MGT4872: Apply and Critically Evaluate Organisational Ambidexterity: Leading the Entrepreneurial Organisation Assignment, MUL, Singapore

Learning outcomes

Learning Outcomes: (Inspiring people)
On successful completion of this module, the student’s work should be able to demonstrate:

Knowledge (understanding)
1. Apply and critically evaluate organizational ambidexterity
2. Apply and critically evaluate the linkages between ambidexterity, knowledge, change, leadership, and followership control
3. Develop own knowledge of a critically examined concept of entrepreneurship in the light of wealth, sustainability, diversity, leadership identity, and education
4. Examine the role of managing people in both traditional and non-traditional ways

Skills (competencies)
1. Lead others towards entrepreneurial skills and behaviors
2. Follow others towards entrepreneurial skills and behaviors
3. Lead through valuing difference and engagement and new ways of managing talent
4. Re-examine their own leadership sty

Assessment Criteria
There are three elements of assessment to the summative assessment all of which count to the final module mark and which build on each other to form a holistic assessment:

There are three elements of summative assessment:

1. Entrepreneurship initiative
Take some initiative that can be defined as ‘entrepreneurship’. Reflect on how it uses knowledge, skills, and behaviors that are either new or adapted from those you use in your everyday professional practice.

2. Entrepreneurship integration
Create a rich picture or systems diagram of your initiative in terms of organizational performance and concepts such as ambidexterity, entrepreneurship, leadership, managing people, and talent management.

3. How to teach entrepreneurship in your organization?
Using insights from interviews or focus groups or some other method, develop a way of teaching entrepreneurship in your own organization that supports the initiative taken in the previous part of this assessment. Take into consideration inclusion and diversity and talent management in the development of your method.

Assignment Guidance

1. Entrepreneurship initiative

Part 1 guidelines
This part allows you to practice entrepreneurial behavior guided by the core text. While doing that consider the extent to which your activity was based on what you read from the entrepreneurial behavior and corporate entrepreneurship concepts and research or develop from some of the knowledge, skills, and abilities you had already. You also get the chance to weigh up your ambidexterity enabling, leadership, and followership skills.

To do this you might want to read over or watch and listen again to relevant material such as the various start-up and corporate entrepreneurship case studies from Bouchard (2017) on L’Oréal, BABSON College and Harvard’s Idea Lab Decide on which initiative appeals to you in light of:

• Your organization’s strategic goals
• The objectives of the function that you lead
• Your personal interests and professional aspirations
• Skills and capabilities of team members supporting you
• The aspect of the entrepreneurial process that you feel able to lead Set the day time to do the initiative and consider which stakeholders might best witness your initiative and what behaviors you are hoping to progress Possible

themes are:

How the initiative went

• The impact assessment of the initiative
• Skills you had available
• New talents in others you were able to develop
• New skills you were able to generate in yourself
• How you might maintain the practice to support corporate entrepreneurship in the future Remember to analyze and evaluate what you do against the concepts, theories, and frameworks encountered throughout this module this will help to show you are using knowledge to shape your new senior leader behaviors.

Wherever relevant integrate the words related to the CMI Level 7 standards/ competencies that your a stakeholder is attesting you have achieved through your entrepreneurial initiative practice this term.

2. Entrepreneurship integration (20%)

Part 2 guidelines

The rich picture will help you to show you understand the concept of ambidexterity and that you understand the links between knowledge, change, leadership, and followership and control. The rich picture write-up is analytical and interpretive. To create a rich picture or systems diagram recall the workshop activity, or refer to the process models of entrepreneurship, and models of ambidexterity in the reading and video material. Use this link from the Open University on Rich Pictures

http://systems.open.ac.uk/materials/T552/pages/rich/richAppendix.html to convey your level of understanding about ambidexterity with limiters and enablers from your own work context. Read about Rich Pictures from Open University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZH NKqKF9A&list=PLhQpDGfX5e7CFc5BQ8rW6SnKrnle-9Kgb

Systems diagrams

https://images.app.goo.gl/PRef6hNbJU4hEK7c6

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/5/3/46

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/global-systems-science/0/steps/11336

Decide what images you might draw up to show how what you did in part 1 and how it is related to:

• Key performance indicators that you were mindful of meeting or relating to
• Organization performance needs you were trying to address
• The organizational ambidexterity you notice
• Entrepreneurship
• Your leadership
• Talent management

Then use 500 words to describe the figures and any arrows, signs, symbols you created and what they mean and convey. For instance why:

• That shape, color, that position on the page?
• Why is that symbol next to that one and not next to the other metaphor?
• What theories, concepts, and framework do elements in your image represent?
  Remember to analyze and evaluate what you did against the concepts, theories, and frameworks encountered throughout this module this will help to show you are using knowledge to shape your new senior leader behaviors.

Wherever relevant integrate the words related to the CMI Level 7 standards/ competencies that your stakeholder is attesting you have achieved through your entrepreneurship integration practice this term.

3. How to teach entrepreneurship in your organization?

Part 3 Guidelines

Using 1,500 words to propose methods for teaching entrepreneurship in your organization will help to demonstrate skills of leading others towards entrepreneurial skills. That you are being asked to base this on interviews and focus groups as well as the case studies encountered on the module, will help to demonstrate the skills of following others towards entrepreneurial skills and behaviors. That the proposal document will show your consideration of inclusion, diversity, and talent management both in the development of the idea and the teaching method will help demonstrate you leading through valuing difference and engagement and new ways of managing talent.

Consider how other skills and behavior are taught in your organization What was the preference outcome from the interviews? Propose a format that encompasses the corporate entrepreneurship training needs of all Choose the output format for your proposal:

• an internal blog (vlog) post series
• a newsletter series
• a proposal for an L&D training device
• a proposal for a series of lunch and learns
• a business plan for setting up a corporate entrepreneurship unit
• a brochure of what you tried to do in part 1
• The method must support what you were trying to do in part 1

The use of multi-media to integrate real evidence of your progress and reflections is OK

Remember to analyze and evaluate what you do against the concepts, theories, and frameworks encountered throughout this module this will help to show you are using knowledge to shape your new senior leader behaviors. Wherever relevant integrate the words related to the CMI Level 7 standards/ competencies that your stakeholder is attesting you have achieved through your entrepreneurship teaching practice this term.