Leadership and Change Management Formative and Summative Assessment Brief 2024/25 – Summer Semester

Assessment Brief

Formative Assessment Task And Feedback (Not Graded)

The formative assessment consists of working as a group to consider the future of leadership within the context of one of the nine teaching topics as listed on the Moodle page and the LTAF document:

1. Organisations and their changing global environments
2. Approaches and Theories of Leadership
3. Organisational Culture & Management of Change
4. Power and Politics in Organisations
5. Organisational Change and Individual Sense-Making Processes
6. Organisational Development
7. Leading people through change
8. Employee voice and engagement
9. Leadership, culture and diversity

So, your presentation will tackle the following question: “The future of leadership within the context of (your topic: e.g. “culture and diversity”)”

You are asked to prepare one voice over presentation with a maximum duration of 10 minutes. Seminar tutor will discuss the most appropriate presentation formats, style, and structure with students.

All relevant citations and references should be given in the slides. References list in Harvard format should be added at the end of the presentation.

Summative Assessment: Components Overview And Structure

Task 1: Randomised Online MCQ Test (50% Marks)

• You can take the test (only once) at any time during the allowed period; please check Moodle to know the exact time of the MCQ.
• You will have 50 minutes to answer 50 multiple-choice questions.
• Once you start the test, it cannot be paused, meaning you must complete it in one go.
• Students can skip questions; in the end, they can verify all their answers before submitting.
• Every question must be answered. No answer is considered a wrong answer.
• Your test will be submitted automatically if you do not submit it within 50 minutes.
• Release of the mark will be subject to the exam board.
• Questions will cover all the topics from the taught coursework.

Task 2: Individual Asynchronous Voice Over Presentation (30% Marks)

Assessment Requirements

The assessment consists of working to consider the future of leadership within the context of one of the nine teaching topics as listed on the Moodle page and the LTAF document:

• Organisations and their changing global environments
• Approaches and Theories of Leadership
• Organisational Culture & Management of Change
• Power and Politics in Organisations
• Organisational Change and Individual Sense-Making Processes
• Organisational Development
• Leading people through change
• Employee voice and engagement
• Leadership, culture and diversity

So, your presentation will tackle the following question: “The future of leadership within the context of (your topic: e.g. “culture and diversity”)”

You are asked to prepare one voice over presentation with a maximum duration of 10 minutes. Seminar tutor will discuss the most appropriate presentation formats, style, and structure with students.

All relevant citations and references should be given in the slides. References list in Harvard format should be added at the end of the presentation.

Task 3: Individual Reflective Account (20% Mark)

Based on your group presentation and preparation experience,

• You must write an individual reflective report of a maximum of 1000 words. It should reflect your personal experience working in a group. You may choose to focus your reflections on how you worked as part of a team or as part of the group for the assessment, any problems encountered, your role and impact, the type of leadership required to make things happen, and how you coped with any forms of change in the group work.
• You could also include how your learning will influence your work in the future and how it may inform your leadership type. Please indicate what you will do to fill any learning gaps.
• An evidence-based reflective framework, such as Gibbs’ reflection model, should be identified and used: ResearchGate Learning through reflection
  
• You could also indicate which leadership, change theories and practices influenced you in developing your group assignment or your overall learning. Please use Harvard referencing in your text references and your bibliography.

Instructions For Resit

The exact task for the main assignment period applies to the resit; with further instructions, see below.

Resit deadlines will be published via Moodle. Visit the module’s Moodle site and check your Roehampton email account regularly.

The school is not obliged to check whether you have noticed the re-sit deadlines. For your group presentation, you will be asked to record the presentation and submit the recording via the link provided. Information will be communicated on Moodle.

For the MCQ
Instructions communicated in the section before (for original submission) remain valid for the resit.

For your report
If a resit or an individual presentation is required, the student will submit a voice-over presentation document.

You are required to improve and resubmit your original work. You must resubmit your work using the specific resit Turnitin link on Moodle.

The original marking criteria will still apply (see marking grid in Appendix). The reflective commentary demonstrates how you learned from the feedback and what you did the second time differently. The student should also reflect on how the module content could be beneficial as knowledge of best practices in their career.

You must submit work at the first opportunity to reflect on your feedback. However, in such a case, your reflective commentary section should reflect upon a) how the module’s concepts inform the professions and open up areas of future empirical research and b) how the module contents could be beneficial as knowledge of best practices for your current or future career.

If you were deferred at the first assessment opportunity, you do not need to include the reflective piece, as this is a first submission at a later date, not a resit. The Reflective Essay is marked based on the criteria of Criticality and Evidence-based Logic of arguments. It is an independent writing task, and no supervision will be provided for conducting the essay.

How Will Your Work Be Assessed?
Your work will be assessed by a subject expert who will use either the marking criteria provided in the section “Instructions for assessment” or the Marking rubric enclosed in the Appendix, as appropriate for this module. When you access your marked work, you must reflect on the feedback so that you can use it to improve future assignments.

• Step One – The module and marking team meet to agree on standards, expectations and how feedback will be provided.
• Step Two – A subject expert will mark your work using the criteria provided in the assessment brief.
• Step Three – A moderation meeting takes place where all teaching and marking team members will review the marking of others to confirm whether they agree with the mark and feedback.
• Step Four – The Work then goes to an external examiner who will review a work sample to confirm that the marking between different staff is consistent and fair.
• Stop Five – Your mark and feedback are processed by the Office and made available to you.

Referencing And Submission

You must use the Harvard System.

The Business School requires a digital version of all assignment submissions. These must be submitted via Turnitin on the module’s Moodle site. They must be submitted as a Word file (not a PDF) and not include scanned-in text or text boxes. They must be submitted by 2 pm on the given date; for further general details on coursework preparation, refer to the online information at StudentZone.

Mitigating Circumstances/What To Do If You Cannot Submit A Piece Of Work Or Attend Your Presentation
The University Mitigating Circumstances Policy can be found on the University website: Mitigating Circumstances Policy.

Marking And Feedback Process

Between you handing in your work and then receiving your feedback and marks within 20 days (exceptions may apply), there are several quality assurance processes that we go through to ensure that students receive marks which reflect their work. A summary is provided below.

• Step One – The module and marking team meet to agree on standards, expectations and how feedback will be provided.
• Step Two – A subject expert will mark your work using the criteria provided in the assessment brief.
• Step Three – A moderation meeting takes place where all teaching and marking team members will review the marking of others to confirm whether they agree with the mark and feedback.
• Step Four – The Work then goes to an external examiner who will review a work sample to confirm that the marking between different staff is consistent and fair.
• Stop Five – Your mark and feedback are processed by the Office and made available to you.