Assessment Task:
Title: Leadership Context
Details of task
Consider the roles and situations, and the leadership behaviours that might be required, in the table below. Choose three of these and write up to 500 words on how leadership might be exercised and what are the contextual factors that are relevant.
The topic
By the CEO of a multinational firm
Leading an inner city street gang
Conducting a symphony orchestra
By a sports coach
In an emergency rescue squad
In a Hollywood film cast and crew
In a hospital emergency room
By a Prime Minister/President
On a battlefield
By a social worker in an aged care home
By a maitre d' in a restaurant By a prison guard
By a supervisor on a construction site
In a sales presentation
After an earthquake
During a meeting where a person is informed he/she has been fired.
In a heart-to-heart talk among close friends.
In a rock group
In a fundraising campaign
By a diplomat
Word limit: 1,500 words.