"Assessment Guidelines for Organisational Behaviour"

Reflective Assessment Guidelines for Organisational Behaviour Module

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Assessment Requirements

Please read this document alongside the module handbook and the information you find there relating to the assessment requirements for this module.

To recap, to pass this module you must successfully complete two parts (The pass mark for the module is 40%. To pass overall, the minimum mark for each assessment is 30%.) Assessment Two is described in another separate document.

We would like you to reflect on your experience within your group in completing the exercise in your seminars on the analysis of the Junction Hotel: Initial Fact Finding report and presentation (from weeks 1 – 4). This is taken from your core textbook: Organisational Behaviour (King and Lawley 2019) and is found in the blackboard resources ‘Study material’ site for this module. It will form part of the seminar sessions in weeks 1 - 4.

The main aim of this assessment is to identify one or two aspects about your contribution and performance in this group task which you would like to improve on in the future and to consider which part of the theory presented in weeks 1 – 5 helps you to best understand what happened and to plan how to make desired changes in the future.

We would like you to use the Gibb’s model (see details below - ‘Model to aid reflection’) to consider what you have learnt about your preferences and challenges in working in groups. We would like you to use one or two topics from the lecture material presented in weeks 1 – 5 to explore a particular aspect you found challenging, from the following: Transition to Higher Education, communication challenges, working with others, multicultural elements or learning styles preferences. You can choose which one or two aspects to focus on from the above list, depending on challenges you personally had.

You should complete a short reference list to cite the sources you have used to connect the theory with your personal experiences.

We will assess the extent to which you have reflected on your personal experiences to understand and elaborate on concepts/theories presented.

Your ability to use Gibb’s reflective model to explore your experiences in the seminar teams on this Junction Hotel task.
Your ability to draw on one or two particular aspects of the theory presented in weeks 1 – 5 to make sense of these experiences from: learning styles, challenges of working in groups, working with different cultures, transition to higher education, multicultural challenges.
Your ability to write clearly, effectively and concisely and to use sources and references appropriately.
Your ability to document one or two areas of your performance and experience on this task that you would like to improve upon.

You may find it helpful to read in addition to this guidance, the Blackboard document under ‘Assessment’ entitled ‘Reflective Thinking and Writing’. This was produced by the Student Study Support team and gives more general guidance on reflective writing including addressing some challenges to be overcome. The next few paragraphs below are taken from this source.

‘Consciously looking at and thinking about our experiences, actions, feelings and responses and then interpreting them, in order to learn from them’ (Boud et al, 1994). We can do this by asking: What we did? How we did it? What we learnt from doing it?

Explore and clarify your feelings, reactions and responses to issues;
Explore situations from different per spectives;
Look at how we can adapt to situations;
Consider our strengths and weaknesses;
Look at the relationship between theory and practice;
Learn from experiences and actions (our own and other people’s);

Uses first and third person: your experience = first person (I felt) and the academic material will use third person eg (Smith proposes that …’

It should weave together your experience and discussion of academic material and theory.

You must use this model to structure your work:

Gibbs Framework for Reflection (1988) (this is one of the most common frameworks in academic work)

Describe in detail the event you are reflecting on.

Include e.g. where were you; who else was there; why were you there; what were you doing; what were other people doing; what was the context of the event; what happened; what was your part in this; what parts did the other people play; what was the result.

At this stage, try to recall and explore those things that were going on inside your head. Include:

What you were thinking about at the start?
How did things make you feel?
How did other people make you feel?
How did you feel about the outcome of the event?
What do you think about it now?

Try to evaluate or make a judgement about what has happened. Consider what was useful about the experience and what did or didn’t go so well (and why not)

Break the event down into its component parts so they can be explored separately. You may need to ask more detailed questions about the answers to the last stage. Include: