personal leadership using Seven Leadership Mindsets Theory (vMEME)
Coursework Information Sheet
Feedback details
The university policy is that you will receive prompt feedback on your work within 15 working days of the submission date. Exceptionally where this is not achievable (for example due to staff sickness) you will be notified as soon as possible of the revised date and the reasons behind the change.
- Please refer to the Learning Outcomes and Threshold Criteria as detailed below
Submission Date: 18th December |
Feedback Date: 15 working days |
Details of how to access the feedback: BREO |
Core learning outcomes | ||
On completion of this unit you should be able to: | Assessment number | |
1 | Demonstrate a critical appreciation of how types of leadership/management styles differ depending on history, culture, geographic life and conditions and how they impact people performance, followers and productivity. | 1 |
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2 | Critically evaluate leadership/management styles, leadership problems and challenges and your personal leadership capabilities and needs for future development. | 1 |
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Threshold standards | |
Assessment number | In order to pass the assessment you will need to: |
1 | Produce, to an acceptable standard, an evaluation and analysis of aspects of particular leadership issues in an organisation through the use of relevant leadership theory. |
Compare and contrast differing leadership styles and behaviours in an organisation from differing cultural, geographic and historic perspectives. | |
2 | Produce, to an acceptable standard, an assessment of how varying leadership styles impact upon the organisation and sector and systems |
Produce a critical evaluation of the impact of some leadership types upon followers. | |
Reflect on some aspects of your leadership capability and needs for future personal and organisational development |
The Task:
You will produce a written report of 2400 words (+/- 10%) that critically assesses and evaluates your personal leadership using Seven Leadership Mindsets Theory (vMEME) and all the types of leadership approaches and styles it contains.
Critically analyse leadership problems and challenges through critical evaluation and appropriate application of theory
- Critically evaluate how certain types of leadership/management styles differ depending on history, culture, geographic life and conditions
- Critically evaluate how certain types of leadership/management styles impact people performance, productivity
- Critically evaluate how certain types of leadership/management styles determine who will ‘follow and how’.
- Critically evaluate your personal leadership capabilities and critically analyse the need for future development
Through application of Seven Leadership Mindsets Theory (vMEME) you will have a tool (and the skill) to critically assess and evaluate all types of personal leadership theories and worldviews that include USA, UK, China, European countries, India, Oman, GCC, African countries, etc. Leadership is different depending on the relevant mindset (life conditions, how individuals adapt to successfully compete and socio-cultural elements). Inevitably leadership mindset impacts everything in a company – strategy, people, performance, productivity, etc.
Instruction: Please answer all of the following questions:
A suggested structure for the written report would include the following: This assignment can be divided into three
equally weighted sections. These have been presented as three questions.
- Create insight into your leadership style by answering questions about your personal leadership inside your organisation. To enable critical assessment and analysis:
- Identify within in your organisation the range of leadership mindsets. What evidence do you see in leaders to underpin your assessment?
- Give examples of leadership traits you may have observed in the organisation that typify the selected leadership mindset
- Apply the seven mindsets theory to your key members of your team at your work place (Do not mention names).
- Having analysed your own leadership and others within your organisation produce a reflection assessing your leadership capabilities and a plan for CPD development
- Highlighting your areas of growth, strengths and improvements
- Planning for present and future role taking into consideration everything you have read about leadership
mindsets.
2.1 After you have designed your CPD, answer:
- To what extent is your own leadership style aligned and typical to that of your own organisationed
- How likely is your leadership style to be one that will support the organisation change to become a key leading21sCentury business?
- Discuss how your understanding of ‘leadership’ has evolved as a result of the readings given in this unit.
* Further clarification to be considered from the lecture :
- Assignment Brief: Each question asked is related to each session content and session reading.
- Structure and Segmentation: I was very clear in LP Session 1 that this is not written like other reports you are doing for other units. The structure is to just answer the questions, one by one with referencing (no introduction, executive summary, conclusion, etc., etc.).
- Contextualized Report: The assignment is asking you to critically analyse, using the Leadership Mindset-Thinking systems, your personal leadership, and of others in your team or organisation. The context is your role and individuals who work in your organisation.
- Assignment Brief Question 3: Asks you to articulate your understanding of leadership before the unit and after. Has it is changes as a result of the theory and information you have studied? Has it not? Why? In what way?
- Assignment Brief Intention: The intention of the assignment brief is detailed in the UiF and the Assignment Brief .