Provide an understanding of the core competencies relating to management and leadership skills in organizations.

The Purpose This module will provide an understanding of the core competencies relating to management and leadership skills in organisations. The module will examine management and leadership models and evaluate the effectiveness of those in the 21st Century, including the difference between management and leadership. There will also be a self-reflective report considering the development of the student’s own leadership skills throughout the module. This will include updating the e-portfolio for the students. The Context As a business school graduate, you will be expected to demonstrate superior business acumen and as part of that acumen the ability to lead others as well as yourself are expected by graduate recruiters. This assignment requires you to identify a leadership development activity that you can reflect upon and demonstrate your development. The Task 1. You are to analyse your existing leadership profile using a range of leadership assessments such as Belbin, Myers-Briggs, DISC, or other reputable self-assessment tools. Module code and title: MG629 – Developing Leadership & Management Skills Module leader: Dr. Chinedu Uwabuike Assignment No. and type: Coursework 2: Written Assignment: 1000-word self- reflection with appendices and evidence. Assessment weighting: 30% Submission time and date: Sunday 17th December 2023 before 2 pm. Target feedback time and date: 3 weeks after submission deadline 2 2. You must identify a specific developmental need from the analysis, and this can be strength based or developmental. 3. You must then carry out a developmental event that specifically addresses the developmental need, provide evidence of your developmental activity and journey before critically reflecting upon your self-development in a 1,000-word reflective essay. 4. The reflective essay and appendices including self-assessment analysis in point 1 and evidence of your developmental activity and journey in point 3 will be submitted as one document (Word or PDF). You will upload the file to the relevant submission link in the Module folder on LSST Connect. Key independent learning activities, employability skills and stretch activities:  Assess the student’s own leadership and management skills.  Construct a leadership self-developmental plan.  Identify key information needs using core textbook to develop commercial acumen.

 Search using commercial databases and research reports and other reputable sources to build an evidence-based argument for the self-development event.  Complete a leadership self-development event/activity.  Critically reflect upon their own self-development journey.  Illustrate awareness of emotional intelligence of self and others.  Demonstrate ability to develop life-long learning skills. This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes: LO2: Develop and demonstrate effective leadership skills Practicalities: Referencing, presenting and submitting your work Please see your programme handbook for information on the standard referencing style, presentational requirements and process for submitting your work. Please reference your work using the Harvard style as defined in Cite Them Right Online (http://www.citethemrightonline.com). 3  Pages should be numbered.  All work to be submitted as Arial 11 font with line and a half spacing.  You may write in the first person for this assessment.  Written work must be word-processed.  The module title and code number must be clearly marked on the front cover.  Work you submit for assessment must be properly referenced – a guide to the Harvard system of referencing can be found on the Bucks website at bucks.ac.uk/referencing.  You may seek clarification from the module tutor at any time.  There is no excuse for failing to submit your work in accordance with the guidance, work that does not meet the necessary standards in that respect will be marked accordingly.  No collaboration is allowed.  You are required to submit your work electronically. Please use the relevant submission point in the Upload My Assignment area on LSST Connect before the time and date specified.  Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the following file types: Microsoft Word or PDF. Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size.  You can submit your file as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your file more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version. Once you have submitted your file, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your LSST e-mail address. Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of the file. Confidentiality You are expected to take responsibility for maintaining and managing confidentiality issues in your work. You should maintain and respect confidentiality in relation to the protection of personal, technical and/or commercial information of a sensitive nature in your assessed work, whatever the format. For further information and guidance, please see the relevant section in your programme handbook. Confidentiality issues will vary from subject to subject and you are encouraged to seek advice from your course team if you are unclear about requirements in your context. For further information and guidance, please see the University website.

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