MPM755 – Building Success in Commerce – Trimester 1 2023
Assessment Task 3 – Reflection (Self) – Individual Assessment
DUE DATE: Friday, 2nd June 2023, by 8:00pm (Melbourne time)
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL GRADE: 20%
WORD COUNT: 1,500 words
Description
To continue to develop yourself personally and professionally throughout your career, it is essential to regularly reflect on your contribution, performance, and effectiveness in the tasks you undertake and the projects and initiatives in which you are involved. Such professional self-Assessment enables you to continue to learn from both achievements and disappointments, and thus helps facilitate your ongoing development as a business professional.
This assessment task requires you to engage in a disciplined, critical self-reflection of your developing self-management skills and capabilities, your team (including leadership) skills, and your evolving awareness of the skills related to be an effective global citizen. Note that work which is entirely or largely descriptive is unlikely to achieve a satisfactory grade. So, carefully follow the advice included in the CloudDeakin site on writing reflectively. You need to reflect analytically, conceptually, and pedagogically to self-evaluate and establish what you have learned through the tasks in this unit. To finish, you should then demonstrate how you plan to apply what you have learned in the future.
Key graduate learning outcomes:
Self-management skills. Self-Management is, your ability to plan for your own employability/professional skill development, to monitor and evaluate your development across the course of the experience and reflect on it.
Teamwork skills. Teamwork means your capacity to work collegially and productively with a range of stakeholders (teams and client). As postgraduate students you should also reflect on your Leadership Skills. Leadership is about helping a team achieve a common goal. Leadership does not mean that you have to be ‘in charge’ or be the person making all the decisions. A good leader motivates and inspires, is a good listener, is a role model and helps create a strong and cohesive team to ensure the team achieves its goals and vision.
Global citizenship describes a way of thinking, acting, relating, and responding to socio-cultural elements. It’s based on understanding the ‘self’ in relation to ‘others’ within the local and broader community and discipline. In this unit, we are focused on engaging ethically and productively in the professional context and with diverse communities and cultures in a global context. understand the interdependency of events/situations/issues and conditions from a local and global perspective
You are expected to support and substantiate your claims and reflections with specific examples and evidence. You can provide citations from relevant academic and non-academic sources. Specific Requirements
You are required to write a self-reflection of your actions and behaviours in relation to the three graduate learning outcomes outlined below. For each outcome, you must write reflectively to describe your specific experience, and then reflectively analyse and apply your learning from that experience.
Reflect on how you took responsibility and accountability for your own actions in working in teams in assessment task 2. Reflect on what you did well, and areas where you could improve. This could include elements of self-management, such as your use of initiative, time management, resilience, and adaptability. Were different self-management skills required in each of the tasks? What would you do differently if given the opportunity?
Reflect on your actions as a team member in completion of the group project. For example, what team roles did you take, what leadership actions did you undertake, how did you resolve conflict, how did you negotiate outcomes? Explain how you developed your leadership skills through the experiences. What would you do differently if given the opportunity?
Reflect on how you considered ethics, cultural factors and/or sustainability in the completion of assessment task 1, and/or assessment task 2. Are you satisfied that you considered these factors sufficiently in your work within this unit? Justify your response. What could you do differently in the future?
Your reflection should be at a professional standard and include a very brief Introduction and Conclusion (approximately 75 words each), but there is no need to provide a Table of Contents or an Executive Summary. There is no standard way for you to present your reflection. You should include pertinent evidence to support your reflection and claims. You may wish to cite relevant academic and non-academic sources.
This is a reflection, so research is usually not required. However, if you use ideas from another source, you must recognise this source in text and in a reference. Learning Outcomes
This task allows you to demonstrate your achievement towards the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) which have been aligned to the Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs). Deakin GLOs describe the knowledge and capabilities graduates acquire and can demonstrate on completion of their course. This assessment task is an important tool in determining your achievement of the ULOs. If you do not demonstrate achievement of the ULOs you will not be successful in this unit. You are advised to familiarise yourself with these ULOs and GLOs as they will inform you on what you are expected to demonstrate for successful completion of this unit.
The learning outcomes that are aligned to this assessment task are:
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
ULO 4 Reflect on your personal learning journey and professional skills development. GLO6: Self-Management
ULO 5 Identify and reflect on approaches to decision-making and how successful business growth is undertaken in a global context incorporating responsible business practices and cultural factors. GLO8: Global citizenship
Submission
You must submit your assignment in the Assignment Dropbox in the unit CloudDeakin site on or before the due date. When uploading your assignment, name your document using the following syntax: surname_your first name_your Deakin student ID number_[unitcode].doc (or ‘.docx’). For example, ‘Jones_Barry_123456789_ABC123.doc’.
Submitting a hard copy of this assignment is not required. You must keep a backup copy of every assignment you submit until the marked assignment has been returned to you. In the unlikely event that one of your assignments is misplaced you will need to submit your backup copy.
Any work you submit may be checked by electronic or other means for the purposes of detecting collusion and/or plagiarism and for authenticating work.
