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Assignment Task: Critically evaluate the theory of transformational leadership. In doing so, take some account of the relevant literature, any advantages that alternatives may have, and whether the theory or approach would be useful in contexts that you are familiar with. NOTE FOR THE WRITER: YOU CAN CHOOSE ANY relevant literature and any number of sources and bibliography.. Criteria : 1. Reading Knowledge The main thing here is to be adequately read in the views you are discussing; in short, to know what you are talking about. There should be little practical difficulty in achieving this. Since all essay topics relate to material given in lectures, an important starting point is your own class notes, and the readings that have been handed out. The course bibliography also lists readings for each topic. 2. Structure Does your paper have a clear rational structure? (i) Within each paragraph, is it clear what the main point is that the paragraph makes? Is it clear how you support this main point by argument or illustrate it by examples? (ii) In the paper as a whole, does the layout of paragraphs and their relation to one another follow a logical constructive sequence? Is it made clear which are the key passages of argument? Is the paper a mere list, or sequence of topics; or worse, a mere list or sequence of readings that have been summarized? 3. Understanding of arguments (1) Do you understand the arguments actually dealt with in your paper? Are the key concepts adequately explained, or if they are themselves unclear, is the vagueness clearly pointed out? Are there good examples or illustrations to indicate a sure grasp of arguments and distinctions posed? Is the language you use clear, direct, accurate and sure, or is it vague, obscure, ambiguous and unsure? In a word (or two) do you bluff and waffle your way through essays? (ii) Is it only the simpler arguments that are understood? Are possible objections to your arguments considered, or are your points made as if they are unanswerable and left at that? If you are criticizing another writer’s views, do you show you are aware of how your criticism might be answered? There will not be space to pursue all arguments and counter-arguments through to the end. You should, however, be able to present some degree of critical exchange of views, of argument, objection, reply, . . . etc. 4. Critical Thinking Does the paper represent your own attempt to come to grips with the problem or sort out the issues? Have you analyzed the problem yourself, or merely uncritically accepted someone else’s analysis? There is obviously no reason why you shouldn’t use someone else’s analysis: but be quite clear that this is what you are doing, and bear in mind that every theory has its problems and weaknesses. If using ideas from your reading and discussion, quote extensively only what is of vital importance, either for your own argument or for what you want to criticize. If quoting, make the reason for the quotation clear. Quotation without comment is normally taken as endorsement of what is quoted, but sometimes the context leaves room for doubt. So make it clear. There is an important distinction between (i) originality, and (ii) saying what you think. Real originality is extremely difficult and very few of us are capable of it at any stage. On the other hand, it is essential for your own understanding of a problem, to put it in your own words, to work your own way through it. The point is to digest arguments and ideas and then write them down yourself, not to quote or paraphrase large slabs of other writings. Stress what you think is the key concept, the key argumentative point. Always acknowledge an argument you’ve consciously borrowed, even when you put it in your own way. Cite all references using footnotes and bibliography. (Any standard system of citation will do.) SPECIFIC CRITERIA Understanding of the question or issue and the key concepts involved. . XXXXX Depth of analysis and/or critique in response to the task • XXXX Familiarity with and relevance of professional and/or research literature used to support response • XXXX Structure and organisation of response • XXXX Presentation of response according to appropriate academic and linguistic conventions •

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Use research Learning Management System and Teacher Training on file to Complete the following:
1. Identify a TF that you would use in the analysis of your Qualitative Dissertation Prospectus
2. Explain why you selected this specific theory and how it relates to your topic. (5 points)
3. Write a one to two page single-spaced literature review in which you provide a review of the essential literature relating to the selected TF. This review should be titled (i.e., Literature Review [a level one header]), include a thesis statement for the review, and include appropriately related level two headers). Provide properly APA formatted citations to support your commentary. (30 points)
4. Show and explain how the TF will be used to structure and/or organize your discussion section. To show how the TF is used to organize this section, provide a list of the headers for this section. (15 points)
5. Reference section and citations: Provide a properly APA formatted reference section for all of the citations listed in your TF literature review. All citations are correctly formatted and listed in the reference section. (10 points)

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Very quickly: you will need to prepare a 4.000 words report (+/- 10%) where you don’t have to repeat the theories, just use them and reference them in order to provide related answers to the 4 questions.

