Strategic Leadership 1: Understand the principles, concepts, differences, and approaches to contemporary leadership.
LO 1: Understand how leadership influences individuals, teams and the organisation.
LO 2: Understand the impact of leadership on organisational performance.
LO 3: Understand ethical decision making and organisational value.
Scenario
Guidance
There is no scenario for this assignment.
You will need to prepare a case study, an essay and presentation with speaker notes to show your understanding of strategic leadership.
Task 1 - Case Study
Instructions:
You are required to prepare a case study about a business leader of your choice. Examples of business leaders might include Jack Welch, Ricardo Semler, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Dhirubhai Ambani, and Elon Musk to name but a few of many examples.
You are advised to check with your tutor that your choice is appropriate.
You have been informed that your case study will be used for training purposes and you should discuss theoretical perspectives supported by examples about your chosen leader contribution to their organisation.
The structure of the case study should include the following:
Background to the organisation and the business leader with a justification of your choice.
Explain the meaning of strategic leadership and importance to the selected organisation.
Contrast the main approaches to the study of leadership and the approach relevant to the organisation.
Critically evaluate the role of the leader in developing strategy.
Critically explore the exercise of leadership power and influence.
Critically review the importance of ethics, values and corporate social responsibilities to an organisations value.
Critically evaluate leadership and sustainability concepts and trends.
Task 2 - Essay
Instructions:
Following your case study, you should now prepare an essay evaluating the impact of the business leader identified in task 1, on the organisation's performance by addressing the following:
Assess the role of the business leader in driving organisational performance.
Critically explore the exercise of leadership power and influence.
Critically explore the main feature and requirements of leadership development for competitive advantage.
Provide the criteria for measuring for assessing an organisations strategic effectiveness from a leadership perspective.
Delivery and submission:
1x Essay (2000 words) excluding TOC, diagrams, references and appendices
Task 3 - Business Presentation
Instructions:
You are required to prepare a presentation about teams and leadership. The presentation should address the following:
Critically discuss the importance of teams and team leadership in organisational performance.
Distinguish between workgroups and teams and the leadership thereof.
Critically compare and contrast formal and informal groups within organisations and within wider society.
Critically discuss the stages of group and team development and the role of leadership in maximising group and team performance.
Reflect any supporting Harvard style citations.