ASSESSMENT BRIEF - 3COURSE: Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Accounting Unit Code: Leadership for Managers Unit Title: LEMT305 Type of Assessment: Assessment 3 – Self-Reflective Journal 2000 words (maximum) ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION: Assessment Brief Unit Learning Outcomes addressed: 1. Understand the concepts and theories of leadership. 2. Identify various leadership styles 3. Identify the importance of leadership qualities for managers. 4. Understand how leadership is applied in practice in teams and in an organisation. 5. Enhance skills to develop leadership in an organization. Week-11 20 marks 20% The reflective process provides an opportunity for students to deepen their learning. Reflective Journal contains a regular reflection on the concepts presented and discussed in class, specifically their application to your personal, practical knowledge and experience. | |||
| This assessment is an individual activity. You need to keep a reflective journal, which you will later use to inform a written assignment in an essay format. You may be asked to include comment on lectures, performances and the pre-reading and classroom experience. You may organise your reflection based on these three topics from the following chapters: 1. Chapters 1, 2 & 3: Introduction to leadership 2. Chapters 4, 5, 6 & 7: The personal side of leadership 3. Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12: The leader as relationship builder. The content of the reflection is up to you, although it should be based on the ideas and discussions from class and the relevant assigned readings. As well, a number of activities and reflection questions will be suggested in each class. Reflective Journal entries must demonstrate the application of course materials to personal experience and observations and include an evaluation of those experiences and also lessons learned. Marking Criteria Lecturer Expectation
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UNIT CODE: LEADERSHIP FOR MANAGERS
Unit Title: LEMT305
Type of Assessment: Assessment 3 – Self-Reflective Journal
Introduction
Leadership is important for individuals to develop the capabilities and skills to manage the people. In this regard, it has been found that the weekly development and learning has been beneficial to understand the leadership extent. In this weekly journal, I will write about the journal entries based on the weekly development and the practical and personal experience that I have gathered. The lessons that I have learned will be reflected in this journal entry context based on the book by Richard L. Daft’s “ The Leadership Experience”.
Introduction to leadership
| Chapters | Description | Practical and Personal implications | Lessons Learned |
| Chapter 1 | The objectives of the chapter have been coined towards understanding the full meaning of the leadership potential and six fundamental transformations that are essential for the organizational leaders. Leadership is effective for a shared purpose and ensures a relationship with the other individuals. Vision is important in this regard for leaders and management skills to plan for the organizations. Specific theories such as Trait, Influence, Relational and Contingency methods are helping different types of leadership generation | In this regard, I would like to mention the fact that I have been oriented towards the relational leadership maintenance since the school days. In my student life, leadership application has ensured my personal and professional development. I was a very self-oriented person during school days, but with the interaction in-group, I have learned to generate people centered leadership. | Lessons that have been learned from the weekly material and personal development have been represented as follows- Influence is important for a leader to influence the other persons. The intention of the leaders must be clear, and it must ensure guidance towards the followers. Personal responsibility and integrity are vital to complete the shared purpose (Witjes Vermeulen and Cramer 2017) |
| Chapter 2 | Autocratic and democratic behaviors of leaders are concerned with people and task oriented approaches. These are effective for applying the personal characteristics to manage the organizational work. It is beneficial for the integrity maintenance following the ethical principles. Motivation maintenance is essential from the end of leaders to keep the people in work. The application of the boss-centered leadership and subordinate centered leadership are essential based on the environmental demand. In-Group and Out-Group subordinates’ maintenance are vital from the end of leaders. | I have learned the work ethics maintenance in the group work during my school days group assignment completion. We had been assigned with the role to exchange the position of leader. I have always tried to maintain the integrity in the group. However, in the initial stages, I have faced difficulties with maintaining communication with all and listening to the queries of others. However, I have learned the aspects of In-Group subordinate’s maintenance. | I have learned that operational role, collaborative role and advisory role are important in this regard to deal with the team or groups a leader. One has to ensure the application of the right role based on the demand of the situation. Advisory role is beneficial for ensuring guidance, whereas collaborative role is beneficial for horizontal responsibilities. |
| Chapter 3 | The situation is very important for leaders. Based on the situations, it has been found that the role of leaders often changes. Contingency approaches are effective for developing the task structure, leader-member relation development and position power maintenance. Path goal development is important for the behavioral approaches development of the leader. In this way, it is beneficial for making the decisions and ensuring the characters of the followers (Oplatka and Arar 2016). | During my college days, I have been assigned with group tasks very often and during that time; I used to develop milestones through which I can easily complete the tasks. Thus, path goal development has been initiated a long time ago. It has helped me a lot to manage my personal life in terms of daily works and completing the assigned tasks. | I have learned the fact that group cohesiveness and formalization are important as a leader. Development of leadership capabilities can be generated through structured tasks and ensuring the intrinsic satisfaction in the team (Oplatka and Arar 2016). |
The personal side of leadership
| Chapters | Description | Practical and Personal implications | Lessons Learned |
| Chapter 4 | Self-awareness is very important for successful leadership generation. This week material has indicated the importance of Big Five personality dimensions. It has been found that emotional stability and openness to experience are vital for true leadership sense generation. Values and attitude are linked with social perception development in a leader. It is essential for understanding employees (Tian, Risku and Collin 2016). | I have realized the fact during a quiz competition in my school days. Our team has been developed with five members from different schools. I have been selected as the team leader. During the competition, I have learned the fact that maintenance of values towards others is important. With the right attitude, I have been able to understand the perception of others. I have realized that I need to improve my openness skill. | I have learned that feeling-based understanding of the group members is important for a leader. In addition, organized and planned details in a group work are vital and for this determination of the self-awareness are crucial for success as a leader (Tian, Risku and Collin 2016). |
