LDSP 5130 Leadership and Decision Making Group project: Heuristics: Advice to Your Future Self FEach group will develop a set of heuristics or guidelines on teams, leadership, and related topics. Purpose: How to submit: What to do: Purposes include (1) to synthesize ideas on teams, leadership, and related topics developed before and during the class; (2) to integrate an ethical framework into the study of teams and leadership; (3) to stimulate discussion and collaboration among group members; and (4) to produce a useful artifact from the class that group members can refer back to after the class is over. This is a group project. One member from each group should submit the final project on behalf of the group. Submit your project as a (word processor) document in RTF format. RTF format stands for \"Rich Text Format and is a generic word processor format that you can choose under the \"Save As option when you save a document. For your project, name your file with your group's name and \"heuristics.\" Here is one example of the file name for a fictitious group named \"beatles tribute band: beatles tribute band heuristics Your document should have the following centered at the top: LDSP 5130 Leadership and Decision Making Heuristics: Advice To Your Future Self Your group's name Group member A's name, B's, C's, etc. for all group members Heuristics are a set of guidelines that people use to direct their activities. We all have a variety of heuristics in our lives, either formal or informal. A formal business heuristic might be a reorder point (trigger point) for reordering supplies like lumber, paper clips, or cans of broccoli at work. An informal personal heuristic might be how much drive time you allow for when you travel to work. Develop as a group a set of heuristics for your practice of decision making, problem solving, and/or leadership. Have at least twenty-five (25) items, although you may certainly have more. Your heuristics can include but are not limited to: - Things you would do. - Things you would not do. - An ethical framework concerning decision making, problem solving, and leadership. - Observations about the effectiveness of styles of leadership as they apply to decision making. - Other insights about successful or unsuccessful decision making and associated leadership. At least some of your items should be devoted to particular topics or subtopics within or associated with decision making and problem solving. Here are some items to be sure to include in your heuristics: = A minimum of fifteen of your heuristics should have some sort of tie to the texts used in this class. = A minimum of four should address ethical aspects of decision making and/or problem solving in some way. You may have overlap between these criteria in the same heuristic item, such as ethical issues involved in making organizational decisions. At least one of your items should take a different perspective from something presented in our readings in the class it is acceptable for you to differ from something a textbook says. You will need to provide a brief explanation for each heuristic in your list and why you chose to include that. Please feel free to draw inspiration and ideas from other activities in this course including class member interactions, readings, discussion boards, quizzes, and your group tests. There is nothing wrong with taking an idea developed elsewhere in the course and incorporating into your set of heuristics. You may also include your own observations and input from outside of the course things that you have experienced or read about. Insights that you have gotten from other classes or university activities or jobs or civic activities are welcome. Grading evaluation + Fatal Writing Error Policy. Grading Evaluation: Fails to meet expectations. Assignment not completed or minimal submission. The grading evaluation is presented below. Grading Evaluation: Grading Evaluation: Meets expectations. Exceeds expectations: A-level work. (Expands on \"Meets expectations\" performance) A set of heuristics is submitted Explanation accompanies each heuristic item about why with a consistent \"look and feel\" that item was included/why the heuristic item was for all the items listed. Some written as such; the set of heuristics is organized or explanation accompanies each grouped according to certain themes. heuristic listed. The Fatal Writing Error Policy is in effect for this assignment and follows below: Fatal Error Writing Policy. Used with permission from Dr. Doug Eder, SIUE (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville} School of Business and Dr. Roy Baker, Austin Peay State University School of Business. Modified for use in this class by William Ravburn. All written assignments must meet minimal standards to be acceptable. These standards address spelling, punctuation, format, and basic grammar. The term Fatal Errors refers to technical writing errors and errors of form. Specifically, Fatal Errors include the following: e each different word misspelled each run-on sentence or comma splice each serious error in punctuation each error in verb-tense or subject-verb agreement lack of conformity with assignment format (such as title page and abstract if specified) and other requirements connected to the assignment. each improper citation s each faulty homonym Tt is your responsibility to check your assignments before they are submitted to identify and correct fatal writing errors. The instructor reserves the right to deduct points for fatal errors. Assignments with more than three (3) fatal writing errors on any one page or more than ten (10} in the entire document are unacceptable. The instructor reserves the right to stop grading when this figure 1s exceeded and has the option to enter a grade of zero (0) for that assignment. There will be no chance to correct mistakes