Managing Leading Stewardship Reflections

This article reflects on the Managing Leading Stewardship course and discusses the principles of stewardship, decision making, and leadership. It also provides insights into the role of upper management and directorial bodies in organizational mismanagement.

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Table of Contents
1. Pre Subject Reflection............................................................................................................3
2. Mid Subject Reflection..........................................................................................................5
3. Post Subject Reflection..........................................................................................................7
4. Individual Action Guiding Principles....................................................................................8
5. Reflection on received peer feedback....................................................................................8
5.1 Pre-reflection........................................................................................................................8
5.2 Mid-Reflection.....................................................................................................................9
Reference List..........................................................................................................................10

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1. Pre Subject Reflection
My most prominent zest behind doing MBA has not been to achieve a lucrative
managerial designation in my dream organisation. The ongoing implied, as well as specific
incidents in various spheres, have attracted me. Besides, I have also observed that many of
the successful executive leaders in multiple realms have completed a degree in Business
Administration. This enticed me, and I started to suppose that doing a Business Management
degree would give me a competitive edge. Thereupon I got the idea to change my career plan
and leave the current job to get an MBA degree and then join an organisation in the
managerial position. This is the background story behind joining the UTS. I have been very
clinical about the selection of subjects since I wanted to study the aspects of management,
innovation in organisations and the conception of stewardship in detail. The lecture sessions,
as well as the reading materials that have been provided, turned out to be very helpful for me.
I found that the course of MLS would help me to gain rough idea regarding leadership and
stewardship which I consider to be most beneficial for personal career development. The
descriptive detail regarding the fundamental theories and the decisions related to stewardship
and managing organisations that have been provided in the weekly materials helped to
become a better professional. I started to feel that under the prospect of the UTS, my
professional scope would be better. I would like to identify that one of the primary aspects of
the teaching methodologies of the UTS is that the theoretical explanations that the teachers
provide during the lecture sessions are made easy for our understanding through weekly
brainstorming weekly activities. This, not only enhances our conceptions in a profound way
but also have a prolific impact on our leadership and managerial decision making capabilities.
Hence, it can be easily implied that I am looking up to the MLS course of the UTS for all-
round development and personal accomplishments.
Man management and stewardship in the organisations, as well as the ideology of
justified leadership, were utterly unknown to me, back in my previous days. I worked as an
associate inventory manager for a small retail chain. My daily duty involved allocating
executives and communication of the daily projected target and the daily accomplished
target. As an outcome, my job left no scope to man manage or manage the course of the
workflow. I was not able to implement any of the in-depth managerial theoretical frameworks
which I was aware of. Hence, I was gradually becoming disoriented with my work. Perhaps, I
lacked leadership skills, and that is why I was sulky at management and was forced to
perform a passive managerial disposition. However, after watching the video on leadership

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by Nancy Koehn helped me to understand the significance of leadership in real sense and I
started to realise what are the implications of real managerial leadership and also understood
where I have been wrong. The in-class experience that I gained through critical analysis of
the video and the connected understanding of all the underpinned MLS theories helped me to
understand how to analyse situations whenever management is related to human resource or
any form of resource management. In the next stage, I am more engrossed at learning how the
concepts of leadership and management can lead to further understanding of the ideologies of
MLS. Another important implication is that I also did not have any clear idea regarding how
to manoeuvre internal operation and as an impact, my organisational collaboration had been
loose. That is why, I now understand, I have been facing a large amount of problem in the
course of my task allocation. Now, it is an unmistakable sensation on my part that if I had
been knowledgeable of the ideologies and conceptualisations that I have gained through this
course, already, my executive disposition at my previous designation would have been
different. Besides that, the critical analyses done during this course would also help me to
understand how to control the state of my mind while executing any action of decision
making. Based on the ideologies explained to us in our training sessions, I am attempting to
nourish my knowledge on stewardship so that I can exhibit a consolidated managerial role in
my current position. So much that I have already learned on MLS course have enticed me to
look up eagerly at the upcoming weeks.
The various learning methodologies that have been implemented for the better
understanding of the students have all been of great help for me. I am being benefitted by the
Critical video analysis mode as well as the Flopped classroom model of learning. This is an
essential aspect of the UTS that useful mode of education is a way of teaching here other than
most industry relevant teachings and lectures.
By the end of this session, there have been a lot of doubts arising within me that needs
further clarification. As an outcome, I am more eagerly looking up to the next sessions for a
better understanding of the course and also a better level of self-understanding.
2. Mid Subject Reflection
In this section, I would reflect on the role play session which is personally my
favourite, and I got to learn a lot from the weekly activities that we were engaged in to, every
week. Firstly, the teachers' guidance helped us to understand the theoretical concepts very
clearly, and the case study analyses also enabled us to know how the managers of the various

