Assessment Overview

This is the second of two assessments for this course. For this assessment you will demonstrate the interpersonal skills required to be effective in different work environments, critically evaluating a range of approaches in practice to managing team performance and assessing corporate social responsibility issues and resolutions that may arise when working in complex organisations.

This is an individual assessment, that you will complete in your learner-managed time, however, your teacher will provide opportunities during class time for clarification, guidance, collaborative working opportunities, and group discussion. While you will work in a group for an aspect of this assignment, this work is assessed individually on your own performance and evidence. All work must be completely your own and all literature used must be referenced appropriately using APA 6th edition. In order to pass this course you must achieve a cumulative grade of at least 50%, across assessment one and two. 

2. Critically analyse key M?ori values that are practised within New Zealand organisations and evaluate the challenges for Iwi/M?ori organisations to meet their stakeholder expectations.
3. Demonstrate the interpersonal skills required to be effective in different work environments including team, communication, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
4. Critically evaluate a range of approaches in practice to managing team performance.
5. Identify and critically assess corporate social responsibility issues that may arise when working in complex organisations and identify ways of resolving such issues effectively.

Please see your course outline for guidelines around resubmission and extensions.

Initially for this assessment you will work in a group, of no more than three, assigned by your teacher. Within your group you will collaborate to determine various social responsibility issues that may arise within the case study outlined below. 

During this phase of the assignment you will gather evidence of, and reflect on, your individual demonstration of effective interpersonal skills that enable successful team work, including: communication; and conflict resolution and negotiation. Your presentation of this evidence may be in a portfolio, or written reflection with appendices, or another method as agreed with your teacher, and supports your demonstration of interpersonal skills. 

Secondly, you will individually prepare a report, referring to relevant literature, for the board of directors of KRC (see case study below) that includes: 

• a critical assessment of the character of exploration testing opportunities that exist in New Zealand, including the corporate social responsibility issues that may arise and identification and evaluation of methods of resolving these issues effectively, recommending a preferred course of action that will result in maximum levels of satisfaction for all relevant stakeholders.
• a critical evaluation of at least three different approaches the organisation could use toward managing departmental team performances if the organisation decides to pursue this opportunity.
• a critical analysis of key M?ori values that may be practised within the New Zealand organisations identified in the case study, including critical evaluation of the challenges for Iwi/M?ori organisations to meet stakeholder expectations

For this assessment, referring to the case study below, you will assume you are the Project Executive Director (PED) of Koper Resources Company (KRC), a major mining and underground resources exploration organisation, with its headquarters in Perth, Australia. You have obtained a licence from the New Zealand government to conduct exploratory testing for potential copper reserves in a remote area of the North Island of New Zealand, in order to evaluate whether copper reserves may exist in quantities that would justify the cost of exploration and extraction. You are initially aware of two significant challenges that need to be overcome if you are to be able to successfully carry out your exploration:

• The majority of land in the area under investigation is owned by local iwi, whose co-operation will be required if further exploration is to take place.
• One relatively small part of the relevant land area is designated as a National Park, under the management of the New Zealand government’s Department of Conservation with Forest and Bird protesting about any exploration.