ASSIGNMENT 2 BRIEF

Qualification BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Business

Unit number Unit 17: Understanding and Leading Change

Assignment title Leadership and Change Management

Academic Year 2020 - 2021

Unit Tutor

Issue date Submission date

IV name and date

Submission Format:
Format: This is a group assignment. Submitted documents include a set of PowerPoint presentation
slides with appendix of survey results, interview pictures, etc. The presentation slides and speaker notes
should be submitted as one copy. You are required to make effective use of PowerPoint headings, bullet
points and subsections as appropriate. The cover page of the report has to be the Assignment front sheet
2.
Submission Students are compulsory to submit the assignment in the form as described above in due
date and in a way requested by the Tutors. The form of submission will be a soft copy posted
on http://cms.greenwich.edu.vn/
Note: The assignment must be your own work, and not copied by or from another student or from
books etc. If you use ideas, quotes or data (such as diagrams) from books, journals or other sources, you
must reference your sources, using the Harvard style. Make sure that you know how to reference
properly, and that you understand the guidelines on plagiarism. If you do not, you definitely get fail
Unit Learning Outcomes:

LO3 Determine how barriers to change influence leadership decision making

LO4 Apply a range of leadership approaches to a change initiative.

Assignment Brief and Guidance:

Scenario
The main objective of the second assignment is to offer students an opportunity to practice change
management concepts through identifying a change, analyzing the barriers to change and the leadership
in leading changes, and finding solutions to improve change implementation.

As a group of maximum five students, you need to choose a local medium size company/organization in
your local city where you can visit. Through visiting the chosen company, interviewing its managers and

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 involved stakeholders, your group is expected to identify and investigate a problem that needs to be
changed and propose a change leading plan to the chosen company.

The proposed plan must cover at least the following components: the needs for change, analysing the
root causes, identifying key stakeholders involved in the identified problem, and explaining barriers to
change, proposing steps for leading the change, proposing appropriate leadership approaches to leading
the change successfully.

Force-field analysis, stakeholder analysis or other analysis tools may be used to identify barriers to
change. In addition, it is important to apply a variety of change management theories and models
(Kotter’s 8-step model, Lewin’s change management model, Nadler’s congruence model of change), and
different leadership approaches dealing with the change identified in the plan.

This plan is to be presented to the lecturer as a representative of the company’s board of management
(*) in the form of a Group PowerPoint presentation and slides with notes. The structure of the plan is
suggested as follows:
(1) Introduction to the change leading plan
(2) Change identified and the needs for change
(3) Application of analysis tools to identify opposition against and support for change
(4) An evaluation of how barriers to change may influence leadership decision making.
(5) Steps for leading the change based on change management concepts and models
(6) Proposed leadership approaches to leading the change successfully
(*) If your group could invite the real manager(s) of the chosen company to join your presentation, you
will get mark bonus.

Grading criteria
(in addition to the basic criteria in aforementioned formats and code of conduct)

LO3 Determine how barriers to change influence leadership decision making

P4 Explain different barriers for
change and determine how they
influence leadership decision-
making in a given organizational
context.
M3 Use force field analysis to analyze
the driving and resisting forces and
show how they influence decision-
making in a given organisational
context.
D2 Make valid decisions
and outcomes based on
force field analysis in the
context of meeting
organisational objectives.

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 LO4 Apply a range of leadership approaches to a change initiative.
P5 Apply different leadership
approaches to dealing with change
in a range of organizational
contexts.
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M4 Evaluate the extent to which
D3 Critically evaluate the
leadership approaches can deliver
effectiveness of leadership
organizational change effectively
approaches and models of
applying appropriate models and
change management.
frameworks.