Leadership

Term Assignment (20 Marks)

INSTRUCTIONS:

Write a report evaluating the leadership of a prominent leader in history (living or deceased)
belonging to any field of human endeavor. You are NOT allowed to write on any of the great
prophets of Allah as named in the Quran or the other revealed scriptures. The choice of leader is
yours, but please ensure that the leader is well known to all – including the faculty members
teaching this course. Do NOT select an obscure leader from your own organization or a family
member who runs a small business with a few staff members. If you are in any doubt about the
prominence of your chosen leader, check with the faculty member(s) before writing about
him/her.

Note: This is an individual assignment.

Using relevant theories and models critically evaluate and analyze the leadership of the leader
you have selected. If you were in the position of the leader, what could you do/have done to be a
better leader and make a stronger impact on the followers and on the situation?

In your report you must cover the following:

• A clear description of the leader, the organization/industry, and situation/context.

• An evaluation of the leader by referring to concepts and theories covered in the subject (e.g.
style, behavior, traits, attitudes, power) and by referring to relevant examples and mini-cases in
the textbook (where appropriate).

• A discussion of how you would lead differently if you were put in the same situation(s) as the
leader and how you could make a stronger impact on the followers and on the situation(s).

It is important to demonstrate your knowledge about leadership and to clearly reference your
sources. Read about leadership in journal articles (using EBSCO Host Online Library), books
(including the textbook), and leadership literature, etc. Note the sources and use them throughout
the report.

Remember that pure description and paraphrasing is not sufficient. A good report will clearly
take an analytical approach and demonstrate application of leadership concepts/theories. In
order to do well you need to structure your discussion well, use good references, and clearly link
recommendations to description and analysis presented earlier in the report.

Your report must be in printed form, in MS Word, double spaced, on A-4 sized paper, Times
New Roman, font size 14. Failure to follow these instructions will result in loss of marks. The
report should be between 500-1000 words; quality is more important than quantity.

If you still have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Warning: Plagiarism or copy-paste in any way, shape or form will result in an F grade!
 Marking Rubric for Leadership Term Assignment

A Grade 88 % - B+ Grade 81 % - B Grade 74 % - C+ Grade 67 % - C Grade 60%- F Grade Fail

Key Components Weightage
100 % 87 % 80 % 73 % 66% <60%
Understanding of The student has The student has The student has The student has The student has The student has 05
course content that demonstrated an demonstrated an demonstrated a demonstrated a fair demonstrated a demonstrated
is used as the basis exceptional excellent good conceptual conceptual poor conceptual absolutely no
for writing the conceptual conceptual understanding of understanding of understanding of conceptual
project /report. understanding of understanding of basic concepts of basic concepts of basic concepts of understanding of
basic concepts of basic concepts of leadership and how leadership and leadership and how basic concepts of
leadership and how leadership and they are actually how they are they are actually leadership and
they are actually how they are being applied in a actually being being applied in a how they are being
being applied in a actually being real-life scenario. applied in a real- real-life scenario. applied in a real-
real-life scenario. applied in a real- life scenario. life scenario.
life scenario.
Quality of The report reflects The report reflects The report reflects The report reflects The report reflects The report reflects 04
investigation of the that the student has that the student has that the student has that the student has that the student has that the student has
leadership issues. made an made a highly made a moderately made a below made a poor made absolutely
exceptionally comprehensive comprehensive average investigation of the no attempt to
comprehensive investigation of the investigation of the investigation of the leadership issues in investigate the
investigation of the leadership issues leadership issues in leadership issues the prevailing leadership issues.
leadership issues in in the prevailing the prevailing in the prevailing scenario(s).
the prevailing scenario(s). scenario(s). scenario(s).
scenario(s).
The report reflects The report reflects The report reflects The report reflects The report reflects The report reflects 05
Originality of
that the student has that the student has that the student has that the student has that the student has a very high degree
information
presented entirely presented original presented original presented a presented largely of plagiarism and
original information in the information in the mixture of original plagiarized is therefore
information in the report for the most report to some and plagiarized information in the unacceptable.
report. There is part. There is a extent. There is a information in the report. There is
absolutely no tolerable degree of barely acceptable report. There is a very little original
attempt to plagiarism. degree of preponderance of information.
plagiarize. plagiarism. original
information.
Organization of The report is The report is The report is very The report is The report is partly The report is dis- 02
the report. exceptionally well extremely well well organized. moderately well organized and organized for the
 organized. The organized. The The information is organized. The partly most part and is
information is information is presented in a clear information is disorganized. therefore
presented in a very presented in a very and logical presented in a Some information unacceptable.
clear and logical clear and logical manner. reasonably clear is not presented Information is all
manner. manner. and logical clearly and jumbled up and
manner. coherently. incoherent.
Communication Highly developed Well-developed Good The report is The report is The report is 02
and presentation communication communication communication presented with a presented with a largely lacking in
style and presentation and presentation and presentation basic structure and barely acceptable structure. The
skills. skills. skills. presentation. The structure and communication
communication presentation. The skills are
skills are adequate. communication extremely poor to
skills are poor. the point of being
unacceptable.
Writing mechanics The quality of The quality of The quality of The quality of The quality of The language is 02
language is language is language is good. language is fair. language is poor. atrocious! The
exceptional. The excellent. The The rules of The rules of The rules of rules of grammar,
rules of grammar, rules of grammar, grammar, spelling, grammar, spelling, grammar, spelling, spelling,
spelling, spelling, punctuation and punctuation and punctuation and punctuation and
punctuation and punctuation and capitalization have capitalization have capitalization have capitalization have
capitalization have capitalization have been followed been followed to been largely been blatantly
been religiously been followed very reasonably well. some extent. There ignored. There are ignored. The
followed. well. are quite a few a very large number of errors is
errors. number of errors. uncountable!

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