BUSI 1323 - Leadership in Organisations

University of Greenwich (UOG)
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Business Management (Top Up)
ASSIGNMENT / PROJECT COVER SHEET(to be completed individually by student)
UOG ID Number 001163775-7
Course Specialization
(*Please delete whichever is not applicable)
*Marketing and Sales
Subject Code/Name BUSI 1323/ Leadership in Organisations
Assignment Title Individual Report (80%)
Lecturer/Supervisor Ms. Natasha
Word count 2401
DECLARATION
I, the above named student, confirm that by submitting, or causing the attached assignment
to be submitted, I have not plagiarized any other person’s work in this assignment and
except where appropriately acknowledged, this assignment is my own work, has been
expressed in my own words, and has not previously been submitted for assessment.
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction........................................................................................................................................4
II. Discussion..........................................................................................................................................4
1. Leadership Self-Development.....................................................................................................4
1.1. Self-assessment based on Belbin Team Roles model....................................................4
1.2. Experiences in leadership role: Problems encountered..................................................4
1.4. Leadership improvement goals.......................................................................................6
2. Reflection on Group Work...........................................................................................................6
2.1. Leadership theories applied during Group Work..............................................................6
2.1.1. Transformational Leadership.......................................................................................6
2.1.2. Negotiations...................................................................................................................7
2.1.3. Utility Leadership...........................................................................................................7
2.2. Project Schedule...................................................................................................................8
2.2.1. Stage 1: Preparation.....................................................................................................8
2.2.2. Stage 2: Brainstorming and Planning.........................................................................9
2.2.3. Stage 3: Finalizing Project...........................................................................................9
2.2.4. Stage 4: Slides preparation..........................................................................................9
2.3. Members’ contribution levels in the group meeting sessions..........................................9
2.4. Changing motivations among members due to the work environment........................10
3. Improvement in the self-development journey........................................................................10
3.1. Achievements of the developmental goals......................................................................10
3.1.1. Communication skills..................................................................................................10
3.1.2. Emotional control.........................................................................................................11
3.1.3. New leadership skill....................................................................................................11
3.2. Leadership type I want to become....................................................................................11
III. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................11
IV. References...................................................................................................................................12
V. Appendices......................................................................................................................................13
A. Weekly Journal........................................................................................................................13
B. Table of descriptors of team members contributions.........................................................20
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List of Figure
Figure 1: Project Schedule – Charity and Voluntary Club...................................................................7
Figure 2: Project Timeline............................................................................................................8
Figure 3: Takt time and Lead timFigure 3e needed in stage 2.............................................................9
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I. Introduction
Leader has always been acknowledged as the people who are clever, wise and intelligent. From
the academic view, leadership is a long-term journey of practicing and training skills along with
the inner transformation. This reflective report will cover the leadership theories and my
experiences in the group work, to emphasize the growth, hindrances, and improvement points in
my development journey.
II. Discussion
1. Leadership Self-Development
This section will combine the analysis on my strengths and weaknesses as a leader, which will
comprise of four of the following parts. The first part is to analyze my team role based on
Belbin’s Model; the second part is to reflect to my experiences as a leader and the third part will
evaluate the problems I encountered. Finally, after a comprehensive analysis on my leadership
capacity, I will set the goals for the leadership development journey.
1.1. Self-assessment based on Belbin Team Roles model
Dr. Meredith Belbin, who is a researcher studying about team management, and his team
designed Belbin Team Roles model. Consequently, this discovery of Belbin helps people be
more understanding on their roles in a team. The model demonstrates nine roles, which include
Resource Investigator, Team worker, Coordinator, Plant, Monitor Evaluator, Specialist, Shaper,
Implementer and Completer Finisher perfectionism (Belbin | Engage and develop the talent
around you, n.d.). According to the Belin’s Team Roles test, my scores illustrated my role is to
be the “Completer”. The test analyzes the Completer as the one who follows the perfectionism
(Belbin | Engage and develop the talent around you, n.d.). Completers tend to have strong time
management skills, and they prioritize the accuracy as well as professionalism. Besides the
strengths, Completers’ weaknesses are to arouse unnecessary anxiety during the working
process. To be reflecting on my experiences in different groups, I tend to be the one who always
push the team on starting the project soon. Partially, I want my group to work professionally,
and no team members have to feel the pressure of time, as the pressure would easily
demotivate the group’s spirit during the working process.
