BUSM4194: Critically Evaluate the Leadership and Decision-Making Theories and Models in Various Organizational Situations: Leadership and decision making Report, RMIT, Singapore

Learning Outcomes

CLO1: Critically evaluate the leadership and decision-making theories and models in various organizational situations.

CLO3: Integrate and apply leadership and decision-making theories and models in contemporary workplace situations.

CLO4: Identify and analyze the social and ethical responsibilities related to leadership and decision-making.

CLO5: Use critical self-reflection and feedback of others as a transformative learning experience to identify and act on opportunities for leadership development.

 Assessment Criteria: Ability to provide a well-researched background of the organization and to clearly identify the relevant issue;

Ability to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of one (or two) leadership theory, with ideas and assertions substantiated through the use of high-quality reference material and key academic perspectives/views;

Ability to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of the role of decision-making, with ideas and assertions substantiated through the 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)

Background: Organisational analysis (description of the organization, and identification of one

(1) leadership and decision-making issue within the chosen organisation)

6. Analyses of one (or two) contemporary leadership theory proposed to solve identified organizational issues:

(a) components of the theory;

(b) applicability and effectiveness of the theory to solve the organizational issue.

7. Analysis of the role of decision-making as a critical aspect of effective leadership for the chosen organization.

Overview: You are required to choose a contemporary organization (small, medium, or large) with which you are familiar, and then provide an analysis of a key issue or problem within the chosen organization that would require the application of one (or two) leadership and decision-making theory learned in the course.

Your familiarity with the chosen organization could be through your networks, having worked for the organization, or through reading about the organization in the media.

You will then produce a report for the Chief Executive Officer of that organization to help implement leadership and decision-making interventions for the chosen organization.

First, you will provide a background of a key issue or problem. The issue will depend on the type of organization you choose to analyze and may include but not limited to issues or problems such as unethical behavior, low employee morale, frequent workplace accidents, negative attitude to work, problems in the team, and poor performance. Bearing in mind that you will be familiar with the chosen organization, you will be expected to clearly describe the key issue.

Second, you will choose one (or a maximum of two) contemporary leadership theories that you will apply to solve the issue raised in the chosen organization. You will analyze the chosen leadership theory in relation to their components, operation, and their effectiveness. Citing relevant references, you will provide an argument relating to why applying the contemporary leadership theory will solve the issue and improve the performance of the organization (either at the individual level, team level, or organizational level).

Third, as part of your analysis, you will also explain why decision-making is a critical aspect of leadership for the chosen organization. You will specifically discuss how leaders for this organization can enhance performance (either at the individual, team or organizational levels) by applying one decision-making style or model learned from this course in order to attain the optimal amount of participation in decision-making for this organization.

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