In general: It is a report (not an essay) thus you will need analytic headings, sub-headings, clearly structured answers. Please follow the particular suggested structure:

Front Cover,
Executive Summary (excluded from the word count)
Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Q1 – Analysis of the external environment
Sub-headings here e.g. 1.Macro Environment Analysis – PESTEL, 2 Micro Environment Analysis – Porter’s 5 Forces Model
3. Q2. – Analysis of the internal environment
Sub-headings here: e.g. 1.Resource Based View of the Company, 2 Value Chain etc..
4. Q3. – Analysis of PR crises
Subheadings again here – according to your identified crises/relevant theory
5. Q4. – Strategic Analysis
Subheadings here: e.g. 1. Business Level Strategy, 2. Corporate Strategy, 3. Strategies Suggested for future/Evaluation, 4. Implementation Modes/Techniques and Final Suggestions.
6. Conclusions – Yes, this can be as part/sub-heading of the previous point – it is up to you.
7. Full list of References / Bibliography (excluded from the word count)
8. Appendices. (excluded from the word count)

With regards to theory and application: You are not required to analyse any theory! Briefly mention (within one-two lines max) what it is about and the original/initial reference, not our book all the time, e.g instead of “Christodoulou and Patel, 2014” use “Porter, 1985”

 
And here are some extra comments:

FRONT COVER:
Make sure that you include ALL the relevant information of your school, department, course, name , ID number, NAME OF BOTH SEMINAR TUTORS THAT YOU BELONG ACCORDING TO YOUR SRS TIMETABLE. – they are the ones to mark your work.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Yes, it must be before the table of contents! It can be max one page and it is excluded from the word count, so please be analytic about it. Use it to impress us, make it professional. Here you need to include all the major points from every part of your report. Again, this is not an introduction, it is an executive summary

INTRODUCTION:
Since you have limited word count, the intro should be very small – max one paragraph. Here you simply introduce the reader in what is this report about and what you will analyse. – It is different from the ex.summary.

Q1 – 20%:
Here you are analysing the external environment of TESLA market/industry– thus the focus is not TESLA – the focus is the micro (5 Forces-pp 141) and macro (PESTEL-pp 133) environment. That means both PESTEL and 5 forces should not be about TESLA but for the industry of TESLA… Plenty of you were asking whether you should focus on UK or other countries or globally. My answer is that it is up to you. Preferably I would like to see either an external environment analysis for UK, mentioning also some essential global trends OR you can make a European/Global analysis straightforward. In any case, you will need to make that explicitly clear in your executive summary and introduction, state in which level you make your external environment analysis.

Also, here you will need first to analyse PESTEL – just mention only those relevant trends to your industry . You don’t have to go into describing every dimension. If you want to and already done it – then use tables and/or appendices and mention in the text only the most important trends.

5Forces: Use the “Structural Determinants” slide from the external environment lecture slides – 1st semester. Please mention whether every force is high, moderate or low and in the end conclude whether the industry is attractive and profitable or not.
As to industry life cycle (ILC): You can either clearly incorporate it within the “existing competition” force of 5 forces, by saying whether the industry is in a development or maturity stage along with the market growth rate (which a structural determinant of the particular force) OR you can make a short section only for the industry life cycle theory.

In any case, you will need to reference every single concept and model used above both in text and in the final list of references.

