BUSM4737 Leadership and Management Assignment-RMIT University Australia.

Assessment type: Report – Individual
Time/word limit: 3,300 (+/- 10%)
Weighting: 50 %
Overview: The purpose of this individual assessment task is to use what you have learnt in the second half of this course to prepare for a job interview or for a promotion interview. This assignment is about the importance of gaining credibility within an organisation by demonstrating your understanding of the concepts and using the language of managerial leadership. In addition, it enables creative thinking about the capabilities required of managerial leaders and encourages professional self-development.
BUSM4737 Leadership and Management Assignment-RMIT University Australia.

Assessment criteria

• insightful use of the literature covered in Leadership and Management (12.5 pts)
• responses that are comprehensive yet concise, coherent and convincing (12.5 pts)
• use of examples from workplace and business cases studied in this course, to support arguments (12.5 pts)
• explaining not only what you would do, but also the evidential and theoretical grounds that add to your credibility by making it clear why you would do those things (12.5pts).

Course learning outcomes
This assessment is relevant to the following course learning outcomes:
CLO 1 Recognise the appropriateness of different types of leadership styles in a range of organisational settings.
CLO 2 Accurately assess your personal strengths and areas of challenge and effectively self-manage these towards improved practice.
CLO 3 Explain how effective managerial leaders are able to diagnose and ethically improve the key areas of organisational functioning.
CLO 4 Motivate and influence others in ways that contribute to sustainable organisational performance.

Assessment Details
This assessment task comprises six questions that you are required to answer in a written format, as part of your preparation for a potential upcoming job or promotion interview. Write your answers as if you
are preparing ahead of time for an interview and want to increase your chances of knowing what to say by spending time sorting out what you know and putting that knowledge into writing. In other words, do
not write your answers as if you are sitting in front of a selection panel and talking. Your writing will,therefore, be as formal as it was for the first assignment.

These are the questions you are required to answer, in written form, as preparation for an upcoming job or promotion interview:
1.Your application indicated that you participated in personality training as a part of the MBA program. Based on the results of your personality test, what do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of your personality type in relation to effective leadership and management of the
organisation; how do you plan to overcome the potential disadvantages?
2.This is a high-performance work setting where we must overcome obstacles and setbacks to achieve the desired business outcomes. Often, this means that members of senior management may adopt a demanding and confrontational style. If this situation arises, how would you manage
it? and what would you do to ensure that you are not overwhelmed by the situation and remain resilient?
3.We are a multinational enterprise, and we value the diversity of our workforce. But sometimes we experience cross-cultural communication barriers. What would you do to ensure a clear and open communication between your team members operating in different geographical regions with varied cultures?
4.We believe that effective communication is essential to influence others in a positive way. Can you elaborate your approach to influencing someone in a more senior role than yours to ensure that your insightful ideas and recommendations for the organisation are valued?
5.We have been struggling to motivate a group of employees who work in our Research and Innovation Department, despite giving them a 12 per cent salary increase! As a team leader, what would you do to improve their level of motivation, and why you think that approach will make a difference?
6.Innovation is critical for our business growth and success, but we are behind our competitors in this area. What are your thoughts on spurring creativity and innovation in a team?

BUSM4737 Leadership and Management Assignment-RMIT University Australia.

Note specially: Your assignment must use the reading materials studied in this course. Assignments that rely on references that have not been studied in this course cannot achieve even a Pass grade because such assignments fail to demonstrate what you have learnt from studying this course in
leadership and management. Also note: There is no opportunity to resubmit failed assignments.

You will have to answer the set of six questions that you have already been given. These questions test your comprehension of the course materials and tools for understanding business and leadership problems and designing solutions.

Note: Your case study assignment submitted at the end of week five focused on the first three course topic modules, so the questions set for this assignment focus on the concepts covered in the latter half of the course. That is, topic modules 4 to 6.

BUSM4737 Leadership and Management Assignment-RMIT University Australia.

How to succeed in this assessment

• Ensure you are fully aware of ALL assessment requirements.
• Keep the marking rubric handy during write-up and aim to achieve the HD criteria.
• Make sure you address all aspects of the question by drawing on relevant examples.
• Take the time to proofread your work before submission.
• Ensure you express your ideas clearly and concisely, yet in a comprehensive and convincing manner.
• Don’t forget to provide specific examples from the case as evidence to support the claims you make.
• Avoid long recap of the concepts. Go directly to explaining how the concepts can be utilised in an organisational setting.
• It’s not enough to reiterate the theories or concepts. You’ll need to provide and link the theories or concepts to examples to demonstrate your understanding and analysis.
• The more specific and relevant your examples are, the more you will demonstrate your understanding and analysis ability.
• Ensure you correctly acknowledge all sources of information. Use of the RMIT Harvard referencing method is required.
• Use the original terms of the theories/models/concepts.
• Plan your overall approach, decide how much time/words you will locate on each topic/question. Don’t write too much for questions 1–2 and miss out on question 3.

Submission format
The assignment must be submitted electronically via my RMIT Canvas in a Microsoft Word file type using the Turnitin assignment e-Submission procedure. Turnitin will review your submitted work and provide an
originality report for you and your facilitator.

Referencing guidelines
If you source any material from a primary or secondary source, please include the information in your submission. You must acknowledge all the sources of information you have used in your assessments and use RMIT Harvard referencing style for referencing.

Refer to the RMIT Easy Cite referencing tool to see examples and tips on how to reference in the appropriated style. You can also refer to the library referencing page for more tools such as End Note,referencing tutorials and referencing guides for printing.

Academic integrity and plagiarism
Academic integrity is about honest presentation of your academic work. It means acknowledging the work of others while developing your own insights, knowledge and ideas.

You should take extreme care that you have:

Acknowledged words, data, diagrams, models, frameworks and/or ideas of others you have quoted(i.e. directly copied), summarised, paraphrased, discussed or mentioned in your assessment through the appropriate referencing methods

Provided a reference list of the publication details so your reader can locate the source if necessary.This includes material taken from Internet sites

BUSM4737 Leadership and Management Assignment-RMIT University Australia.

If you do not acknowledge the sources of your material, you may be accused of plagiarism because you have passed off the work and ideas of another person without appropriate referencing, as if they were your
own.

RMIT University treats plagiarism as a very serious offence constituting misconduct.

Plagiarism covers a variety of inappropriate behaviours, including:

• Failure to properly document a source
• Copyright material from the internet or databases
• Collusion between students