| Chapter 5 | Mental models and behaviors are controlling the interaction of a leader with the others. Self-motivation and through the management of the emotions leadership skills can be enhanced for an individual (Ardelt and Grunwald 2018.) Independent thinking and systems thinking is the primary mind development tool for a leader. It is related with the enhancement of the personal mastery of the individual. A degree of emotional intelligence is important for regulating the emotions of the individuals and motivating others (Gonzalez Rodriguez and Sossa 2017). | I have realized the fact from my peer groups and family setting that I am able to understand others. Thus, it is reflecting the fact that I have high emotional intelligence. Since the high school days, I am able to influence the performance of others and maintain positive emotion. | Generation of positive emotion is important from the end of the leader to enhance the work outcome from the group. In this regard, the generation of independent thinking along with the systems thinking is essential (Gonzalez Rodriguez and Sossa 2017). |
| Chapter 6 | The rational approach is important from the end of leaders. It is beneficial for the setting of ethical tone from the end of leaders. Moral leadership is essential for the development of influence on others. Changing the focus from the self-perspectives to others is important to keep the assigned tasks in track and help the employees to get through those tasks | I have developed the leadership aspects through my student life. I have been considered the fact that with proper control, one can ensure leadership skills improvement. In this regard, I have applied empowerment concern with the aid of stewardship leader to facilitate the self-responsible employees. | I have learned that control towards the follower is important and for this servant leadership. Personal courage is important for the leaders so that they can draw the strength from the others (Goupil and Kouider 2019). |
| Chapter 7 | Leadership challenges are important so that the dynamicity can be maintained for the leaders. Challenges are helping the leaders to manage the mutual respectful relationship with the employees. Learning the strategies to manage the tactics along with organizational constraints are important to understand as it can hamper the employee relations. Knowledge, expertise, along with the flow of information, are vital for a leader to facilitate the network of relationships (Shaw et al. 2018). | I have always managed the courage to manage situations. During the group assignments, I have often seen the chaos situation between the members. However, in this regard, I have believed in the application of strategies of listening to all the members. Then I have made the decisions depending on the situation. | A leader must have the power to assume responsibilities. The challenge is essential in this regard to participate in the transformation so that the courage to serve can be developed for the followers of the group members (Shaw et al. 2018). |
The leader as a relationship builder
| Chapters | Description | Practical and Personal implications | Lessons Learned |
| Chapter 8 | Motivation and empowerment are the major concern of a leader. A leader needs to select the rewards so that it can enhance the engagement of the people with the management and organization. Approaches are important from the end of leaders so that it can meet the needs of the employees, and they contribute their full towards the organization (Hackworth et al. 2018). | As I have limited exposure to the internship and job, I am not much able to understand it. However, in my personal life, I have observed that if rewards are present task, then it enhances the motivation level of the employees. | Existence of the equity theory and expectancy theory are essential to determine the needs and generate the feeling of equality (Hackworth et al. 2018). |
| Chapter 9 | Communication from the end of the leader maintains the management and employees transparent. The strategic conversation is essential, which can drive the purpose directed development and methods of execution. In this regard, nonverbal communication and verbal communication both are important to keep the employees informed so that the organizational goals can be met (Barry Grunberg and Kleber 2018). | During the group meetings, we have faced the issues in the first place that lacks of coordination between the members were evident. It was mainly due to the communication gap between the members. I have clarified the matter to the members and have arranged the proper communication plan that has improved the performance of group. | Communication is a integral part of leadership development. True leadership capabilities are dependent on the communication maintenance extent of the leaders (Barry Grunberg and Kleber 2018).. |
| Chapter 10 | Team leading decides the fate of organizational vision and mission statement. The challenges of the organizations can be improved through the team member decision making. Providing the support and coaching is important for guiding the assigned team on right track (Tsoh et al. 2019). | During the group meetings of university assignments whenever I have been assigned with the leadership role, I have considered team effectiveness as a priority. I have given priority to the team members and listen to their decisions. | Team effectiveness is essential to meet the organizational aim and objectives. Trust maintenance in the team is essential so that commitment can be maintained. |
| Chapter 11 | Diversity maintenance in leadership has been introduced in this week. It is important to understand the multicultural issues of the people in an organization. Employee affinity groups to support female and minority Participation and advancement are essential (Tsoh et al. 2019). | I have worked in groups with people of different thinking. However, I didn’t get enough opportunity to work in a multicultural scenario. However, I think in future it will help me to generate diversity in the leadership applications. | Changes in society and social values are important, which are essential to ensure organizational diversity development (Tsoh et al. 2019). |
| Chapter 12 | Power and influence are vital to enhance the impact of leadership. Based on the situation, transformational, transactional and charismatic leadership are being applied. | I consider myself that my leadership application is rather concentrated towards the transformational aspects. It has helped me to respond as pert the situation and help the group members through considering their views | Compliance, Resistance and Commitment are the primary three components that control the power of the leaderships. |
Conclusion
Therefore, it has been found that the weekly learning on the various chapter of leadership has helped me a lot to gather insight regarding the application of leadership. I have been able to relate my views and concepts with the learning. In this way, I have connected my opinions with the experience that I have gathered through my school life experiences and personal life experiences. The learning outcome from the weekly chapters has enhanced the knowledge and application-related concern in the organizational and future professional aspects.
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