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Sir Ernest Shackleton, a renowned polar explorer, embarked on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition with the goal of making the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. The expedition’s ship, the Endurance, became trapped in ice in the Weddell Sea in January 1915. Over the following months, the ship was crushed by the ice, forcing the 28-man crew to abandon ship and live on the floating ice floes.
Read the article titled ‘Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance and answer the questions below. Support your analysis with relevant academic theories, concepts, and research findings. Use credible sources of information, including academic journals, news articles, and other publications.
1. Leadership in Crisis: Analyze Shackleton’s leadership style during the expedition. How did he adapt his approach when faced with unexpected challenges and life-threatening situations?
2. Decision-Making: Evaluate Shackleton’s critical decisions, such as abandoning the expedition’s original goal, the journey in the James Caird, and his persistence in organizing the rescue mission. What were the risks and potential consequences of these decisions?
3. Team Management and Motivation: How did Shackleton maintain morale and cohesion among his crew under extreme stress and prolonged hardship? What strategies did he use to motivate his men and foster a sense of shared purpose?
4. Ethical Considerations: How did Shackleton balance the overall goal of the expedition with his responsibility to ensure the safety and well-being of his crew? How did his values and principles influence his actions?
| No | Area | Marks Allocation |
| 1 | Question 1: Leadership in Crisis Accurately identifies different leadership styles employed by Shackleton and provides specific examples from the case to illustrate how he adapted his style to different situations. Connects these adaptations to relevant leadership theories. | 25 |
| 2 | Question 2: Decision-Making Demonstrates deep understanding of relevant decision-making concepts and applies them effectively to the case. Provides insightful analysis, identifies key issues, and offers well-supported conclusions. Shows evidence of critical evaluation and original thought | 20 |
| 3 | Question 3: Team Management and Motivation Applies relevant motivational theories to explain how Shackleton maintained morale. Provides specific examples of motivational techniques he used and analyzes their effectiveness in the context of the expedition. | 25 |
| 4 | Question 4: Ethical Consideration Identifies and analyzes the ethical dilemmas Shackleton faced. Explores the trade-offs involved in his decisions and considers alternative ethical perspectives. | 20 |
| 5 | Structure and Communication Presents arguments in a clear, concise, and wellorganized manner. Uses professional language and demonstrates excellent writing skills. Good academic citation p | 10 |
| Total | 100 |
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5. Additional marks shall be given for bringing in and discussing related concepts, theories, and issues from OTHER scholarly articles(s).
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NOTE: The guidance offered below is linked to the five generic assessment criteria overleaf.
1. Engagement with Literature Skills
Your work must be informed and supported by scholarly material that is relevant to and focused on the task(s) set; you should make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources, as appropriate (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to the discipline). You should provide evidence that you have accessed a wide range of sources, which may be academic, governmental and industrial; these sources may include academic journal articles, textbooks, current news articles, organisational documents, and websites. You should consider the credibility of your sources; academic journals are normally highly credible sources while websites require careful consideration/selection and should be used sparingly. Any sources you use should be current and up-to-date, mostly published within the last five years or so, though seminal/important works in the field may be older. You must provide evidence of your research/own reading throughout your work, using correctly a suitable referencing system, including in-text citations in the main body of your work and a reference list at the end of your work.
Guidance specific to this assessment: Use the provided reading material and supplement them with credible academic sources (journal articles, books by reputable authors). Combine ideas from multiple sources to create a more comprehensive understanding. Show how different authors agree, disagree, or build upon each other’s work. Use a consistent citation style (e.g., APA, Harvard) throughout your assignment. Provide full citations for all sources used. A reference list at the end is mandatory.
