As the leader of a large national organisation, you are responsible for ensuring that remote teams and projects are being managed effectively, and that employees are motivated and engaged within their roles. This ensures that productivity is high, and that organisational goals and targets are being met effectively.
Assessment. This is an individual presentation.
As the leader of a large national organisation, you are responsible for ensuring that remote teams and projects are being managed effectively, and that employees are motivated and engaged within their roles. This ensures that productivity is high, and that organisational goals and targets are being met effectively.
However, you have been told by a reliable source that your leadership style doesn’t meet the requirements of 21st Century business needs, and that you are ‘out of touch’ with working practices, and the needs and expectations of the organisation’s employees.
You have spoken to HR who have suggested to you undertake a period of self-reflection to identify what areas of your leadership may need development.
Assessment Guide. Prepare a presentation (power-point or otherwise) on the following:
- Critically discuss a range of reflective tools which will enable you as a leader to reflect on your own leadership style, traits and characteristics. (LO1)
- Choosing one reflective tool, critically evaluate your own leadership style, traits and characteristics. (LO1)
- Continuing with your chosen reflective tool, identify what areas of leadership you feel you need to develop, and explain your reasons why. (LO1)
- Discuss what implications there might be to both the employees and organisation if your leadership skills were not developed effectively, and explain how this would impact on your leadership style and the wider organisation. (LO2)
- Critically evaluate the benefits of effectively developing your leadership skills on both the employees and the organisation and its objectives, and critically explain how the reflective model has enabled you to analyse and improve your leadership abilities. (LO2)
| Assessment Criteria | Marks Awarded | Marks Available | |
| 1 | Critically discuss a range of reflective tools which will enable you as a leader to reflect on your own leadership style, traits and characteristics. (LO1)
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20 | |
| 2 | Choosing one reflective tool, critically evaluate your own leadership style, traits and characteristics. (LO1)
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20 | |
| 3 | Continuing with your chosen reflective tool, identify what areas of leadership you feel you need to develop, and explain your reasons why. (LO1)
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15 | |
| 4 | Discuss what implications there might be to both the employees and organisation if your leadership skills were not developed effectively, and explain how this would impact on your leadership style and the wider organisation. (LO2)
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15 | |
| 5 | Critically evaluate the benefits of effectively developing your leadership skills on both the employees and the organisation and its objectives, and critically explain how the reflective model has enabled you to analyse and improve your leadership abilities. (LO2)
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30 | |
| Additional Comments from Second marker or External Examiner (if required):
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Would students please note that achievement of the learning outcomes for this assessment is demonstrated against the assessment criteria shown below (which are not necessarily weighted equally). All marks/grades remain indicative until they have been considered and confirmed by the Assessment Board
Master Level Marking Criteria
| No work has been submitted in the time allowed, or the work submitted demonstrates little or no understanding of the task or the subject matter. This may be evident where the work is substantially incoherent, irrelevant or lacking in factual content, or where these shortcomings are present in combination such that the work as a whole is unsound. Major errors of fact, or evidence of substantially poor cognitive or other relevant skills will also lead to a fail.
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Fail:
Marks below 30% |
| The work shows some knowledge and required skills are present to a degree. There may be appreciable error or omission of facts, poor structure, misdirection to the task, or poor conceptualisation or illustration of the work. Evidence of analysis and evaluation is weak. There will be indications in the work that the candidate is capable of improving it by further application to the task.
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Fail:
Marks in the range 30% – 39% |
| The work contains sufficient descriptive information. There is some analysis and explanation with appropriate illustration and example, and some attempt to evaluate. The work will generally be coherent and relevant, it will contain some useful proposals or solutions related to familiar solutions and there will be some attempt at originality. It will be communicated clearly.
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Pass:
Marks in the range of 40% – 49% |
| The work contains all the necessary contextual information. There will be adequate analysis, explanation and conceptualisation, with appropriate illustration and example, and sound attempts to evaluate and judge. The work will be substantially coherent and will contain relevant and feasible proposals or solutions related to familiar situations, some responses to uncertainty or ambiguity and some acknowledgements of the implications of change.
