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BBA310 LEADERSHIP IN MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT ONE FURTHER GUIDANCE
1. Introduction.
I have written these notes to give you some further guidance for the first essay for
BBA310. I hope you find them clear and useful.
Kind regards
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(Dr Edward Wray-Bliss, Unit Convenor)
2. The Question
Write a 2500 word academic essay on the following question.
Drawing upon the history and origins of leadership, the nature of
managerial work and/or discussions around gender and leadership, what
‘myths’ about leadership are we still reproducing?
3. General Instructions.
• This is a 2500 Word Individual Essay, due before Friday 12pm (midday) of
Week 5, Weighting: 30%
• You will need to submit your essay to turnitin on the unit’s ilearn site.
• No hard copies need to be submitted.
• You are required to use essential tutorial readings, several of the additional
readings on the ilearn site and concepts and arguments in the lecture slides
to answer this question (as a guide, a minimum of 6 articles from the unit
would need to be used for this essay).
• You are required to take a critical, questioning approach in your essay – not
to simply reproduce taken-for-granted assertions about the importance of
leadership.
• You should base your essay on academic articles that have been uploaded
for you on the ilearn site and those referenced in lectures.
• If you wish to use articles and sources from outside the unit you should be
aware that these should only be used to supplement the articles on the ilearn
site and referenced in the lectures – to hope to pass the assessment you
need to show that you have read and used the articles and readings that
constitute this unit.
• General discussions of leadership drawn from sources that do not
demonstrate engagement with the readings, ideas and syllabus of this unit
will result in a fail mark.
• A marking rubric will be uploaded for you on the ilearn site shortly and you
should check this to see what you are being assessed upon.
• No extensions will be granted. Late tasks will be accepted up to 72 hours
after the submission deadline. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total
available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or
part thereof that the submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in
submission – 20% penalty).
• This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for disruption of
studies is made to the Faculty and has been approved.
4. Further guidance
Here I present some further guidance on the nature of an academic essay. For some
of you this may merely repeat what you already do, for some others it may be a
useful refresher.
• An essay is an argument. More specifically it is your argument in relation to
the question that you have been set. This means that it is not just a summary
of someone else’s views or writing. It is instead a piece of academic work in
which you present your answer to the question asked, that draws on a range
of other people’s published academic material to support and develop your
answer.
• So, to do this you need to look at the lectures and read-around the subject by
selecting from among the tutorial articles and further reading articles on the
ilearn site. Having read a fair few articles, and thought about these and the
points from the lecture, you then need to start to work out what your overall
argument (your own particular answer to the question asked) is going to be.
Then start to structure and plan this argument and continue to do more
reading to develop and support it.
• Your argument must have a clear, logical structure in the finished essay. This
means explicit Sections, that each deal with a particular aspect of your core
argument, and an Introduction, that tells the reader what you will argue and
how you will structure your argument. I would suggest 3 or 4 sections for an
essay of this length – plus your Introduction and Conclusion.
• Your essay must show evidence of substantial reading of relevant academic
material and it must support its main points through references to this
published academic material. For this unit, this means that you need to read,
use and cite a minimum of six essential and/or further readings from the unit
ilearn site.
• You essay must have a Conclusion which summarises, again, your argument
and how you developed this in the main sections of your essay and it must
have an alphabetically ordered bibliography of the items referenced in its
pages.
The concept of using an essay to develop and present an ‘argument’ may be
unfamiliar to some of you. You may be more used to writing essays that merely
summarise ‘for’ and ‘against’ points of view, or that summarise sources such as a
textbook. This is not what we are after at this level. To help with understanding what
is meant by developing an ‘argument’ in your essay: your argument is your core,
overarching, answer to the question asked. You need to tell the reader what this
argument is in a clear and explicit opening paragraph at the very start of your essay
and then tell the reader how you will structure your essay into sections to develop
this argument. (This is, of course, why each tutorial starts by asking you to
summarise the argument and structure of the article that you have read – so as to
get you into the idea of seeing academic work as always organised around an
argument and a structure).
