Overview
The Moral Compass Essay is a critically reflective personal essay defining and articulating personal values and explaining how they guide your character, conscience, and conduct in business, society, and professional life. It should be written in your own words in the first-person narrative voice as a brief synopsis of your personal moral compass.
You should study course content in Modules 1-4, especially the Moral Compass materials, when working on the assignment. You should make every effort to integrate and synthesize your understanding of course content with your personal values, experience, and independent inquiry.
Learning Objectives
The purpose of the Moral Compass Essay is to articulate a thoughtfully reasoned system of values, principles, and practices as a human values framework for conscientious business and professional leadership. This assignment demonstrates your progress towards achieving the learning objectives italicized in blue below:
1. Foster your personal moral intelligence and well-being.
2. Think and communicate effectively about values and ethics.
3. Foster human values as the moral foundation of leadership and value creation.
4. Develop and justify an action plan to manage an ethical challenge.
5. Lead purposeful conversations about values and ethics.
Guidelines
Be sure to write the Moral Compass Essay in your own words using the first person narrative voice.
The Moral Compass Essay is a formal essay between 15-0 and 2500 words (five to eight pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point-font).
References and citations are not required because this is about you, but if you do include quotations or ideas from other writers, citations and a References section must follow APA format. You do not need to reference the Moral Compass Workbook unless you include a direct quote. The page count does not include a page for references.
