Programme:

Business & Tourism Management

Level:

Level 6

Module Title:

Leadership and Change

Module code:

BTM6LCH

Module leader/s:

Assignment No:

1

Assignment Type:

Essay

Assignment weighting %:

100%

Assignment Word Count: (or equivalent)

4000 Words

Penalties

All penalties that are listed at the end of this document in the Table of Penalties.

Submission Deadlines: (Day: Date & Time)

Summative Deadline

Monday 07 October 2024 before 2pm

https://moodle.globalbanking.ac.uk/mod/assign/view.php?id=112347

Late Submission

Wednesday 09 October 2024 before 2pm

https://moodle.globalbanking.ac.uk/mod/assign/view.php?id=112351

Resubmission 1

Friday 06 December 2024 before 2pm

https://moodle.globalbanking.ac.uk/mod/assign/view.php?id=112355

Resubmission 2

Friday 28 February 2025 before 2pm

https://moodle.globalbanking.ac.uk/mod/assign/view.php?id=112359

Grade & Feedback release Dates

All Grade and Feeback release dates are 21 days after the submission date. If an assignment deadline is Monday 1^st 2:00pm then the grade release date will be Monday 22^nd 2:00pm

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

Module Outcome 1

Analyse different leadership theories and understand the impact of leadership on followers, organisations and performance.

Module Outcome 2

Demonstrate a conceptual and critical understanding of different change management theories, strategies and techniques.

Module Outcome 3

Understand and discuss the strategic and operational importance of change in organisations.

Module Outcome 4

Analyse the role of the leader in enhancing organisational success through organisational change

Assignment Requirements

Overview

This assessment will encourage the students to apply the leadership and change knowledge and skills from the module and will be submitted in the form of an essay.

Assignment task/s to be completed

The submission of a written essay that discusses two (2) leadership and two (2) change management theories, strategies and techniques and the impact of leadership approaches in managing and leading a change on followers, organisations and performance using a wide variety of research materials from the core reading list (4,000 words-10% – +10%).

This task will require you to include all the following:

1. Review two (2) leadership and two (2) change management theories.

1. Evaluate the impact of leadership theories, styles, and approaches in managing and leading change on:

a) Followers

b) Organisations

c) Performance

3. Concluding section

Your essay needs to include the following:

1. Introductory paragraph (500 Words) – use one citation to define leadership and another to define change, outline the aim of the essay and outline what the rest of the essay will cover.

1. 2.The main body paragraphs (3000 Words):

The main body of your essay should consist of several sections, totaling around 3000 words. These sections will be divided as follows:

a) Identification and Review of Leadership Theories

• Identification of Leadership Theories: You need to identify and briefly mention a range (not more than 4) of leadership theories. You don`t need to go into depth about these four, just identify and briefly describe them.
• Review of Two Leadership Theories: After identifying the four leadership theories, you must then select two leadership theories (from the four identified above) for a more detailed review. The review should be based on research, potentially from a core reading list. This review will involve discussing the key concepts, strengths, weaknesses, and practical applications of these two theories. 

b) Identification and Review of Change Management Theories

• Identification of Change Management Theories: Similar to the leadership theories section, identify and briefly describe a range (not more than 4) of change management theories.
• Review of Two Change Management Theories: Again, select two change management theories (from the four identified above) for a detailed review. This review should be based on research, analysing the key aspects, benefits, challenges, and how these theories are applied in real-world scenarios.

c) Analysis of a Leader in the Tourism Industry

• Identification of a Leader: Choose a leader from the Tourism Industry, which could include sectors like Hospitality, Recreation and Entertainment, or Transportation. This leader could be a well-known CEO, manager, or influential figure within the industry.
• Impact of Leadership Theories on the Leader’s Style: Discuss how the leadership theories (possibly including those identified or reviewed earlier) have influenced this leader’s style. Highlight both the positive and negative impacts of these theories on the leader’s approach to leadership.

d) Evaluation of the Leader`s Impact on Change Management (positive and negative)

• Followers: Assess how the leader’s style and approach to change management have affected their followers or subordinates.
• Organisations: Evaluate the impact of the leader’s style and change management strategies on the organization they lead.
• Performance: Analyse how the leader’s approach has impacted performance 

1. Conclusion and recommendations (500 Words) – This paragraph needs to summarise the topic of the essay and make recommendations based on what you found in sections 2(c) and (d) above. Do not introduce new ideas into this section, only summarise and evaluate.

