MW4036 Organisational leadership and Management

Assignment has been designed to enable you to meet the module learning outcomes:

Critically evaluate how organisational structures respond to political and social change

Critically analyse the context in which health and social care is organised and managed.

Deconstruct how leadership and management styles influence organisational change

Critique and analyse the issues that allow the development of a corporate and cohesive workforce within an organisation.

Critically appraise the factors that influence organisational development and theoretical approaches for effective organisational change.

Critically explore the leadership and management within an organisation. Consider the challenges you would face in introducing a change and identify how you would address this.

The following plan is a suggestion about how to approach the assignment and has been written with the learning outcomes in mind. If you have an idea about a different approach you would like to take, please check with your module supervisor that they agree that this is feasible and will enable you to meet the learning outcomes.

Examples of previous assignments from this module are available on the module site on Blackboard and we suggest that you have a look at these for inspiration.

The organisation may be one that you are currently involved in or have previously been involved in, or an organisation that you have sufficient knowledge of to be able to write about in depth.

Whatever your choice, you will need knowledge of the organisational structures, leadership and management structures and styles.

The change may be a new change that you would like to introduce into an organisation or a retrospective critique of a change that you have initiated or experienced within a workplace.

Having made the case for your change, you should now write about it with reference to at least one change theory, and if you haven’t previously discussed the leadership and management styles and structures within the organisation this could be a good place to consider how they impact on your change. This section may also discuss communication within the organisation and other factors that may influence organisational development and theoretical approaches for effective organisational change

If this is a retrospective review of a change remember to provide a critical analysis and evaluation of the change – did it go well? If you were planning a similar change, would you do anything differently?

If this is a new change, how will you evaluate the success of the change? At what stages will you evaluate? Who will you involve in the evaluation? What would a successful change look like?

Your concluding paragraph should provide a succinct summary of your assignment and any conclusions that you have drawn.

·State the number of words in your assignment under the title.

·Title, acknowledgements, Reference list and Bibliography are not included in the word count.

·Additional material can be  placed in the appendices and is  not  counted but should  not exceed 20% of text (counted by page).

·In text references e.g. (Chatterjee, Brown, Jenkinson, & Li, 2013) are included.

You may submit work up to 10% above the word limit included in the Module Assignment Guidance, so for this module you are allowed up to 4,400 words. The tutors will stop marking at anything above this limit so please do be careful not to go over – you don’t want us to miss out on your brilliantly written conclusion!

·The Reference list and Bibliography should be single spaced with a double space between references.

·The School of Community Health and Midwifery uses the American Psychological Association (APA) (6th edition) Referencing system. The UCLan 2017 handbook on APA referencing is available on the module site on Blackboard in the ‘Referencing Guidelines’ folder

Turnitin checker

·Turnitin produces a report which identifies phrases from publications and other student papers. This is so that we can see whether your work is original.

·Go to the School of Community Health and Midwifery Office, right side on your Student Portal, then index on left, and you will find a Turnitin Checker.

·Here you can check a draft of your assignment before submitting the final version via your Blackboard module space.

There may be rare cases where exceptions to maintaining anonymity and confidentiality occur. If in doubt, please check with your module supervisor.

If you do need to refer to an organisation in your work, you can maintain anonymity by the following method:

·In the text: “this action was in accordance with the NHS Trust’s (name withheld) infection control policy”

·In reference list: NHS Trust (name withheld) 2004 infection control policy.

Lippitt, Watson and Westley (1958) extended Lewin’s theory using a similar language to nursing process. They created a seven-step theory which focuses on what the change agent does rather than the change its self (Kritsonis, 2005). The step 1, 2 ,3 can be seen as the stage unfreezing of Lewin’s theory, the step 4, 5 ,6 are the moving section, and the last step is the refreezing (Roussel, et al 2006).

The seven steps include:

1. Diagnosing the problem

2. Assessing the motivation

3. Assessing the change agent’s motivation and resources

4. Selecting progressive change objects

5. Choosing a change agent role

6. Maintaining the change

7. Terminating the relationship

What is the difference between management and leadership.

Delegation and management. Paper presented at the British Journal of Administrative Management

Managing change in the nursing handover from traditional to bedside handover–a case study from mauritius

Delegation and management. Paper presented at the British Journal of Administrative Management