- You receive an Email from a senior manager in your organisation (has no formal qualifications)
who has been told he has to send three members of his junior management teamon an MBA
course. He has received information about the course from the local university but needs
clarification on the content of one of the units being offered in year one. Heknows you have
completed this course.
The email says:
“I have been readingabout this unit, Leading and Managing People. The course
information says it is not a subject like Financial Management or Quantitative Methods in
Business, but I am not convinced of its purpose. What value will such topics such
as:motivation, team-working, ethics and social responsibility and organisational change
really add to my staff’s development and how will they ever use any of the concepts
learned? The brochure says there are really no right or wrong answers so far as the
leadership and management of people are concerned. Are you able to explain to me why
this is the case and what this all means please?”
YourTask:
Formulate a critical and constructive response to this manager in the form of a short report (no
more than 2,000 words) on ONE of the following topics(incorporating evidence-based argument to
support your views and to advise what it all means):
flexibility and the psychological contract;
team-working;
ethics and social responsibility;
managing organisational change;