Word count: 4,000 words +/– 10% words.

Important:

All your work must be based on reliable research and have a minimum of 10 different sources within it. Please ensure you use both direct and indirect citations.

You must reference all sources used in your work, using the Harvard Referencing Guide from CCCU.  

Additional Information required to support completing the tasks above

WHAT YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO DO?

You are basically required to write an essay of 4,000 words that discusses two (2) leadership and two (2) change management theories, strategies and techniques and the impact of leadership approaches in managing and leading a change on followers, organisations and performance using a wide variety of research materials from the core reading list (4,000 words-10% – +10%). 

1. Analyse different leadership theories and understand the impact of leadership on followers, organisations and performance.

2. Demonstrate a conceptual and critical understanding of different change management theories, strategies and techniques.

3. Discuss the strategic and operational importance of change in organisations.

4. Analyse the role of the leader in enhancing organisational success through organisational change.

i. The Assignment Brief should be used in conjunction with the Assignment Guide as its purpose is to provide guidance as to how best to respond to the requirements of the assignment. Both documents give an indication of what the marker will be looking for in the piece of work.

ii. The task requirement is an essay not a report or reflective journal. You must therefore ensure that your structure, outline, content, style and presentation accord with academic writing conventions for an essay.

iii. Headers, bullet points, pictures and graphs, bold or italics fonts should be used where appropriate in the essay. Table of contents is not required.

iv. Ensure appropriate formatting. For example, you should use 12-point font size, 1.5 line spacing and distribute your text evenly between margins.

v. You must use the correct Canterbury Harvard Referencing conventions for your in-text citations and reference list. Please refer to the Canterbury Harvard Referencing Guide.

vi. You must research, read, apply and reference the core and recommended resources for the module as well as additional academic resources.

vii. Make sure you proofread and edit your work prior to final submission to avoid grammar, spelling, punctuation, and in-text citation mistakes as well as to ensure that you have covered everything.

viii. You must use a minimum of 10 sources including textbooks, journals and other academic/credible published and web sources.

ix. Do not use Wikipedia, unverifiable blogs or any software to generate answers.

x. Marking criteria is available in Moodle.

xi. Make sure you adhere to the required word count of the case study report (4,000) +/- 10%, as 10 marks will be deducted from your total grade, if you exceed the required word count (i.e., if you exceed 4400 words) and your grade will be capped at 40%, if you write below the required wordcount (i.e., if you write below 3600 words) and the marker cannot identify if the learning outcomes have been met.

Mandatory Referencing and Research Requirements

Referencing Style

CCCU Harvard Referencing Style.

Mandatory Sources to be included in the Assignment

Core:Schedlitzki, D. and Edwards, G. (2018) Studying leadership: traditional and critical approaches, London: Sage

Recommended:Hodges, J. (2021) Managing and Leading People through Organizational Change: The Theory and Practice of Sustaining Change through People. 2nd edn. London: Kogan Page.

Northouse, P. G. (2024) Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice. 6th edn. London: Sage

Hayes, J. (2018) The Theory and Practice of Change Management. 5th edn. London: Palgrave.

Kotter, J.P. (1996) Leading Change Harvard Business School Press, Boston.

Considered relevant.

Northouse, P.G. (2018) Leadership: Theory and Practice, Sage Publications Cameron, E. and Green, M. (2020) Making sense of change management: a complete guide to the models, tools, and techniques of organizational change. 5thed.  London: Kogan Page Ltd.

Pendleton, D. and Furnham, A. (2012) Leadership: All You Need to Know. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Miller, D. (2016) Enterprise change management: how to prepare your organization for continuous change. 1st edition. Edited by A. Proctor. Kogan Page.

