Leadership Assignment

Leadership Assignment
Task Details:
This assignment requires you to do the following:
1. Critically reflect on your own experience of leadership and suggest areas for your own development, including an Action Plan (1500 words). Addresses learning outcome 4 and 6.
2. Use leadership theory and concepts in the analysis and evaluation of the leadership of Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon (1500 words). Addresses learning outcomes 1,2,3,5
Learning Outcomes for the module
At the end of this module, students will be able to:
Knowledge
1. Explain a variety of theories of leadership.
2. Explain competing positions regarding the ethics of leadership.
Thinking skills
3. Critically evaluate case studies of organisational leadership.
4. Critically reflect on their own experience of leadership (whether as a formal leader or as a participant).
Subject-based practical skills
5. Analyse different styles of leadership and show an understanding of why/how different styles of leadership might be effective.
Skills for life and work (general skills)
6. Demonstrate the ability to reflect on their own practice in working with others, and how this might be developed.
Wordcount:
3000 words