When you submit an assignment through your CloudDeakin unit site, you will receive an email to your Deakin email address confirming that it has been submitted. You should check that you can see your assignment in the Submissions view of the Assignment Dropbox folder after upload and check for, and keep, the email receipt for the submission.
Marking and feedback
The marking rubric indicates the assessment criteria for this task. It is available in the CloudDeakin unit site in the Assessment folder, under Assessment Resources. Criteria act as a boundary around the task and help specify what assessors are looking for in your submission. The criteria are drawn from the ULOs and align with the GLOs. You should familiarise yourself with the assessment criteria before completing and submitting this task. Students who submit their work by the due date will receive their marks and feedback on CloudDeakin 15 working days after the submission date.
Extensions
Extensions can only be granted for exceptional and/or unavoidable circumstances outside of your control. Requests for extensions must be made by 12 noon on the submission date using the online Extension Request form under the Assessment tab on the unit CloudDeakin site. All requests for extensions should be supported by appropriate evidence (e.g., a medical certificate in the case of ill health).
Applications for extensions after 12 noon on the submission date require University level special consideration and these applications must be must be submitted via StudentConnect in your DeakinSync site.
Late submission penalties
If you submit an assessment task after the due date without an approved extension or special consideration, 5% will be deducted from the available marks for each day after the due date up to seven days*. Work submitted more than seven days after the due date will not be marked and will receive 0% for the task. The Unit Chair may refuse to accept a late submission where it is unreasonable or impracticable to assess the task after the due date. *’Day’ means calendar day for electronic submissions and working day for paper submissions.
An example of how the calculation of the late penalty based on an assignment being due on a Thursday at 8:00pm is as follows:
1 day late: submitted after Thursday 11:59pm and before Friday 11:59pm– 5% penalty.
2 days late: submitted after Friday 11:59pm and before Saturday 11:59pm – 10% penalty.
• 3 days late: submitted after Saturday 11:59pm and before Sunday 11:59pm – 15% penalty.
• 4 days late: submitted after Sunday 11:59pm and before Monday 11:59pm – 20% penalty.
• 5 days late: submitted after Monday 11:59pm and before Tuesday 11:59pm – 25% penalty.
6 days late: submitted after Tuesday 11:59pm and before Wednesday 11:59pm – 30% penalty.
7 days late: submitted after Wednesday 11:59pm and before Thursday 11:59pm – 35% penalty.
The Dropbox closes the Thursday after 11:59pm AEST/AEDT time.
Support
The Division of Student Life provides a range of Study Support resources and services, available throughout the academic year, including Writing Mentor and Maths Mentor online drop ins and the SmartThinking 24 hour writing feedback service at this link. If you would prefer some more in depth and tailored support, make an appointment online with a Language and Learning Adviser.
Referencing and Academic Integrity
Deakin takes academic integrity very seriously. It is important that you (and if a group task, your group) complete your own work in every assessment task Any material used in this assignment that is not your original work must be acknowledged as such and appropriately referenced. You can find information about referencing (and avoiding breaching academic integrity) and other study support resources at the following website: http://www.deakin.edu.au/students/study-support
Your rights and responsibilities as a student
As a student you have both rights and responsibilities. Please refer to the document Your rights and responsibilities as a student in the Unit Guide & Information section in the Content area in the CloudDeakin unit site.
The rubric is on the following page MPM755 Assessment Task 1 Rubric T1 2023
Performance levels: Indicators used to determine scores
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Reflect on self-management skills:
a. Describe your experience in working in teams in assessment task 2, highlighting your actions, behaviors, and contributions.
b. Analyze your self-management skills, such as your use of initiative, time management, resilience, and adaptability. Reflect on what you did well in terms of self-management and areas where you could improve.
c. Discuss whether different self-management skills were required for each task and provide specific examples.
d. Reflect on what you would do differently if given the opportunity, considering how you could enhance your self-management skills in future team projects.
Reflect on actions as a team member in the group project:
a. Explain the team roles you took on and the leadership actions you undertook in the completion of the group project.
b. Reflect on your experience in resolving conflicts and negotiating outcomes within the team.
c. Analyze how your leadership skills developed through these experiences, discussing specific instances and examples.
d. Reflect on what you would do differently if given the opportunity, focusing on areas for improvement in your team member and leadership roles.
Reflect on considering ethics, cultural factors, and/or sustainability:
a. Discuss how you considered ethics, cultural factors, and/or sustainability in the completion of assessment task 1 and/or assessment task 2. Provide specific examples of how these factors influenced your work.
b. Evaluate whether you are satisfied with your level of consideration for these factors in your work within the unit, justifying your response.
c. Reflect on what you could do differently in the future to further enhance your consideration of ethics, cultural factors, and sustainability in your work.
Remember to support your claims and reflections with specific examples and evidence. You may cite relevant academic and non-academic sources if necessary. Pay attention to the word count limit of 1,500 words and ensure your reflection is at a professional standard.
