Assessment Task One: Leadership: From theory to practice and self reflection

Type: Individual

Length: 2,700-3,000 words. don’t exceed 3000 words.

This assessment is designed to lead you from reflection on an analysis of another leader to encourage you to improve your own leadership skills and qualities.

At the first stage, you will nominate a person whom you consider to be a successful and effective leader. This person could be someone you work with or for. Then, through your observation, you will identify the person’s leadership traits, behaviours, skills and/or styles. The learning outcome of this stage is that you are challenged to apply and link the theories in this course with your observation.

In the second stage, you are asked to ‘interview’ the person who had served as your role model. At this stage, you are expected to learn not only from your role model’s experience but also about the complexities of leadership.

In the final stage, ‘self reflection and improvement’, you are asked to reflect on yourselves, based on what you found in the first and second stages, and consider how your own leadership skills and qualities could be improved.

By going through these three stages, you should be able to critically evaluate leadership theories and practices and understand how to improve your own leadership skills and qualities.

First Task: Observation

Identify a person who you consider to be a successful or effective leader. This could be someone you work with or for (for example: business, professional, sport, volunteer work, religious organisations etc) or anyone who through some association you judge to be a good leader.

Describe in detail what you observe this person doing in their leadership role; what you perceive this person’s leadership styles, behaviours, traits, skills and his/her use of power and influence tactics that make him/her an effective leader. You must be able to apply theories/concepts/models in the course to support your observation.

Second Task: Interview ( Please come out with 10 interview question for the leader)

As simple observation will not capture the complex leadership developed by effective leaders, interview the leader. Ask your chosen leader to describe his/her leadership style, behaviours, traits, skills and his/her use of power and influence tactics and see if you can confirm with your observation of what you perceived earlier.

Using the ideas and knowledge you have gained from the course to guide you but keeping it open ended, ask them what they think are the characteristics of a good and effective leader.  Encourage them to be specific – a good way to do this is to ask, after their initial responses, that they give examples or stories that illustrate when they felt they displayed good and effective leadership.  Then try and get them to focus on the skills, traits, styles, behaviours that enabled them to be an effective leader. Also what they think it takes to lead successfully based on their experience and what not to do. Again, you must demonstrate your ability to link the theories, models, and concepts to support your interview.

Third Task: Self-Reflection & Improvement

Reflect on what you have learned from the first two stages, discuss:

• What do you learn about the complexities of leadership (comparing between what theory says and what you found i.e. do your findings support the theories in the course?)

• Given what you have found, how might your own leadership practice be improved as a result of undertaking this assessment?

• How has this piece of research helped you gain a better understanding of what it takes to lead well?

Format:

This assignment should have the following format:

1. Introduction (~100 words)

2. Body with headings and sub-headings (i.e. Observation, Interview, Reflection ~ 2,300-2,800 words)

3. Conclusion (~100 words) 

Reference:

It is expected that you will use at least 8 academic references, preferably specific topic books or journal/research articles. Websites, such as wikipedia, will not be accepted, other than for providing general details of the leaders and these will not be counted in the minimum references required. Please familiarise yourself with the RMIT Plagiarism policy.

Other requirements:

• Students are required to get feedback from their lecturer in Week 04. To do this, students should prepare a one-page plan. The one-page plan may include; details of the chosen leader (role, position; organisation); draft of interview questions; timeline of activities; key references.

• Interview questions must be included in the Appendix section (after ‘Reference List’).

Follow this reference guide 

https://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/bus/public/referencing/index.html

Use harvard references and cite the reference when using it.

Important: Please see attached file for better understanding. Please use the theories that find in the attached files.

Clear and comprehensive written style (spelling, grammar, syntax etc.)

You are a project manager for a medium-sized manufacturer of motorcycle cruisers. The engines in motorcycle cruisers, like the ones you manufacture, are usually categorized by size rather than the number of cylinders. In the past, your company has successfully manufactured and marketed the best-selling of these fuel-efficient cruisers that occupy the middleweight class. The rather nebulous middleweight class comprises motorcycles broadly ranging in engine size from 500 cubic centimeters, or cc, to 1000 cc. 

Executives at your company are now interested in motorcycles with larger motors and would eventually like to produce motorcycles in the touring class, specifically designed to excel at covering long distances with motors larger than 1100 cc. The proposed target market for these larger motorcycles consists of males between the ages of 35 and 60 in global markets. Price points for the larger motorcycles cover income ranges from $55,000 to $100,000. Management has decided that your company will meet the objectives stated herein within the next five (5) years. During the proposed changeover, the company will continue to manufacture the middleweight cruisers to serve its existing clientele.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Select one (1) of the types of project organization that would suit the development of the larger touring class motorcycles. Outline the process steps that your company would take in order to develop the motorcycle. Provide a rationale for the response.
2. Recommend one (1) strategy to the senior executives that the organization might use to balance short- and long-term needs. Specify the crucial resources that you would need as a project manager to run the existing business interests at the same time that the business changes to the production of touring class motorcycles.
3. Suggest the project management leadership style that is most conducive to overseeing the operation of the business growth plan.
4. Recommend at least three (3) risk mitigation strategies to address project plan details that might be forgotten or overlooked. Justify the selection.5.Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the essay.

PLEASE FOLLOW DIRECTIONS AS INDICATED BY ASSIGNMENT. 

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