Individual Assignment TASK This piece of assignment is designed to help you understand your personality and leadership styles. You are required to complete TWO (2) self-assessment tests and answer questions based on the assessment results. The TWO (2) self-assessment tests include: 1. The Big Five Personality Test 2. Leadership Styles Questionnaire After completing the self-assessment tests, answer these questions accordingly. i. Describe your personality and leadership styles based on the test results. ii. How will your personality and leadership styles influence your work in the future, specifically in the following aspects: a. The nature of your job b. The effectiveness of working in a group or team c. The level of your job performance You must support your answers for (i) and (ii) with relevant sources of information e.g. reference books, journals, business magazines, reports and newspaper articles. Be careful when you use the Internet to search for information and do not rely on a general trawl of the Internet, Google, for example, as this often comes up with sites that lack credibility and have no valid research base.   FORMAT i. The assignment must be type-written using: • Times New Roman Font, size 12 • Double line spacing ii. Length: 1000 words (plus minus 10%), not including reference list, tables, charts and illustrations. iii. Include the word count iv. Include reference list v. Include FULL Turnitin report vi. Attach the completed self-assessment tests with results Referencing You must fully acknowledge the sources of information (books, articles, reports, etc.) that you use in the completion of the assignment. To do this you must use the Harvard Referencing Systemwhich tells you (a) how to acknowledge your sources in the body of your text, and (b) how to list your sources in your reference section. You can refer to the link below for information and learn about the Harvard System: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/resources/general/info_study_skills/harvard2.htm You will need to check your assignment using ‘Turnitin’ for duplication. Any duplication should be less than 20% or it will constitute as plagiarism. You can check as many times as possible and amend necessarily to ensure that duplication is absolutely minimum. MARKING The marking criteria are as follows: Structure • Address all the tasks indicated. • Comprehensive writing with appropriate organisation and flow of ideas • List all sources of information with proper acknowledgment of the sources. Description of personality and leadership style • Detail observation and comprehensive description of the personality and leadership style • Relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description Description of how the personality and leadership style would influence nature of job, group behaviour and job performance • Comprehensive description of how the personality and leadership style would influence nature of job, group behaviour and job performance • Relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description Each criterion is awarded a full mark of 10. The written assignment total mark is 30 and is weighted to 15% (see marking grid next page) MARKING GRID MARKS Structure Description of personality and leadership style Influence on nature of job, group behaviour & job performance 9-10 • Answers the question fully • Comprehensive writing with good organisation and flow of ideas • References are accurately recorded • Detail observation and comprehensive description of personality and leadership style • Extensive relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description • Detail observation and comprehensive description of the influence on nature of job, group behaviour and job performance • Extensive relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description 7-8 • Answers the question well • Comprehensive writing with appropriate organisation and flow of ideas • References are accurately recorded but may contain occasional minor errors • Good observation and clear description of personality and leadership style • Relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description • Good observation and clear description of the influence on nature of job, group behaviour and job performance • Relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description 4-6 • Answers the question adequately • Argument/ discussion: reader has to do some of the work to sort out ideas • Some references provided contain errors • Some observation and appropriate description of personality and leadership style • Some relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description • Some observation and appropriate description of the influence on nature of job, group behaviour and job performance • Some relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description 2-3 • Weak treatment of the question • Argument/ discussion: not developed or hard to follow; reader has to do the work • Few references provided, with errors • Some basic observation and weak description of personality and leadership style with errors &/or omissions • Few relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description • Some basic observation and weak description with errors &/or omissions • Few relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description 0-1 • Fails to answer the question • Argument/ discussion: unclear/ very poor • Very few or no references provided, with errors • 0 is awarded only if the whole essay is absolutely not readable. • Very poor observation and weak description of the personality and leadership style with many errors &/or omissions • Very few relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description • 0 is awarded only if there is no description ofpersonality and leadership style • Very poor observation and weak description with many errors &/or omissions • Very few relevant facts or evidence are quoted to support the description • 0 is awarded only if there is no description provided Marks Awarded RESULTS OF TWO TESTS! The Big Five Personality Test The Leadership Style Questionnaire Test