Q2-20%:
In this question we expect you to use resources and capabilities theory (R+Cs or else Resource Based view of the Company-pp 185) and/or Value Chain (– pp 207). Yes, please, mention both theories and reference them of course. However, if you feel comfortable using only one then it is still fine – just state it clearly. So, we would like you to: present the key strategic resources. Please see examples of resources and capabilities from page 94 of our book and lecture slides. Within the financial resources you must mention some key financial indexes either of TESLAs’ Strategic Business Unit (SBU) (and/)or TESLA’s group (if any) that you can find from Google, published statements, Mintel or Bloomberg databases. As for mentioning comparative measures from a key competitor, yes you can do it. More than that, you will need to state clearly what are the core capabilities/competencies of TESLA and why they are core? E.g. financial control and economies of scale-are they core? Also do they lead to competitive advantage? If yes, is it cost leadership or differentiation or a bit of both (hybrid strategy)? In this way you are actually describing TESLA’s existing business level strategy that you need in the last question.

As for Value Chain. You don’t need to analyse highly descriptive every single activity. If you want to or have done so, please use appendices and tables to avoid the word count. Here, you need to show those linkages (combinations of primary to support activities) that either increase the customer value or reduce the operating cost. In this way, again you can conclude into what competitive advantage(s) are created for TESLA and how. The outcomes of Resources+Capabilities and Value Chain should agree.

The above are the essential ones that we want for Q2.

As for leadership, decision making, culture, politics etc. Yes, you can mention them within the resources appraisal above! OR, if you want to make a separate section/part for those (since you have a limited word count), please keep it short and practically focused. In any case, please reference properly/academically every single of those concepts. The essential part of this question is R+Cs and Value Chain.

Q3-10%:
In this question you are required to identify one, two or three issues that affected the image of the company, either internal or external. You will need to briefly analyse what happened applying theories on organisational ethics theory,, corporate governance CSR concepts, stakeholder applications & reputation management concepts/metrics. Not all of them are required, but the more you apply and reference inside the PR crisis/issue the better it is. We want you to demonstrate application of relevant theories.

Q4 – 30%
This is obviously the most important question. Here you need to:
a) Identify the business level strategy of TESLA (this could be also been found/linked from question 2. That is either cost leadership or differentiation or hybrid (both). Of course you will need to reference all concepts such as “Porter, 1985”.
b) Identify the corporate level strategies. These could be growth: e.g. market penetration, market development, product development, vertical/horizontal integration, related/unrelated diversification. Here you can use the Ansoff’s matrix/directional policy table (it is essentially the same). Of course there are turnaround corporate strategies (e.g. downsizing, liquidation, divesture etc) and stability strategies ( no-change strategy, pause, etc)
So in a) and b) you can identify/record plenty of strategies but please use the terminology and reference properly every concept.
c) Suggest strategies: Either you can suggest sustaining the existing ones, or developing the existing ones, or developing new.
d) Choose two (advisable)-three (max) strategies to evaluate them according to certain criteria. These can be:
– suitability – acceptability – feasibility, that is SAF (highly recommended, simple and straightforward)
-STAIR model
-SUITS model
-RACES model
– or any other properly referenced model.

You don’t need to use more than one of the above.

Extra HELP for these models above: you can either found them on our slides (apart from SUITS) and in the following sources:

SAF check http://alhaidari.net/zahir/Exploring.pdf pages 357 of Johnson & Scholes; Exploring Corporate Strategy, Financial Times/ Prentice Hall; 7th edition 2007

RACES in Haberberg & Rieple – the extra textbook of our module-see it in our module handbook and library.

STAIR – our slides.

And of course you can always reference our slides as teaching notes

e) Finally, you will need to say a few words about the implementation techniques/modes of those suggested strategies. Examples of implementation modes: licensing, franchising, merger/acquisition, joint venture, direct investment/wholly owned subsidiary. Remember, these are ways of implementing strategies – they are not strategies themselves. You can also combine this part with part d) if you want.

For this question, please avoid suggesting simple actions like “enhancing the CRS policies” “or improve the quality”– these are not strategies. In such a case the strategy is “differentiation” and it entails improving the quality etc…

Presentation – Structure – Clarity – Referencing – 20%
Additional to the guidelines existing in the complementary previous file:

• PLEASE make sure that this is a report that you are writing – not an essay. Essay type reports are not acceptable.
• All seminar tutors will mark according to the above guidelines.
• Tables and appendices are excluded from word count but they must not in any way exceed the length of the actual report. Also, please don’t make tables that are huge – e.g. two pages long!

