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MGT1000 Organisational Behaviour and Management Assessment
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ASSIGNMENT 2
Description Marks out of Wtg(%) Due date
Assignment 100 25% 08 May 2015
FORMAT FOR THE ASSIGNMENT
Please note I have created a template for Assignment 2 and placed it on the StudyDesk with
other assessment relevant materials. You will incur a penalty if you do not format your
assignment as indicated by the template. Please use the template to ensure you do not lose
marks unnecessarily.
The template includes the marking criteria sheet, a cover sheet, space for the three parts of this
assignment, a List of References as well as other essential information about the presentation
expectations for your assignment.
One of the reasons I made the template was so that we would not have to waste time discussing
presentation issues. If you do have a question about the presentation of your assignment please
refer to the template before you ask. The answer will probably be provided by the template.
ASSIGNMENT 2 DETAILS
The aims of this assignment are to assist you to
? learn about yourself from your life experiences and
? apply theory to your life experiences.
The assignment has three parts.
Part 1 - The incident
Part 1 of the assignment – titled ‘The incident’ – asks you to write up an incident from your life
which relates to one or more of the theories covered in Module 09 Conflict, power and politics.
This section of your assignment is to be written up 'objectively' as a kind of case study in which
you detail what you said, did and thought at each point of this incident as the incident unfolded.
Part 1 of the assignment is to be 500 words (+/- 10% allowance of the word count) in length
and is worth 30% of the marks for this assignment. (For additional guidelines on how to write
up your incident refer to Lecture 02.01 and Tutorial 02.01).
Part 2 –Personal reflections on the incident
The second part of the assignment – titled ‘Personal reflections’ – asks you to engage in a more
personal and introspective form of reflection on the incident your wrote up. You are asked to
identify some new insights into yourself. Specifically you are asked to identify previously
unidentified personal strengths of yours that are worth cultivating and or previously
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unidentified (and possibly unhelpful) assumptions you have made that relate to for example
your approach to workplace power, workplace politics and or workplace conflicts.
Part 2 of the assignment is to be 300 words (10% +/–allowance on the word count) in length
and is worth 20% of the marks available for this paper. (For additional guidelines on how to
write up your personal reflection on the incident refer to Lecture 02.02 and Tutorial 02.02).
Part 3 –Applying theory to the incident
The third part of this assignment – titled ‘Applying theory to the incident’ – asks you to briefly
respond to 5 questions about theory on workplace power, workplace politics and or workplace
conflicts. Answering these questions will prepare you to then write a 300 word paper in which
you apply theory about workplace power or workplace politics and or workplace conflicts to
your incident.
There is no word length specified for the responses to questions 1 – 5 although each response
should be brief, no more than a couple of sentences each. The short answer component of this
part of the assignment is to be 300 words (+/- 10% allowance of the word count) in length. Part
3 of this assignment is worth 50% of the marks for this assignment. (For additional guidelines
on how to apply theory to a scenario refer to Lecture 03.01 and Tutorial 03.01).
ASSIGNMENT 2 MARKING ALLOCATIONS
Part 1 of the assignment – titled ‘The incident’ – is marked out of 30 marks. Part 2 of the
assignment – titled ‘Personal reflections on the incident’ – is marked out of 20 marks. Part 3 of
the assignment titled – titled ‘Applying theory to the incident’ – is marked out of 50 marks; 10
marks for your responses to the 5 questions and 40 marks for your short essay applying theory
to your incident. Please note students may have up to 5 marks deducted from their total mark
for this assignment if they do not use the assignment 2 template. The assignment is marked
out of 100 marks in total and is worth 25% of the total marks available for this course.
EXEMPLAR ASSIGNMENT 2 OF A DISTINCTION STANDARD - USING
PERSONALITY THEORY
Part 1 - The incident (length 543 words)
This case study incident focuses on my reactions to my computer rebooting itself and deleting
all my files after half of my assignment had been completed approximately 1 week before the
due date.
It was the day after I had completed the first part of my assignment and I felt like I had achieved
some sort of progress so I decided to take a break from study because the assignment readings
and writing part 1 had taken their toll on me and my head started to ache. Doing my first
assignment in eight years had me stressed and thinking that maybe I should not be at university.
I went back to the computer to continue my assignment only to find that my computer had
turned itself off. “This is just a minor setback” I assured myself and continued to power up my
laptop.
When the laptop had finished booting it was stuck on a blue screen with a window prompting
me to insert an operations disc because my hard drive was corrupt. My heart sank and I started