How does your Wisdom Tradition influence your moral code? IV. Moral Fitness. 3 points What is your understanding of moral fitness? What practices constitute your moral fitness regimen? How do these practices foster your moral intelligence and wellbeing? How do they align with and reinforce your moral vision, code, and Wisdom Tradition? V. Defining Moment. 3 points What moral challenge has been a key defining moment for you? How has this moral challenge tested, clarified, and defined your character and values. If you could, how would you rewrite the script for this event in your life? Why? How does your Wisdom Tradition influence your moral understanding of this defining moment?
VI.Human Values and Value Creation, and Leadership. 3 points
What is your understanding of human values as the foundation and measure of the value you create through your life and your work? Write here VII. Your Future as a Conscientious Leader. 3 points What is your vision of yourself as a conscientious leader? What moral challenges do you expect in your future career path? How do you envision using your Moral Compass to manage these challenges? Write here IX. Reflection. 3 points What is your key take-away from the Moral Compass assignment? How has this assignment influenced your understanding of yourself? How has it influenced your understanding of values, morality, and ethics? Write here X. Format. 1 point. Follow the assignment format and include all referenced materials properly cited in APA format.
Attached is the material needed and also the essay rubric.