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Artifacts 

Artifact Description

                    This artifact examines and elaborates the importance of cultural awareness and the lack of local laws that protects intellectual property and how cultural unawareness may not find it unethical to use the intellectual property of other entrepreneurs due to cultural norms or the lack of laws that protect entrepreneurs like in different countries around the world. 

The research focused on the problem and interventions, which included: 

  1. Preparation 

  2. Call for action 

  3. Execution Phase and  

  4. Training 

Business ethics are important practices that every entrepreneur ought to acquire for them to execute sound and relevant decisions about their business.  Business ethics are simply the standards that are morally set for wrong or right conducts in business.  That is, the standards that guide an individual to make right or wrong decisions about their conduct while engaging in business are simply referred to as business ethics (Ferrell and Fraedrich, 2021).  

DEL Program Outcomes 

  • DEL Outcome # 1: Sense and shape opportunities for, and threats to, future growth and development through embedding scanning, creative, and learning processes into organizations, communities, or institutions.

  • DEL Outcome #4: Model, design, and implement scholar-practitioner practices and processes to develop ethical leadership in organizational, community, or institutional contexts. 

Artifact Description

                 AFRIKAM is an artifact that has been completed and executed at the Naval Support Activity in Bahrain.  It is a platform that was created with the desire to showcase Africa and its cultural influence around the world.  Afrikam is a platform for artisans, artists, and entrepreneurs around the world to showcase and sale their work of art, skills, passion, and values. 

DEL Program Outcomes 

  • DEL Outcome # 2: Make timely judgments to seize opportunities and to bring about those decisions by a) developing and rewarding creative action and b) diminishing assets and processes that no longer add value.

  • ​DEL Outcome #3: Assemble, align, and reconfigure tangible and intangible assets to sustain organizations’, communities’, or institutions’ viability for the future

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Artifact Description

                   Plastic waste from food packaging or other storage materials remains a significant challenge in India and around the world (The Economic Times, 2022). In most situations, the recycling companies avoid the high recycling costs, releasing the non-biodegradable waste into the environment. The accumulation of plastic waste has put the ecosystem under strain as more living things survive in polluted environments (Moshood et al., 2022). Using compostable or biodegradable products is the first step to overcoming the harmful effects of plastic waste.  I understood the importance of kitchen items to women and chefs around the word; therefore, I decided to create products that are beautiful enough to replace any plates, small storage containers and utensils in a kitchen.

 

                   To create this artifact, I traveled to India to partner with companies who interest in joining this movement is also deeply rooted in passion for saving our planet. I initially, planned it to be a project that will bring light to the problem of plastic waste by military vessels from the U.S. Navy around the word; however, after utilizing the skills learned in the DEL program, I decided to apply DEL outcomes 5, and 6 to leverage and align tangible and intangible assets to communities’ viability for the future.

DEL Program Outcomes 

  • DEL Outcome #5: Assess existing research and practices and design, conduct, and interpret research to contribute to the theory and practice of leadership within one’s discipline, multidisciplinary contexts.

  • DEL Outcome #6:  Generate and critically evaluate new knowledge, conserve the most important ideas and findings that are a legacy of past and current work and engage in the transformational work of communicating knowledge responsibly to others.

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Artifact Description

                   In 2016, the number of international students was projected to be approximately five million (Streitwieser & Ogden, 2016). In 2019-2020, about one million one hundred thousand international students enrolled in the U.S. higher learning institutions. The U.S. has been receiving among the most international students who have been drawn to these institutions because of the high-quality education of the U.S. higher education, accessibility of job opportunities after completion, and its value on the global labor market (Batalova, 2021). Therefore, there is a need to help these students settle into the higher learning of their choice seamlessly by creating a conducive environment that allays their fear and embraces diversity. This artifact permits for an opportunity to improve the lives of those students seeking higher education in the United States by educating them and assisting them in choosing the best universities based on their cultural background and educational interest. 

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                   Transitioning to the United States can present multiple challenges.  Educating the universities’ leadership about the importance of diversity in their campuses and alumni body has permitted involvement in getting to know the students.  Allowing for time for transition and cultivating the implementation of programs that allow for English as a second language and orientation programs that are rich with diversity and inclusion. Outcome #4 has created the model, design and implementation of scholar leader practices, which in term developed ethical leadership within the institutional contexts and the communities receiving the students. 

DEL Program Outcomes 

  • DEL Outcome #4: Model, design, and implement scholar-practitioner practices and processes to develop ethical leadership in organizational, community, or institutional contexts. 

  • DEL Outcome #6:  Generate and critically evaluate new knowledge, conserve the most important ideas and findings that are a legacy of past and current work and engage in the transformational work of communicating knowledge responsibly to others.

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Artifact Description

                   This artifact will permit members of the Department of Defense and the Department of State to be able to influence their family members, which builds a moral compass, values, and traditions (Joiner & Tutty, 2018).  Consequently, the defense department and their families will be able to practice, understand and pick something from different family values, enabling them to reflect on society at large.  

                   Developing cultural awareness for the Department of Defense Personnel and their family would be done through a major event conducted annually.  The event shall include a BBQ, a visitation of Diplomats and Dignitaries and fashion show and a question-and-answer forum that allows for training and cultural awareness.  Each is crucial in training cultural awareness (Department of the Army, 2021).  For instance, representatives from different cultures will conduct the BBQ festivities, each making the best delicacies represented in their culture.  When people share a meal, they can interact and consider taking home the recipes to try with their families.  Also, the visitation of Diplomats and Dignitaries from different cultures will be present to mentor and advise the defense personnel about ways to adapt care to military culture and ways to support off-post social support that enables them to help the community in different ways, such as educational intervention and health promotions (Wijnja, 2022).  This helps them develop leadership skills such as better communication and responsibility (Rosenbaum & Lawrence, 2017).  The fashion show and a question-and-answer forum will play a crucial part in showing different cultures and asking a question and gaining clarity about cultures to avoid misunderstanding and stereotyping.  

                   The plans for the success and execution of the event will be determined by two factors tangible and intangible assets.  The tangible assets include the expenses for the program, equipment and event ground or building where the event would be held.  The programs will request partnership and support from the National Naval Officers Association, Mauna/Afrikam who will be responsible for providing financial support.  The Department of the Navy financial support will facilitate the equipment and location that will be used.  The intangible assets will be the pre-paid expenses covered by the donors and government. Other stakeholders involved include suppliers for the supplies used during BBQ, military personnel for the manpower, donors for the program’s training, government agencies, and communities.  

DEL Program Outcomes 

  • DEL Outcome # 1: Sense and shape opportunities for, and threats to, future growth and development through embedding scanning, creative, and learning processes into organizations, communities, or institutions.

  • DEL Outcome #3: Assemble, align, and reconfigure tangible and intangible assets to sustain organizations’, communities’, or institutions’ viability for the future.

  • DEL Outcome #6:  Generate and critically evaluate new knowledge, conserve the most important ideas and findings that are a legacy of past and current work and engage in the transformational work of communicating knowledge responsibly to others.

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