RECENT ASSIGNMENT

2. Research Paper 1: Assessment criteria
Weighting: Length/Limit: TOTAL 15%
Maximum of 1,000 words (Due: Friday, Week 7)
THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT.
Each week, you are required to engage with the material by writing a short discussion of how the material relates to the topic(s) of this subject and how it relates to your own personal experience.
You create a blog each week, providing evidence that you have reviewed and engaged with the e-learning activity.
These blogs are assessed in the following way:
1. Blogs are spot checked by your lecturer.
2. By the end of Week 6, students choose their best two blogs and submit them as an
assignment (due Friday Week 6).
Each blog should be in two sections:
Section 1 — List the key ideas you have extracted from the e-learning activity.
Section 2 - Apply those ideas to your own experience or to an organisation you are familiar with.
The written report of your two best blogs needs to be 1Y:spaced and has a 1,000 word limit.
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H16005 Discussion Board - Weekl
In your blog, you should address the following two sections:
(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.
(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.
Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking.
Activity 1: Ford and Taylorism
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=8PdmNbqtDdl
Questions to consider:
1. Would workers in Australia, America or Europe accept the Taylorism in this form today?
2. Consider the design of scripts for use in Call Centres, can you see Taylorism in that? Explain.
3. This 'clip' is showing history from 100 years ago. Some would say that 'the world has moved on' and these ideas are out of date. However, could there be parts of the world today for which these ideas might
be just what they need? Explain.
Activity 2: Holacracy
URL: Zappos just abolished bosses. Inside tech's latest management craze. http://www.vox.com/2014/7/11/5876235/silicon-valleys-latest-management-craze-holacracy-explained
Questions to consider:
What's your understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-based structure?
2. Discuss how Contingency Factors of
Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?
In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?