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MCR003 Management Attributes and Skills Individual Assessment Grade 25% Due Week 8 – Sunday 12th July at 11.55pm Length – 1500 words ( +/- 10%) You must analyse and research on one of the following...

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MCR003 Management Attributes and Skills Individual Assessment
Grade 25%
Due Week 8 – Sunday 12th July at 11.55pm
Length – 1500 words ( +/- 10%)
You must analyse and research on one of the following successful business leaders:
• Tim Cook (Apple)
• Alan Joyce (Qantas)
• Christine Holgate (Australia Post)
• Jack Ma (AliBaba)
• Mike Cannon – Brookes (Atlassian)
• Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
• Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
• Mary Ba
a (General Motors)
Or cu
ent business leader of your choice (approval has to be sought from your Lecturer first).
You will be required to prepare an essay covering the following areas listed below:
• Background of the leader ( relevant to their cu
ent role eg education/work history)
• Explain what skills and competencies have contributed to their success
• How would you describe his/her management/leadership “style”? Give
details/examples.
• Identify two key challenges they have faced and assess how they dealt with the
situation
• What have you learnt about management and leadership from studying them?
The essay needs to have a clear and coherent structure, be clearly expressed, with few e
ors. In
your essay refer to at least eight (8) references, at least five (5) of which need to be cu
ent
academic references no older than 2010. An academic reference is a journal article or academic
ook. It is likely you will also have references from websites and news media about the leader
Essays must be submitted via the Turnitin link on Moodle by the due date. Late submissions will lose
5% per day up until day 5. After this a zero mark will be awarded.
Essays must be submitted in Microsoft Word using the Harvard referencing system. Students must
acknowledge the source of all articles used using the Harvard System. You must reference any
material you use which is not your own.
Individual essay ru
ic (25 marks)

Criteria
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1. Leader’s
Background

Up to 5
marks
Comprehensively
described the
leader’s
ackground.
Effectively
described the
leader’s
ackground.
Described the
leader’s
ackground, but
could have
provided detail
that is more
elevant.
Superficially
described the
leader’s
ackground and
provided
i
elevant
information.
Failed to
adequately
describe the
leader’s
ackground.
Failed to
describe the
leader’s
ackground.
2. Leader’s
Approach

Up to 5
marks
Comprehensively
described and
applied a relevant
leadership
approach and
theory,
demonstrating a
detailed
understanding
with relevant
examples.
Effectively
described and
applied a relevant
leadership
approach and
theory,
demonstrating a
sound
understanding of
this theory.
Described and
applied a relevant
leadership
approach and
theory, however
could have
demonstrated a
greater level of
understanding
through better
explanation or
use of examples.
Superficially
described a
leadership
approach and
theory and did
not apply to
practice.
Failed to
effectively
apply a
leadership
approach or
theory to the
leader chosen.
Failed to apply
a leadership
approach or
theory to the
leader chosen.
3. Key
Challenges
Up to 5
marks
Comprehensively
outlined key
challenges faced
and managed,
including relevant
and practical
suggestions of
how they could
e even more
effective.
Effectively
outlined key
challenges faced
and managed
with some
suggestions of
how they could
e even more
effective.
Outlined key
challenges faced
ut more detail
would have been
useful.
Outlined some
key challenges
faced, but more
detail was
equired.
Failed to
provide
elevant key
challenges
Failed to
provide any
key
challenges.
4. Your
Learning
Up to 5 marks

Reflection
showed deep
insight about
leadership.
Reflection
showed insight
about leadership.
Reflection
showed some
insight about
leadership.
Failed to show
elevant insight
about leadership.
Failed to show
insight about
leadership.
Failed to
address.
5. Essay
Structure
and
eferencing
Up to 5
marks
The essay is well
structured, with a
clear framework.
The essay is
interesting,
clearly expressed,
with no e
ors.
Exceed required
number of
eferences
Co
ect use of
Harvard
eferencing style
The essay has a
clear structure
and framework.
The essay is well
written, with few
e
ors.
Exceed required
number of
eferences
Co
ect use of
Harvard
eferencing style
The essay
structure could
e clearer. Some
expression is
unclear with
grammatical,
vocab and/or
spelling e
ors
Used
appropriate
eferences.
Co
ect use of
Harvard
eferencing style
The essay
structure is poor.
Expression is
unclear, with
many
grammatical,
vocab and/or
spelling e
ors,
making it difficult
to understand
large sections of
the essay.
Co
ect use of
Harvard
eferencing style
The paper is
difficult to
interpret,
and/or is
poorly
presented
and/or has no
evident
structure.
The paper is
difficult to
interpret, is
poorly
presented and
has no evident
structure.
    Individual essay ru
ic (25 marks)
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Solution

Moumita answered on Jul 08 2021
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LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT PROFICIENCIES OF MARY BARRA, CEO OF GENERAL MOTORS, AMERICA
Table of Contents
3Background of the Leade
3Skills and Competencies of Mary Ba
a for contributing success of General Motors, America
4Leadership Style of Mary Ba
a
5Identification of two challenges faced by Mary Ba
a and the ways she dealt with the situation
5Personal View and Learning from the management model of Mary Ba
a
7References
Background of the Leader
The background of the leader who has been selected here is Mary Teresa Ba
a who is cu
ently serving in the profile of the CEO that is Chief Executive Officer of General Motors Company. She was born in the year 1961 in Royal Oak, Michigan, US. Ba
a completed her graduation from General Motors University that is now known as Kettering University from where she obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in the stream of electrical engineering. After this, she attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business and from there, she received her Master's Degree in Business Administration in the year 1990. From the early days of career, she has a great interest in leadership skill and for this; she is today the first female CEO of a major automaker company (Hurley & Choudhary, 2016).
Coming to the career of Ba
a, she started her career as a co-op student of General motors and her main task was to check the fender panels and the inspection of the hoods to pay for the college tuition fees. From the very formative years of her career, she explored her excellence, and in this way, she was always in the good book of the bureaucrats of the then management officials.
Ba
a continued to thrive as a professional, adding numerous as well as prestigious accolades to her already dignified career. Finally, in the year 2008, she was nominated in the post of Vice President of Global Manufacturing Engineering. Then in the year July 2009, she chaired as the Vice President of Global Product Development and she retained in that post until Fe
uary 2011. Finally, in the year January 2014, she became the CEO and the first female head of a leading Automobile company of General Motors, a leading American multinational automobile company (Gover, 2017). Ba
a is so efficient in her leadership profile that in the first year of her career in General Motor, she issued 84 safety recalls that involved over several 30 million cars. In the year 2017, Ba
a was ranked as the highest-paid Detroit Three Executive for total remuneration receives $21.96 million. Among the several awards that are won by her the most significant are: she was listed as the 35 most powerful women. Apart from this in the year 2014, she was the Time’s “100 most influential people all over the world”.
Skills and Competencies of Mary Ba
a for contributing success of General Motors, America
Ba
a took over the leadership in the year 2014 and from the very first day, she started to prove herself as a prominent leader and worked for the success and progress of the organization. From the very first day in the organization, she adopted the model of quiet leadership. It is...
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