Assessment Details
In this assessment, you are required to:
1. Select a leader, owner, CEO, General Manager or a Department/Unit Manager, preferable but not
necessarily from the hospitality and tourism sector. Collect background information (via a variety
of literature sources) to prepare a brief biography of the individual and his/her current place of
work. References and citations are required for all sources; please refer to the Structure and
Referencing System section.
2. Evaluate the leader’s traits, motive and preferred leadership style.
3. Establish your own personal weaknesses and strengths based on a. series of assessments and
compare your strengths and weaknesses against the leader you selected for this assignment.
4. Write an essay to analyse the leader, his traits, motive for leading people, preferred leadership
style and relate this to your own leadership skills, style based on assessments made in class.
Analysis and synthesis areas, you need to develop to effectively overcome your weaknesses in
relation to the selected leaders. Support your evaluations with relevant leadership theories and
examples.
5. Include as appendices the summary of your assessment scores and one reflective journal for
each module topic based on the relevant assessments.
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Essay Detailed Structure
Introduction
State the aim, purpose and outline of the essay. Include a brief background of the organisation and a
biography of the chosen leader Be selective in the included information to focus on leadershipspecific elements.
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Main Body
Discussion on Heredity, Environmental Influences and Leadership Traits
Evaluate, analyse and assess the leader’s traits and leader characteristics. Argue possible relevance
to heredity and environmental influences in the process of reaching the current leadership position
and support your argumentation with leadership theories based on a variety of literature sources
and as discussed in class.
Discussion on Current Leadership Style and Motive
Evaluate, analyse and assess the leader’s motive to lead people, preferred leadership style(s),
approach and theory applied when leading people.
Evaluation of Leadership Traits and Style
Analyse and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your leadership traits and style in relation to
the chosen leader based on assessments made in class.
Conclusion
Summarise key findings and establish areas for improvement and future action that needed to be
taken. Support your findings with theoretical frameworks and examples.
References
Include the list of all references. References and citations are required for all sources; please refer
to the Structure and Referencing System section.
Appendices
Include a summary of results from your assessments made in class and one reflective journal for each
assessment as per given guidelines.
Word Count
3500-4000 Words +/-10% (excluding title page, table of content, references and the assessment
summary and reflective journals).
Minimum References
At least 20 academic references and unlimited additional industry and media references.
Assessment Criteria
Refer to the Assessment Marking Criteria Rubric for detailed description of each grade band.
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Structure and Referencing System
Please follow the guidelines as in your Academic Writing module and RGU’s Study Skills at the
following link:
http://campusmoodle.rgu.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=88648
All citations and references must follow the RGU Harvard Referencing System, the details of which
are at the following link:
http://libguides.rgu.ac.uk/RGUHarvard