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Assessment Task
Assignment Two: Response to Equity (Equality) Audit
Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:
understand how leaders shape organisations and organisational culture
think critically and challenge traditional notions of change in educational settings
examine the ways leaders can create positive change in educational organisations
reflect on personal values, beliefs, thinking, and leadership actions as they relate to organisational change
identify issues of inequity in educational organisations
develop a plan to create equitable educational organisations
Details of the Task:
This assignment is a Response to the Equity (Equality) Audit developed and discussed in Assignment One. This response will focus on your growing understanding of the complexity of organisational change and cultural development in educational organisations. This will be undertaken through a deeper study on the role of an educational leader and other leaders within the institution in addressing the complexities of your chosen inequity (inequality) issue.
Use these guiding questions and instructions to help frame your second essay for this unit:
Introduction: Introduce the rationale of your response to the inequity/inequality audit that was undertaken in your first assignment. (300 -400 words)
What levels of leadership (such as senior, middle, front-line etc.) within the organisation would be most effective in tackling your chosen inequity/inequality issue through the inequity/inequality audit? Justify your response. (500 words)
What personal leadership attributes do you feel would be well-placed in addressing this inequity/inequality issue? Justify your response. (500 words)
What organisational leadership attributes do you think an educational institution should have while addressing this inequity/inequality issue? Justify your response. (500 words)
What organisational change model do you feel would help implement this change as the institution addresses the inequity/inequality issue? Justify your response. (500 words)
What kind of continuous improvement and accountability approach does the organisation need to take to help it sustain its effort in addressing the inequity/inequality issue? Justify your response. (500 words)
To continuously address institutional or societal inequities/inequalities, it is essential to build social justice leadership capacity within the leaders of an institution. In the case of your chosen inequity/inequality issue, what strategies for leadership capacity-building need to be developed within the institution as it addresses this institutional inequity/inequality? Justify your response. (500 words)
Present a highly considered and critical connections diagram that links the leaders and their personal and organisational leadership attributes/approaches. This diagram includes highly considered and clear critical links with the organisational change model, continuous improvement and accountability processes and leadership capacity-building strategies used while addressing the chosen inequity/inequality issue. (equivalent to 200 words)
Conclusion: This section summarises your response and connects the main ideas of your assignment, focusing on the role played by leadership at the individual and organisational level when addressing an inequity/inequality issue that the institution is facing. (300 - 400 words)
Your submission must be made in the Assessment Two Dropbox as a word document (not a pdf document). Your essay must be structured in line with current APA guidelines. Your list of references should include all the sources cited within your paper and be formatted in line with APA (7th edition) guidelines. You are encouraged to make use of your unit readings included in this unit as well as other relevant literature that is used in your investigation. You should have at least 10 to 12 peer-reviewed articles in your essay (no upper limit), of which at least 50% should be from your unit readings.
Word count/equivalent: 4000 words (with a +/- 10% allowance)