ASSIGNMENT FRONT SHEET

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Programme : MBA Year/Level: 7

Academic Year: 21/22 Semester: 2
Module title: Contemporary Leadership Themes Assignment no.: 1
Module code: BUS7AN Word guide: 2000 words
Percentage Weighting of this assignment for the module: 50%
Issue date: Return date: 10/04/2022 before 10.00AM
Lecturer: Second marker:

Notes for students :

1. Students should make correct use of the Harvard referencing method.
2. Students should ensure that they comply with Glyndwr University’s plagiarism policy.

Learning Outcomes Tested in this Assignment :

1 Conceptualise the role of leadership practices from different theoretical perspectives, which
enhance the performance of a contemporary organisation
2 Propose suitable leadership solutions to achieve results within a complex organisational setting and
provide a supporting rationale

Overall Comment :

Mark (%)
Assessment. This is an individual assignment.

At very short notice, recent events have forced businesses across the globe to change
how they work. Many organisations have offered some degree of remote working for a
number of years now, but to be in a position where the entire workforce has to suddenly
work from home is challenging even for the most prepared of organisations.

Remote working has moved from being ‘flexible working’ and an ‘employee benefit’ to a
“must-have,” and at least for the foreseeable this is now the new normal. The challenges
business leaders have in ensuring there is limited disruption to the workplace, and
employees continue to be motivated, engaged and supported is paramount to business
success. However, this style of working poses huge challenges to leadership.

Assignment guidelines:

1. Explain the challenges leaders face due to ongoing remote working in an

organisational setting.

2. Evaluate traditional leadership traits and practices, and critically analyse the
advantages and disadvantages of each of those styles has when leading teams and
projects remotely, explaining the positive impact they have on performance. (LO1)

3. Compare and contrast your findings with more contemporary leadership styles and
traits, and critically examine – from both an academic and practical perspective -
whether both traditional and contemporary leadership have a role within organisations
when leading teams and projects remotely to meet strategic business objectives.
Propose suitable leadership solutions that you believe will achieve the required
organisational results and provide a supporting rationale. (LO2)

Marks Marks
Assessment Criteria
Awarded Available
Explain the challenges leaders face due to ongoing remote
1 working in an organisational setting. 10

Evaluate traditional leadership traits and practices, and critically

analyse the advantages and disadvantages of each of those
2 styles has when leading teams and projects remotely, explaining 40
the positive impact they have on performance. (LO1)

Compare and contrast your findings with more contemporary

leadership styles and traits, and critically examine – from both
an academic and practical perspective - whether both traditional
and contemporary leadership have a role within organisations
3 when leading teams and projects remotely to meet strategic 50
business objectives. Propose suitable leadership solutions that
you believe will achieve the required organisational results and
provide a supporting rationale. (LO2)
 Additional Comments from Second marker or External Examiner (if required):

Would students please note that achievement of the learning outcomes for this assessment is demonstrated
against the assessment criteria shown below (which are not necessarily weighted equally). All marks/grades
remain indicative until they have been considered and confirmed by the Assessment Board

Master Level Marking Criteria

No work has been submitted in the time allowed, or the work submitted demonstrates little or Fail:
no understanding of the task or the subject matter. This may be evident where the work is Marks below
substantially incoherent, irrelevant or lacking in factual content, or where these shortcomings 30%
are present in combination such that the work as a whole is unsound. Major errors of fact, or
evidence of substantially poor cognitive or other relevant skills will also lead to a fail.

The work shows some knowledge and required skills are present to a degree. There may be Fail:
appreciable error or omission of facts, poor structure, misdirection to the task, or poor Marks in the
conceptualisation or illustration of the work. Evidence of analysis and evaluation is weak. range
There will be indications in the work that the candidate is capable of improving it by further 30% – 39%
application to the task.

The work contains sufficient descriptive information. There is some analysis and explanation Pass:
with appropriate illustration and example, and some attempt to evaluate. The work will Marks in the
generally be coherent and relevant, it will contain some useful proposals or solutions related range of
to familiar solutions and there will be some attempt at originality. It will be communicated 40% – 49%
clearly.

The work contains all the necessary contextual information. There will be adequate analysis, Pass:
explanation and conceptualisation, with appropriate illustration and example, and sound Marks in the
attempts to evaluate and judge. The work will be substantially coherent and will contain range of
relevant and feasible proposals or solutions related to familiar situations, some responses to 50% – 59%
uncertainty or ambiguity and some acknowledgements of the implications of change.

The work will contain complete explanations using most available information. There will be Pass:
substantial analysis; the ability to recognise evidence, use ideas, conceptualise, evaluate and Marks in the
judge in familiar situations will be clearly demonstrated. Proposals or solutions will be range of
contextually relevant and useful, with substantial evidence of the skill necessary to 60% - 69%
operationalize them in a variety of situations, including those in which uncertainty, ambiguity
or change are present. The work will provide evidence of originality and of useful knowledge
transfer to novel situations. It will be coherent and convincing.

The work will clearly demonstrate the ability to analyse accurately, reliably and fully, all Pass:
relevant information; to use evidence; to conceptualise, evaluate and judge; to propose and Marks in the
operationalise effective solutions, and to show substantial originality and creativity in a variety range of 70%
of familiar situations or in the face of ambiguity, uncertainty or change. It will demonstrate and above
valuable knowledge transfer and propose feasible solutions for a wide range of situations.
Evidence of the ability to innovate will be present.