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Unit learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding

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.

2. Demonstrate the following skills and abilities

Critically evaluate leadership/management styles, leadership problems and challenges and your personal leadership capabilities and needs for future 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. You need to highlight strong theoretical knowledge and application to your own and other organisational contexts.

Critically analyse leadership problems and challenges within your or case example organisational utilising critical evaluation and application of appropriate theory.

1. Critically evaluate how certain types of leadership / management styles differ depending on history, culture, geographic life and conditions drawing on your organisation and other mini-case examples.

2. Critically evaluate how certain types of leadership/management styles impact on people performance and productivity. Ensure concrete examples of impacts are discussed and applied to yourself and that of your team.

3. Critically evaluate how certain types of leadership/management styles determine who will ‘follow and how' they will follow. Demonstrate with actual or potential scenarios relative to yourself and your team/ colleagues and the strategic direction of your organisation.

4. Critically evaluate your personal leadership capabilities using the Seven Leadership Mindsets theory and critically analyse the need for your future professional development by identifying the strategic direction of your organisation, the sector and potential job roles.

5. Specific conclusion: Having studied the seven mindset-thinking systems, critically reflect and conclude what the definition of an effective leader should be. Make recommendations for your own development and that of your organisation to address your vision of what leadership is.

A suggested structure for the written report would include the following:

Introduction to the assignment, its purpose and briefly describe your organisation / sector that you will explore.

The Report

1. Create insight into your leadership style by answering questions about your organisational / personal leadership inside your organisation from a leadership and cultural perspective You have to integrate the seven mindset thinking systems theory, and other related leadership theories to create an academic framework with which to critically evaluate the personal leadership styles within your own organization.

2. Assess the impact of leadership styles on people performance and discuss potential improvements.

3. Analyse your own leadership within your organisation produce an assessment / reflection assessing your leadership capabilities.

Conclusion / Recommendations.
Discuss how your understanding of ‘leadership' has evolved as a result of the readings given in this unit. Make recommendations for your own development and that of the organisation to address your vision of what leadership is. Draw on evidence from across the main areas within your conclusion. These form specific conclusion and recommendations: It is advised that you need to draw on evidence from other sections and do not introduce new theory or concepts at this stage.

References- Harvard style and in alphabetical order.

Appendices- Numbered and ensure reference to this is made in the main body of the report.