Critically evaluate why your chosen leadership styles are suitable for give case study business to implement future industries. Can you give examples of companies that have applied these leadership approaches?

2023/24 ASSIGNMENT REMIT – DOCUMENT UPLOAD

ASSIGNMENT TASK:

Using evidence from your research write a strategic foresight report for the case study that will be given to you at the time of assignment launch. Your report should focus on the key leadership concepts required for directing the case study organisation to the future industry, its drivers, and shapers, in addition to encompassing the leadership styles to develop values for change management.

• Part 1: Using examples from the case study business critically evaluate the leadership styles that suits future industry. Compare and contrast how these leadership styles can prepare for the world of rapid change and disruption. Justify your answers with clear examples (up to 1,500 words)
• Part 2: You are required to analyse the theory of change management to the key challenge(s) posed to the case study business scenario. Incorporate the implementation of leadership using agility, evolution, and transformation to the selected business (up to 1,000 words)
• Part 3: Evaluate the process of talent management that values digital transformation required by future industries. Identify your role as an ethical leader that values well-being and flexibility for the team by implementing strategies that promotes talent management, finding skills gap, reskilling, building capabilities and capacities (up to 1,500 words)
• Part 4: From the areas you have evaluated and analysed above, present a ‘futures’ toolkit that improves the case study business venture’s ability in leading for the future. The toolkit template (provided) should encompass the key six areas to enable the business to be agile and constantly evolve in the developments of the business world.

You need to also weigh up your readiness to lead future industries by assessing your key strengths and areas of development. This will be evidenced from your self-assessment test and an honest and in-depth reflection of the feedback (up to 500 words).

Each appendix must be numbered, named, and referred to in the main body of the work.

TASK GUIDANCE:

• Focus on attention to detail, quality of work and overall academic standards.
• For additional guidance on this assignment, please access the assignment vodcast available on Canvas.

MARKING CRITERIA:

Part 1: This requires a brief but a clear introduction setting out the context of your work. Critically evaluate why your chosen leadership styles are suitable for give case study business to implement future industries. Can you give examples of companies that have applied these leadership approaches? Your justification should articulate/synthesis varying relevant leadership styles, consider ethical approach, values systems and briefs, authentic leadership and communicating the vision. This will equate to 25% of your marks.

Part 2: Using the theory of change management analyse how it can support the business strategic goals to implement future industry using agility, evolution, and transformation. Discuss how the case study business should position themselves at the forefront of technological development such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and robotics. You also need to justify how leading change has the potential to deliver competitive advantages in relation to quality, operating costs, and customer service.  This will equate to 20% of your marks.

Part 3: In your role as a future industry leader implement strategies that promotes talent management. Consider the steps you will take to prepare your workforce with a strong emphasis on 3 Rs – retain, retrain and recruit to prevent the skills gap. Your strategies should also cover suitable cross-hierarchical structure including a focus on techniques that create a co-operative and self-managing work environment. This will equate to 25% of your marks.

Part 4: Using evidence from your research and examples of best practice present a ‘future’ toolkit as a future industry readiness document. This should cover the six key areas: automation, sustainability, futureproofing, artificial-intelligence, foresight methods and horizon scanning. You need to highlight the challenges the business will face during the implementation process e.g., talent readiness and structure and management. Please adhere to the template.

You need to also weigh up your readiness to lead future industry by assessing your key strengths and areas of development. This will be evidenced from your self-assessment test and an honest and in-depth reflection of the feedback (up to 500 words).

Present the below in the appendices of the report:

• Screen-print of self-assessment text (result page)

Part 4 will equate to 20% of your marks.

Marks for referencing will also be embedded with a focus on the accuracy, extent, currency, presentation, and quality of references accounting for 10% of the marks. At least 30 references across different sources are expected.  The currency and triangulation of references (cross referencing information to add further justification of points) are critical.

E-SUBMISSION GUIDANCE:

• This assignment will require you to submit your work by uploading a document in Word or PDF format to Canvas. Please follow this online guide on document submissions and contact the DICE team on dice@ucb.ac.uk if you need any further support.

• Critically evaluate why your chosen leadership styles are suitable for give case study business to implement future industries. Can you give examples of companies that have applied these leadership approaches? 

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Evaluate leadership styles for future industries.
• Analyse the theory of change management and apply concepts to given scenarios.
• Evaluate the process of talent management.
• Justify futures toolkit for a business, examining human resources, systems requirements and horizon scanning the competition

SKILLS OUTCOMES:

• The skills outcomes to be developed by completing this assignment can be found here.

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT GUIDANCE: