Extended Diploma in Strategic Management & Leadership

Developing Strategic Management & Leadership Skills

Assignment Brief

As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit an assignment for each module. Please refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments.

After completing the module you should be able to:

LO1- Understand the relationship between strategic management and strategic leadership.
LO2- Be able to apply management and leadership theory to support organizational direction.
LO3- Be able to assess leadership requirements.
LO4- Be able to plan the development of leadership skills.

The purpose of this assignment is to:

Demonstrate the learner's understanding of the links between strategic management, leadership and organisational direction, and the skills to be able to apply this understanding.

Assignment Task

(Using an organisation you are familiar with answer the following. The organisation could be your current employer, former employer or one that you can researchas an example to underpin your arguments and evaluation.)

Introduction
Write the background and the overview of the chosen company briefly in your case studyso that the purpose of the assignment will follow naturally after this section

Task 1
LO1: Understand the relationship between strategic management and leadership

1a. Explain how the leadershipsupports the strategic management of the chosen organizational and discuss the different roles between management and leadership. Analysethe impact of management and leadership styles on strategic decisions. (Assessment Criteria 1.1 and 1.2)
1b. Evaluate the appropriate leadership styles required to adapt the situations of economic recession and management succession of new leader (Assessment Criteria 1.3)

Task 2
LO2: Be able to apply management and leadership theory to support organisational direction

2a. Evaluate the impact of leadership on strategy in the chosen organization with the Contingency Theory or Transformational Leadership theory of management and leadership. (Assessment Criteria 2.1)

2b. Suggest a new leadership strategy should be adopted with justifications if you are the CEO of the chosen organizationin order to support the organizational direction. (Assessment Criteria 2.2)

Task 3
LO3: Be able to assess leadership requirements

3a.Explain the requirements of current leadership with external environmental influences for the success of the chosen organization. (Assessment Criteria 3.1)

3b. Identify and plan the leadershiprequired to deal with the differentemerging situations. (Assessment Criteria 3.2)

Task 4
LO4: Be able to plan the development of leadership skills

4a. Proposea development plan of leadership skills to address the needs of technological challenges in Twenty-First Century for the chosen organization. (Assessment Criteria4.1)

4b. Review and justify the methods used in the development plan of leadership skills for the chosen organisation.(Assessment Criteria4.2)

Student Guidelines
1. You should write this assignment in report form by addressing each and every task in numerical order e.g. Task 1 (a), (b) etc. and include:
- Title Page
- Content Page
- Introduction
- Main Body of the Tasks
- Conclusion
- References or Bibliographies
- Appendices

2. You MUST underpin your analysis and evaluation of the key issues with appropriate and wide ranging academic research and ensure this is referenced using the Harvard system.

4. You should use diagrams and tables of figures where appropriate ensuring to reference their source using the Harvard Referencing method.

5. You are required to write your assignment within 4,000 words in order for your research and summarising skills to be developed, and for effective time management. You are required to ensure that the assignment addresses all of the assessment tasks. In the interests of good academic practice, an assignment submitted with excessive word counts.

The word count excludes the title page, reference list and appendices. Where assessment questions have been reprinted from the assessment brief these will also be excluded from the word count. ALL other printed words ARE included in the word count. Printed words include those contained within charts and tables.

Attachment:- Draft.rar