Module PGBM141

Professional Management
and Leadership Development

Week 4 Lecture Slides

Faculty of Business, law & Tourism

 Session Aims
• To consider the module assignment and how to
demonstrate achievement of the learning outcomes.
• To introduce the concept of signpost sentencing as
an approach to improving academic reading and
writing.
• To make a start on task one of the assignment by
creating an assignment work-in-progress document

Faculty of Business, law & Tourism PGBM141 Week 4 Lecture Slides

 Module Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module successful students will be able to do the following:
1. Have an appreciation of several different theories of management and
leadership and how these impact on an organisation’s development
planning
2. Have a critical understanding of the impact of an organisation’s ethical and
value-based strategy and how it affects the relationship on the staff welfare
environment between human resources, management, and leadership.
3. Be able to apply the cognitive skills of critical thinking and analysis when
evaluating different approaches to management and leadership.
4. Have the capability and ability to evaluate leadership styles and strategies
to apply and evaluate tools and techniques associated with the creation of
an effective leadership development plan that adheres to the organisational
strategic aims and objectives

Each of these learning outcomes MUST be covered in your module assessment

Faculty of Business, law & Tourism PGBM141 Week 4 Lecture Slides

 Module Assessment
• The module will be assessed by one integrative individual report (100%) with a word guideline of 4000 words
plus or minus 10%. Submissions over 4400 words will be subject to the University’s word limit penalty
• The assignment will be an individual reflective report made of up of two tasks.
• Task 1
• You will draw on leadership and management theories to demonstrate understanding and application of the
module content.
• You will provide a reflection on the leadership and management of your strategic ambitions. You will include
a personal development plan.
• and
• Task 2
• You will provide an evaluation of the individual’s contribution to the management group exercise /task.
• The two tasks are to be submitted in one document, and the number of words you allocate to each task is
your choice.
• References
• The University of Sunderland adheres to the Harvard System of Referencing. This method of citing sources
will be familiar to you now at the end of your studies. It is widely termed the name/date method whereby the
ideas of an author are referred to in summary or by direct quotation; then in the back of the report, the
author or organisation are listed in alphabetical order. For detailed information on how to cite you’re your
sources of information and write the reference list correctly, please see ‘Cite them Right’
http://library.sunderland.ac.uk/servicesfor/students/wbl/ bibliographicalreferencingusingcitethemright/

Faculty of Business, law & Tourism PGBM141 Week 4 Lecture Slides

 Analysing the Assessment
Requirements Task 1 (Key Words)
• The module will be assessed by one integrative individual report
(100%) with a word guideline of 4000 words plus or minus 10%.
Submissions over 4400 words will be subject to the University’s
word limit penalty
• The assignment will be an individual reflective report made of up of
two tasks.
• Task 1
• You will draw on leadership and management theories to
demonstrate understanding and application of the module content.
• You will provide a reflection on the leadership and management of
your strategic ambitions. You will include a personal development
plan.

Faculty of Business, law & Tourism PGBM141 Week 4 Lecture Slides

 Assignment Planning
Task One – Reflective Report
2000 words

You will draw on leadership and You will provide a reflection on the
management theories to demonstrate leadership and management of your
understanding and application of the strategic ambitions. You will include a
module content. personal development plan.

1. Critically evaluate the impact of an 1. What are your strategic ambitions?

organisation’s ethical and value-based
strategy… LO2 500 words
2. Describe two/three theories from the
module and their impact on the
organisation’s ethical and value-based
strategy and planning LO1 500 words
2. Analyse and evaluate your planned
approach to management and
leadership LO3 500 words
3. Evaluate strategies, tools and
techniques you could use to the achieve
yours and your organisation’s strategic
aims and objectives. LO4 500 words
4. Development Plan (Table)

Faculty of Business, law & Tourism PGBM141 Week 4 Lecture Slides

Reflections on Professional Identity
and its Impact on Professionalism
in the Police Service

A signposted approach to assignment writing

Signpost Sentencing
 Signpost Sentences
• Signposts make an essay's claims clear to a reader.
• Reveal the main point of a paragraph.
• They show the relationship of each paragraph to the
essay's thesis, telegraph the point of a paragraph, and
tell your reader what to expect in the paragraph that
follows.
• Signposts, as their name suggests, prepare the reader
for a change in the argument's direction. They show
how far the essay's argument has progressed vis-ˆ-vis
the claims of the thesis. 
Using signposts to skim read
Making a start
Create the document and a
working title
Identify the target word
count in this case 5,000
Contents Page
Create a contents page to
map out the format of the
assignment
Make sure all of the
learning outcomes and
assessment criteria will be
covered in a logical
manner
Each Section
For each section in the contents page
create a titled section in the
document
– Word count

Identify the number of points you

want to make and paste the
following:
– Point
– To do

– Signpost
 Each Point
One point per paragraph
• Point – What is the point you want to make?
• To do – What do you need to research/access?
• Signpost – What sentence would introduce the
point and either implicitly or explicitly indicate
to the reader what will be in the paragraph
For each section have an introductory paragraph
and a summary paragraph
Example - Draft

Work through the

document to
create the skeletal
framework of
points with
signposting
sentences included
 Example – Final
In August 2010 the Home Secretary, in line with the Coalition
Governments reform agenda on policing, commissioned a
review of police leadership and training within the police
forces of England and Wales. Chief Constable Peter Neyroud
QPM carried out the review and concluded that the model still
in use today is recognisably the same model designed back in
the 1940’s to meet the challenges of Post War Britain. Neyroud
argues that the demands of 21st century policing require both a
new approach and a new professional body to embrace the
professionalism of the police service, its leadership, learning
and standards…..