SBM1104 | Leadership and Change Management | Management

Assignment Brief

Student teams are to study leadership and change management practices of a leader in an organisation/company, which highlights the observed leadership styles and change managementstrategies in comparison to practices suggested in the literature. Note that the literature points toward the trend towards democratic, employee-centred, coaching and mentoring leadership styles in contrast to traditional autocratic, job-centred, and command and control leadership styles.

These practices are to be evaluted in relation to organisational change, specifically (1) what needs tochange (analytical frameworks), (2) how  to deliver change  (step-based change), and (3) how peoplerespond to and cope with change (behavioural models)

Teams are to develop a Leadership & Change Management Development Plan that can address the gaps between good and actual practice and set the individual on the path to apply better practices in future leadership and change management projects.

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The choice of leader and the company/organisation where the individual works needs to be specifically identified and negotiated in class tutorial. No two teams can choose the same topic.

Student teams are to be structure, as far as possible, according to evidence-based diversity studies which strongly illustrate that multi-cul negotiate different cultural perspectives on leadership and change and develop a model that addresses diverse concerns is a vital component of your learning.

Your Project Study will be conducted by your team in three stages as outlined below.

Assignment 1

Literature review, research and documentation of your preferred practice model for leadership and
change management for the project study:

• Provide brief background information on the industry setting of your chosen organisation.
• Write a short brief on the leader.
• Outline the leadership and change issues in the chosen company.
• Review the literature on leadership practices.
• Determine which step-based change model, behavioural model and analyticall framework suits the
  leader and industry under consideration.
  o What type of change (operational, cultural, leadership behavioura) is required? Why?
  o Will you employ a 3-step, 5-step or 8-step model? Why?
  o Which kind of behavioural response (grief, adoption of innovation, 3-type psychology) do
  you anticipate? Why?
• Distil the key theories reviewed in the leadership and change literature/practices into a
  conceptual model to be used in the next assignment.