MGT5MPT Management Practice and Theory Assignment 1

Assignment #1

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•        The Meaning of Effectiveness

• A reflective essay

•        Due: 11.55pm 16 August – 20%

• Length: 1,000 words

•        Format: Written Essay

• Lodgement: Electronic Lodgement
  • Do not send your assignment to your lecturer
  • Check lodgement requirements
    • As they actually are, not as you might wish them to

•        Think about an organisation that you have had a significant interaction with

• g. A workplace, university, hospital, service provider

•        Do not invent a scenario with an organisation

• Be specific – when did the interaction occur?
• Don’t manufacture a situation from information in the

public domain

• Examiners know how to web surf also!

•        Questions to Answer in your Essay

• What is the purpose of the organisation?
• What is the scope of its operations?
• Effectiveness
  • From your perspective what criteria would use to evaluate the effectiveness of the

– Justify your selection of the criteria

•        If you’re unsure about the Essay, check with your

lecturer

• This Essay is about quality writing, not quantity
• Give yourself time to consider your writing
• Stakeholders
  • Consider the criteria that two other stakeholder groups of the organisation might use to evaluate its

• Stakeholder Groups (examples)
  • Employees
  • Government
  • Community
  • Creditors
  • Customers
  • Owners
  • Suppliers

• Analysis of Effectiveness

•      What do you conclude from this analysis

• The effectiveness from the perspective of the different stakeholders?

•      What are the implications for the development of a coherent approach to organisational effectiveness

• Synthesis of your findings
• Your perceptions of the term ‘effective’
  • Experiences, ideas and observations that you have had in response to the ideas that you have explored
• What you found confusing, interesting, difficult or inspiring
  • Why?
• Any unanswered questions that you may have
  • What might the literature say?
• Comparisons and connections between what you are learning and your experiences/pre-conceptions
  • How new ideas challenge what you already know
  • Your speculations or hypothesis

•       A reflective essay allows you to use different modes of writing and language, including:

•      Descriptive

• Outlining what something is or how it is done

•      Explanatory

• Explaining the why or how

•      Expressive

• I think or I believe
• Phase 1 (pre-writing)

•      Analyse, Anticipate, Adapt;

• To ensure the approach meets the purpose
• Phase 2 (writing)

•      Research, Organise, Compose;

• Shape to write your message
• Phase 3 (editing)
  • Revise, Proofread, Evaluate the document

• It is expected that Masters level students will engage with the contemporary literature and demonstrate evidence of this
  • For every 500 words, it is expected a minimum of three (3) different references apart from the subject textbook taken from peer reviewed journals.
  • A submission with fewer than this number of references, while it may not fail against the rubric (marking criteria) it will not excel in the criterion referring to the