Assignment details:

Essay 2500 words 60%

Choose a Human Service Organisation that will be the focus of this essay. You can choose an organisation in which you are professionally involved or it could be another organisation in your local community for which you are aware and which allows you access to relevant information via their website. You need to provide an overview of the organisation and its organisational structure and culture using the following points below as your focus for analysis:

1. To what extent is managerialism evident within this organisation?

2. Which organisational theories can assist your understanding of the tensions between a professional in your area of practice and managers within that organisation?

3. How is leadership exercised in this organisation?

4. How might a worker in your profession within this organisation engage in leadership roles?

5. Reflect on what may be some of the ethical tensions you as a worker in your discipline area may encounter when working in this organisation

Marking criteria:
Each criteria has equal weighting

1. Review of managerialism within the organisation

2. Application of organisational theory to tensions between professional team members and managers within the
organisation

3. Critical analysis of leadership within the organisation

4. Evidence of understanding of leadership role for a professional in your area of practice within the organisation

5. Evaluation of ethical tensions inherent in that professional role in the organisation

6. Academic integrity: expression, grammar and referencing