Focusing on leadership and change

Introduction

In this assignment, we will focus on you, your relationship to leadership and change in your work context and the management ideas that have influenced those topics. Rather than testing how carefully you have read the module materials, this assignment asks you to reflect on your experience of leadership and potential for initiating and leading change.

You will be asked to think deeply, considering whether any of the new ideas you have read about in the module change the way you think about what is possible to do. As in all assignments in B204, we also ask you to inquire into your work context with a view to getting a better idea about what is going on.

Task

Write a report to your tutor in which you:

1. Discuss one or more opportunities you have to initiate and lead some change within your work context. To what extent are the models and frameworks you have read about likely to help you initiate change? How might you use ideas about power in organizations that you have encountered in B204 to help you increase your potential to initiate change? (1000 words)