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1.2. Experiences in leadership role: Problems encountered
To evaluate my leadership skills from the recent past, I will tell about the problems that I
encountered and the solutions that I applied. Then, based on the theories learned during the
Leadership module, I will analyze the efficiency of those solutions.
1.2.1. Lack of Emotional Control
Emotional Control is one of the vital skills in the Communication Skillset, which used to be one
of my weaknesses. In the “Marketing Management” module, I had a group assignment was to
create a Marketing Plan for a Startup Company. For the working process to be more efficient, I
believe that ideas for the plan should be consistent among all members in the group. Therefore,
we decided to have a face-to-face meeting to discuss about the ideas. On the day of the group
meeting, I encountered to a conflict with one member in my group. Specifically was she was
working on another subject during the group meeting, and I was frustrated when I knew that. I
decided to have a private conversation with her after the meeting finished. However, during the
conversation, my tone of voice sounded irritated with her and my words did not contribute to her
future improvement. As a result, that discourages her and the relationship between me, as a
leader, and she, as a team member, could not be maintained.
1.2.2. Miscommunication with the team members
I think the conflict in the group occurs when the goals of the members in the group could not
correlate with each other. Therefore, that cause several issues in the team such as the
investment of time and attempts that some group members make are too little. This also
happens for me in the “Capstone Industry Project” module, and during the working process, the
followers were not much proactive. At the near-end stage of group project, when I was
assigning the tasks through Messenger in my group to do the Gantt chart, I accidentally
complained that I had been doing so much work for the team. My tone of voice was unpleasant
and my stressfulness was shown clearly through the words I used. Which had caused the
miscommunication in the group, and the members said that I was being a little furious towards
them. I could realize their unpleasant feeling as well through their words.
1.3. Evaluation on my performance as a leader in the past
To evaluate both of two problems that I had encountered, I could claim that they are strongly
relevant to my strongest weakness, Interpersonal Communication Skill. In addition, in week 7 of
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this module, I was required to take the “Interpersonal Communication Skills Test” on the UoG
Moodle. My score was 54 per 100, which was considered average communication skills. In
week 8 of the module, I took the test again and my result had an increase, it was 69 per 100.
Experiences from being leaders managing the team to achieve good scores on the project had
helped me a lots in discovering my weaknesses and searching for improvement.
1.4. Leadership improvement goals
According to the “Leadership Development” lecture in the module, self-development path is
correlated with the leadership development path (Emery, 2021). Therefore, I would mainly
concentrate on improving the following goals:
Improve my communication skill
Acquire new leadership skills and always aim to the efficiency
Practice controlling my emotion.
2. Reflection on Group Work
In this section, there are four parts. Firstly, I will refer to the “leadership theories” that we had
been using during the group work; secondly, I will illustrate the “project schedule”, so the third
part, it would be more obvious when I analyze the “members’ contribution level”. The final part is
my evaluation on the “changing goals” of group members due to the work environment.
2.1. Leadership theories applied during Group Work
During the “Leadership in Organization” module, three main theories had been applied as the
basis knowledge for the leader, and the tools to enhance the productivity and efficiency for the
team members. Three theories, which will be illustrated below, include “Transformational
Leadership”, “Negotiations”, and “Utility Leadership”.
2.1.1. Transformational Leadership
As a leader, I could aware that my team members have high capacity and responsibility, which
would make it possible for the implementation of “Transformational Leadership” theory.
Furthermore, this module is about “Leadership Development in Organization”, so the
responsibility of the leader is to facilitate and reinforce development among individuals in the
group throughout teamwork process. The theory of the “Transformational Leadership” illustrates
the leaders who focus on influencing the followers and encourage them to show the potential
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