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The research proposal should outline in detail the steps necessary to complete a research project. This proposal may be suitable for a final year undergraduate project. Sections of the research proposal may include:

1. Title:
2. Introduction / Background:
– Study Problem / Purpose
– Relevance / Study Rationale
– Brief Literature Review
– Research Objectives / Research Question / Hypotheses
3. Study Methods:
– Study Design
– Subjects / Participants
– Inclusion / exclusion criteria
– Sampling
– Recruitment
– Intervention details
– Variables / Data Collection
– Data analysis
4. Ethical Considerations
– Informed consent
– Confidentiality
5. Other considerations:
– Limitations
– Budget
– Plans for Dissemination
– Timetable of activities
• You will need to demonstrate your skills, knowledge and understanding using a variety of methods.
• You should provide references to literature where appropriate. For example, it is appropriate to reference to literature on relevant research methods. It is also appropriate to provide references to other literature such as research studies and other data that may be used to compare your findings.
• The references should include academic books and textbooks; peer reviewed publications from the academic journals; and reports by national and international organisations;
• Where internet sources are used, these should reliable and evidence-based sources and correctly referenced with the website address and date (NOTE: weblinks alone are not acceptable and Wikipedia (and other sites as such) ARE NOT appropriate references);
• All work must be word processed (except written exams) and written in your own words;
• The word limit must be observed with a 10% discretion; the word count must be indicated on the last page of the essay;
• The text must be divided using headings or sections and must include an introduction and conclusion;
• All pages must be numbered;
• The Title page must include; the title and the number of the module; the name of the module leader; your student number; the assignment title and the topic you selected.
• All referencing should be in line with ‘cite them right’. See the ‘citation’ link on MOODLE for further details of how to reference correctly.
• Work must be proofread for grammar, spelling and formatting mistakes before handing in;
• You should follow all additional given guidelines and marking criteria;
• You should check your essay via Turnitin in prior to hand in; be sure that you leave ample time to make any necessary changes and note that Turnitin can take up to 24 hours to provide an ‘Originality Report’;
• An electronic Word version of your essay should be submitted online to the electronic plagiarism detection system Turnitin via MOODLE. If you fail to submit your electronic copy to the plagiarism detection system and/or your hard copy to the Help Desk, your work will be considered late and penalised. If your plagiarism percentage is too high or there are several stretches of poorly referenced or copied text; you will be able to make amendments and resubmit your essay providing this is within the deadline period. You will have an option to exclude the references and quotations and thus, reduce the percentage of plagiarism in your essay. Please, make sure you know how to do it well before the submission (see the ‘How To Use Turnitin’ document in the help menu).

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I have working on this assignment for a while, however sadly I am not able to continue due to an incident which prohibiting me from moving my neck and arm.
Therefore I have attached the blueprint of my ideas for this assignment to my profile as FIRST DRAFT with some personal input and some useful resources (NOT enough though!)

1. It is important to notice that there are two pieces of assessable work required to be done, HOWEVER the first assignment is on the focus here with a brief focus on a new strategy ; the point is that considering word limits (2000 Words) the strategic plan should be short and succinct- so we do not need to focus on the ideas details here, its more about our vision, mission, goals and objectives and foreseeing the potential barriers and the evidence based solutions to tackle them.) hence, clarities and precisions are very important.
2. WHILE, On the second assignment (will be followed in the future) the focus would be more on details about planning and executing those plans

3. I have also attached some documents re my choice of organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Epicentre also one policy sample, etc., just to make you familiar with MSF context.
Please consider looking for some resources for MSF structure, We are talking about MSF as a whole organisation here so please be aware MSF has many sectorial operation around the world witch is irrelevant topic at the moment .

