MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

As stated on the course outline, a personal reflections paper is required for the course. This assignment will count for 30% of your final grade. Your specific assignment includes answering the following questions after critically reading and analyzing “Personalize Your Management Development” case, by Natalie Shope Griffin that is in your course pack of cases (Attached). To complete this assignment and answer the following questions you are expected to reflect on the status of management and leadership in your own countries. You are also expected to perform some in-depth thinking and personal reflection on who you are as a person, and as a potential future leader. While answering the questions, you are highly encouraged to be “your own person” and “an independent thinker”. Although you are expected to apply concepts from class, readings, and the textbook, you are strongly encouraged to reflect on your local context, backgrounds, and culture. Hence, you are expected to “write your own case” and answer the questions in a manner that reflects your own logic, rationale, and approach to life and career.

After critically analyzing the previously mentioned Harvard Business Review Case, please reflect on the following questions:
1. What types of leaders are most common in your own countries? business environment? Why do you think this is the case? What type of training and development approaches or methods do you think is needed and why?
2. What type of a leader do you think you currently are and why? What type of a leader would you aim to be and why? What training and development approaches or methods do you think will be needed to facilitate your progress towards your intended leadership style?

This is an individual assignment. The body of your report must use 1ó line spacing with 12-point, Times New Roman font, must not exceed 10 pages. Title Pages, outlines, and reference pages will not count towards your 10 pages. The paper should have a title page, with a title, your name, and student number as well as an outline. You can use any form of referencing as long as you are consistent throughout.
You will be required to hand in an electronic version of your report by Email Word or Adobe and a paper copy at the beginning of class.

Words/phrases you are highly encouraged to use:

– The following statements could be used in your personal reflections paper: “I think that”, “I see that”, “It seems to me that”, “In my opinion”, “In addition”, “For example,”, “Moreover,” “However,”,
“Consequently,”, “Finally,”, “In conclusion,”.
In Q1, you need to focus on the training methods that you think the leaders in your country need and why do you think they need these methods in specific.
For example: Do they need in-the-job-training? or off-the-job-training? or other types of training? and why?

In Q2, you need to tell me what type of a leader do you want to be in the future and why; you also need to elaborate on the forms of training that you will need to move from your current leadership style to where you want to be.