Leadership and Decision Making: Organisational Analysis

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Leadership and Decision Making

Assignment Three

Assessment Task Three

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Assessment Task Three – Task Summary

First, Provide a background of a key issue or problem.
Second, Choose one (or maximum of two) contemporary leadership theory that you will apply to solve the issue
Third, Applying one decision-making style or model to enhance performance.
Finally, Provide practical recommendations (maximum of three recommendations) for enhancing future performance for the chosen organisation.

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Overview

Choose a contemporary organisation (small, medium or large) with which you are familiar, and then provide an analysis of recent issues or problems
Your familiarity with the chosen organisation could be through your networks, having worked for the organisation, or through reading about the organisation in the media.
You will then produce a report for the Chief Executive Officer of that organisation to help implement leadership and decision-making interventions

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First Task: Problem identification

Provide a background of a key issue and problem.
The issue/problem may include but not limited to problems such as unethical behaviour, low employee morale, frequent workplaces accidents, negative attitude to work, problems in team, and poor performance.
Bearing in mind that you will be familiar with the chosen organisation, you will be expected to clearly describe the key issue (e.g. what is the problem?, what is the cause of the problem? Who have been involved? etc)

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Second Task: Leadership Theory

Choose one (maximum of two) contemporary leadership theory that you will apply to solve the issues.
You will analyse the chosen leadership theory in relation to their components and their effectiveness.
You will provide an argument relating to why applying the leadership theory will solve current issues.
Explain why developing desired leadership behaviours, styles and attitudes will solve current issue and be beneficial to general performance for the chosen organisation.

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Third Task: Decision Making Model

As part of your analysis, you will also explain why decision-making is a critical aspect of leadership for the chosen organisation.
You will specifically discuss how leaders for this organisation can enhance performance by applying one decision-making style or model learned from this course.

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Final Task: Recommendations

Based on your analysis, you will provide practical recommendations (maximum of three recommendations) for enhancing future performance (at either the individual, team or organisational levels) for the chosen organisation.
Based on material covered in this course, you will provide a justification for each recommendation in the report.

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Format & Reference

1. Title page
2. Executive summary
3. Table of Contents
4. Introduction
5. Background: Organisational analysis (description of the organisation, and identification of one (1) issue within the chosen organisation)
6. Analyses of one (or two) contemporary leadership theory proposed to solve identified organisational issue: (a) components of the theory; (b) applicability and effectiveness of the theory to solve the organisational issue.
7. Analysis of the role of decision-making as a critical aspect of effective leadership for the chosen organisation.
8. Recommendations
9. Conclusions
10. References
11. Appendices (if any).
You are required to cite at least 10 relevant, recent references in support of your arguments.

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You are requested to provide background information of the organisation (~200 words) that will be the focus of your analysis.

Important Note:

Assessment Criteria: (See Rubric)

Assessment Criteria:
Ability to provide a well-researched background of the organisation and to clearly identify the relevant leadership and decision-making issues
Ability to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of two leadership theories/concepts, with ideas and assertions substantiated through use of high-quality reference material and key academic perspectives/views
Ability to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of the role of decision-making in a modern organisation, with ideas and assertions substantiated through use of high-quality reference material and key academic perspectives/views
Ability to propose appropriate (and practicable) recommendations
Ability to appropriately reference sources of information (number and quality of references), using the Harvard style referencing (in-text and list of references) - see http://www.lib.rmit.edu.au/easy-cite/

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