Please note: The first assignments in Units 8 and 9 are related. In Unit 8, your work will be graded only for completion and relevancy. In Unit 9, your work will be graded with a content-specific rubric.
Before you draft your paper, review the scoring guide for the Unit 9 assignment. Since each criterion of the rubric will contribute to your grade on the paper, it is a good idea to develop an outline of headings and subheadings that you will use in your paper. This will help you to include all necessary elements in the assignment.
Assignment Instructions
Based on the readings about continuous quality improvement and the readings about leadership and organizational decision making in a learning culture, analyze the kind of improvement-oriented leader you anticipate being as you move forward in your profession. Include in your analysis:
- Your critique of the ideas that the Jossey-Bass Reader authors indicated were important for leading organizational change.
- Your analysis of the Cooperrider and Whitney principles of appreciative inquiry.
- Your understanding of the AQIP principles of quality improvement.
- Your view on the idea of context as it appears in the Action Research Paradigm Protocol media piece.