4. Apologies for confusing structure ; the order of my notes might not be rational as I am in extreme pain and unable to focus/type.
5. On my notes I have also referred to some class readings references, which need to be reviewed and probably extended to. Cover all the points sufficiently.
5. Please note; At the end of my notes you can see some useful information about some misunderstanding on the assignment-regardless to the questions I included some good samples.
6. Please contact me asap re any further question as my physical abilities might not let me to respond quickly.

Many thanks in advance,
Atussa

In this assignment, you will develop a strategic plan for an organisation.

Assignment 1
Length: Maximum 2000 words.
Marks: 40.
Welcome to the world of strategic thinking.

You have just been appointed as the first ‘Director of Organisational Development’ that your organisation has ever had. The first thing you must do is developing a strategic plan for the next 5 years. Organisational (or corporate strategy) is about how the organisation supports the work of the services, units or teams within it to achieve the desired strategic goals and objectives. Questions here focus on organisational vision and mission, and design – e.g. structure)

For Assignment 1, you are required to:
1. Briefly describe your organisation’s context. MSF
2. Discuss the approaches you will use to develop your strategic plan.
3. Outline the key variables that are driving your organisation’s development, including any challenges that it is facing
4. Clearly articulate a vision and mission statement, and outline your goals and objectives for the next 5 years. You need to do this in a way that will convince and motivate people in your organisation (and the marker) to help you to be successful in achieving your goals.
5. Include a section, which considers the following: Given that up to 90% of all strategic plans fail to achieve all their goals, so what will make your plan different?
CLASS MATERIALS – SOME USEFUL SLIDES

What strategies are intended to do?
• Identify why and how the organisation should develop and progress
• Not simply analyse just one aspect – you need to understand your context in detail
• Identify your best possible route (including policy) to success (the change you want to achieve)
• Identify how the organisation should compete and or collaborate with other organisations
• Provide a blueprint for how the different services or units of the organisation relate to and coordinate with each other

• THE BASIS OF STRATEGIC PLANNING (TURN THIS INTO QUESTIONS YOU CAN ANSWER);
• What do we stand for (what are our values, what is our image, what are our vision and mission?)
• What is our business (what do we do, what should we do)?
• Who are our people?
• What is our environment (internal and external stakeholders, pressures, finances)?
• Where are we now?
• Where are we going?
• Where do we want to be?
• Where do we want to go?
• What are our options?
• How do we get there?
• What capabilities do our organisation, service/unit and teams need? (these will differ)
• Who should do what?
• When should we arrive?
(Please review WEEK 3 slides 15 to 20 and 22-23 or an example on Harvard business review, etc.)

Key questions in understanding your organisation (mainly questioning your organisation strengths and weaknesses, mission and vision, resources, capabilities and confidence, etc.)
a. Who are your key stakeholders?
b. What are their needs and wants?
c. How engaged are they and how can you improve this engagement?
d. What are your organisational strengths and weaknesses (opportunities and threats)?
e. What are your organisation’s resources, capabilities and competences?
f. What are your organisation, management’s and staff’s values (and what if anything, is the difference between them)?
g. What is your organisation’s vision and what do you want it to be for the next five years?
h. What is your current mission (what you do every day) and what do you want it to be for the next five years?
i. What are your current goals and objectives (specific, measurable, aligned, reachable, time bound), how many have been met in the last five years, and what should they be for the next five-year?
j. How successful has your organisation been in achieving the goals and objectives it set for itself in the last five years? Why? How can this be improved?
k. How have your organisational targets and performance standards been monitored, and what were the outcomes? Does your monitoring/targets/standards need to change? If so how?

