Group Assessment
Cover Page
| Unit Details |
Name | Organizational behaviour |
| Code | HC1052 | |
| Year, Trimester | 2023, Trimester 1 |
| Assessment Details |
Name | Group Assignment |
| Due Date and Week | 26 / May / 2023, Week 10 |
| Group Student Details |
Student ID | First Name | Family Name | Work Contribution |
| Group Submission Declaration |
Integrity Declaration | Student ID | Full Name | Submission Date |
| We have read and understand academic integrity policies and practices and our assessment does not violate these. |
Instructions
| Academic Integrity Information |
Holmes Institute is committed to ensuring and upholding academic integrity. All assessment must comply with academic integrity guidelines. Important academic integrity breaches include plagiarism, collusion, copying, impersonation, contract cheating, data fabrication and falsification. Please learn about academic integrity and consult your teachers with any questions. Violating academic integrity is serious and punishable by penalties that range from deduction of marks, failure of the assessment task or unit involved, suspension of course enrolment, or cancellation of course enrolment. |
| Format Instructions |
• Most assessments must be in MS Word format with no spacing, 11-pt Calibri font and at least 2cm margins on all four sides with appropriate section headings and page numbers. • You must name your file with the Unit Code and Group Number (e.g. “HC1052 Group 4”). • Check that you submit the correct document as special consideration is not granted if you make a mistake. • Student IDs need to be indicated on the cover page. Non-contributing students do not receive marks. |
| Penalties | • All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date and time along with a completed Assessment Cover Page. Late penalties apply. • Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Holmes Institute Adapted Harvard Referencing. Penalties are associated with incorrect citation and referencing. |
Assignment Specifications
Required Structure/Format of the report
Note: The lecture slides may contain the basic key concepts only and students are expected to have
read a wide range of scholarly literature to complete the assessment. Students are expected to have
undertaken additional research using Google Scholar and ProQuest research database. If you’re in
doubt about what is a peer-reviewed article, please ask your tutor in the interactive tutorial sessions
or the unit coordinator in the drop-in sessions.
| • Holmes Institute Cover Page [This is essential and must be completed accurately] • Executive Summary – This should be a concise synopsis of the whole report. • Table of Contents – This should be well formatted with numerical sub headings • Main Body of the report contains Section Headings for each paragraph listed • Sub-sections are numbered. • Appropriate paragraphing must be used. • Introduction – Briefly introduce the purpose of the report. Within the introductory paragraph, you need to address the key topics you will address in the body paragraphs. • Body Paragraphs – With headings/sub-headings: Please remember to support your claims/arguments with in-text scholarly references. • Conclusion – The conclusion must briefly summarise the key points in the body paragraphs. • Reference List – Please include all in-text references in the list of references formatted in the Adapted Harvard Referencing style. A minimum of 10 peer-reviewed academic articles is required. • The report must be within the 3,000-word limit. |
Each group of 4 students will analyse the following exercise and submit a collaborative written
report.
Students’ reports will vary widely. Your writing should reflect an understanding of the basic
concept(s), thorough research, and logic and critical thinking skills
GROUP EXERCISE – Motivating Your Sales Staff
Learning Objective: This exercise incorporates many ideas in this unit with the main point reinforcing
the fact that each individual is different. Intelligence is a related concept in this situation and
identifying other personality traits when deciding the corporation’s course of action. Explain why
different people are motivated by different things.
Summary: The goal of this exercise is to give students practice aligning individual and organisational
goals, and thinking like a manager in managing employee motivation. Imagine that you are the
management team of a new retail clothing store named HC1052 Group. Your company’s business
strategy is to provide high-quality customer service and to provide high-quality products. You are not
the cheapest store in town, but you expect your employees to create a service-oriented atmosphere
that customers will be willing to pay a little extra for. You recognise that your sales staff will be essential
to your store’s success, and you want to create a system that motivates them to help create a
competitive advantage for your business. Because this is the first store you have opened, you have the
opportunity to decide how to best motivate your staff. Market-competitive starting salaries have
already been established, but you have decided to allocate 10 percent of the stores’ profits to use to
motivate your sales staff in any way you see fit.
Task: A Group of 4 students should answer the following questions:
1. What behaviours would you want from your sales staff?
2. What goals would you set for your sales staff, given your answer to Question 1?
3. What type of system would you set up to reward these behaviours?
4. What challenges would you be on the lookout for? How would you proactively address these
potential challenges to prevent them from happening?
Assignment report structure should be, as follows:
• The report must include Holmes cover page with who did what section in the report.
• Table of Contents
• Executive Summary
• An Introduction and background information of the selected exercise: Briefly introduce the
purpose of the report. Within the introductory paragraph, you need to address the key topics
you will address in the body paragraphs
• Detailed analysis of the questions in the selected exercise.
• Conclusion: The conclusion must briefly summarise the key points in the body paragraphs
• Reference List: Please include all in-text references in the list of references formatted in the
‘Adapted Harvard Referencing’ requirements. A minimum of 10 references is required.
