Assessment Brief

Summative assessments will consist of the following two methods of assessment

ASSESSMENT 1: Group Presentation

Within each seminar and workshop, you have been allocated to a group of up to 5 people. You should be working within this group on the key tasks set each week. During week 7 you will deliver a 10 minutes poster presentation from your group on the below:

Identify one journal article within the field of business & management. Conduct a critical evaluation of the journal article which will be presented in the form. of an academic presentation.

· Select an academic journal article published within the past five years.

· Your journal article should consider ‘employability or talent or career in your chosen area of interest (e.g., Marketing, HR, Finance) or broader field (Business administration, Management).

· Download the pdf of the article to your own computer/memory stick so that you have a permanent copy.

In the academic presentation, present the following 3 areas:

(1) Identify the source(s) of information you used for identifying the journal article.

(2) Discuss the credibility of the chosen source(s) of information.

(3) Discuss the journal article in the format given below:

[a] Introduce the audience to the specific subject of the journal article and provide an overview of the current state of the research field.

[b] The research questions addressed in the journal paper are clearly identified, explicitly stated, and connected to the introduction.

[c] The implications of the findings are discussed, both for the specific research field and for organizations/managers.

[d] Merits of the journal article and potential shortcomings are identified and discussed.

ASSESSMENT2: Individual Reflective Commentary

General Information

(1) This is a reflective commentary and should be written in the first person.

(2) You should select a career which you feel is most meaningful and appropriate for your personal circumstances. This can include, if appropriate, working for your family business, setting up or developing your own business, or progressing your career in an organisation for which you already work.

(3) Whichever career you choose, it should be specific. For example, ‘Manager’ and ‘Business Consultant’ are too vague and broad. ‘HR Business Partner in a sales-focused organisation,’ ‘Business Consultant in the renewables sector,’ or ‘Depot Manager at DPD,’ are all more appropriate choices. The more specific you can be, the easier it will be to understand the precise requirements of your career and what you need to do in order to meet these requirements in the future.

(4) For the specific career you choose, determine the skills, attributes, knowledge, and experience required for long-term success within it.

(5) Now talk about your planned journey to position yourself for this career choice. This will require you to underpin the claims you make about yourself with supporting evidence in the form. of appendices. You will refer to these in your discussion so that your commentary is underpinned with believable real-life evidence drawn from this module and elsewhere. For example, if you are interested in a career in ‘Managing Compensation and Benefits in a Manufacturing Organization’ and conclude that your development needs are around ‘becoming proficient with Human Resource Information Systems’, you need to develop a career development plan that allows you to become more adeptin important HR systems. You will also discuss what learning style. (s) will be adopted so that you can learn more about HR systems.

(6) Appendices can be drawn from many different sources, including personal networking plan and activity feedback from this module; Feedback from your line manager at work; Project activities for other university modules and beyond. Be creative! Include a rich range of appendices which are especially relevant to you.

(7) All appendices should be professionally presented at the end of your submission. Please DON NOT include links to them in your document as they cannot be accessed directly from Turnitin during the marking process. Feel free to include readable screenshots of items where necessary.

Instructions on Assessment

The individual reflective commentary of this module will be assessed by one summative assessment of 2500 words which critically analyses your preferred career and planned journey from education to future employment or career progression.

Your academic essay should include:

Part A – academic essay (1000words)

Self-awareness is the key to career success. Using a range of relevant literature (both academic and professional sources), choose 2 of the core topics we have studied on this module and explore and critically evaluate why it is important for you to develop in these areas for the successful career development as a manager.

You should include the following in your essay:

· A definition of self-awareness and an explanation of why it is important for your potential development of leadership and/or management capability.

· Identify 2 of the core module topics we have discussed in the class and explain their importance to your potential development as manager’s or leader’s self-awareness.

Part B – Establishing the Possessional and the Positional: A self-analysis (1000 words)

This part comprises:

· An overview of the context of your target job/profession/industry/sector with a focus on why you need to develop in the topics you have selected in order to succeed in this chosen sphere of work.

· A self-analysis identifying your strengths and weaknesses across the range of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills relevant to your target profession/industry/sector. To complete this statement you will draw on both academic and professional sources you have completed during the course of this module, including those related to your topics of exploration in Part A.

To complete the self-analysis you should:

· provide a summary of your strengths and weaknesses.

This summary should be supported with evidence from that you have identified from previous work or assessment centre experience, or researched online.   Your summary answers the question – what skills, attributes and characteristics do I possess?

Secondly, you should:

· Include a reflective statement in which you critically evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and reflect on any patterns of behaviour identified.  Your statement should be underpinned with relevant academic and professional sources

· Consider what are the implications of your current skills, attributes and characteristics in relation to your target job/profession/industry/sector, ie.  how ‘ready’ are you to enter into the career of your choice?

This reflective statement establishes your ‘position’

Part C – What Next: Establishing Areas for Development (500 words)

This final part establishes the ‘processual’ – the ‘what next’ element to your career development

· Based on your self-analysis in Part B outline three areas for development - aligned with your discussion in Parts A and B - which will enable you to bridge the gap between where you are now and where you need to be in the future to ensure career success in your target profession/industry/sector.

· Conclude your assignment with how the self analysis and working on areas for development has enabled you to think more strategically and long-term about your career development.

Professional presentation of your essay:

· You should present all component parts in one document.

· You should present your work to the academic standard commensurate with Level 6 and that you use APA referencing throughout.