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Pass:
Marks in the range of 50% – 59% |
| The work will contain complete explanations using most available information. There will be substantial analysis; the ability to recognise evidence, use ideas, conceptualise, evaluate and judge in familiar situations will be clearly demonstrated. Proposals or solutions will be contextually relevant and useful, with substantial evidence of the skill necessary to operationalize them in a variety of situations, including those in which uncertainty, ambiguity or change are present. The work will provide evidence of originality and of useful knowledge transfer to novel situations. It will be coherent and convincing.
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Pass:
Marks in the range of 60% – 69% |
| The work will clearly demonstrate the ability to analyse accurately, reliably and fully, all relevant information; to use evidence; to conceptualise, evaluate and judge; to propose and operationalise effective solutions, and to show substantial originality and creativity in a variety of familiar situations or in the face of ambiguity, uncertainty or change. It will demonstrate valuable knowledge transfer and propose feasible solutions for a wide range of situations. Evidence of the ability to innovate will be present.
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Pass:
Marks in the range of 70% and above |
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Assessment Structure Instructions
Report/ Case Study/ Essay
- All written report should be based on the following guideline:
- Font size : 12
- Font type : Arial/Times New Roman
- Line spacing : 1.5
- Alignment : Justify
- The structure of the report/case study/essay should be as follow:
No cover page needed
- Table of content with proper numbering system and page number
- Main body of the assignment
- Reference list with proper Harvard Referencing according to WGU requirements
- The PDF file submission is recommended in order to prevent the format from running.
- All students are encouraged to use the Turnitin Similarity Checker to check on their work’s similarity rate before the final submission to module submission link.
- The word count is exclusive of table of content, in-text citations, references, appendix, and tables.
- The penalty for exceeding the word count is 5 marks per 1000 words excess, with a 10% leeway above the specified word count before the penalty is applied.
Presentation (PowerPoint Slides)
- The structure of the presentation (PowerPoint Slides) should be as follow:
No cover page needed
- The first presentation slide should consist of:
- Student name and Student ID number
- Module code and module name
- Lecturer name
- Main body of the assignment (presentation)
- Reference list, which is part of the presentation slides with proper Harvard Referencing according to WGU requirements
- All students are required to convert their PowerPoint slides into Note Pages format and save it in PDF file for final submission.
- All students are encouraged to use the Turnitin Similarity Checker to check on their work’s similarity rate before the final submission to Turnitin.
- Total number of presentation slides should not exceed 30 slides including the reference list.
- The in-text citations must be included in both the presentation slides and the note pages.
Format for BUS7AN Contemporary Leadership Themes Assignment 2 (Presentation)
Content page
- Introduction
- Range of Reflective tool
- Chosen Reflective tool
- Implications in the Context of the Employees and the Organization
- Benefits of Effectively Developing the Leadership Skills
- Conclusion
References
- Introduction
Provide some background on this large national company and identify how the company failed to meet the needs stated in the question.
The objectives of the presentation should be clearly stated.
- Range of Reflective tool
Use at least 2 tools that focus on the reflective practice. In addition, you have to apply these reflective practices in the context of how leadership can be strengthened to ensure continued business success.
- Chosen Reflective tool
Based on what you have presented in 2.0, choose one of the tools and state the reasons.
- Implications in the Context of the Employees and the Organization
If your leadership skills have not been developed effectively, how will this affect your employees and the organization that you are working in? What are their exact implications?
- Benefits of Effectively Developing the Leadership Skills
In a similar way, if your leadership skills have been developed effectively, how will this affect your employees and the organization that you are working in? What are their exact implications?
- Conclusion
Summarize your content accordingly and you should not be churning out further pointers.
References
Please follow proper Harvard referencing which is supposed to be arranged in alphabetical order with no indent spacing. More importantly, please ensure that in-text citations are in-line with your reference list. In addition, please ensure that your reference list commence on a fresh slide.
CITATION
