Feedback from PART A:
 
A very good demonstration of wide range of reading. you have brought together lots of elements from within the literature that ties up well. but some parts are very descriptive which is often a possibility when dealing with such vast areas of literature.
I like the signposting that part B will argue that the failure of VW was due to its company execs’ inability to embrace ethical leadership. i am curious to read that!
overall good with more focus on critical literature.
 
 
 
 PART B TASKS TO DO
 
This expects you to write a 3500-word essay on the chosen case study from PART A. This Part B is building upon what you have wrote in Part A
 
You are expected to use the literature from PART 1 and any additional literatures (with developments/improvements made to it on the basis of the feedback received); apply it to the chosen Case study in PART A and make some robust recommendations.
 
 
Case Study:
This is a case study-based literature review on the ‘perspective’ on “Volkswagen ‘Dieselgate’ crisis”.
Please note: A brief overview of this Volkswagen ‘Dieselgate’ crisis, from media sources, is provided to you. The case details provided will not and is not enough at all for this task to do. Please dig up more details of the chosen case yourself which will guide you to develop an excellent perspective on Volkswagen ‘Dieselgate’ crisis.
CASE A: VOLKSWAGEN DIESEL EMISSIONS SCANDAL
From BBC News (10 December 2015) Volkswagen the scandal explained : In September 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that many VW cars being sold in America had a “defeat device” – or software – in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested, changing the performance accordingly to improve results. The German car giant has since admitted cheating emissions tests in the US.
VW has had a major push to sell diesel cars in the US, backed by a huge marketing campaign trumpeting its cars’ low emissions. The EPA’s findings cover 482,000 cars in the US only, including the VW-manufactured Audi A3, and the VW models Jetta, Beetle, Golf and Passat. But VW has admitted that about 11 million cars worldwide, including eight million in Europe, are fitted with the so-called “defeat device”.
The company has also been accused by the EPA of modifying software on the 3 litre diesel engines fitted to some Porsche and Audi as well as VW models. VW has denied the claims, which affect at least 10,000 vehicles.
In November, VW said it had found “irregularities” in tests to measure carbon dioxide emissions levels that could affect about 800,000 cars in Europe – including petrol vehicles. However, in December it said that following investigations, it had established that this only affected about 36,000 of the cars it produces each year. (see link below for full story) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34324772
Volkswagen Fined 1bn Euros by German Prosecutors:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/13/vw-fined-1bn-german-court-dieselscandal
How Volkswagen tried to cover up the emissions scandal (BBC news, 05 May 2018) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44005844
Only 3 web based news links provided. Please use google scholar and/or BU Library databases to find more information on scholarly articles on this debacle. Also, use multiple news and current affairs sources to throw more light on the scandal.
(a) You need to view the case from the perspective of ‘Ethical Leadership’.
(b) You need to choose theoretical perspective you wish to use as ‘lenses’ to view your case (We have chosen from PART A – utilitarian theory perspective)
(c) You need to explain critically the relevant details of the case; providing academic justification for choosing the perspective you have adopted
(d) Please use headings and sub-headings in the write up and write this assignment in the third person (i.e. you do not use ‘I’ or ‘we’).
 
Answer the following:

1. You need to explore leadership theories and followership concepts.
2. Critique the nature of leadership and distinguish between leadership and management.
3. You need to consider the nature of leadership, leadership versus management, power, politics and conflict, and various traditional and contemporary models and perspectives of leadership.
4. You need to discuss contextual issues such as the impact of the global business context, gender, ethics, diversity and cross-cultural aspects of leadership.
5. Identify and critically evaluate the major theoretical approaches to leadership and discuss how these can be applied in practice with reference to leader power and influence.
6. Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the practical and theoretical aspects of leadership in global contexts.
7. Critically analyse the ethical, organisational, social and environmental challenges and constraints faced by today’s global organisations and their implications for future leadership practices.
8. You need to provide recommendations for the future. Analyse, using ONLY secondary data and the literature used and present

 
You must follow the pattern below for PART B – Please use headings and sub-headings in the write up and write this assignment in the third person (i.e. you do not use ‘I’ or ‘we’).
Introduction:

• This is the section where you will provide a brief overview of the chosen case.
• Provide a brief overview and justification for the chosen academic theoretical perspective you wish to adopt to study Case
• Briefly outline the challenges of leadership in that particular case.
• Provide a statement of Aim and a maximum of 3 statements of objectives for your study.
• This section will be of 500 words

 
Literature review:

• Literature review should be critical in its focus.
• Whichever theoretical leadership perspective you adopt to study the case at hand, you will undertake a thorough review of the extant literature around it to make robust arguments and critique of the literature.
• This section is significant in that it provides the underpinning for your entire study. If the literature is strong the outcomes, analyses and recommendations will be strong too.
• This section has a word count of 900

