Job Advertisement for Assessment of a Module

Question 1: Searching and Identifying a Suitable Job Advertisement

This module is assessed by five tutor-marked assignments (TMAs) which are marked by tutor. Your overall score is calculated from your scores for these assignments, weighted as follows: the end-of-module TMA (emTMA). The feedback on the TMAs that you receive from your tutor is intended to improve your performance as you progress through the module. To be sure of passing the module, you must score at least 30 for your emTMA and you also must achieve an overall score of at least 40

Question 1: This question tests your ability to search for and identify a suitable job advertisement that you can use to help you answer Questions 2 and 3. Therefore the job advertisement you choose should include a reasonable amount of detail (for example, a job description and/or a person specification). If there are further particulars available you may also want to look at those.

Start with a brief description of the advertised job and say how it relates to your current personal interests and professional development plans. You should also identify three competencies required by the current job (see Section 1.2 of Reading 13). Then create a simple table to show how an applicant might demonstrate these competencies (see sample table format below). Write approximately 200 to 250 words on this question.

Question 2: This question asks you to apply the concepts of selection methods to the example of the chosen job. Reading 13, including Section 1.4, will be useful here. Remember that you are answering this question from the perspective of an HR manager in the firm that is advertising the job. Start your answer by explaining what selection methods exist and summarising their strengths and weaknesses.

Make sure you do this in your own words, rather than just repeating any paragraphs from the Block 2 readings. Then discuss how each selection method could be applied to the chosen job and which one(s) you consider to be most suitable for selecting the best candidate for the job. Make sure that you explicitly refer to module concepts and to the chosen job. Give reasons for your answer. Write approximately 400 to 450 words on this question.

Question 3: This question asks you to apply the concepts of job design to the example of the job in the advertisement that you have chosen. Use concepts from Reading 14, particularly the job characteristics model (JCM) (Section 3) to help you with this answer. Remember that you are writing this answer from the perspective of the successful applicant for the job. Start by explaining some of the principles of job design (with reference to the JCM or other models if appropriate) and how these principles can help with job satisfaction.

Then consider what you would find satisfying in a job and how you think the chosen job could best be designed so that you would find it satisfying. Make sure that you explicitly refer to module concepts and to the job in the advertisement. Give reasons for your answer. Write approximately 350 to 400 words on this question.

For any guidance regarding your assessment, including penalties for late submissions of your emTMA, please see the Assessment Handbook. The TMAs serve several purposes; they: allow the University to determine whether you have engaged fully with the module and its content encourage you to make contact with your tutor so that you can discuss what you have included in them; your tutor will find this useful in providing guidance on your future study allow your tutor to comment on the quality of your written work and the way in which you have presented the material emTMA (TMA 05) score Overall score (calculated from your scores in all five TMAs) provide an opportunity for you to focus your study and gather information about various important concepts and teaching points in different parts of the module.

If you do not submit your emTMA, and have not been granted a discretionary postponement or deferred the module, you will not be given another opportunity to submit your emTMA, so you will fail the module. If you submit your emTMA but do not score at least 30 for it, as long as you achieve an overall score of at least 30, you will be given one opportunity to resubmit your emTMA. If you score at least 30 for your emTMA and achieve an overall score of 30-39, you will be given one opportunity to resubmit your emTMA. If, after one resubmission, you do not score at least 30 for your emTMA, or if you do not achieve an overall score of at least 40, you will fail the module. If you resubmit your emTMA, your module result will be capped at the lowest grade of Pass.