Homework: Leadership and Management
Length: 3500 words (+/- 10%)
Learning Outcomes
• Demonstrate the ability to work in culturally diverse groups and teams and make appropriate and personal contributions to team effectiveness
• Have critically evaluated personal strengths and weaknesses and have demonstrated the ability to engage in reflective self-development
• Have critically reviewed the development of inter-personal and intra-personal skills in relation to what employers seek in postgraduate students
Instructions
The module will be assessed by one summative homework of 3500 words which comprises the following three components:
Part I: Academic Essay (1500 words)
Using a range of relevant literature (both academic and professional sources), you are required to identify and critically evaluate contemporary issues and challenges facing your target profession/industry/sector.
You must:
1. Provide a clear introduction to your target profession/industry/sector (e.g., a graduate development scheme, self-employment, working for your family's business, a promotion with your current employer, etc). You should highlight if this will be in the UK, your home country or elsewhere.
2. Provide an overview of the context and key characteristics of your target profession/industry/sector (e.g. labour market characteristics, opportunities for graduates, professional bodies).
3. Identify key challenges and issues relating to your chosen profession/industry/sector. This may include professional body viewpoints, recent organisation case studies and published academic studies. You may also include a combination of challenges and issues facing the wider profession/industry/sector as well as those facing postgraduates.
4. You are not required to identify a specific number of issues and challenges, these will differ depending on the profession/industry/sector in question. We are looking for evidence of critical evaluation of these issues and challenges, supported with credible academic and professional sources.
5. Provide a succinct conclusion, indicating the impact of these challenges and difficulties for your target profession/industry/sector moving forward.
Part II: Reflective Essay (1500 words)
Drawing on the results of the toolkits you have completed throughout this module, along with other appropriate evidence, you are required to conduct a self-analysis identifying your strengths and weaknesses across a range of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills relevant to your target profession/industry/sector.
You must:
1. Using the template provided - please download this from the Homework Folder on the BB site - provide a summary of your strengths and weaknesses supported with evidence from the toolkits and other psychometric test results/other diagnostics provided to you, or that you have identified from previous work or homework centre experience, or researched online.
2. Critically evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and reflect on any patterns of behaviour you have identified. Referring back to your Section A, consider the implications of your skills, attributes and patterns of behaviour in relation to your target profession/industry/sector and the challenges they face. How ‘ready' are you to enter into the career of your choice?
Part III: Areas for Development (500 words)
Based on your self-analysis in Section B identify three areas for development and outline briefly the specific steps that you will take to address these.
Mapping to Programme Goals and Objectives:
At the end of your programme of study you will have achieved the following goals:
Goal 1: To develop the skills necessary for employment and career progression
Goal 2: Be culturally and ethically aware
Goal 3: Have developed leadership and management capability
Goal 4: Have developed and applied knowledge of international business and management theory
Goal 5: Have developed a range of research skills and project capabilities
All of the learning that takes place within modules is designed to enable you to achieve the above goals and your homework tasks are mapped directly to these goals. In this module you will be assessed on objectives relating to Goal 1 :
1. Demonstrate awareness of your personal strengths and weaknesses and the ability to engage in continuing self-development
2. Critically review and develop your inter-personal and intra-personal skills
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.