PMA – Diploma: Management Leadership Development

Certificate MOTI
(Management of Technology and Innovation)


Management Leadership Development
(CMLD)
Post-Module Assignment

Assignment Cover Page

Name:______

Student Number:______

Company:______

Programme Name:______

Module Title:______

Module Dates:______

Facilitator Name:______

Submission Date:______

List at least five on-linereferences:

Author(s) / Book, Journal or Article

Submission guidelines

Completion Date / The electronic version of the pre-work and post-module assignment should be sent to the respective KAM via Moodle, Da Vinci’s e-learning platform by the date stipulated as per your schedule.
Assignments that have not been submitted by the due date will be treated as a "non submission".
Any request for an extension due to exceptional circumstances must be submitted in writing. Such request must be submitted to Da Vinci at least three days prior to the submission date. A maximum of two extensions will be granted during the programme.
For security purposes, please ensure that your name forms part of the footer of your assignment document and that you make a back-up of your document.
Students that submit their assignment by the submission date will receive 5% toward their final assignment mark. Please note that you will only be eligible for these marks if you pass the assignment with 50%.
Module Outcomes / Managerial and Leadership Competence examines the world of managerial and leadership, unpacking various theories and practice examples before internalising the student’s personal Managerial and leadership needs and applications. Here, organisation-wide comparative analyses are added and a detailed personal analysis and improvement plan is added at diploma level.
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
  • Describe managerial leadership competence; and
  • Define a personal leadership model.

Assignment Guidelines / Post-module assignment (PMA) – The programme requires integration across functions and very definitely systemically within functions. Theories should be applied cross-functionally in the workplace and the integration of the system as a whole is always important.
Processes should be designed to meet specific requirements and it is expected of students to work at a fairly high conceptual level before translating theory into action. Problem solving should be non-linear and the solution processes should be designed to meet changing needs in the workplace. On successful completion of this module, students should be able to demonstrate the application of some of the theoretical constructs within their work place.

Assignment

Consider your company’s strategy, operations and processes based the answer the following:

Content application
Post-module assignment (PMA)
Introduction
The qualification that you have registered for is in the field of business commerce and management studies. As such, you are required to become familiar with management and leadership development competencies. This progressive assignment has been designed to facilitate this learning.
The Learning Process
The learning process begins with your review of a set of monographs (available on Moodle, Da Vinci’s e-learning platform) that have been extracted from Bloomsbury (2003), Movers and Shakers. The monographs comprise two main sections, namely:
  1. A set of management thinkers and thought leaders; and
  2. A selection of outstanding business people and entrepreneurs from different industries.
  • From within the management thinkers we have selected thought leaders, discipline proponents, conceptualisers and innovators.
  • From the business people we have chosen founders, leaders and managers, some of whom are probably well known to you and others less prominent.
Underlying this selection are our key TIPS™ value sets of:
  • The Management of Technology;
  • The Management of Innovation;
  • The Management of People; and
  • Managing the Systems Way.

The Assessment of your MLD Learning
Over the next 12 to 18 months you need to analyse, digest, evaluate and understand what leadership and management competencies are and how they affect you. Essentially, you will progressively compile your own leadership and management competencies assignment progressively throughout the programme.
Use the monographs to understand the complexity and variety of management and leadership. Start putting together your own thoughts about these competencies. You need to read wider than what we have given you.
In developing your own model of leadership you are required you to:
  • Create a visual picture of this model (a single PowerPoint slide); and
  • Explain the model briefly (no more than one page of notes).

Flow Process: *Format:
  • 1 x PowerPoint slide
  • 1 page narrative

Recommended reading:
  • Lessons on Leadership: From Mandela to Obama:

  • Time Magazine: People of the Century

  • Wonderlist

Total / 100

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