Agency or Identity and Innovation
Description
Part 1
(1000 words)
Select one of the key concepts within the module that seems of most relevance to your professional context or the setting you are familiar with. Be very clear on how and why this concept is relevant to your workplace.
Provide a summary that synthesises the main ideas associated with this key concept as it applies to your own professional context, drawing upon the work of key theorists.
A brief anecdote might help contextualise the concept chosen. Get to the point within 100 words and use the remaining 900 words to synthesise the main ideas associated with a concept that is not contested too much. Go for depth and analysis rather than width and summarisation. Show that you are aware that there are differences in opinion.
Part 2
(2000 words)
Critically evaluate one particular innovation in your workplace or the setting you are familiar with, which resulted in a change.
Your evaluation should include the factors that led to the change and the impact of the leadership actions. You should draw as widely as you can on relevant theoretical frameworks and concepts from the module (preferably with more than four sources), particularly from Section 4.
Come up with a strong scenario and critically evaluate. It is advisable to have a specific line of critique that you may elaborate on. Once you have an overall line of critical argument you may begin to plan your writing fully.
Possible examples:
Was there a mismatch between intentions and outcome? Was the change desires positive but the process of implementation poor? Did those charged with leading chnge fail to take account of all too obvious change enablers and constraints? Use the change kaleidoscope.
