Management and Leadership Awareness MGT2101
- Subject Code :
MGT2101
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Assessment 1: Management and Leadership Awareness
ASSIGNMENT 1 FORMAT/LAYOUT GUIDE
This is a format/layout guide to help you structure your assessment. You may use this file (save it under another file name) to complete your assessment. Please ensure that you delete all instructions prior to submission.
SECTION 1: Is about your personal reflections on your online quiz results (see Assessment information document for links). Students are required to think and reflect on your own qualities (interpersonal and intrapersonal skills). Analyse and reflect your results from the tests and discuss how your own behaviour would impact the way you lead and manage people in challenging and dynamic work environments.
The following are suggested headings for this section:
- Personality Test
- Communications Style Test
- Team Roles Test
- Leadership Style Test
- DO NOT include instruction words in your word document assignment they are just guidance notes to assist you.
- DELETE the two instructional pages & all the red words in the guide below.
- One page only for each test discussion, Section 1 = 4 pages maximum for this Section.
- Reflective writing = it is ok to use first person (i.e. I feel, I think etc).
- Please submit a Word or .pdf document, in 12pt font, 1.5 line spacing, with standard margins 2.54cm.
- NO references needed in Section 1
- NO sub-headings or table of contents needed in Section 1.
Section 2: Is about your reflections of someone you have worked with in a group or team and who was in charge. A leader, supervisor, manager etc. This assessment activity asks you to think, reflect on, an environment a case in which YOU PERSONALLY observed management and leadership interactions (they may have been good, bad, confusing etc). This environment may have been where you work, or worked in places like sporting clubs, social groups, or at a university or a school you attended. You need to think about a time when leadership and management skills were displayed by the people involved, and the strengths and weaknesses which occurred.
Suggested headings for the 4 parts:
- Leadership Style
- Communication Style
- Personality Type
- Motivation / Goal Setting Process
- You need 5 good quality academic journal REFERENCES in each part of this section to support your reflections. 4 parts = 20 references in total minimum.
- References - in-text references and reference list in APA style. https://www.griffith.edu.au/library/study/referencing/apa-7
- Maximum 1.5 to 2 pages per observation (part) - 8 pages maximum.
Please refer to A1 assessment information document for more information.
The following section is a format/layout guide, it is not a fill in the blank worksheet, please format this to GBS assessment standards.
SECTION 1: Understanding Yourself
- Personality Test https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
[Type in a brief summary of your Quiz Results here 1-page max.]
[The following are not sub-headings, just thinking points to write about.]
Personality Test Food for Thoughts
Do you agree with the quiz findings? If not, why not?
What do you think had the greatest impact on shaping your personality? Why?
How does your personality positively contribute to building relationships?
How does your personality cause problems sometimes with relationships?
- Communication Style Test https://www.amanet.org/resources/quizzes/communication-skills/ OR https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/tests/relationships/interpersonal-communication-skills-test
[Type in a brief summary of your Quiz Results here 1-page max.]
[These are not sub-headings, just thinking points to write about.]
Communication Style Test Food for Thoughts
Do you agree with the assessment findings? If not, why not?
What do you think had the greatest impact on shaping the way you communicate with people? Why?
How does your communication style positively contribute to building relationships?
How does your communication style cause problems sometimes with relationships?
- Team Roles Test https://www.123test.com/team-roles-test/
[Type in a brief summary of your Quiz Results here 1-page max.]
[These are not sub-headings, just thinking points to write about.]
Team Roles Test Food for Thoughts
Do you agree with the test findings? If not, why not?
What do you think had the greatest impact on the way you work in teams? Why?
How does your team work style positively contribute to building relationships?
How does your team work style problems sometimes with relationships?
- Your Leadership Style Test
https://www.verywellmind.com/whats-your-leadership-style-3866929
[Type in a brief summary of your Quiz Results here 1-page max.]
[These are not sub-headings, just thinking points to write about.]
Your Leadership Style Test Food for Thoughts
Do you agree with the test findings? If not, why not?
Which leadership style/approach do you think best reflects the way you would like to manage/lead people? Why
SECTION 2: Understanding Others
- Leadership Style Considerations [1.5 to 2 pages max]
[This section is answered by you firstly thinking of a leader/manager YOU KNOW OR KNEW personally, whom you have worked with. Use them to answer the following sections.
Describe the leader and the situation [brief paragraph]..then..
..you need to think about of the leadership style used and whether it was appropriate or inappropriate for the situation. Comment on this.
Minimum 5 references in this part to support your writing/ideas.
- Communication Style [1.5 to 2 pages max]
[You need to think about of the communication style and types of communication used and whether they were appropriate or inappropriate for the situation. Comment on this.]
Minimum 5 references in this part to support your writing/ideas.
- Personality Type [1.5 to 2 pages max]
[You need to think about the personality type of the person and how it impacted on how successful this leader was with the group. Comment on this.]
Minimum 5 references in this part to support your writing/ideas.
- Motivation & Goal Setting [1.5 to 2 pages max]
[You need to think about whether the goals and objectives which were set for the group helped motivate their performance. Were they appropriate, clear, understood? Comment on this.]
Minimum 5 references in this part to support your writing/ideas.
