MBA652 Strategy and Leadership in Tourism and Hospitality Report 1 Sample

Sample MBA652 Strategy and Leadership in Tourism and Hospitality Report 1

Your task

Individually, you are required to record an 8-minute video in which you will address an executive leadership team based on the below assessment instructions.

Assessment Description

The purpose of this individual assessment is to foster students’ ability to analyse and select the most appropriate contemporary leadership practices for the tourism and hospitality industries by demonstrating skills in critical leadership, problem-solving and reflective learning relating to the tourism and hospitality industry.

Assessment Instructions

Organisational restructuring is a strategy commonly deployed when a business needs or wants to transform its people and operations for the better. Such a strategy can be challenging to implement effectively, especially when an organisational restructuring occurs due to the business engaging in unethical and illegal practices. Presume that you have been asked to provide strategic advice on the most suitable leadership profile and associated human resource processes for a tourism and hospitality organisation that seeks to hire a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The CEO would need to address the toxic organisational culture that fostered unethical and illegal misconduct demonstrated through systematic breaches of relevant legislation and rules.

More specifically, you are required to record an 8-minute consultancy webinar addressing the executive leadership board by advising on the:

• Preferred leadership style/s to address immediate needs of highly dependant stakeholders. Your advice must be based on a thorough analysis of various leadership style/s and relevant theories and concepts covered in week 2.

• Associated human resource processes needed to find the right candidate. Your advice must be based on relevant theories and concepts covered in week 3.

• Required strategies for improving employee engagement and motivation to facilitate organisational change in leadership. Your advice must be based on relevant theories and concepts covered in week 4.

The findings presented in the webinar must be accompanied by PowerPoint slides and be based on a minimum of 10 scholarly and peer-reviewed sources of information published no longer than five years ago and relevant to the field of tourism and hospitality leadership. These sources must be presented in the video in the form of in-text citations and a reference list adhering with Kaplan Harvard Referencing Guide. Wikipedia and other ‘popular’ sites are not to be used.