Students must pass this assessment to pass the course and the overarching Deakin unit.

Unit Hurdle Requirement: Students must pass this assessment to pass the course and the overarching Deakin unit.

The assessment criteria are summarised in the table below:

Assessment Task 2 

Case Study Evaluation and Reflection Report

Brief description of assessment task 

Part One: An initial analysis of organisation concepts and principles related to leaders, power and stakeholder management and an assessment of these factors as applied by a nominated organisation.

Part Two: Initially a student will identify the components of the Course Two content that has impacted on their professional and personal life focusing on leadership capacity. Students will also critically reflect on their own leadership and management style in relation to the theoretical material covered and in their professional experiences, and develop a `Leadership Development Plan for the following 12 months.

Detail of student output

Part One: Organisational analysis of diversity, powerpower, and stakeholder management: 1,500 word written document, 25% of the assessment.

Part Two: Reflection report: 1,500 word written document, 25% of the assessment.

Weight (% of total marks for the unit)

50%

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Learning Outcome(s) assessed:

ULO3: Provide clear advice (to organisational leadership) on the impact of organisational culture, organisational design, and internal and external environment factors on organisational performance

ULO4: Reflect on and examine personal leadership skills and style in the context of creating and maintaining high performing organisations

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Graduate Learning Outcome(s) (DGLO) assessed:

GLO1: Apply discipline-specific knowledge
GLO2: Communicate findings in a written discussion
GLO6: Reflecting on own approach to addressing people challenges

Indicative due week

Week 8


Part 1

Assessment Title: Analysis of Organisational Leadership and Stakeholder Management

The student will:

  • For a High Performing Organisation (50)%)
    • • explore the value of diversity,
    • the optimum uses of power and;
    • means of maximising the value of stakeholder management for an organisation
  • For the nominated organisation (30%)
    • explore the diversity within the organisation executive leadership team and
    • Identify the scope of external stakeholders that impact on the organisation and determine criteria to prioritise the management of the identified stakeholders
    • Offer recommendations for the nominated company related to executive leadership diversity and stakeholder management (10%)
  • Support your paper with academic literature (10%)

The report can be structured as follows

    1. Introduction
    2. body
      • The value of Leadership diversityBody
      • Uses of Power within an organisation
      • Means of maximising the value of stakeholder management- Why Is the process important?
      • The nominated organisation`s capacity to address
        • Executive Leadership diversity
        • Identification of key External stakeholders, prioritisation guidelines
        • Recommendations for Executive diversity and stakeholder management
    3. Conclusion
    4. Reference list - There is an expectation that at least 10 academic references are cited
    5. Appendices

Part 2

Title: My Leadership Reflection and Leadership Plan

The student will:

  1. Outline the key learnings that have a significance to themselves from the content of Course Two focusing on their leadership capacity, supported by quality
    sources
    • Identification and evaluation of organisational leadership characteristics and practices both theoretical and applied (30%)
    • Reflection on one`s leadership practice by - drawing on relevant theory and individual experiences (20%)
  2. Develop a leadership action plan for the oncome 12 months detailing (40%)
    • What will I start doing?
    • What will I continue to do?
    • What will I stop doing?
    • In the Appendix: Each section of the Table should include detailed actions and measures that will determine the success or otherwise of the three sections
  3. Support the content with underpinning theory, correctly sourced (10%)

An appendix will summarise your leadership development plan.

 

Issue Actions Measures
What will I start doing?    
1    
2    
3    
What will I continue to do?    
1    
2    
3    
What will I stop doing?    
1    
2    
3    

The following structure is a suggestion and may help you organise your assessment paper.

Title: My Leadership Plan

  1. Introduction
  2. Body
    • Course leadership learning (~825 words referenced)
    • Leadership action plan (detailed actions and measures are placed in the appendix table)
      • What will I start doing? (Linked to academic theory) (~175 words)
      • What will I continue to do? (Linked to academic theory) (~175 words) and
      • What will I stop doing? (Linked to academic theory) (~175 words)
  3. Conclusion
  4. Bibliography
  5. Appendix - leadership plan table
    • Each section of the table should include detailed actions and measures that will determine the success or otherwise of the three actions

The reflection can have a significant impact on your working career, and you are advised to undertake a scheduled reflection of your leadership and career aspirations throughout your career. This is an important consideration as leadership and its related content are often well described but sometimes difficult to enact. You are asked to always have the assessment in mind as you work through the course. You are advised to keep reflective records during this course of your learning and the exercises will provide support for this reflection. In the early sections of the leadership module a journal has been outlined and provides a basis of your reflective learnings to inform your leadership. Remember not all learning are related solely to the workplace. Family, friends, leisure activities and relaxation all provided sources of reflection and learning.

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