¬ APPROACHES TO HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
1. Interventions: multi-interventional approaches most effective
2. Increasing resources: little evidence; reducing resources can affect quality
3. Reorganisation: no evidence
4. Strengthening management: no evidence
5. Standards and guidelines: can be used to secure positive process and outcome changes
6. Patient empowerment: no evidence
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¬ HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
1. Quality management systems: no evidence
2. TQM, CQI: no strong evidence of results
3. Quality collaborative: limited evidence at the time of publication … but increasing
4. Re-engineering: no evidence
5. Quality indicator comparison: evidence suggests not worth it Benchmarking: little evidence
6. Risk management and safety strategies: variable evidence National quality strategies: little evidence

Assessment criteria for both assignments your assignments will be assessed against the following specific criteria:
• Description/expression (of issue/problem)
• Relevance (i.e., to answering the question)
• Research (i.e., synthesis of literature including referencing)
• Argument (validity, logic)
• Analysis (criticism, and drawing conclusions)

These are descriptors of any good written work or presentations of the kind set in assignments. These are:
1. The intellectual coherence of your work
– There is a logical flow of ideas
– Conclusions are supported by evidence and argument
2. The intelligibility of your presentations and contributions
– Presentation is clear and concise
– Accurate referencing
3. Evidence of adequate/critical reading (of both theoretical and research literature) across the change management literature
– Reading and integrating the course materials
– Reading and integrating additional materials beyond those provided 4. Reflection on your own experience and your growth in understanding
– Evidence of critical reflection on own experience as a change agent
– Evidence of the ability to use an adequate knowledge base about change management
5. How authentic your paper is to the task
– Material presented in the paper addresses the topic selected for that assignment
– Paper represents application of principles and or theory to your chosen problem.

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Discussion Question: Focusing on the differences between Quantitative and Qualitative approach,
1. What specific techniques would you use in order to explore the influence of work environment and employee creativity?
2. What type of data would you collect and why?

Instructions:
1). Support the Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation (including URL where applicable).
2). All sources must be scholarly.
3. Include In-text citations and references ALL in the APA format.

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The chapter by Bush (2003) ‘Formal Models’ (from his book ‘Educational Leadership and Management’) provides us with a number of formal models for thinking about organisations. Critically analyse the views presented in the reading.

Assessment criteria:
All your written work will be assessed with the following in mind. That you provide:
1. A clear statement of purpose
2. Critical commentary and analysis
3. Coherent organisation of the content and argument
4. A concluding statement
5. An appropriate and accurate bibliography

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There’s More to Life Than Being Happy critique

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The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate the application of appropriate counselling skills and techniques that you have been exposed to in this unit.
Make a video recording of a face-to-face counselling session of 30 minutes in duration. While this may be a real life situation or a role-play scenario, the client should not be a member of your family nor a very close friend. The recording needs to demonstrate:
 a structured first session with a clear beginning (including establishment of the boundaries of the counselling relationship),
 an exploration of the presenting issue,
 and an attempt to set the goals for the following session.
You must demonstrate the use of generic skills in combination with one of the therapies studied in this unit.
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Word length: 2000 words
The purpose of this part of the assignment is to demonstrate an ability to reflect on and assess your counselling skills and yourself as a therapist, including the ability to identify areas for improvement.
The written assessment requires you to critically evaluate your skills, addressing the following:
 identification of the therapy chosen and a brief explanation of why this specific modality was chosen
 what you feel you did well, with verbatim examples from the session to illustrate the points being made,
 a reflection on your own feelings and reactions during the session and how these impacted the session,
 where, in hindsight, you feel you could have done or said something differently to be more effective, with examples of what you might have said or done differently,
 a brief outline of how you might continue to work with this client in future sessions.

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Please refer to “CRITICAL ANALYSIS TASK1 2015” file for detailed procedure for the task. Please pay close attention to “You will also examine the rhetorical strategies used by the author, his, her use of the rhetorical appeals(ethos,pathos and logos)”

ALSO followed by that above sentence, it talks about five cannons of rhetoric. If you dont understand these branches you do not have to cover them in the essay. As long as ETHOS, PATHOS and LOGOS are used for the analysis of the song.

Please pay close attention to the marking criteria.

IN REGARDS TO THE REFERENCES PROVIDED, THEY ARE NOT MANDATORY BUT I HAVE UPLOADED THEM FOR YOUR USE IF U NEED THEM. It may become useful to you. ALSO I have included websites (in the word documents) that may help in writing the essay.

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