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Leadership and Management Assignment Brief

Unit Number and Title	Unit 4: Leadership and Management
Academic Year	January – April 2023
Module Leader	Jerome
Unit Tutor	Jerome, Olukemi, Qayyum,
Assignment Title	Leadership and Management in the Workplace
Issue Date	WC 09/01/2023
Formative Feedback Dates	WC – 27/02/2023
Submission Date	13/03/2023
Submission format	Case Study Report&Presentation

Submission guidelines

The submission format is in the form of a case study report. The report should be written in a concise style. You are required to use headings, paragraphs, and sub-sections as appropriate. All work must be supported with research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system (or an alternative system). You must provide a bibliography using the Harvard referencing system (or an alternative system). Inaccurate referencing use may lead to plagiarism issues if not applied correctly.

The recommended word limit is 2,000–2,500 words, although you will not be penalized for going under or exceeding the total word limit.

CASE STUDY

FORD MOTOR

The leadership style that turned Ford Motor Company Around

DaVita

Organizational Turnaround through Effective Leadership

In his inspiring and instructive book Rules of Thumb, my friend and Fast Company co-founder Alan Webber identifies two questions that demand the attention of leaders. The first is familiar: What keeps you up at night? What are the worries that nag at you? The second is less familiar, but perhaps more important: What gets you up in the morning? What keeps you more committed than ever, more engaged than ever, more excited than ever, as the environment around you gets tougher and more demanding than ever?

That’s a question organizations need to take seriously if they hope to prosper during this period of crisis and (slow) recovery. Even the most hard-charging leaders recognize that success today is not just about thinking differently from other companies. It is also, and perhaps more importantly, about caring more than other companies — about customers, about colleagues, about how the organization conducts itself in a world with endless temptations to cut corners and compromise on values.

One of the companies I’ve studied for my next book, Practically Radical, is called DaVita. Talk about a tough business — it provides about one-third of all of the kidney-dialysis treatments in the United States. Back in 1999, when CEO Kent Thiry took charge, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. It had revenues of $1.4 billion, losses of $56 million, and a share price of about $2. Less than ten years later, it had revenues of $5.7 billion, net income of $374 million, and a share price approaching $60. It is one of the great business turnarounds I’ve seen in a long time — from a market capitalization of $200 million in 1999 to more than $6 billion today.

What’s important, though, is that Thiry turned around the company by turning around the culture. One of the first messages he sent to worried employees was: “We are going to flip the ends and means of this business. We are a community first and a company second.” Translation: If the people of DaVita could figure out how to treat patients right, and how to treat each other right, then the business would right itself. And that’s precisely what happened. Life at DaVita is filled with symbols, rituals, and traditions that bear little resemblance to life inside conventional organizations. When Thiry took over, the company was called Total Renal Care, not exactly the warmest identity. After generating a bunch of alternative names, the company put the final choices up to a vote of 800 members of the workforce, chosen to express the will of their colleagues in a form of representative democracy. (Two-thirds of the 800-person electoral college were nurses.) The name DaVita, (inspired, it is said, by an Italian phrase that means “he or she who gives life”) won in a landslide. (The winning name was unveiled at a rally that felt like an election-night celebration.) There’s an official company song (“On DaVita,” to the tune of “On Wisconsin“), which employees sing with great relish. At the DaVita offices in El Segundo, California, there’s a wooden footbridge across which thousands of employees have walked to signify their passage into a new way of working. The wildly spirited Nationwide Meeting, in which thousands of employees celebrate awards, mourn the death of patients, and connect with the emotional side of their work, is truly something to behold.

Unit Learning Outcomes

LO1 Examine leadership and management theories and principles and their impact on the effectiveness of an organisation.
LO2 Review the influence of different leadership and management styles on the culture of organisations.

Transferable skills and competencies developed

Effective written communication.
The ability to analyse and evaluate a range of business data and sources of information.
Using research for evidence-based decision making.
Digital literacy.
Interpretation of information that allows for evaluation of theory to practice.

