Integrating Organisational Knowledge

Background | This assignment requires you to draw together your key learnings over the semester and apply them to your role as a manager of people in a post-pandemic work environment.

In Topic 6 we explored the challenges and dimensions of leadership when managing people. Mango (2018) claimed that leadership has six foundational domains (character, characteristics, people practices, institutional practices, context and outcomes). He posited that successful leadership is “context specific by emphasizing different aspects of the six leadership domains” (Mango 2018, p.75; Fig A2, p.87) depending on contextual factors.

A significant contextual factor challenging many leaders and managers is the changing attitudes of employees toward work resulting from their experiences of hybrid work arrangements. Skerlavaj (2020) contends that leaders will need to know how to actively involve, engage, and connect all relevant stakeholders, including employees.

Task | Drawing on Modules 6 -12 inc. write a report as a guide for managers in which you critically support Skerlavaj’s (2020) contention. Your analysis must be framed through a background review of the managerial issues related to a post-covid work situation. Your analysis will draw on a literature review of key learnings from a maximum of three Modules that has increased your knowledge of ways to actively involve, engage, and connect people you are managing. You will also analyse the root cause and effect through the Burke-Litwin Model (BLM) that we have explored in assignment 1 and 2.

The literature review will covers key aspects from 3 modules drawn from broad research – for example – was there particular concepts, models, theories, frameworks, and/or tools that you want to increase your knowledge about managing people through the scholarly and professional literature.

Critically analyse the managerial implications – what are the cause and effect of your organisational insights, analysed through the BLM model; how will managers and the people you are managing benefit from implementing the learnings from the specialist concepts, models and theories e.g., what outcomes could a manager expect to achieve through the application of these learnings?

Your report should apply specialist terminology and demonstrate relevance to, and potential impact on management practices in the specific context of your workplace or aspired workplace. You need to provide examples of contextual factors in your application of your learnings.

Do not simply reproduce the concepts, models and theories. Using the scholarly and professional literature, support your analysis with corporate examples that have benefited from such implementation.

Important requirements:

• Your literature review must be based on the materials presented in three of the modules in this course (concepts, models, theories, frameworks, or tools from Modules 6 -12 inc.).
• Organisation insights must analyse cause and effect through the BLM

REPORT OUTLINE |

Table of Contents

• Format with numbered headings and sub-headings and page numbers.

• Introduction (~100 words)
  • Context of the topic
  • Purpose of the report
• Organisation Contexts (300 words | Rubric Criteria 1)
  • Managerial issues related to a post-covid work situation
  • Select an industry sector you work in or aspire to work in to base your analysis on
• Literature Review – Key Learnings from the Modules (~750 words| Rubric Criteria 2)
• Topic x
• Topic x
• Topic x

• The Literature review on each topic will be based on concepts, models, theories, frameworks, and/or tools that you found particularly helpful to increasing your knowledge about managing
• There is no upper limit to the number of examples you may wish to select from each
  • Managerial Implications (~750 words | Rubric Criteria 2)
    • Integrate sections 2 (issues) & 3 (literature) to outline the managerial implications
  • Cause and effect of organisational insights
    • Identify the root cause and effect of your organisational insights, analysed through the BLM model
  • Application of scholarly learnings
    • what outcomes could managers and the people you are managing benefit from implementing the learnings from the specialist concepts, models and theories
  • Organisational Implications
• Demonstrate the relevance and impact of examples in Section 3 on management practices in the context of your workplace or aspired
• Provide examples of contextual factors in your application of your
  • Conclusion (100 words)
    • A succinct conclusion synthesising the key ideas in the
  • Reference List
    • Minimum of 15 recent scholarly and professional articles including the required references

SUBMISSION

• See the Submission guidelines in Canvas -Assessment- Assignment 3

Name + ID number at the top of page 1. A title page is not required

• Word limit: 2,000 words (acceptable range: 1800-2,00) excluding the Table of Contents and Reference List

o If your assignment is substantially over the word limit your assignment will not be marked past 2,000 words.

• Numbered headings and sub-headings for each section.

• Written in the 3rdperson - No personal pronouns (for example: ‘I’, ‘me’ myself, we, us, our, )

1. Check that the report has covered all Assessment Criteria as detailed in the marking Rubric [ see

Canvas-Assessment-Assignment 3)

2. Submit a draft through Turnitin to check for The Reference List may have high similarity as every report is using the required readings. If the similarity in the body of the report is >20% then
   1. paraphrase sections that are showing similarity
   2. check you have correctly referenced all citations and sources of
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