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organisations have implemented the theories to solve the organisational issues. I learned to
apply multiple critical methods to a single corporate problem and also learned that there is the
various alternative the managers implement to solve the organisational challenges. Each
weekly session brought before me new and different ways to approach the regulatory aspects,
and I also emerged myself as a management student and my confidence to play the role of a
managerial executive multiplied with every week.
My conception of being in favour of the highly integrated work methodologies that
are followed by infamous organisations was being shattered after the lecturer made the
critical analysis of a big organisation's work methodology and underpinned how the
stereotypical ethical considerations and business protocols can be shammed by themselves by
providing an unsustainable working condition to the employees. After the session, I
researched and discovered that many big organisations engage in the drive to derive
maximum benefits and be in a position of maximum sales achieved. The global leaders I
various genres of the industry have been involved in unethical operations or violations of the
ethical code once or more during their tenure. These organisations do not have any
contributions towards human resources and are mostly profit oriented. Our critical analyses
session covered topics like what leads the management to undertake such unethical decisions
and how they can be stopped from taking such footsteps. I conducted elaborate personal
research based on the findings that were communicated to us in the class. After that, I can
successfully conclude that brand fame and target customer base of any frontline organisations
increases through the practice of the participatory model and not through the implication of
the shareholder theory.
The role pay session in the next week's meeting has been very illustrative, and not
only that but the role play also helped to reflect what extent we had realised and researched
on the topics that were taught to us in the previous weeks. Through my role play, I learned a
great lesson regarding decision making d all its implications. I previously had a minimal idea
regarding how one single managerial decision impacts all the concerned stakeholders in such
a havoc way. However, this role-play session helped me to understand the implications of all
the big and small decisions that are undertaken by the management. This would enhance my
decision making skill.
After communication of the role of decision making and its organisational
implications, the session for the assessment of the leadership qualities was organised. I

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gathered much feedback from this session that would help me to emerge as a global leader in
the future. I learned that it is essential to make people understand the benefits that the
organisation would be deriving out of all the projects that it undertakes and how it helps the
employee to grow personally. These things are essential as they develop the motivation of the
employees.
The trait of stewardship that I have been for long trying to acculturate within me
finally came handy to me in week 6. The proper ideology of organisational growth became
clear to me after week 6. The ability to reflect critically developed every week and with the
passage of every week, it began to encompass various aspects that I could think and reflect
more vividly and with broad implications.
3. Post Subject Reflection
The class lecture sessions that were held at the UTS along with the activities like role
play that we performed at the MLS course study have been extremely beneficial for us. I
think that I would be able to profoundly reflect the knowledge that I have gathered from the
course study. Every week we entered the session with some conventional and stereotypical
assumptions and every session helped us to renew our conceptualisations in a wholly new and
unprecedented manner. The case studies that were taught to us have been beneficial in my
further research work also. I realised the concept of organisational bi-standards from the
personal research on the various frontline organisations based on the implications of the
lessons that were taught at the UTS. I also came to realise the limitations and the challenges
that the employees face as a consequence of which they are not able to manage their domain
freely in many instances. The role of upper management and directorial bodies in
organisational mismanagement also become evident to me. I came to realise that the
executive managers are forced to carry on the decisions undertaken by the upper management
in most instances.
Regarding experimentation, I would also like to reflect on the gameplay that helped us
to understand the economic framework and the hate-love relationship between power and
politics. Various concepts of the core economy and the strengths and limitations of different
industrial versions also became evident to me through the gameplay too. The most enticing
part of the roleplay activities has been that these activities made me fully realise the
challenges that I would face when I would implement them in my future scope. Leadership
and decision making have dawned on to me in a different way, and the self-criticism that I

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have done here would help me to emerge as a person and also as a manager throughout my
life.
4. Individual Action Guiding Principles
After the end of the reflection work, I would reflect the crucial ideologies that I have
gained from the course of the study. I also suppose that these principles would also lead me to
emerge me as a sound manager.
 My first step would be to refurbish the ethical implications in the organisation and
attempt to implement alternative approaches to solve the organisational issues
 I have to realise the limitations as well as the capabilities of the employees before
engaging them with any project
 I should always give priority to the interest of the employees and the organisation in
the first place
 I should be convicted of our decisions
 I should not tolerate foul play or bi-standards in the organisation that I serve
5. Reflection on received peer feedback
5.1 Pre-reflection
The backdrop of the study and the reflections regarding the justification for selection
of the course is excellent. However, the presentation of information could have been more
assembled. The word count in every section is perfect. However, there is a lack of variety in
the reflective thoughts and seems that they have been flowing out of one central idea
5.2 Mid-Reflection
It would have been better if some reflection regarding how the theories helped to
analyse the case study were present there. The lecture notes could have been used in a better
way.
The feedback helped me to make the necessary alterations to the research study
develop a proper piece of article. I have been able to make the changes required to make the
assignment better because of the changes suggested.

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