2. Knowledge and Understanding Skills
At level 7, you should be able to demonstrate a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current problems and/or new insights, much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of your academic discipline, field of study or area of professional practice, with a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to your own research or advanced scholarship. Your work must demonstrate your growing mastery of these concepts, principles, current challenges, innovation and insights associated with the subject area. Knowledge relates to the facts, information and skills you have acquired through your learning. You demonstrate your understanding by interpreting the meaning of the facts and information (knowledge). This means that you need to select and include in your work the contemporary concepts, techniques, models, theories, etc. appropriate to the task(s) set. You should be able to explain the theories, concepts, etc. meaningfully to show your understanding. Your mark/grade will also depend upon the extent to which you demonstrate your knowledge and understanding; ideally each should be complete and detailed, with comprehensive coverage. Guidance specific to this assessment: Apply appropriate leadership, management, ethics, and crisis management theories and frameworks to analyze Shackleton’s actions and decisions. Connect different concepts and theories to provide a more comprehensive analysis. Demonstrate an understanding of how different areas of management and leadership intersect. Use specific events, quotes, and details from the case to illustrate your points. The more specific your examples, the stronger your analysis will be.
3. Cognitive and Intellectual Skills
You should be able to: evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship in the discipline; evaluate methodologies and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, to propose new hypotheses; deal with
complex issues both systematically and creatively to make sound judgements in the absence of complete data. Your work must contain evidence of logical, analytical thinking, evaluation and synthesis. For example, to examine and break information down into parts, make inferences, compile, compare and contrast information. This means not just describing what! But also justifying: Why? How? When? Who? Where? At what cost? At all times, you must provide justification for your arguments and judgements. Evidence that you have
reflected upon the ideas of experts within the subject area is crucial to you providing a reasoned and informed debate within your work. Your choice of methodologies to gather data and information must be rigorously defended. Furthermore, you should provide evidence that you are able to make sound judgements and convincing arguments using data and concepts. Sound, valid, persuasive conclusions are necessary and must be derived from the content of your work. Where relevant, alternative solutions and recommendations may
be proposed.
Guidance specific to this assessment: Apply relevant management, leadership, organizational behavior, and ethical theories to analyze the events and decisions described in the case study. Clearly differentiate between factual information presented in the case study and your own interpretations and opinions. Present your arguments in a logical and structured manner, using evidence and reasoning to support your claims.
4. Practical Skills
At level 7, you should be able to demonstrate originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret
knowledge in the discipline. This includes acting autonomously in planning and implementing tasks at a professional or equivalent level, originality in tackling and solving problems, and decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts or situations. You should be able to demonstrate mastery of the leading edge subject-related concepts and ideas as they relate to real world situations and/or particular contexts. How do they work in practice? You will deploy models, methods, techniques, and/or theories, in those contexts or circumstances, to assess current situations, perhaps to formulate plans or plausible, justifiable recommendations to solve problems, or to propose new
models, or to create artefacts, which may be innovative and creative, thereby demonstrating your understanding of how the boundaries of knowledge are advanced through research and/or application. Thism is likely to involve, for instance, the use of real world artefacts, examples and cases, the application of a model within an organisation and/or benchmarking one theory or organisation against others.
Guidance specific to this assessment: Consider how Shackleton’s techniques can be used to motivate teams and build strong organizational culture in today’s workplace.
5. Transferable Skills for Life and Professional Practice Your work must provide evidence of the qualities and transferable skills necessary for postgraduate-level employment in circumstances requiring sound judgement, personal responsibility and initiative in complex and unpredictable professional environments. This includes demonstrating: the independent learning ability for continuing professional development to advance existing skills and acquire new competences of a professional nature that will enable you to assume significant responsibility within organisations; that you can initiate and complete tasks, projects and procedures, whether individuallyand/or collaboratively, to a professional level; that you can use appropriate media to effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms for a variety of audiences; fluency of expression; clarity and effectiveness in presentation and organisation. Work should be coherent and well-structured in presentation and organisation. Guidance specific to this assessment: Connect your analysis to relevant leadership, management, or ethical theories. This demonstrates a deeper understanding of the concepts and strengthens your arguments. Explicitly explain how the skills demonstrated by Shackleton are transferable to other contexts, such as business, personal life, or community involvement. For example, explain how his crisis management skills could be applied in a business setting facing a sudden market downturn.
