Essay

Objective: Assess the traits and characteristics of a successful entrepreneur and leadership.

Introduction: Although the media may sometimes portray a different view, building a strong ethical culture within your business is important. It takes a dedicated and persistent personality, a person with high morals, and a person who can be a coach, leader, and visionary. All this seems pretty straightforward!

In your essay identify the traits required of a leader and successful entrepreneur, provide examples and explore the role management has in building a supportive and ethical culture within the workplace. Do a search to include other current and contemporary views on entrepreneurial skills, traits, and characteristics that integrate leadership and effective ethical business practices.

Deliverables:

The essay for this lesson is required to be a minimum of 5 FULL pages (the text should cover 5 pages excluding title and reference pages) which clearly demonstrate your understanding of the activity. Essays should have a clear introduction, thesis statement, and a conclusion, written in APA format (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/). Additional pages to your work should include a cover page, title page, and outside references.

Activity Details:

Step 1: Read the following questions, and use what you have learned about the Successful Entrepreneur to summarize your responses in a paper that is 5 full pages, excluding title and reference pages (APA formatting required). Key points to address to help you launch your theme might include:

What specific approaches and strategies should entrepreneurs implement in their business to promote ethical behavior and punish unethical behavior, among owners, partners, and employees?

Entrepreneurs should lead by example. Provide a summary of your recommendations for additional strategies they could adopt to help safeguard against unethical behavior.

References

How to Create a Successful Organizational Culture: Build it -Literally from Haworth, G.W., Haworth, D., Bianchi, F., (2014). Global leader in contract furnishing industry.

Nelson, W., Taylor, E., & Walsh, T., (2014). Building an Ethical Organizational Culture. The Health Care Manager, 33(2), 158-164. 

Dame, J. (2014, March 10). The Four Keys to Being a Trusted Leader. Harvard Business Review, 2-3.

George, B., Sims, P., McLean, A.N., & Mayer, D. (2007, February). Discovering Your Authentic Leadership. Harvard Business Review, 129-138.

Freeman, D. & Siegfried Jr., R.L. (2015). Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Context of Company Start-up and Growth. Journal of Leadership Studies 8 (4), 34-39.