Unit 4: Leadership and Management

Assignment Brief 1

Student Name/ ID Number

Unit Number and Title Unit 4: Leadership and Management
Academic Year
Unit Tutor
Assignment Title Leadership and Management in the Workplace
Issue Date
Submission Date
Submission format
The submission format is in the form of a written report. The report should be written
in a concise style. You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs, and sub-
sections as appropriate. All work must be supported with research and reference using
the Harvard referencing system. You will need to provide a bibliography using the
Harvard referencing system. In accurate us of referencing may lead to issues of
plagiarism if not applied correctly.

The recommended word limit is 2,000-2,500 words, although you will not be penalized
for going under or exceeding the total word limit.
Unit Learning Outcomes
LO1 Examine leadership and management theories and principles, and their impacts
on the effectiveness of an organization.

LO2 Review the influence of different leadership and management styles on the culture
of organizations.
Transferable skills and competencies developed
• Effective written communication.
• The ability to analyse and evaluate a range of business data and sources of
information.
• Using research for evidence-based decision making.
• Digital literacy.
• Interpretation of information that allows for evaluation of theory to practice.

Vocational scenario
Organisation

Navigos Group is a company dedicated to help people and companies achieve their
dreams through its professional recruiting services. Its main portfolio of companies are
the leading players in the recruitment industry in Vietnam. The group is comprised of
www.VietnamWorks.com, an online recruitment portal and Navigos Search, an
executive search firm. Through 18 years of operating in Vietnam, Navigos Group’s

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greatest asset is the largest and most comprehensive database of Vietnamese
professionals. Known for its strong service culture and people-centric management, the
group has maintained the status as the leading recruiting service in Vietnam since
foundation in 2002 (Navigos Group website, 2021).
Role

You are working as a newly appointed, Trainee Executive Search Consultant. Part of
your role is using social media platforms to contact and recruit potential clients and
employees for your clients to meet their brief. Understanding leadership and
management skills and competencies is crucial to your role, as you will be reviewing
CVs and filtering applicants, and interviewing and assessing their skills to see if they are
the best fit for the job.

Assignment activity and guidance

As a new trainee, you are to complete onboarding training to help you understand
leadership and management in action. As part of this onboarding process, you have
been asked to undertake a case study report for an organization. Focusing on a large
organization of your choice, critically evaluate their leadership and management
theories, their impact on decision making and the factors that influence their
organizational culture. The research of additional business examples should be used to
assist your analysis and evaluation.

Business activities to inform your report will include the following.

 Conducting research into leadership and management concepts, theories and

their application in the workplace in order to analyse the effectiveness of
leadership and management in the given organization.
 Comparing at least two other organizational examples to compare the different
styles of leadership and management approaches taken for a range of business
situations and how they impact decisions taken.
 Examination of different leadership and management approaches taken to
evaluate their effectiveness and the impact that the role of leadership and
management has on organizational culture and performance.

Your report should contain the followings:

1. Leadership and management concepts:

 Define the key concepts: leader & manager/ leadership & management
 Discuss the key skills and competences of effective leader & manager
 Differentiate: leadership and management
2. Leadership and management theories in relation to organizational
effectiveness:
 Discuss concisely various leadership & management theories with real-life

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 application examples (one of the examples must be the chosen company).
 (M1) Analyze the positive and negative impacts of applying leadership and
management theories on the organizational performance/effectiveness in
the previous examples.
 (D1) Based on the above analysis, critically evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of different leadership and management theories then make
recommendations on how to further improve the performance of the
example organizations.
3. Leadership and management styles and organizational culture:
 Leadership and management styles:
o Discuss different leadership and management styles with examples of
different large organizations (one of the examples must be the
chosen company).
o (M2) Explain and compare how different leadership and management
styles would impact on decision making in the example organizations.
 Cultures of organizations:
o Discuss different types of organizational cultures with examples of
different large organizations (one of the examples must be the
chosen company).
o Identify and explain various factors influencing the development of
organizational culture in organizations.
o (M3) Evaluate the importance of organizational culture on
organizational performance in the example organizations.
 (D1) Critically evaluate importance of leadership and management styles in
setting and embedding organizational culture.

Recommended Resources

Please note that the resources listed are examples for you to use as a starting
point in your research – the list is not definitive.
Weblinks

BBC Learning English. The Handy Guide to Management. Available at:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/work/handy/handy.shtml

Businessballs. Likert’s Management Systems. Available at:

https://www.businessballs.com/organisational-culture/likerts-management-systems/

HN Global

HN Global (2021) Reading Lists. Available at:

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https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/learning- zone/reading-lists

HN Global (2021) Student Resource Library. Available at:

https://hnglobal.highernationals. com/subjects/resource-libraries

HN Global (2021) Textbooks. Available at:

https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/textbooks

Journal articles

Alma Harris & Michelle Jones (2018) The dark side of leadership and management, School
Leadership & Management, 38:5, 475-477, DOI: 10.1080/13632434.2018.1509276 https://
doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2018.

M. Liphadzi, C.O. Aigbavboa, W.D. Thwala, A Theoretical Perspective on the Difference

between Leadership and Management, Procedia Engineering, Volume 196, 2017, ISSN
1877- 7058, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705817331004

Nafiisa Sobratee; Shamim Bodhanya; Leading in a global context: The balancing act
between leadership and management, JBRMR , Volume 12 Issue 4, 04 Jul 2018
https://doi.org/10.24052/JBRMR/V12IS04/ART-06

Textbooks

DuBrin, A. (2012) Essentials of Management. 9th Ed. Mason: Cengage Learning

Mullins, L. J. (2019) Organisational Behaviour in the Workplace. 12th Ed. Harlow: Pearson.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Examine leadership and management theories and
principles, and their impacts on the effectiveness of an
organization.
P1 Discuss different LO1 and LO2
theories of leadership M1 Analyze the impact D1 Critically evaluate the
in relation to the of the application impact of different approaches
management activities in of leadership and to leadership and management.
different organizations. management theories on
P2 Explore different the effectiveness of a large
theories of management in organization.
relation to the
management and
leadership activities in
different organizations.

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 LO2 Review the influence of different leadership and
management styles on the culture of organizations.
P3 Assess different
M2 Compare the impact of
leadership and
leadership and
management styles and
management styles
their application in a range
on decision making in
of business situations in
different organizations.
different organizations.
M3 Evaluate the
P4 Examine the factors
importance of
that influence the
organizational culture on
development of the
the performance of
culture in organizations.
different organizations.