Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Potential (L/618/5988) Assignment Brief 2026

Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Potential Assignment Brief

Unit Aims

The aim of this unit is to develop learners’ understanding of strategic management in a globalised world and how leadership informs and influences strategic change. It will also develop ability to evaluate strategic position, choices and actions.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Assignment Tasks

Task 1  Business Environment Presentation (AC 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)

Instructions:

You are required to prepare a presentation with speaker notes critically evaluating the external and internal business environment of one global organisation of your choice. You are advised to check with your tutor that your choice is appropriate.

Your presentation should:

• Start with a short introduction of your chosen organisation and define the industry/sector.
• Critically evaluate the industry external business environment, key drivers, and critical success factors (use models such as PESTEL, 5-forces, etc.)
• Critically evaluate the dynamic capabilities (resources and capabilities) of the company. Use value chain and VRIO to identify their core competencies and the source of their competitiveness and responses to globalization of markets and technologies (You may also use SWOT).
• Contextualise their competitiveness and responses to globalization and CSR
• (Apply relevant Strategic Management and CSR literature/theories and tools)

Delivery and Submission

• 1x Presentation file (5 slides plus including references)
• 1x Speaker notes (500 words)

Task 2 Report (AC, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1. 5.2, 5.3)

Instructions:

Following your presentation, you should now prepare a report:

Your report should:

• Critically explore the relationship between, corporate, business and operational strategies.
• Apply strategic models and tools to develop strategic options for an organisation.
• Evaluate strategic options for an organisation.
• Critically evaluate internationalisation drivers and strategies.
• Critically analyse corporate social responsibility strategies emphasizing the stakeholder theory.
• Demonstrate the nexus between          strategy          and      corporate        social responsibility/sustainability and evaluate the concept of shared value.
• Identify and assess different leadership styles as related to strategy change.
• Evaluate how organisational context affects strategic change.
• Evaluate how leadership influences strategic change.
• (Apply relevant Strategic Management and CSR literature/theories and tools across the report)

Delivery and Submission:

• 1x Report (4000 words) excluding TOC, diagrams, references and appendices.

Referencing:

• Each section must reflect any supporting Harvard style citations.
• A comprehensive Harvard style reference list must be included at the end of the work.

Evidence to be submitted:

• Presentation file with speaker notes – 500 words. Report – 4000 words.

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