Assignment details:
Essay 2500 words each (2 copies) 60%
Due 26th May 2017 (12 pm)
Choose a Human Service Organization that will be the focus of this essay. You can choose an
organization in which you are professionally involved or it could be another organization 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 organization and its organizational
structure and culture using the following points below as your focus for analysis:
1. To what extent is managerialism evident within this organization?
2. Which organizational theories can assist your understanding of the tensions between a
professional in your area of practice and managers within that organization?
3. How is leadership exercised in this organization?
4. How might a worker in your profession within this organization 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 organization
6. At least 10 academic references.
Marking criteria:
Each criteria has equal weighting
1. Review of managerialism within the
organization
2. Application of organizational theory to tensions between professional team members and
managers within the
organization
3. Critical analysis of leadership within the organization
4. Evidence of understanding of leadership role for a professional in your area of practice within
the organization
5. Evaluation of ethical tensions inherent in that professional role in the organization
6. Academic integrity: expression, grammar and referencing
