Critical Evaluation of Poverty as a Wicked Social Issue

Social Issue – Poverty
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Executive Summary
The paper will focus on critical evaluation of the social issue poverty which is one of the wicked
problem as it follows as the characteristics of Rittel and Webber wicked problems chart.
Poverty is the problem that creates discrimination between the upper class and the lower class.
For reducing this issue no proper solution is established now but the consequences of this issue
should be diminished if people take proper measures of not creating difference between the rich
and the poor’s. All people should be treated as the same so that no people will suffer from
hunger, lack of education that gives rise to this wicked problem poverty. The essay will mainly
focus on the poverty issue that being to be different in different communities as well as the
environment. For reducing this issue, an appropriate competing values framework should be
needed by this people so that they can slightly diminish the problem and the poverty in the
country should reduce. Thus the competing value framework help the people to reduce the
poverty level in the country through it cannot be properly diminished. For this reason a proper
leader is necessary that help the people to overcome their poverty issue in the coming days.
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Description of the social issue.....................................................................................................................3
Discussion of the wicked problem characteristics.......................................................................................3
Discussion and justification that the problem is wicked..............................................................................4
Discussion of application of competing values framework.........................................................................4
Discussion of implications and interplay of the identified competing values..............................................5
Discuss potential leadership implications....................................................................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................6
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