You are to select an organization and critically analyse and evaluate the leadership and management, assessing the effectiveness of these in relation to the organization’s overall performance. This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:
‘best in class’ is strongly recommended in order to provide context and comprehension of the data used.
Organizations should ideally be selected based on the sector the student wishes to enter as a graduate and provide access to enough research material and data to enable completion of the task. Note, films, interviews, documentary’s, podcasts as well as news, research reports, books and case studies can all be used as part of the organizational research but, this is not a definitive list and the student is strongly encouraged to be creative and original in any primary and secondary research activities used to gather insight in to the organizations leadership and management. Suggested structure, headings and word count: Front cover
Introduction to report and outline of chosen organization
Analysis and comparison of leadership and management
Key performance metrics of organizational sector/market/industry
Organizational leadership and management performance.
Demonstrates an excellent appraisal of the organization’s situation.
Demonstrates aclear appraisal of the organization’s situation.
Demonstrates some level of appraisal of the organization’s situation.
Demonstrates a superficial appraisal of the organization’s situation. Answer shows no summary of an organisation’s situation. Knowledge & Understanding: 25%
Demonstrates excellent understanding of the topic, objectivity and reference to theory. Provides appropriate level of additional research including use of benchmarks.
Demonstrates clear understanding of the topic, objectivity and reference to theory. Providessome researchincluding benchmarks.
Basic level of understanding of the topic, somereference to theoretical knowledge.
Provides small amount of research, benchmarking may be limited or missing.
Demonstrates only superficial understanding, theory limited or absent. Provides limited research, benchmarking may be limited or missing.
Excellent analysis of the models and concepts with an extensive comparison of theory to practice.
Excellent explanation of the current context supported by critical application.
Additional marks will be awarded for primary research that supports the work.
Good analysis of the models and concepts with a
Good comparison of theory to practice. Good explanation of the current context supported by criticalapplication.
Additional marks will be awarded for primary research that supports the work.
Some analysis of the models and concepts with some comparison of theory to practice.Effort made to explain though tended to describe.
Reasonable explanation of the current context supported by critical application.
Additional markswill be awarded forprimary researchthat supports thework.
Presents partial analysis of the models and concepts with minimal comparison of theory to practice. Limited attempt to explain; largely descriptive.