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Leading and Managing People
Referral Assignment Leading and Managing People
Aim: To develop a critical awareness of current factors affecting leading and managing people and to demonstrate how effective policies can add value to the business' strategic goals.
Learning Outcomes:
To be able to
- Demonstrate critical knowledge and understanding around key and contemporary debates about theory and practice in Leading and Managing People in organisations;
- Evaluate and analyse relevant models for effective people performance, leadership and management within an organisational context.
- Critically evaluate and analyse the effectiveness of change management in organisations.
Context:
You receive an Email from a senior manager in your organisation (has no formal qualifications) who has been told he has to send three members of his junior management teamon an MBA course. He has received information about the course from the local university but needs clarification on the content of one of the units being offered in year one. Heknows you have completed this course.
The email says:
"I have been readingabout this unit, Leading and Managing People. The course information says it is not a subject like Financial Management or Quantitative Methods in Business, but I am not convinced of its purpose. What value will such topics such as:motivation, team-working, ethics and social responsibility and organisational change really add to my staff's development and how will they ever use any of the concepts learned? The brochure says there are really no right or wrong answers so far as the leadership and management of people are concerned. Are you able to explain to me why this is the case and what this all means please?"
Your Task:
Formulate a critical and constructive response to this manager in the form of a short report (no more than 2,000 words) on ONE of the following topics(incorporating evidence-based argument to support your views and to advise what it all means).
Please Note: This topic must be a different one to the one chosen in your first submission.
- motivation;
- flexibility and the psychological contract;
- team-working;
- ethics and social responsibility;
- managing organisational change;
- organisation and job design;
- managing a diverse workforce
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