HR9738 Leadership for Responsible Change Assessment 3 Brief

HR9738 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.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please refer to the HR9738 module site for further detailed guidance on how to complete each component effectively. Please also refer to the HR9738 module site for further details of the marking criteria for each assessment component.

Late submission of work

Where coursework is submitted without approval, after the published hand-in deadline, the following penalties will apply.

For coursework submitted up to 1 working day (24 hours) after the published hand-in deadline without approval, 10% of the total marks available for the assessment (i.e.100%) shall be deducted from the assessment mark.

For clarity: a late piece of work that would have scored 65%, 55% or 45% had it been handed in on time will be awarded 55%, 45% or 35% respectively as 10% of the total available marks will have been deducted.

The Penalty does not apply to Pass/Fail Modules, i.e. there will be no penalty for late submission if assessments on Pass/Fail are submitted up to 1 working day (24 hours) after the published hand-in deadline.

Coursework submitted more than 1 working day (24 hours) after the published hand-in deadline without approval will be regarded as not having been completed. A mark of zero will be awarded for the assessment and the module will be failed, irrespective of the overall module mark.
For clarity: if the original hand-in time on working day A is 11:59pm the 24-hour late submission allowance will end at 11:59pm on working day B.

These provisions apply to all assessments, including those assessed on a Pass/Fail basis.

Word limits and penalties

If the assessment components are within 10% (plus or minus) of the stated word limit, no penalty will apply.

The word count is to be declared on the front page of your assignment and the assignment cover sheet. The word count does not include:

Please note, in text citations [e.g. (Smith, 2011)] and direct secondary quotations [e.g. “dib-dab nonsense analysis” (Smith, 2011 p.123)] are INCLUDED in the word count.

If this word count is falsified, students are reminded that under ARNA page 30 Section 3.4 this will be regarded as academic misconduct.

If the word limit of the full assignment exceeds the +10% limit, 10% of the mark provisionally awarded to the assignment will be deducted. For example: if the assignment is worth 70 marks but is above the word limit by more than 10%, a penalty of 7 marks will be imposed, giving a final mark of 63.
Students must retain an electronic copy of this assignment (including ALL appendices) and it must be made available within 24/hours of them requesting it be submitted.

Note:    For those assessments or partial assessments based on calculation, multiple choice etc., marks will be gained on an accumulative basis. In these cases, marks allocated to each section will be made clear.