Conscious leadership for sustainability

The Assignment:

Application 1: Analysis and Synthesis of Prior Research

At professional conferences, blocks of time may be set aside for what are termed ” poster sessions.”

A hotel ballroom or large open area will be ringed with individuals who use displays

such as posters or electronic presentations displayed via projectors.

These sessions provide an opportunity to share one’s research in an intimate setting, with a small group gathered around who share a similar interest.

The seminar format of this course is very similar to this academic exchange.

During one set of paired weeks, you will be appointed as a Group Leader.

If you are one of the Group Leaders for this week,

you are to prepare an academic presentation, much like a poster session.

Your presentation should present analysis and synthesis of prior research on the topic:

Conscious leadership for sustainability: Balancing the triple bottom line

and will begin the interaction with your colleagues.

You will prepare an academic paper of 7 pagesin APA format.

This analysis will be an open-ended introduction to explaining how socially conscious leadership

can be modeled and implemented in organizational settings.

Your goal, as the presenter, should be to persuade your discussants that the approach(es)

you have analyzed and synthesized are a sound means for becoming a socially conscious leader.

You should acknowledge that there are other models, or means to study leaders and their use of social consciousness,

but you should strive to be as persuasive as possible that the specific concepts

and operationalizations you have reviewed are exciting research avenues and that they are potentially

breakthrough areas in the understanding of how socially conscious leadership contributes to organizational effectiveness in a systems context.

You may also consider how the system itself contributes to the inability of a leader to act in a way that furthers the application of triple bottom line principles.