Kotter, J.P. (2012) Leading change. Harvard Business Review Press.

Journals

Harvard Business Review

Journal of Change Management

Leadership

Academy of Management Journal

Academy of Management Review

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Journal of Tourism Futures

Further Digital Resources 

• Academic Search Index

• Aphasiology Archive

• Archive of European Integration

• arXiv

• British Library EThOS

• Business Source Complete

• CINAHL Complete

• ClinicalTrials.gov

• Communication Source

• Construction News

• eBook Business Collection (EBSCOhost)

• eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

• Economist

• E-LIS (Eprints in Library & Information Science)

• Entrepreneurial Studies Source

• FT.com

• GOBI E-books

• IndianJournals.com

• Industry Studies Working Papers

• JSTOR Journals

• Library Catalogue

• Milne Open Textbooks

• Minority Health Archive

• PhilSci Archive

• SCOAP3

• Supplemental Index

Websites

Center for Creative Leadership – (www.ccl.org)

Format of your submission and how your assignment will be assessed

This assignment should be submitted electronically via Moodle (module tutors will discuss this process with you

during class time).

• You must submit your work in Word document format of an essay.
• You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.
• Please ensure that you have submitted your work in the correct link on the assessment tab. Also note that students may be penalised for submitting their assessments in the wrong link.
• Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment. You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be viewed on the University website: Academic Misconduct Policy. In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations.
• It is the complete and sole responsibility of the student to upload their assessment to Turnitin for Marking prior to the specified deadline. Students should not request lecturers to submit assessments on their behalf as they are unable to do so.
• To avoid uploading issues, students should aim to upload their assessment several hours prior to the deadline to avoid Turnitin issues around the deadline time or accidentally submitting to the wrong submission link. It is recommended to check that the assessment that has been uploaded is able to be read after you have uploaded it and if not to re-upload it. Contact the SST on your campus if you have any issues.
• Any assessment submitted after the specified deadline will incur a late penalty as specified in CCCU Academic regulations unless prior approval has been granted for Exceptional Circumstances.

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend on your use of academic referencing conventions.

If you fail this assessment, you will have to resubmit an Individual assignment.

This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 6.

No Front Sheet is to be submitted or student name or student ID is to appear anywhere in your assignment submission as it will be anonymously marked.

Marking Scheme / Rubric – The Marking Scheme (otherwise known as a rubric) is available on the Module Assessment Tab on Moodle. 

Submission Requirements

Submission Platform

This assignment should be submitted electronically using Moodle to the Module Submission link

Submission Date &Time

All submission & resubmission dates and time are as stated at the beginning of this Assignment brief.

You should submit your Assignment for all deadlines earlier than 2:00pm on the date stated. 

Late submissions can be accepted for Summative Submissions only up to a maximum of 2 working days after the submission deadline. This does not apply to resubmission deadlines. A 10 mark deduction will be made by CCCU for all late submissions.

Work submitted more than two working days after the deadline will not be accepted and will be recorded as a non-submission.

Assignments submitted to the Resubmissions deadlines will be capped at 40 by CCCU.

If you are affected by events which are unexpected, outside your control and short-term in nature (i.e. lasting one to two weeks), under the exceptional circumstances procedure you may be eligible for: 

• A seven day extension to your coursework (via self-certification request).
• A 14 day extension to your coursework (via evidence-based request).
• To defer your exam or time-constrained assessment if you have not yet submitted/attempted it (via self-certification or evidence-based request).
• To re-take an exam/time-constrained assessment, if you feel your performance on your first attempt was negatively impacted (via impaired performance request).

Please note students are only eligible to have a maximum of 2 self-certification requests per academic year.

You can make a self-certification request up to 14 calendar days before your deadline:

• for coursework it must be no later than 2pm on the deadline date
• for exams and time-constrained assessments, the request must be submitted no later than the start time of the assessment.

Table of Penalties

Issue with the Assignment

Penalty to be Applied

Suspected Academic Misconduct or Breach of Academic integrity

The Assignment will be graded zero. Written feedback will be ‘This assignment has been identified as potential Academic Misconduct/Breach of Academic Integrity. You will be invited to a meeting to discuss’.

