Assessment task 1—Academic Essay
Due date: 11:45PM AEST, Monday 21 August 2017 Week 6 ASSESSMENT
Weighting: 30%
Length: 1500 words ±10% (excluding reference list) 1
Objectives
This assessment task relates to UNIT learning outcomes numbers 1 to 3.
Before starting this assessment read the marking criteria (below)
and information about academic essay writing on the Academic Learning
Centre (ALC) website:
http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/UNIT/view.php?id=1497 (Click ‘Academic
Communication’) There is plenty of useful information on the ALC site
that assists with your studies.
Purpose
The primary purpose of this assessment item is to help students
develop skills in critical thinking in relation to organisational change
in the contemporary business environment.
The secondary purpose of this assessment task is to give students
the opportunity to enhance their analysis, critical thinking and written
communication skills; particularly in the areas of developing argument
and essay writing. Description
Assessment task 1 requires the writing of an ACADEMIC ESSAY. This
essay should be an ‘argumentative essay’, and must therefore contain an
argument that is used as the structuring element of the paper. Students
are expected to engage in extensive research within the academic
literature (peer reviewed journals) relating to organisational change
and evidence your argument from scholarly sources.
Details
The underlying paradigm, upon which almost all change models rest,
is that change is episodic, a disruption to an otherwise static
business. I cautiously predict the next decade will hasten the demise (a
demise that has been predicted for some time) of the notion of a
business as a mechanistic, static entity, with rigid structures, and
punctuated by episodic major change. This old paradigm can be seen in
two additional canonical (and I think highly inaccurate) change
metaphors, Business as Usual (BAU) and the oldest change model,
unfreeze, change, refreeze10. The first of those metaphors suggests that
there are things that are changing and things that are stable. The
second of those implies that organizations are stable, and then you have
to -unfreeze- them. There is no -frozen- in today's businesses.
(Gibbons, 2015, p. 25.)
You are to identify, and critically examine, the key issues raised
by Gibbons (2015) in the above statement extracted from the prescribed
text. You must undertake research of relevant academic literature (peer
reviewed journals); use this research to provide a critical analysis,
which must be supported with evidence from the literature including
theories and models to develop your argument. It would enhance your
discussion to use specific organisational examples to further evidence
your claims. Any specific organisational information must be referenced
(this may come directly from the organisation, in addition to any
material that is available in scholarly works).
Additional Information
Your essay should be a properly constructed ACADEMIC ESSAY. It
should contain an effective introduction, body and conclusion. The
introduction should introduce the essay and include your argument. The
introduction should reflect the task and provide purpose, scope and
context. The body should be the critical analysis where you present your
argument, which is supported throughout using the evidence you have
collected from your research, and the conclusion should restate your
argument, summarise the evidence, and make a conclusion regarding your
argument. The conclusion should link to the introduction.
The essay should contain a coherent, and appropriate critical review
of the academic literature across the issues you identify from the
statement. The literature review should be integrated throughout the
essay to evidence the critical analysis and develop your argument.
• DO NOT INCLUDE HEADINGS IN YOUR ESSAY.
• DO NOT INCLUDE AN ABSTRACT.
• DO NOT INCLUDE A TABLE OF CONTENTS.
A reference list is compulsory (and prepare according to the CQU APA Referencing Protocol). DO NOT include a bibliography.
This assessment item involves researching your assigned topic to
enhance your understanding of organisational change concepts and
utilisation of academic literature. The prescribed textbook for the UNIT
must be cited in relation to change management principles. You will be
expected to present information and evidence from, and cite, relevant
academic peer reviewed journal articles. You must undertake research
more broadly than articles posted on Moodle. The minimum to pass this
criterion [8/15] is EIGHT (8) scholarly references, which must include
the prescribed textbook, plus SEVEN (7) relevant academic peer reviewed
journal articles. The quality and number of citations will demonstrate
the breadth and depth of the literature used to formulate your argument.
It is not only about the number of references, but also it is about how
you use the content from your research. You can cite an article more
than once as appropriate to develop your argument. Keep your research
recent so sources from 2011 onwards, unless a defining moment in the
topic areas, or you are using the primary source articles of theories
and/or models.
Your marker is interested in the analysis that you have developed
from YOUR review of the literature and how well you use the literature
to respond to the topic. There should be minimal if any use of direct
quotes, and you should be paraphrasing, and of course referencing
throughout. The referencing must be appropriate and sufficient.
HRMT19020 – Managing Organisational Change
Assessment item 1 - Marking criteria for individual essay
Submissions will be assessed on the extent to which they meet each of the following criteria:
CONTENT: Does your essay demonstrate: Weighting
a thorough knowledge and critical analysis of the change management issues within a well-developed academic essay? 20%
a critical review of the academic literature relevant to the
identified change management issues, integrated effectively throughout
the essay to evidence the critical analysis? 20%
appropriateness of evidence-based responses relevant to the change management issues? 20%
appropriate use of argument, including a properly constructed introduction and comprehensive conclusion? 10%
relevant and accurate use of the academic literature? (Minimum to
pass this criterion [8/15] is EIGHT (8) scholarly references which must
include the prescribed textbook plus SEVEN (7) relevant academic peer
reviewed journals) 15%
Please let me know if you need something else
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