ASSIGNMENT
Design an effective leader for a chosen organization
QUESTION
Pick an organization in an industry that you are personally interested in. Given the particularities of the organization/industry you have chosen, your job is to consider what an optimal leader would be in that context. ‘Design’ an effective leader in your chosen context, considering both the trait, skills and/or behavioral approach to leadership. Justify why they believe this combination is appropriate for the context.
Use relevant theories and concepts to explain how this leader might run the organization effectively. Appropriate source material should be used to support points throughout – remember to score highly there must be strong evidence of wider reading (academic journal papers).
The assignment should be structured as follows:
Part 1
Introduce your chosen organization and industry. Students should list the relevant attributes and characteristics of this context.
Part 2
‘Design’ an effective leader – you must justify why these combinations of traits, skills, behaviors etc are appropriate to the context. You should draw upon relevant theories and concepts that you have learnt from the module to support your analysis. For example, if you are discussing the personality traits that your leader would ideally have, then you could draw on the five-factor personality model to support your discussions.
Part 3
Create a theory-driven argument for how the leader you have designed would effectively run the organization. You can utilize any combination of theories and concepts you believe will help support your arguments. (e.g. Theory X, Theory Y etc).
*Note you may give your assignment a project management focus if you wish to. So your effective leader design may be in relation to a specific project. Part 3 may focus on how your leader may approach running certain projects specifically.