Vocational scenario

FORD MOTOR

Role

You are working as a newly appointed Trainee Executive Search Consultant. Part of your role is using social media platforms to contact and recruit potential clients and employees for your clients to meet their brief. Understanding leadership and management skills and competencies are critical to your role, as you will review CVs, filter applicants, and interview and assess their skills to see if they are the best fit for the job.

Assignment activity and guidance

As a new trainee, you are to complete onboarding training to help you understand leadership and management in action. As part of this onboarding process, you have been asked to undertake a case study report for Ford Motor or any organisation of your choice. critically evaluate their leadership and management theories, their impact on decision making and the factors that influence their organisational culture. The research of additional business examples should be used to assist in your analysis and evaluation.

Business activities to inform your report will include the following:

Define and differentiate leadership and management
⁽¹⁾ A discussion on the classical and modern theories of leadership that facilitate management activities in two or more different organisations.
⁽²⁾ Explore different classical and modern theories of management in relation to the management and leadership activities in two or more different organisations.
An analysis of the impact of the application of leadership and management theories on the effectiveness of a large organization.
⁽³⁾ Assess the application of different leadership styles in three different organisations to manage different issues.
⁽³⁾ Assess different management styles in three different organisations to manage different issues.
In addition, a comparison of the impact of leadership and management styles on decision making in two or more different organisations.
⁽⁴⁾ Define organisational culture, and examine the factors that play the key role in development of the culture in organisations.
Furthermore, evaluate the importance of organisational culture on the performance of two or more different organisations.
Compare the impact of leadership and management styles on decision making in different organizations.
The report will end with a critical evaluation on the impact of different approaches to leadership and management.

Your report should consider the following:

Definitions of leader and manager
Hard vs soft skills
Analysis of various leadership theory examples and their impact on effectiveness and decision making
Comparison of leadership and management activities in different organisations
The importance of culture and the role leaders and managers
Critical reflection on the impact of leadership and management.

Recommended Resources

Weblinks

BBC Learning English. The Handy Guide to Management. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/work/handy/handy.shtml

Businessballs. Likert’s Management Systems. Available at: https://www.businessballs.com/organisational-culture/likerts-management-systems/

HN Global

HN Global (2021) Reading Lists. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/learning- zone/reading-lists

HN Global (2021) Student Resource Library. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals. com/subjects/resource-libraries

HN Global (2021) Textbooks. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/textbooks

Journal articles

Alma Harris & Michelle Jones (2018) The dark side of leadership and management, School Leadership & Management, 38:5, 475-477, DOI: 10.1080/13632434.2018.1509276 https:// doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2018.

M. Liphadzi, C.O. Aigbavboa, W.D. Thwala, A Theoretical Perspective on the Difference between Leadership and Management, Procedia Engineering, Volume 196, 2017, ISSN 1877- 7058, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705817331004

Nafiisa Sobratee; Shamim Bodhanya; Leading in a global context: The balancing act between leadership and management, JBRMR, Volume 12 Issue 4, 04 Jul 2018 https://doi.org/10.24052/JBRMR/V12IS04/ART-06

Textbooks

Kelly, P. and Cole, G. (2020) Management: Theory and Practice. 9th Ed. Cengage. Mullins, L. J. (2019) Organisational Behaviour in the Workplace. 12th Ed. Harlow: Pearson.

Leadership and Management Authorised Assignment Brief 2

Unit Number and Title	Unit 4: Leadership and Management
Assignment Title	Presenting Motivational Strategy
Submission format	Individual Presentation and Devised Motivational Strategy

Submission Guidelines

Submission is in the form of an individual presentation and individually devised motivational strategy. The presentation should be submitted as a separate PPT document on the VLE, including individual speakers,s and should include the creation of an individual motivational strategy.

The presentation should be no more than 5 slides of content (not including the front cover, bibliography, etc). You are required to make effective use of PowerPoint headings, bullet points, and subsections as appropriate. Your research should be referenced using the Harvard referencing system. Inaccurate referencing use may lead to plagiarism issues if not applied correctly. The recommended word limit for both the presentation and the strategy is 1,500–2,000 words, including speaker notes, although you will not be penalised for going under exceeding the total word limit.

