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Review of topics

This review explores leadership styles, organizational culture, and the factors driving internal and external change. It also examines the role of leadership in managing ethical practice and the impact of change on strategy, innovation, and sustainability.

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Review of topics

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  1. Review of topics Leadership (and managing Change): Weeks 7-11 Internal and External Change: Weeks 2-5 • Leadership styles and approaches • Leadership and strategy • Organisational Culture, Restructuring, M&As, and Resistance to Change • Ethics, CSR and Globalisation • Technology, Innovation and Sustainability • Why Change? • External and internal pressures and demands • Organisational design; structure and culture • Strategic level change • Group and team level change • Individual level change • Diagnostic / Analytical tools and techniques • Diagnosing Readiness for Change

  2. 1. Approaches to leadership • There are many alternative ways of looking at leadership; • the qualities or traits approach • the behavioural approach • styles of leadership • contingency theories • transformational leadership • authentic leaderships • servant leadership or followship

  3. Why • ….is change necessary? External and internal pressures and demands. Planned and Emergent changes. Diagnosing readiness to change and resistance? • What • ……strategies, systems and procedures, practices, people and products etc. need to change? • How • ……different leadership styles and approaches have an effect on change. What’s involved? How is changed managed effectively? 2. Change: Why / What / How?

  4. 3. When making a change…..what is the role and relationship of leadership with organisational structure and culture Leadership Structure Culture

  5. Example: Leadership and Ethical Practice (Week 11) • General topic: ‘Leadership and Ethical Practice’ • Specific/Narrow topic: • 1) Think about the case study; 2) think about the topic; and 3) think about theory related to key concepts/themes and the industry (e.g. fast food industry, automotive, telecommunications etc.) and or country context (e.g. UK, America, Asia, Africa etc.). • Some suggestions: • Examining a contingency leadership approach to Volkswagen’s CSR and Ethical failure. • Mcdonaldisation or Unethicalisation: A comparison of leadership styles to manage social responsibility in developing countries. • Managing ethical change in the retail sector: An investigation into how Tesco and Morrisons can adopt the ‘triple bottom line’ to improve stakeholder value. • Renewable energy and sustainability: A case study of Shell’s sustainable practices, strategies and leadership.

  6. Academic sources: ‘Journal Articles’ Bass, B.M., and Steidlmeier, P. (1999). Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior. The Leadership Quarterly, 10(2), pp.181–217. Blowfield, M. (2005). Corporate Social Responsibility: Reinventing the Meaning of Development? International Affairs, 81(3), pp.515-524. Burns, B. (2009). Reflections: Ethics and Organizational Change – Time for a Return to Lewinian Values. Journal of Change Management, 9(4), pp.359–381. Cameron, K. (2006). Good or Not Bad: Standards and Ethics in Managing Change. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 5(3), pp.317-323. Okpara, J.O. (2014). The effects of national culture on managers' attitudes toward business ethics. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, 10(2), pp.174-189. Scherer, A.G., and Palazzo, G. (2011). The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World: A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy. Journal of Management Studies, 48(4), pp.899–931. Thomas, T., Schermerhorn (Jr.), J.R., and Dienhart, J.W. (2014). Strategic Leadership of Ethical Behavior in Business. The Academy of Management Executive, 18(2), pp. 56-68

  7. Academic sources: ‘textbooks’ Boddy, B. (2014). Management; an introduction, 6th Edition. Pearson Education Ltd: Harlow. Fisher, C. Lovell, A. and Silva, N. (2013). Business Ethics and Values, Pearson Education Limited. Hughes, M. (2010). Managing Change: A Critical Perspective, 2nd Edition. CIPD: London. Mullins, L.J. (2013). Management & Organisational Behaviour, 10th Edition. Pearson Education Ltd: Harlow. Northouse, P.G. (2016). Leadership; theory and practice, 7th Edition. Sage: London. Pedersen, E. (2015). Corporate Social Responsibility. Sage publications: London. Sims, R.R. (2003). Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Why Giants Fall. Praeger: London Worthington, I., and Britton, C. (2015). The Business Environment, 7th Edition. Pearson Education Ltd: Harlow.

  8. Other ‘published’ sources • The company website • Annual reports • Special reports • Government / industry / sector reports • Newspaper articles and reports (BBC; FT; The Guardian etc.) • Databases from trusted sources (e.g. Sussex University Library online sources: http://guides.lib.sussex.ac.uk/Business_Management)

  9. Assessment 2 - Review Part 2: Individual Essay

  10. Important points of consideration • This is an essay NOT a report! • Think carefully about the assessment question • The topic is about Leadership and Change, but what specific things is it asking you to look at/ research? • Review module topics • It’s 1,000 words (+/- 10%) excluding references, so be concise and critical!

  11. What am I being asked to do?

  12. What materials do I need? Research textbooks and journal articles related to your research study. These must be Harvard Referenced! Google scholar! How many sources do I need? It’s impossible to research and read everything about a topic, so consider how much time you have to gather and analyse information, and report your findings.

  13. Where to find information? Can also be used as secondary sources + data sets (e.g. Orbis) + focus groups, surveys/ questionnaires, observations

  14. Journal articles: documenting key points – ‘do not’ copy and paste this table into your work! Compare and contrast

  15. How to organise your thoughts • Review course material • Create a mind-map. • Develop an outline. • Spend time free-writing.

  16. An introduction may include • Brief background an/or current situation on the topic, including differing opinions • An outline / main aim of the essay • The main body consists of a number of paragraphs each of which may include • Definitions of key themes/concepts being discussed • A topic sentence clearly stating the main argument/point of that paragraph • Development of the key arguments or points, showing different viewpoints • Reference to sources, statistics and data to support the writer’s view • The conclusion may include • A summary of the essay’s key points • Statement clarifying the author’s general conclusion and why it is significant, referring back to the essay question/topic Essay structure

  17. Critical thinking • Provide an original/insightful stance/belief/argument of a topic. • Don’t make it too general, narrow down your research focus. But remember to answer the question! • Make connections between your work and other research related to the topic. • Support your ideas with theory and other literature/materials. • Organise your work into logical points. • Reference your sources ‘correctly’ (see ‘Citing and Referencing’ slide).

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