Workbook structure for reflecting on leadership, management, and decision-making

Your workbook should be structured in three distinct sections:

1.Management style

2.Leadership, management and change

3.Leadership, management and decision making

NOTE: You should underpin each section with reflection on your development of skills on the module . Use a reflective model to develop your insights.

Part One- Management Style

You should reflect back on your experience of working in a group to develop your presentation. What was the ‘management style’ adopted by your group? Was this the ‘right’ management style to achieve your goals? Justify your answer

This section should include an analysis of the management style adopted by your group, and a critical review of  your team’s approach, linking it to the management style used

Reflecting on the ‘management style’ questionnaire filled at the start of the semester, has your approach to management changed since you completed the questionnaire? Why?

Please note that you need to demonstrate in this section that you understand and can apply theories of management style.

At the end of this section, you need to provide references, including books and journal articles. These should be in the correct Harvard referencing style (see the folder on ‘academic skills’ on weblearn)

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Aim To Include At Least Ten References Per Section

Part Two- Leadership, Management And Change

Looking back at the work you have done with your group this semester, how would you change the way that the group was managed and led?

This discussion should be linked to theories of change discussed during this semester. You should outline some of the key principles of successful change, applying these to your group’s work.

At the end of this section, you need to provide references, including books and journal articles. These should be in the correct Harvard referencing style (see the folder on ‘academic skills’ on weblearn

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Aim To Include At Least Ten References Per Section

Part Three- Leadership, Management And Decision Making

Consider critically the DECISIONS (or non-decisions) you have taken while working with your group this year. These decisions could be in your group leading up to the presentation, or in subsequent workshops and seminars. For this section, you need to consider theories of POWER. You need to discuss what form of power was used by students- both leaders and followers.

What were the barriers to taking effective decisions? This should be linked to theory e.g. of groupthink.

At the end of this section, you need to provide references, including books and journal articles. These should be in the correct Harvard referencing style (see the folder on ‘academic skills’ on weblearn)

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Aim To Include At Least Ten References Per Section

Underpin Each Section With Reflection On Your Development Of Skills On The Module

Looking back over the whole module, incorporate at least four key leadership/management skills that you have developed (and/or that others in your team have developed). In each case you should link the skills to reading on theory.

You should also consider ethical decision making in Part 3. Reflecting on a management/leadership decision that you (or someone in your group) have taken this year, you need to decide if the decision was ethically correct. You must link this to a theory of ethics, and justify your decision.