BSBLDR801 Lead personal and strategic transformation Assessment Pack

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QUALIFICATION: Graduate Diploma of Management (Learning)/ Graduate Certificate in Management (Learning)
UNIT CODE: BSBLDR801 Lead personal and strategic transformation
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ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES FOR STUDENTS
 You need to achieve a ‘Satisfactory’ grade in ALL the assessments items to be granted a ‘Competent’
grade in the unit.
 In case you are not able to achieve a ‘Satisfactory’ grade in any assessment task, you will be given
three (3) attempts to resubmit your assessment. Your trainer will be available to assist you in any
areas of difficulty. Please discuss the assessment with your trainer to seek advice on how you can
achieve competency in the unit.
 Where relevant, oral questions may be asked to gather more information on your knowledge, skills
and competence in the unit.
 A holistic approach is used to assess your skills relevant to this qualification. The skills are assessed
across the different units offered within this qualification. Where a skill relevant to this unit is not
assessed within this assessment pack, please note that the skill will be assessed in another unit. In
particular, aspects f this unit are covered in ‘BSBINN601B Manage organisational change’
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Assessment 1
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1a: What is leadership?
1. Think of three people you know whom you consider to be effective leaders. In a few words, describe what
makes the person an effective leader.
2. In your own words, explain what you understand by the following:
a. Trait theories of leadership
b. Behavioral theories of leadership
c. Contingency theories of leadership
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3. What are the key differences between a manager and a leader?
4.
W
hat do you understand by social corporate responsibility?
5. Is it important for leaders and organisations to demonstrate social corporate responsibility? Why or why
not?
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Manager Leader

1b: Mission, vision and values
1. What is the purpose of an organization’s vision and mission?
Mission and vision statement usually plays various important roles that are; communicate the purpose of the
business to the stakeholders, notify strategy development, as well as develop the considerable goals as well as
objectives on order to gauge the success of the company approach (Fitzgerald, Kruschwitz, Bonnet and Welch,
2014). The purpose is summarized as follows;
On the first purpose is that mission and vision generally offer a vehicle for interacting the purpose of the business
in addition to the values to all the major stakeholders. Stakeholders are the key parties that have some type of
impact over the business or stake in its future.
On the second element objective and vision create a target for the development of the strategy. This is a measure
of a strategy which is good strategy and it is precisely how it aids the business attaining its mission and vision. The
better comprehending the relationship among the vision, mission as well as strategy it might be occasionally
beneficial to visualize them together as funnel. The vision statements might also offer a bridge between the
mission and approach. Hence, in that sense the vision statement this has distilled down to the mission in a way
that can be an aid to the development to the approach.
It is also vital that you note that the mission and the vision provides a high level guide , this strategy provides a
particular guide , to goals along with the objectives that demonstrates success or maybe failure of strategy and
satisfaction to the larger set of the objectives which are stated in mission.
2. Why is it important for employees to understand and support the values, vision and mission of the organisation?
It is important for the employees to understand as well as support on the values, vision and the mission of the
business due to the following reasons;
It enhances employee engagement. Boosting of the employees engagement is enhanced through giving them a
clear mission to engage with. Another aspect is that it improves on the productivity and the customer satisfaction.
More than seventy percent of the business usually embraces on the organization mission in order to boost on the
employees productivity to a great extent. Another aspect the employer accountability builds trust. Sometimes the
employees might not trust the employers but making the organization intentions, values and purposes to be clear.
Having a strong business mission statement could be brilliant opportunity when it comes to building trust between
the employers as well as employees.
Organizational values usually identify the principles as well as ethics by which an organization and its members
conduct themselves along with their activities.
3. What happens when employees don’t understand and support their organization’s values, vision, mission and
strategy?
When the employees do not understand as well as support on their organization values, mission, vision and strategy
there is no collaboration and balance. Collaboration in the business is very critical in order to create on a strong, and a
healthier organization in regardless to the market segment (Hess, Matt, Benlian and Wiesböck, 2016). When the
workers do not understand in these aspects there might be chaos in the organization. The workers might not achieve a
balance on how the workers as well as the organization interact. These problems could be unbalanced decision making
and a culture which is reactive and rather not proactive.
4. As a leader, what steps would you take to ensure that your employees understood and supported your
organisation’s values, vision, mission and strategies?
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As a leader, one of the steps to take is to stand behind the mission. It is important to walk the talk and guarantee the
rest of the business entails, to ensure that the business values could possibly be delivered in end product or the
service. Another step is to foster an environment which displays on the mission (Kane, Palmer, Phillips, Kiron and
Buckley, 2015). As a leader the most reliable method of attains a mission centric workplace could be establishment of
an egalitarian culture that you could practice what they preach no matter the title. Another step should be to
implement on the team activities which align with the mission. The team building tasks could work and they are critical
aspects to a much successful living to the organization mission (Katz, Lazarsfeld and Roper, 2017). Another step would
be encouraging of the workers in order to weigh in on the mission. Consistently as well as clearly communicating on
the vision of the organization vision is vital to building on the advocacy along with ensuring that every individual knows
on how they could contribute to its success. The key would be to deploy regular, disciplined communication in order
to share on the vision across the workforce.
5. List at least four Federal laws (legislation) that you need to be aware of as a leader of an organisation.
The federal laws to be aware of as a leader are as follows;
 Discrimination and harassment
 Protected leave laws
 Compensation and overtime
 Safety- this is based on the occupational Health and the Safety Act
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