MBA 718- Strategic Leadership and Practise Essay 1- Brief
Learning Objective: be able to critically apply a range of strategic leadership styles and frameworks in an organisation.
TASK
Establishing and Applying a Leadership Style to an Organization and the Actions to Take
As it has been presented during the last four weeks, there are several strategic leadership styles that leaders can follow. Moreover, this has an impact on the strategic management process but it also depends on the actions that the top management team takes to ensure effective leadership within a business. Having this in mind, you are required to prepare an essay regarding strategic leadership. More specifically, you are to consider yourself as a NEW senior manager in an organisation operating in your hometown, having 57 employees under your leadership. You are required to suggest the type of leadership you should use as a new senior manager in the company in order to effectively lead your employees and extract from them 100% of their productivity. Please critically explain why you would use the chosen leadership style and what are the actions that you would take.
Assignment Specifics:
• THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL PIECE OF WORK
• For the assignment’s requirements, if necessary contact local authorities for licensing and/ or legal issues.
• Your report should be grounded in relevant theory – use the core and recommended reading – at the same time you should CRITICALLY justify your choices in the assignment.
• Reference all sources appropriately, using the APA Referencing System.
• The word count of your report is 3000 words (-/+10%).
• The Assignment should be accomplished by week 4 Sunday 11:59 pm (23:59 hours) VLE (UTC) time.
• The assignment counts 50% towards your final grade.
Guidance for completing your assignment
You are required to use framework and theories provided in the material of each week to support your choices. For instance, it is essential to present and discuss a strategic leadership style and the strategic management process before engaging in applying the concept in your own case. Please note that references and appendices are NOT counted in the word limit. This will give you the opportunity to expand the concepts of strategic leadership and give you a boost in terms of space to develop it as appropriate.
A proper structure of the assignment is as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Main concepts of strategic leadership (including sub-headings)
3. Conclusion
4. Recommendations (not compulsory)
References
Appendices (if applicable)
Please note that tables and figures should be located in the appendices and NOT in the main body of the assignment.