You will be invited to a meeting with an academic Misconduct reviewer. When you attend the meeting if Academic Misconduct or the breach of Academic Integrity is upheld you will be asked to rewrite the section of the assignment it applies to and re-submit the assignment. 

Do not upload any assignments to the AMC submission links before the meeting otherwise it will be removed.

Failure to attend the meeting means the assignment will remain graded at zero and you will be unable to pass the module until you have attended the meeting.

The assignment is more than 10% over the prescribed wordcount i.e. for 3,000 words, if 3,400 is submitted excluding the cover page, table of contents, references and appendices.

A 10-mark deduction applied to the overall grade that is manually entered by the Lecturer. This deduction is capped at 40%, which means an assignment cannot get less than 40% if a deduction has to be made.

For example, if the mark for the assignment was 60. The lecturer would deduct 10 marks and the mark will be 50.  Written feedback will also state ‘This assignment is 10% over the wordcount and 10 marks have been deducted’.

Where assignments are more than 10% less than the prescribed wordcount and lecturers cannot identify if the learning outcomes have been met.

This assignment will be graded below 40.

Where a student submits a .pdf instead of a word document.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This is a pdf submission and is not allowed. All submissions should be in Microsoft Word format’.

Students not working in their groups as agreed by the lecturer.

This assignment will be graded a Fail. 

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This submission was not completed in the designated group’.

Please note: Where a student has asked the lecturer to move from their original group and the lecturer has agreed this does not apply.

For a presentation assignment that requires oral delivery, and the student does not present in person.

The Oral rubric criteria is not moved, and the oral criteria will remain at zero.

For a presentation assignment and the student does not upload a converted PPT To Word File with speaker notes.

The communication rubric criteria is not moved, and the communication criteria will remain at zero.

For a presentation assignment that requires oral delivery, and the student did not present on the day or upload the presentation to a Word document with speaker Notes.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘There was no Oral presentation in class and the submission was not converted to Microsoft Word’.

For a presentation assignment the student uploads a file that contains no slides and is simply continuous text.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘There are no slides present in the assignment submission’.

If the assignment is group work and the resubmission is not changed to individual work.

If a group assignment is failed then the resubmitted work must be changed by a minimum of 25% to make it an individual piece of work.

This means if a Group Presentation is 12 slides a minimum of 3 must be different to the group submission. If the assignment is a Group Poster with 6 text boxes then a minimum of 2 of them must be different to the Group Poster.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This resubmission should be individual and a minimum of 25% of the assignment has not changed’.

Where a written assignment has text that is unable to be read by Turnitin because it is either a graphical image (excluding Presentations & Posters); for example, a screenshot or the assignment is written within text boxes on each page.

This assignment will be graded 0 and the written feedback should state ‘This assignment is unreadable by Turnitin and cannot be checked for Academic Misconduct. It has been referred for an AMC meeting’.

The assignment will then be referred for Academic Misconduct investigation.

An assignment that does not make use of any Mandatory references provided in the assignment brief/Module Handbook.

The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero

An assignment has a reference list, but no citations.

The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero.

Written feedback should state ’The reference criteria has been graded Zero as no citations have been used.  Please include citations in your assignment to support the academic points being made’.

An assignment has no citations and no reference list.

Foundation & Level 4 – The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero. The written feedback will state ‘Please ensure that you use citations and references to support your assignment submission’.

At Level 5 and Level 6 this would be graded as a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1 and written feedback will also show ‘This assignment has no citations and no reference list’.

Where False references are included in an assignment.

This will be referred for Academic Misconduct.

This assignment will be graded 0 and the written feedback should state ‘This assignment contains false references and has been referred for Academic Misconduct. You will be invited to attend an Academic Misconduct meeting’.

Assignment is submitted after the Late Deadline or if it is a Resubmission, after the Resubmission deadline

This assignment will be graded a Fail. 

The lecturer will grade as 1 and written feedback should state `This assignment was submitted after the deadline. Please resubmit at the next resubmission opportunity.`