ORG20003 Organisational Behaviour Assignment 1: Analytical Essay

 

Word limit: 1500 (+/- 10%)

Weighting: 20%

Deadline: As per Required

 

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Assignment overview

 

This assignment aims to test and develop your understanding of Organisational Behaviour concepts further by asking you to research one of the topics below. In presenting this assignment you should thoroughly explore some key aspects of the given topic using not only the prescribed textbook but also other relevant academic sources.
This assignment supports unit learning outcomes 1 and 2.

 

Assignment details

 

Write an essay on one of the topics below:

 

Topic 1: The organisational consequences of work-life balance have become an important issue for organisations today. It is believed that balancing a successful career with a personal/family life can be challenging and impact on an individual’s satisfaction in his/her work. Discuss these statements.

Topic 2: In recent decades, increasing changes in the content and organisation of work have resulted in an intensification of work, which is regarded as a cause of stress.

What are the effects of this job stress, in particular, on an employee’s wellbeing and job satisfaction? And how can these effects be prevented?

Topic 3: Much attention has been paid to the belief that working in groups will yield greater productivity than individuals working alone. The increasingly global nature of organisations has made groups comprised of individuals from different cultural backgrounds commonplace. Thus employees are being confronted with co-workers of diverse cultural and socio-demographic backgrounds. Discuss the impact of this phenomenon on effort levels of group members and the implications for organisations.

Topic 4: Critically evaluate the use of key motivational theories in increasing employee engagement. In your answer, use examples to support your arguments and consider the practical application of the theories relative to improving employee engagement within the organisation.

 

You need to analyse the findings of your research and show their relevance to the topic and present academically convincing answers to the topic question. Any references made to supporting literature should be incorporated in to the general body of the essay.

This is an academic research essay, so academic journal articles should be your primary resource.

• You are required to critically analyse the essay topic and find supportive evidence for your answer. In answering the topic, you must do the following:
  Use at least six (6) academic sources. These may be journal articles and/or textbooks.
  Do not use any unreliable materials sourced from the internet. It is important that you use academic references, such as scholarly peer-reviewed articles, as distinct from
  journalistic and industrial accounts or documents.
• Do not include more than 10% of the word count in direct quotes from your sources. You should paraphrase from sources you are using.
• You do not need to use headings but please present your essay in the following sequence:
  • Introduction.
  • Discussion.
  • Conclusion.
  • References.

• Use Swinburne Harvard-style referencing. You may refer to the S winburne Harvard
  style guide for assistance.

 

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Assignment criteria

 

1. Context of and purpose for writing.
2. Content development.
3. Genre and attention to detail.
4. Sources and evidence.
5. Grammar and expression.

Your work will be assessed using the following marking guide:

 

Criteria	No Pass	Pass 50-59%	Credit 60-69%	Distinction 70-79%	High Distinction 80-100%
Context of	Did not	Demonstrates	Demonstrates	Demonstrates	Demonstrates a
and purpose	meet	consideration	awareness of	an	thorough
for writing	criterion.	of context,	context,	understanding	understanding of
(20%)		audience, and	audience,	of context,	context,
		purpose.	and purpose	audience, and	audience, and
		Submission	of the	purpose of the	purpose of the
		covers the	assignment.	assignment.	assignment.
		majority of the	Submission	Submission is	Submission is
		required	covers all	responsive to	responsive to
		elements.	required	the assigned	the assigned
			elements.	task(s) and	task(s) and
				covering all	comprehensively
				expected	and competently
				elements.	covers all
					elements.
Content development (20%)	Did not meet criterion.	Uses appropriate and relevant content to develop simple ideas throughout the assignment.	Uses appropriate and relevant content to develop and explore ideas through the assignment.	Uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling discipline related content to explore ideas and shape the content of the assignment.	Uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of the assignment topic, conveying the writer’s understanding, and shaping the whole assignment.

 

Criteria	No Pass	Pass 50-59%	Credit 60-69%	Distinction 70-79%	High Distinction 80-100%
Genre and attention to detail (20%)	Did not meet criterion.	Attempts to use a consistent system for basic organisation and presentation.	Follows expectations appropriate to the assigned task as such as organisation, content, and presentation.	Demonstrates consistent use of important conventions particular to the assigned task, including organisation, content, presentation, and stylistic choices.	Demonstrates detailed attention to and successful execution of a wide range of conventions particular to the assigned task including organisation, content, presentation, formatting, and stylistic choices.
Sources and	Did not	Demonstrates	Demonstrates	Demonstrates	Demonstrates
evidence	meet	an attempt to	effective use	consistent use	skilful use of
(20%)	criterion.	use credible	of appropriate	of credible,	high-quality,
		and/or relevant	and relevant	relevant	credible,
		sources to	sources to	sources to	relevant sources
		support ideas	support ideas	support ideas	to develop ideas
		that are	that are	that are	that are
		appropriate for	situated	situated within	appropriate for
		the discipline	within the	the discipline	the discipline
		and genre of	discipline and	and genre of	and genre of the
		the writing.	genre of the	the writing.	writing.
			writing.
Grammar	Did not	Uses	Uses	Uses	Uses
and	meet	straightforward	language that	expressive	sophisticated,
expression	criterion.	language that	generally	and	expressive and
(20%)		generally	conveys	appropriate	appropriate
		conveys	meaning to	business	business
		meaning to	readers with	language that	language that
		readers. The	clarity.	competently	skilfully
		language is	Attention to	communicates	communicates
		understandable	detail is	meaning to	meaning to
		but there may	evident.	readers with	readers
		be room for		clarity and	eloquently and is
		grammatical		fluency and is	grammatically
		improvement.		grammatically	error free.
				correct.

 

 

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