Posted: September 13th, 2017

Management 10day 3000

Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

 
Subject：Organizational Analysis

Question and Requirement：

Why is there so much current concern about ‘leadership derailment’? Discuss with relevance to the work of the Centre for Creative Leadership.

 

3000words

 

Requirement：

You should have approximately 8-12 references (more would be fine too)

 

3000 words in length (excluding references at the end)

(school of management policy for all coursework:

if your work is up to 10% above or below the limit, we will not deduct marks for length)

 

Make sure you make links with – and reference – other themes from this module

 

Each question usually has two parts. Make sure you answer both fully

 

Please see further information in the module outline

 

 

 

LEARNING IN ORGANIZATIONS:

 

Essential:

None

 

Additional:

McCall, Morgan W. 1998 High flyers: Developing the next generation of leaders. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Kolb, David 1984 Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Pedler, Mike, Burgoyne, John, and Boydell, Tom 1996 The learning company. A strategy for sustainable development. London: McGraw-Hill.

 

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE:

 

Essential:

Mintzberg, Henry 1980 ‘Structure in 5’s: A synthesis of the research on organization design’. Management Science 26/3: 322-341.

 

POWER IN ORGANIZATIONS:

 

Essential:

Burrell, Gibson 1988 ‘Modernism, post modernism and organizational analysis: The contribution of Michel Foucault’. Organization Studies 9/2: 221-235. (only the section ‘Genealogical Period’ – pages 224-229 is relevant)

 

Additional:

Iedema, Rick, Rhodes, Carl and Sheeres, Hermine. 2006 ‘Surveillance, resistance, observation: Exploring the teleo-affective volatility of workplace interaction’. Organization Studies 27/8: 1111-1130.

 

GROUPS AND TEAMS:

 

Essential:

Forrester, Russ and Drexler, Allan B. 1999 ‘A model for team-based organization performance’. Academy of Management Executive 13/3: 36-49.

 

Additional:

Tuckman, Bruce W. 1965 ‘Developmental sequence in small groups’. Psychological Bulletin 63/6: 384-399.

 

CONFORMITY AND GROUPTHINK:

 

Essential:

Moorhead, Gregory, Ference, Richard and Neck, Chris P. 1991 ‘Group decision fiascos continue: Space Shuttle Challenger and a revised groupthink framework’. Human Relations 44/6: 539-550.

 

Additional:

Asch, Solomon E. 1956 ‘Studies of independence and conformity: A minority of one against a unanimous majority’. Psychological Monographs: General and Applied 70/9: 1-70.

Milgram, Stanley 1963 ‘Behavioral study of obedience’. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 67/4: 371-378.

 

EMOTIONS AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN ORGANIZATIONS:

 

Essential:

George, Jennifer M. 2000 ‘Emotions and leadership: The role of emotional intelligence’. Human Relations 53/8: 1027-1055.

 

Additional:

Stein, Mark 2005 ‘The Othello conundrum: The inner contagion of leadership’. Organization Studies 26/9: 1405-1419.

 

LEADERSHIP:

 

Essential:

Stein, Mark 2013 ‘When does narcissistic leadership become problematic? Dick Fuld at Lehman Brothers’. Journal of Management Inquiry 22/3: 282-293.

 

Additional:

Kets de Vries, Manfred F.R. 2007 ‘Decoding the team conundrum: The eight roles executives play’. Organizational Dynamics 36/1: 28-44.

Kotter, John P. 1990 A force for change: How leadership differs from management. New York: The Free Press.

 

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP:

 

Essential:

Bass, Bernard M. 1990 ‘From transactional to transformational leadership: Learning to share the vision’. Organizational Dynamics 18/3: 19-31.

 

Additional:

Tourish, Dennis and Pinnington, Andy. 2002 ‘Transformational leadership, corporate cultism and the spirituality paradigm: An unholy trinity in the workplace?’ Human Relations 55/2: 147-172.

 

LEADERSHIP DERAILMENT:

 

Essential:

Van Velsor, Ellen and Leslie, Jean Brittain 1995 ‘Why executives derail: Perspectives across time and cultures’. Academy of Management Executive 9/4: 62-72.

 

Additional:

Peter, Laurence J. and Hull, Raymond 1969 The Peter principle: Why things always go wrong. New York: William Morrow.

You can download and print the articles via the website of the University of Leicester library, Leicester e-link, or via the ’readinglist’ at:

 

http://readinglists.le.ac.uk/lists/9E63B693-B35B-2BBC-AD9B-22B2C93CF3CA.html

 

OR

 

Go to the following link and enter ‘Organisations’ (without the quotation marks, and spelt with an S rather than a Z):

 

http://readinglists.le.ac.uk/index.html

 

You will then see a link to Organisations, Mark Stein – click on this.

 

 

OR:

 

http://gl9sn3dh2u.search.serialssolutions.com/

 

There is NO set textbook for this module, but you will be encouraged to read other articles over the duration of the term.

 

You are encouraged to use dictionaries and thesauruses at all times.