Assignment Brief
ASSESSMENT COMPONENT 3: INDIVIDUAL REPORT
- You are required to produce a 3000-word report on leading responsible change in a chosen organisation. This can be any organisation of your choice. It can also be an organisation that you currently work for (or have worked for) The selected piece of change must be a relevant and contemporary issue that the organisation is facing and which leaders in the organisation must strategically and practically address.
- You should use the tools, theories and frameworks covered in this module to carry out an analysis of the change and provide recommendations on how to lead the change responsibly in your chosen organisation.
Introduction
This section should provide a brief background about the organisation and the change being addressed, to give the reader enough information to understand the context in which the report has been carried out. A rationale should also be included here by explaining why you selected this contemporary change issue for your report.
Academic Underpinning
In this section, you should make a critical evaluation of, and demonstrate critical application of theory, frameworks and principles to your contemporary change and leadership, drawn from a range of relevant and appropriately referenced academic and practitioner literature. You must demonstrate wide reading from a range of sources.
Analysis
You should use relevant tools and models covered on the module to frame your analysis of the change.
Discussion and Recommendations
Based on your review of literature and your analysis of the change, you should engage in a critical discussion of how to lead the change and provide practical recommendations to enhance responsible change in your chosen organisation. For this, you should draw on key evidence from the literature and from your analysis of the change.
Conclusion
A suitable conclusion which summarises the key arguments and contributions of the report and brings the report to a clear ending should be provided.
Presentation, Structure, Academic Writing Style and Referencing
You should ensure your report is free from spelling, punctuation, and grammatical error and that your writing style is detached and passive (remember to write gender free and in the 3rd person). Citations and referencing must be error free using the APA 6th Edition system of referencing. This element must be written in the third person.
Referencing your work
- The APA method of referencing uses the author’s name and the date of the publication. In-text citations give brief details of the work you are referring to in your text. References are listed at the end of the text in] alphabetical order by the author’s name. The general format of an electronic journal reference in the APA style is shown below:
- Coutu, D. (2009). Why Teams Don’t Work. Harvard Business Review, 87, 5, 98-105. Retrieved 29th April 2012 from EBSCO http://searchebscohost.com
- Author/s name and initials are listed first, followed by year of publication in brackets. Then there is the title of article and the journal where the article appears, which is in italics. Then state the volume and issue number (in brackets) along with the pages where article can be located. Finally add the date the article was retrieved and then the name of the database, followed by the web address. Wherever possible use the homepage URL rather than the full and extended web address.
- For further information on why it is important to reference accurately go to the Referencing and Plagiarism topic in Skills Plus available from the Library website: www.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus
- You will find other useful help guides on Skills Plus to help you with the skills involved in writing your
assessments and preparing for exams. For further information on the APA style of referencing see the Concise Rules of APA style and the APA website http://www.apastyle.org/learn
