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 management
strategies in comparison to practices suggested in the literature. Note
that the literature points toward thi 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 evaluated in
relation to organisational change, specifically (1) what needs to change
(analytical frameworks), (2) how to deliver change (step-based change),
and (3) how people respond to and cope with change (behavioural
models).
Teams are to develop a Leadership &
Change Management Developrnent 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.
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 too,.
Student teams are to be structure, as
far as possible, according to evidence-based diversity studies which
strongly illustrate that multi-cultural teams are higher Derformind than
sindle-culture teams. Learning to 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: Assignrnent 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 analytical framework suits the leader a. industry under consideration.
o What type of change (operational,
cultural, leadership behavioural) 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.
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