I have no problem with you using the first-person form of address to do this. So, for
example, your essay may start with something like this:
‘In this essay I am going to argue that the [origins and history of leadership/
nature of managerial work/ discussions around gender and leadership] have
helped construct a number of powerful myths which affect how we
conceptualise leadership today. In particular, I suggest that writings on
[………..] construct the image of leaders as [….….] and [………..]. Further, I
will argue that these myths have [….hampered?....... helped?..... hindered?....
enabled?] the development of leadership and organisations by
[………………]. I make these arguments in three sections. In Section One, I
draw upon the work of Meindl et al (1985), Pfeffer (1977) and Gemmil and
Oakley (1992) to draw out the idea of leadership as, in part, a romanticised
and mythical construction. In Section Two, I draw upon [……..] to argue that
[……..]. In Section Three, I […….etc….etc.]. Finally, in the Conclusion to the
essay, I summarise the arguments of the preceding sections and articulate
my final point regarding the myths of leadership, focussing upon the affect
that these myths have on current practices of managing and organising.
Overall, it is my argument in this work that we mythologise leadership in
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Introduction
This first paragraph introduces the essay and tells the
reader explicitly what your argument is and how your
essay will be structured into sections to make this
argument… Make sure that your argument clearly
answers the question set.
This is your section heading for Section One
At the end of the Section, remind the reader of what the
section aimed to do and how the next section builds upon
this to develop your overall argument further: e.g. “So far, I
have argued that leadership developed from a history of
….. in the following section I will show how this history
has carried through the values of…. into contemporary
accounts of leadership…”
In paragraphs, with a clear line space between each
paragraph, you now develop the points you want to make in
Section Two. In every paragraph, the points that you make
should develop in a logical fashion, and be supported by
references to and discussion of academic work and/ or
other supporting sources.
In paragraphs, with a clear line space between each
paragraph, you now develop the points you want to
make in Section One. In every paragraph, the points that
you make should develop in a logical fashion, and be
supported by references to and discussion of academic
work and/ or other supporting sources. e.g. “As Meindle
et al. (1985) demonstrate, leadership has achieved a high
status and significance in contemporary organisational
life…..”
… . New paragraph, dealing with another point, linked
to the one above, also supported by references…
This is your section heading for Section Two
You might insert a quote here from one of the
readings to help make your point. This would
be indented, “in quotation marks” and would
have the reference at the end of the quote that
contains the author, date and page numbers: eg.
(Smith 1990: 120-121)
Page 1 Page 2
Page 3
… . New paragraph, dealing with another point, linked
to the one above, also supported by references…
At the end of the Section, remind the reader of what the
section aimed to do and how the next section builds
upon this to develop your overall argument further…
This is your section heading for Section Three
In paragraphs, with a clear line space between each
paragraph, you now develop the points you want to
make in Section Three. In every paragraph, the points
that you make should develop in a logical fashion, and
be supported by references to and discussion of
academic work and/ or other supporting sources.
… . New paragraph, dealing with another point, linked
to the one above, also supported by references…
BBA310 LEADERSHIP IN MANAGEMENT
… . New paragraph, dealing with another point, linked to
the one above, also supported by references…
At the end of the Section, remind the reader of what the
section aimed to do and link to the conclusion.…
Section heading: “Conclusion”
Start by reminding the reader what your overall argument
was – this should be very similar to your introduction. E.g.
“I have argued in this essay that….”
Then summarise how you went about developing your
argument in your essay e.g. “I made this argument in 3
sections. In Section One I…. In Section Two I…” etc.
Make sure it is absolutely clear how your essay has
answered the question set.
Finish with a flourish if possible – end with a quote, an
example, an observation, a final thought, etc that wraps up
the whole essay and encapsulates the issues succinctly and
powerfully.
An overview of how an essay is structured and presented
Page 5
Bibliography
Include one single, alphabetically ordered, list here of all
the sources that you referenced in the pages of your
essay.
Include all the sources you referenced, but do not
include any that you may have read but didn’t explicitly
reference in the main pages of your essay.
This list of references here should include all the
necessary pieces of information in the correct format.
Don’t give away easy marks by not doing this correctly!
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