Part 1: Case analysis
As a basis for the first part of this assignment, select a leader and an organisation of your choice. Make sure that you select a leader who is publicly known, and about whom you can find and provide reliable information (e.g., interviews, reports).
Critically analyse the role of this leader for the organisation from the perspective of inclusion, ethics, sustainability, and/or social responsibility. For example, you could select a leader who has been involved in a corporate scandal or crisis and examine how they influenced their followers, diversity, health and wellbeing, motivation, organisational culture, or organisational change. Include at least three of the theories and frameworks we discussed in the module to explain how this leader impacted other individuals, groups, or the organisation as a whole.
Conclude your analysis with what you believe we can learn from this leader from the perspective of inclusion, ethics, sustainability, and/or social responsibility in organisations. These conclusions should be tied to your chosen OB theories and integrate research with management practice.
Throughout your case analysis, discuss current research from the field of OB that aligns with your chosen OB theories. We expect that you cite current empirical research published in scientific journals to support your arguments. In addition, we expect that you quote selected statements from other sources (e.g., interviews, reports, websites) that provide detailed insights into the leader and the organisation.
Assignments should be typed, using 1.5 spacing and an easy-to-read 12-point font. Assignments and dissertations/business projects must not exceed the word count indicated in the module handbook/assessment brief.
The word count should:
§ Include all the text, including title, preface, introduction, in-text citations, quotations, footnotes and any other items not specifically excluded below.
§ Exclude diagrams, tables (including tables/lists of contents and figures), equations, executive summary/abstract, acknowledgements, declaration, bibliography/list of references and appendices. However, it is not appropriate to use diagrams or tables merely as a way of circumventing the word limit. If a student uses a table or figure as a means of presenting his/her own words, then this is included in the word count.
Examiners will stop reading once the word limit has been reached, and work beyond this point will not be assessed. Checks of word counts will be carried out on submitted work, including any assignments or dissertations/business projects that appear to be clearly over-length. Checks may take place manually and/or with the aid of the word count provided via an electronic submission. Where a student has intentionally misrepresented their word count, the School may treat this as an offence under Section IV of the General Regulations of the University. Extreme cases may be viewed as dishonest practice under Section IV, 5 (a) (x) of the General Regulations.
Very occasionally it may be appropriate to present, in an appendix, material which does not properly belong in the main body of the assessment but which some students wish to provide for the sake of completeness. Any appendices will not have a role in the assessment – examiners are under no obligation to read appendices and they do not form part of the word count. Material that students wish to be assessed should always be included in the main body of the text.
Guidance on referencing can be found in the programme handbook and on Learn Ultra.
MARKING GUIDELINES
Performance in the summative assessment for this module is judged against the following criteria:
· Relevance to question(s)
- Organisation, structure and presentation
- Depth of understanding
- Analysis and discussion
- Use of sources and referencing
- Overall conclusions
The word count should include all the text (plus endnotes and footnotes), but exclude diagrams, tables, bibliography, references and appendices. Guidance on referencing can be found in your Assessment handbook under ‘Things you Need to Know’ on Learn Ultra.