Marking Rubric
| Criteria Ratings | |||||
| HD 8.5 – 10 |
D 7-8 | CR 6-6.5 | PA 5 – 5.5 |
NN 0 – 4.5 |
|
| Knowledge of the material presented Max 10 marks |
Has understood and responded to each of the task requirements appropriately. |
Has understood and responded to most task requirements appropriately. |
Has understood some task requirement and attempted to respond appropriately. |
Limited understanding of the task was evident, but some requirements are missing. |
No evidence that the student has understood what is required in this task. |
| HD 8.5 – 10 |
D 7-8 | CR 6-6.5 | PA 5 – 5.5 |
NN 0 – 4.5 |
|
| use of Evidence Max 10 marks |
Uses refined academic research skills to locate credible and authoritative information/ data. Uses Harvard referencing style and in-text citations with no errors. Evidence from scholarly literature is integrated strongly with to explain and support the analysis. Uses academic research skills to select 8 or more current, credible and authoritative academic references. |
Uses academic research skills to locate credible and authoritative information/ data. Uses Harvard referencing style and intext citations with some errors. Relevant evidence from scholarly literature is linked to explain and support the analysis. Uses academic research skills to select 6 or more current, credible and authoritative academic references. |
Uses academic research skills to locate credible information/data . Uses Harvard referencing style and in-text citations, but with consistent errors. Includes relevant evidence from scholarly literature to explain and support the analysis. Uses academic research skills to select 4 or more current, credible, and authoritative academic references. |
Uses general academic research skills to locate information/ data. Inconsistently applies Harvard referencing style. In text citations and reference list show multiple errors. Includes evidence from scholarly literature to explain and support the analysis, although links to research may not always be clear. Uses academic research skills to source 3 academic references. |
No evidence of any research skills apart from a basic web search. Use of a referencing style and some citations with consistent errors throughout. No evidence of any research findings undertaken or selected references do not meet the task requirements. |
| Structure, Synthesis of Research Max7marks |
HD 6.5 -7 |
D 6 |
CR 4-5 |
PA 3.5 |
NN 0 – 3 |
| Cohesive paragraph structure consistently encourages engagement with the content. New information from research is synthesised and presented thematically (topic by topic) to address the assessment questions in an analytical way. |
Cohesive paragraph structure supports engagement with the contents. Uses discrete paragraphs to present information. New material from research is structured into themes to address the assessment questions in an analytical way. |
Some effort to achieve cohesive paragraph structure. Ideas are not always presented in discrete paragraphs. Some effort to include new material from research into themes to address the assessment questions in an analytical way. |
Has used a report structure to organise information logically. But has presented response composed of a series of discrete paragraphs based on the summary of main ideas from each article. This report reads more like a book report than a piece of analysis. |
Limited or no attempt at a report structure. Information presented randomly or as a series of questions/ans wers only. No sense of cohesion between ideas. No evidence for synthesis of new ideas from research. No analysis attempted. |
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| Written Expression Max 3 marks |
HD 3 | D 2.5 |
CR 2 |
PA 1.5 |
NN 0 – 1 |
| Uses discipline language appropriate for an academic or professional audience. Writing is fluent and uses appropriate paragraph/sentence structures. No critical language or grammatical errors. |
Includes discipline specific language sufficient for an academic or professional audience. Writing is generally fluent and uses mostly appropriate paragraph/ sentence structures. Minor language or grammatical errors usually do not interfere with meaning. |
Some discipline specific language included to meet general expectations of an academic or professional audience. Writing is generally clear and mostly uses appropriate paragraph/sentence structures. |
Limited use of discipline specific language which may not always meet expectations of an academic or professional audience. Inconsistent paragraph and sentence structures. Language and grammatical errors are frequent. |
Limited vocabulary. Inappropriate or incorrect use of discipline specific language. Consistent and numerous errors in writing (grammar, paragraph and sentence structure) make reading difficult. |
Marking Criteria
| Marking Criteria | Weighting |
| Knowledge of the material presented | 10 |
| Use of Evidence | 10 |
| Structure, Synthesis of Research | 7 |
| Written Expression | 3 |
| Total Weight | 30% |
Holmes Referencing Requirements:
Assessment Design – Adapted Harvard Referencing
Holmes will be implementing a revised Harvard approach to referencing. The following rules apply:
1. Reference sources in assignments are limited to sources that provide full-text access to the
source’s content for lecturers and markers.
2. The reference list must be located on a separate page at the end of the essay and titled:
“References”.
3. The reference list must include the details of all the in-text citations, arranged A-Z
alphabetically by author surname with each reference numbered (1 to 10, etc.) and each
reference MUST include a hyperlink to the full text of the cited reference source. For
example:
1. Hawking, P., McCarthy, B. & Stein, A. 2004. Second Wave ERP Education, Journal of
Information Systems Education, Fall, http://jise.org/Volume15/n3/JISEv15n3p327.pdf
4. All assignments must include in-text citations to the listed references. These must include the
surname of the author/s or name of the authoring body, year of publication, page number of
the content, and paragraph where the content can be found. For example, “The company
decided to implement an enterprise-wide data warehouse business intelligence strategies
(Hawking et al., 2004, p3(4)).”
Non Adherence to Referencing Guidelines
Where students do not follow the above rules:
1. For students who submit assignments that do not comply with the rules, a 10% penalty will
be applied.
2. As per the Student Handbook, late penalties will apply each day after the student/s has been
notified of the resubmission requirements.
3. Students who comply with rules and the citations are “fake” will be reported for
academic misconduct.