Study Guide

Objective

Knowledge capital providing a competitive edge will be emphasised during this course, while providing students with a grounding in quality leadership, activity-based management in business leadership and the significance of leadership and management in the implementation of an organisation's basic tasks.

Content

Knowledge capital, quality leadership, activity-based management and accounting, leading and leadership

Evaluation scale

0 - 5

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Statements of evaluation grade 4-5

• An excellent and commendable (grade 4 or 5) essay based on the set learning assignment completed by the student, is informative and comprehensive and covers all areas stipulated in the question/set assignment.
• All sources used in the learning assignment have been appropriately and visibly applied when answering and breaking down the set questions.
• The points of view presented by various sources have been evaluated, compared and joined to each other so that the central themes and concepts of the subject are fluently presented
• The text also contains your own thoughts, appropriately reasoned and justified, applications and criticism.
• The text is clearly divided up and progresses in a logical way ensuring that all the areas of the assignment have been equally covered.
• The source references have been recorded correctly and the general external appearance of the learning assignment is neat and well organised and edited.
• A grade 5 essay means that in addition to the above, the student has presented the issues and topics stipulated in the assignment/question set, in an original and creative way.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Statements of evaluation grade 3

• A grade 3 means that the student has written an essay that clearly presents the central theories and concepts of the topic covered, based on the set assignment/essay question.
• The learning assignment includes coverage of all sources, but the evaluation of the contents presented in the source information, the overall cohesiveness of the source information presented, and the comparison of sources is random and requires more thought.
• The text, though informative, is slightly unnatural (mechanical in nature), boring and based on summary and quotation. It only contains a little original thought.
• The source references may contain some inaccuracies
• As a whole, the essay has covered all topics and themes as stipulated in the question in an organised and cohesive way.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Statements of evaluation grades 1 – 2

• An essay which superficially covers the set question or assignment in a disorganised fashion will be evaluated as satisfactory (grade 2) in a learning assignment.
• Source coverage will be erratic, relying on a single source in detail and leaving other sources out or only covering them sketchily.
• The essay almost totally lacks a combination of information, comparison and critical thought.
• The text is not clearly divided, making it difficult to perceive a cohesive narrative.
• The student has managed to present the theories and concepts appropriate to the subject of the question/task in a comprehensible way and has attempted to apply them to the question in hand.
• Some references are missing.
• A learning assignment awarded a grade 1 contains most of the elements required to be awarded a grade 2.

An essay/dissertation etc assessed as requiring further work can be described as follows:

• The essay clearly lacks content in terms of the question/learning assignment set.
• Central theories and concepts have not been covered and applied profoundly enough nor in an appropriate way.
• A crucial part of the coverage of the assignment set may have been left out.
• Sources have not been used properly, e.g. one basic source has not been sufficiently used or has not been used at all during the writing process
• The text may simply summarise sources, even copy directly from other texts.
• References have been recorded incorrectly or are even missing

Prerequisites

Leadership