People in Organisations Assignment: Leadership, Motivation, and Effective Teams at ZPG

As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit a People in Organisations assignment. Please refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments.

After completing the module, you should be able to:

LO1 Discuss the ways organisations motivate workers.

LO2 Assess the role of leadership in the organisational transition.

LO3 Evaluate the relationship between organisational structure and culture within organisational transition.

LO4 Examine the attributes of effective teams.

LO5 Effectively present the strategies used in the case study to motivate teams.

Question 1. Structure, culture and leadership

Explain the role of leadership that may exist within ZPG and how the structure and culture of the organisation may support effective transitional change.

To achieve this, you will need to consider the case study in relation to module theoryand wider reading; consider elements including structure, culture and approaches to leadership. You should analyse and evaluate these in relation to the transitional change of the organisations’ focus on a holistic and inclusive benefits strategy.

Question 2. Motivation and effective teams, and presentation

Analyse and evaluate the ways in which ZPG may build effective teams through motivation; identify team development attributes that may contribute to ZPG success. Present your main findings in a presentation suitable for ZPG managers.

To achieve this, you will need to discuss motivation and team effectiveness theory within the context of the case study organisation. You should then present current strategies used by the company by summarising the main findings on motivation and team effectiveness into a PowerPoint presentation. This presentation should be suitable to disseminate to ZPG managers and be no longer than 8 slides and with supportive presenters’ notes. Your presentation must be included/pasted into the one MS Word or PDF file document that you submit.