Unit Learning Outcomes

LO3 Develop a motivational strategy to optimise organisational performance.
LO4 Apply leadership and management approaches to managing performance to ensure continuous improvement.

Transferable skills and competencies developed

Communication and listening, including the ability to produce clear, structured business communications in a variety of media.
The ability to work collaboratively.
Digital skills using different software applications to visually present information and data concisely.
Creative thinking for presenting information.
Creativity, innovation and enterprise when seeking solutions to business needs.
The ability to undertake critical analysis and evaluation to support decision making.

Vocational scenario

Following on from your research on leadership and management in action, in your role as Trainee Executive Search Consultant you have been requested to take part in a presentation to a potential client with other trainees (select an appropriate organisation as your client) to produce a comprehensive motivational strategy for their business.

Assignment activity and guidance

You are required to write a report that focus on the lower level of motivation of employees in public as compared to employees in private sectors. You are have to debate key causes of differences in the level of motivation and produce a motivational strategy to tackle these issues.

⁽⁵⁾ Using synthesis of different motivational theories, develop a motivational strategy for an organization that supports optimal achievement of organizational objectives.
your presentation could also include a detailed motivational strategy for an organization that addresses intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
Additionally, produce a comprehensive motivational strategy that effectively addresses all variables of motivation to enhance organizational performance.
For this part you will also have to deliver a presentation that will cover performance related issues in three public and private sector organization. First you will have to Identify situations that need performance improvement and : ⁽⁶⁾ apply appropriate leadership and management approaches for managing performance and continuous improvement.the apply appropriate management approaches for managing performance and continuous improvement.
Furthermore, an assessment on how leadership and management approaches for managing performance supports continuous improvement.
Optionally, the presentation can include recommendations to improve performance management that will ensure continuous improvement.

Business activities to inform your Individual Presentation and Devised Motivational Strategy will include the following:

You will present your research to the potential client as an individual presentation.
The presentation and speaker notes should address the following areas.
- An introduction to motivational theories, including content and process, performance management and continuous improvement.
Examples of the application of performance management approaches.
Assessment of leadership and management approaches and theories, including their role in supporting performance.
Recommendations of how the above could improve continuous improvement and performance.
You will produce an individual, comprehensive motivational strategy that considers both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation alongside social, cultural, and organisational variables. The strategy should be supported with appropriate literature.
It should be clear how the strategy supports the achievement of organisational objectives.
In the strategy, ensure that the link between the strategy and enhanced organisational performance is evident in relation to the chosen business.

Recommended Resources

Weblinks

MindTools. Motivation, Energizing Your People to Achieve Good Things. Available at: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/motivating-your-team.htm

Motivation theories: Available at: https://businessjargons.com/motivation.html

Businessballs. Improving Workplace performance: Business Case. Available at: https://www.businessballs.com/improving-workplace-performance/motivational-case- study-exercise/

HN Global

HN Global (2021) Reading Lists. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/learning- zone/reading-lists

HN Global (2021) Student Resource Library. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals. com/subjects/resource-libraries

HN Global (2021) Textbooks. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/textbooks

Journal articles

Patrick MacDonald, Stephanie Kelly, Scott Christen, A Path Model of Workplace Solidarity, Satisfaction, Burnout, and Motivation. First Published April 13, 2014 Research Article https:// doi.org/10.1177/2329488414525467

Lara Manganelli, Anaïs Thibault-Landry, Jacques Forest, Self-Determination Theory Can Help You Generate Performance and Well-Being in the Workplace: A Review of the Literature First Published March 13, 2018 Research Article https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422318757210

Textbooks

Adair, J. (2019). Develop Your Leadership Skills: Fast, Effective Ways to Become a Leader People

Want to Follow. Kogan Page Orti, P. and Middlemiss, M. (2019). Thinking Remote. Inspiration for Leaders of Distributed Teams. Virtual Not Distant

MG629 Developing Leadership and Management Skills