Developing organisation skills, critical analysis and reflective skills and other employability skills: Leadership in Organizations, Case Study, UOE, Singapore

MODULE ASSESSMENT

Developing organisation skills, critical analysis and reflective skills and other employability skills are central to the assessment strategy of this Module.

In detail, students will continue to ‘learn how to learn’ through direction to other sources of information – they will learn how to seek out information, evaluate the validity, currency, quality and relevance of the information that they source from the Internet.   Specialist guest lecturers will be invited to deliver ‘real world’ examples and – through these sessions – students will examine and debate current practice in leadership.

Component 1: Case Study

You are required to complete a 2,000 word essay (+/- 10%) that addresses the following question:

In his book Leadership in Organizations, Yukl (2013) conceptualises leadership by organisational level.  These levels can be viewed as a hierarchy as depicted below:

With reference to each of these leadership levels, consider an organisation you have knowledge of and analyse how the leadership has responded to today’s turbulent environments.

In your answers, please provide a brief overview of the organisation you have chosen to provide context.