The Essay must include a clear structure with abstract, bibliography, appendices, and diagrammatic representation where appropriate. You must make appropriate use of journal articles, research papers and texts ( I will upload and also reference key items below).
The Essay should contain:
1. A literature review of key theories of the nature and exercise of leadership in organizations
2. An evaluation of the behavior of selected leaders in an organization (preferably in Banking and Finance), or in an organization (or organizations) of similar kind, in relation to a range of models and theories referenced: in particular, a critical assessment of how the leaders guide the behavior of individuals, groups and teams.
3. An analysis of how two leaders perceive their roles, and what has helped them develop as leaders.
4. A summary of the learning you can take from this assignment for my current work and practice and development as a leader ( I will upload a copy of my CV to aid this section with material that describes my workplace and link to company site).
5. A very strict Word limit: 6000 words.
Reference material:
#Bernard Bass 2008 The Bass Handbook of Leadership, 4th ed. Free Press
*Bernard Bass & Ronald Riggio 2006 Transformational Leadership Erlbaum; London 2nd ed
*RM Belbin 2010 Management Teams, 3rd ed Butterworth-Heinemann
#Warren Bennis & Bert Nanus 2004 Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge Business Press
*Ian Brooks 2005 Organisational Behaviour : individuals, groups and organisation FT/Prentice Hall *Jay A. Conger 2006 The Practice of Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders Wiley #Roger Gill 2011 Theory and Practice of Leadership, Sage: London,
#D Goleman, R Boyatzis & A McKee 2002 The New Leaders Little, Brown
#A Huczynski and D Buchanan 2007 Organizational Behaviour Pearson Education
#J Katzenbach and D Smith 1993 The Wisdom of Teams McGraw Hill
#John Kotter 1990 A Force for Change The Free Press
*Laurie Mullins 2010 Management and Organisational Behaviour FT/Prentice Hall
#Peter Northouse 2010 Leadership: Theory and Practice, 5th ed Sage
*David Pardey 2007 Introducing leadership Butterworth-Heinemann
*DRollinson2005OrganisationalBehaviourandAnalysis:AnIntegratedApproach,2nded FT/Pitman
*G Yukl & R Lepsinger 2004 Flexible Leadership Jossey Bass
Quality of the Essay must reflect the following:
(i) Command of the topic, creativity, perception and insight, all suggesting that work should be published in an academic forum;
(ii) Outstanding selection that makes a substantial contribution to academic debate;
(iii) Outstanding use of source material;
(iv) Excellent argument that is of the highest academic quality;
(v) Critical distance and outstanding analysis of the question, to a high degree of excellence;
(vi) Referencing impeccable using appropriate conventions;
(vii) Virtually no errors grammar/spelling/syntax.
(viii) Excellent application of theory to real life examples and drawing reference to theory while applying those to personal practice.