 
Methodology:

• As this is a case study therefore the expectation of this section, briefly, is for you to demonstrate, using methodology e-books available,
• your understanding of what a case study is and
• what are the salient features of a case study based work.
• This section ought not to be too detailed and is limited to 500 words approx

 
Findings and discussion:

• This section/chapter is expected to bring together your empirical evidence with literature findings to create a narrative which ought to shed some light into the leadership challenge identified
• This is your opportunity to make a big impact with your own informed interpretation of the case details and the extant and existing literature.
• What are the key findings from the literature and what do they guide you towards, in terms of using the literature to study your case at hand.
• This section is of 900 words

 
Conclusions and Recommendations:

• propose recommended solutions.
• You are expected to make recommendations for academic research (where can your findings lead the next researcher to);
• industry (what is your opinion on how to mitigate/reduce the negative impact of such leadership failings, if any and/or
• how to strengthen/reinforce the positives of great leadership, with examples, if any)
• This section is of 500 words

 
 
Limitations of the study

• Provide a section on limitations of the study.
• This may include limitations of information access; literature limitations; word count limitations; methodology limitations etc.
• This section is of 200 words

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Scenario – 2000 Words
 
Important: The scenario below will lead to 2 separate, though related assignments:
 

1. PART A – A Briefing Report on living and working in Kobe / Japan
2. PART B – A Training Programme for the manager assigned to the project

 
You work for an international consulting company (Stalwart Associates), which provides bespoke training to a range of companies involved in international business.  Your company specialises in cross-cultural training and has gained a reputation amongst peers and clients for developing and delivering high-quality training programmes.
 
Your company recently won a contract to prepare a manager from a new client company for a long-term overseas assignment.  The new client is a UK-based maritime engineering company, called “Seagate Marine Construction” (referred to hereafter as “SMC”).  Employing 120 people, and often working with local contractors, SMC design and build underwater gates and locks for marinas and harbours.  They are also involved in the design and construction of hydro-electric schemes.
 
Recently, SMC won a prestigious design and construction contract with the port of Kobe, in Japan.  The assignment to manage this project will begin on Mon 5^th Sept 2020, and SMC have identified a manager, Mary Isaac, whom they wish to appoint to the role of Senior Project Manager.  The project is scheduled to last for two years and would see the manager working with a small team of SMC engineers and a larger team of Japanese construction workers.  The role will also involve liaising with a range of stakeholders from the wider Kobe community.
 
Mary put herself forward for the role and is in her mid-forties.  She joined the company six years ago and has performed exceptionally well, earning two promotions in that period.  She is married, to Obi, and has two children, Cynthia (16) and Jude (10).  Since having children, she has worked only in the UK.  However, as an Engineering student, Mary spent a year as an intern in a Swedish engineering company, and, after graduating, she spent two years in Dubai, working for a construction company.  Before joining SMC, she had worked on several short-term overseas projects – all in Europe – the longest being 6 weeks. Mary has never previously visited or worked in Asia.
 
Despite this being her first long-term foreign assignment, SMC believe Mary has the credentials to be a highly successful Project Manager in Kobe.  They now want you to help prepare her – and perhaps her family too – for her Kobe adventure…
 
 
Overview of Task Part A
 
Prepare a ‘Briefing Document’ to be given to Mary as a guide to living and working in Kobe, Japan, which she (and her family) can read in preparation for the Training Programme.
 
It is up to you to decide on the precise contents of this document, asking yourself what information would be useful to someone in her position, and taking into account the supporting material provided.
 
What would Mary (and her family, perhaps?) need to know about Japan and about Kobe to help prepare her for this posting?
 
Regarding the formatting and presentation of your Briefing Document, you are encouraged to be creative.
 
NOTE:
 
Contents (80%): Your Briefing Document should be ‘fit for purpose’ and as authentic as possible, providing Mary and her family with coherent and relevant information about living and working in Japan generally and Kobe specifically.
 
It should evidence a critical appreciation, drawing on appropriate theory and practice, of what a person in her situation would need to know, in order to be able to operate effectively in the specified destination.
 
It may help if you put yourself in Mary’s shoes and think of what you (and perhaps your family) would definitely need to know to settle in well, both in your personal and professional life.
 
Professional Impact (20%): The document should be designed and presented professionally and in a ‘reader-friendly’ manner.  The document should be free of careless errors/typos.  The document should be accompanied by a Harvard Reference List.
 
Focusing with a view to achieve:
 

 
 
Content Indicative
 

• Introduction
• Kobe – Key Information
• Japan – Logistics and Practical Information
• Japan – Business and Management Culture
• Any others you may think of
• Recommendations (implicit / explicit; interim / final)

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