Leadership and Team building Task brief & rubrics:
Task: Define and discuss contemporary management and leadership, and critically analyze a chosen leadership profile.
• This assignment should be completed individually.
TASK DESCRIPTION:
• Define contemporary management and leadership. Discuss the current roles and responsibilities of managers vs. those of leaders, in organizations. 40% of total MT grade.
• Choose a 20/21st. century leader and research his/her profile, focusing on the skills and traits (at least 2 of each), which make them an effective leader. Justify your choice and support your analysis with specific examples. 60% of total MT grade.
Expected table of contents:
– Introduction
– What is management?
– What is leadership?
– Key similarities and differences between the two concepts.
– Current roles and responsibilities of managers and leaders.
– Chosen leader’s profile introduction and background information.
– Discussion of key skills and traits that make them an effective leader (including examples and justification)
– Conclusions
– Bibliography
– The assignment should be written in the form of an essay and submitted via turnitin.
Formalities:
• Word-count: 3000 words
• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total word-count.
• Font: Arial 12 pts.
• Text alignment: Justified.
• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.
Submission: Week 5 – Via Moodle (Turnitin). August 23rd, 2020 at 23.59 CEST
Weight: This task is a 40% of your total grade for this subject.
It assesses the following learning outcomes:
– To assess the mix of attributes, skills, and capabilities and how these apply in leadership situations
– Critically understand the importance of the relationship between effective leadership and successful teams.
• Rubrics
Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69 Knowledge & Understanding (20%)
Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner.
Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary.
Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.
Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary.
Application (30%) Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.
Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.
Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding
may be evident.
Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident.
Critical Thinking (30%)
Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions
from relevant authors.
Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors and references.
Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic. References may not be relevant.
Student makes little or none critical thinking insights, does not quote appropriate authors, and does not provide valid sources. Communication (20%)
Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck.
Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck.
Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the word-count limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident.
Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and inconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed word count excessively and misspelling errors are evident.
