Q Why We Reflect Reflections offer the opportunity to consider your personal experiences, opinions, and observations in light of new ideas or concepts. Writing a reflection paper encourages you to explore your own ideas about the course material and express an opinion or forecast outcomes instead of summarizing the opinions of others. Constructing Your Paper You are expected to critically engage with the new course concepts presented to you and make connections between the material and your personal experiences or observations, then form a well thought through opinion on the topic. You should analyze the new material from your point of view, producing original ideas. It is often helpful to brainstorm before writing and reflective writing is no different. Reflective writing requires a first-person perspective; first identifying a focus and then asking yourself questions to complete the reflective analysis. In MGMT 325, you are assigned three (3) written reflection analysis papers. These are labeled: Initial Reflection, Mid-Point Reflection, and Final Reflection. Please use the questions as a guide to complete each assignment. Below are questions to consider, these are divided between initial, mid-point, and final reflection. • Initial Reflection o Contextualize: ? What are YOUR learning goals? ? What are the course goals? ? What are the course learning objectives? ? How do these all fit together? o Analytical Reflection ? How do you fit into these learning goals? ? What is your own personal mission for this course/your degree? ? What is your role? ? How do you fit into this course? ? Looking outside of yourself, how will your learnings help the larger community? • Mid-Point Reflection o We are halfway through the term (almost). Take a moment to think about this course and re-read your initial goals. ? What have you learned thus far? ? You have spent 4 weeks engaged in ethics, ethical dilemmas, social responsibility, and sustainability. ? Those learnings have frameworks, concepts, and theories steeped in business and the operating environment. ? Through the discussions and the ethical dilemma presentation, you are now seeing applications of those business ethics come to life. ? Considering the information you have gathered thus far: ? What is surprising? ? What is expected? ? What goals do you still need to accomplish? • Final Reflection o We are in the final module of this term. Take a moment to think about the course and re-read the course description and learning objectives. ? What did you learn? ? You have completed 9 modules learning about ethics, social responsibility, emphasis on the business environment, and the stakeholder impacts. ? Those learnings centered in an operating business environment, you read mini-cases, applied the decision-making model to ethical dilemmas, and practiced ethical decision making through real-world examples. o Considering the information you have gathered: ? What is surprising? ? What is expected? ? What are you going to do with this information? Writing Guidelines Your paper should be written using the following formatting guidelines: • Use the APA style. The Writing Style Guide contains information on using the APA style. • Title Page • References APA style o Textbook o Supplemental readings ? Perhaps business outlets, academic articles, current event articles o 3 pages (not including the title page and references), double spaced o First-person Finalizing Your Deliverable Once you have completed the Reflective Analysis, take the time to read through your paper. Reading aloud may help you identify any grammatical errors. Did your paper get across the reflection you were expecting? Is the paper in APA style? After reading your Reflection, what do you want the audience to take-away?