CX663002 Leadership in Action

Assessment Overview

This is the first of two assessments. For this assessment you will create an individual report that justifies the choice of leadership styles for specific situations. Your justification will also recognise cultural diversity and/or cultural contexts

Conditions of Assessment

This is an individual assessment you will complete in your learner-managed time, however, your teacher will provide opportunities during class time for clarification, guidance, collaborative working opportunities, and group discussion.

All work must be referenced appropriately using APA 6th edition. In order to pass this course you must achieve a cumulative grade of at least 50% across assessments one and two.

Learning Outcome(s) Assessed

1. Justify the choice of leadership style(s) for specific situations that also recognise cultural diversity and/or cultural contexts.

Instructions

To complete this assessment you will need to select an organisation in New Zealand you are interested to work for after graduating from OPAIC. You will assess the leadership approach for two specific management levels (lower, middle or senior management levels) in your selected organisation and justify the choice of leadership style(s) for each specific management level. Within your justification you will also include recognition of cultural diversity and/or cultural contexts within the specific situations.

As suggested approach to complete this assignment is to:

1. Identify and analyse the leadership approaches adopted at two specific levels in your selected organisation considering:
   
   a. The relevant leadership concepts, perspectives and/or leadership frameworks  
   
   b. Assess the effectiveness of the leadership approach adopted in the selected organisation 
   
   c. Justify the choices in leadership style(s)
   
   d. Justify the leadership style(s) in terms of recognition of cultural diversity and/or cultural contexts.

2. Discuss and justify the Maori leadership framework within the context of your selected company.

Formatting/Presentation requirements:

• The report should be appropriately formatted with:
  • a cover page,
  • table of contents,
  • introduction,
  • discussion/analysis,
  • conclusions
  • and a list of references.
    
    
• All pages should be numbered except the cover page.
  
  
• The whole assignment should be 1500 words in length excluding the cover page, table of contents, and list of references.
  
  
• Reference your work indicating you have properly researched the assignment and have used good quality, reliable and appropriate material drawn from acknowledged sources.