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HRM60019 Work and Organizational Behaviour Semester 1, 2020 Assignment Three: How do my leadership behaviours impact on my own and my subordinates subsequent attitudes and behaviours? Due date: 08 Nov, 2020 by 11:59 pm AEST Length: 3000 ± 200 words Assessment weighting: 50% Assessment: Individual Assessment type: Reflective report Related ULOs: 1,2,3 Introduction A key focus of this unit is developing your capacity for learning through reflection on your real-life experiences. Your Reflective experiences would be a detailed record of some of your key experiences (we call them critical incidents) and of your reflections on those experiences. For our purposes, a critical incident is an experience that you have in real time, involving other people (one or more), in which you attempt to influence the other person(s). Being able to capture your critical incidents in your report and reflect on them to gain insight and to draw conclusions is a very important capability. Your reflective report will contribute significantly to your learning in this unit. In your Reflective essay, you will: · Reflect on your perceptions, cognitions, and behaviour and their impact on others. · Clearly demonstrate that ideas/concepts from relevant theory have been used to deepen your sense making or understanding. · Outline the specific actions you might take to confirm or to change your behavior in future. · Outline what type of experience might tell you that you have succeeded or are succeeding in making your change (your indicators of success). · To help you with this task, a method of systematically reflecting on your experience and developing action based on that reflection is outlined in the reflection guide on page 3 of this document. Assessment task In assignment three, you are required to create a reflective report in which you address the following question: How do my perceptions of my own leadership styles impact on my own and my subordinate’s subsequent attitudes and behaviours? Are these leadership styles sensitive to subordinate characteristics? If so, in what ways? What are the learning lessons for me? Am I more of ‘contemporary leader’? Can I change my leadership style to adapt more to the needs of the environment and the people I lead? In addressing this question, you should demonstrate: · You have explored the relevant literature around · Traditional and contemporary theories of leadership · factors affecting leadership such as situation, stimulus, culture/climate, management, individual factors etc · outcomes of leadership styles · mechanisms linking antecedents and outcomes of leadership · that you have explored, assessed and reflected upon your behaviours · that you understand management roles in relation to working with and supervising others i.e. how your understanding of development and consequences of leadership styles would impact your behaviour as a manager. Please read some more information on assignment 3 below in conjunction with the information provided above: 1. Develop clear aims and rationale for the assignment and provide information on how the report would be structured. 2. You should use reflective writing and also engage with academic material/ discussions conducted throughout the unit. In drafting your reflective piece, you may present a record of observations/insights/conversations/findings or anything else of relevance as you undertake the unit – these are known as artefacts and can include photographs, cartoons, visual images, YouTube clips, or other material to support your reflection. For example, you can insert visual images such as photographs/pictures into your report to demonstrate or illustrate particular points or experiences. You might also find that reference to a particular video clip provides a good way of articulating your point. 3. Use and apply OB theory learnt in the unit to support various parts of the assignment. Critical analyses of the relevant concepts is important. Please note an essential component of the assessment is literature review surrounding the topic which may not have been covered during class discussions. 4. A succinct and clear line of argumentations should be evident throughout the report and be supported by choice of artefacts/observations and key theories. 5. The report should indicate what site well between your personal reflections and the theory and what doesn’t (if at all). 6. The conclusion should summarize the main aims of the assignment, highlight the key arguments made, and tie the various sections of the assignment together. Reflection Guide Part 1: Picture yourself in the situation and try to recapture the key elements What was the context? • Who were you trying to influence? Why? What was your external behaviour at the time? • What did you do? What did you say? How did you sound? What was your internal behaviour at the time? • What did you think at the time? What did you feel? What were you most aware of? Part 2: What are your reflections now, looking back at the situation? What were your action tendencies and intentions? • What did you think you were trying to achieve at the time? What did you avoid doing? • What did you think your real intentions were? What was your default routine? • What did you do when the first thing you tried didn’t work? What did you do after that? And after that? And after that? Name your Default Routine. • What core strengths and qualities of yours were you using well? • What do you think you were trying to achieve at the time? What did you avoid doing? What was your impact? • What impact did you have? What did you notice were the reactions of other people? What were your challenges at the time? • What was most challenging for you at the time? Why? Part 3: What is your reflection on your reflection? • What were the things you missed at the time that you are aware of now? • What do think you do really well that you should do more of? • What are you still uncomfortable or unsure about? What’s holding you back? Part 4: How do diagnostics, feedback and ideas from literature help you to understand your default routine? • What does the literature say about your default routines? • How does the literature create new options for you? Be specific. • What does feedback from others tell you? Part 5: Mini-experiment plan: What do you plan to do differently in the future to inhibit your default routine? • Plan a real time mini-experiment for you where you will try and influence someone in real time while trying to control your default routine. • Who will you try to influence? About what? • What circuit breakers will you use if you want to interrupt your default routine? • What will you try to do differently or better once your default routine has been interrupted? Specifically, how will your internal and external behaviour be different? What outcomes will be achieved that are different? 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If your assignment goes astray, whether your fault or ours, you will be required to reproduce it. • The assignment should be in one Microsoft Word compatible document and should be written in 12-point font size (e.g., Times New Roman, Garamond) and should use double spacing between each line. • Pages of the assignment should have footers which include your name, student ID, unit code, assignment title and page numbers. • It is expected that all work submitted has been edited for spelling, grammar and clarity. • The standard procedure is that assignments will be marked up to the specified word count only. • The word count does not include the table of contents, title page, reference list or appendices. • Any appendices are only to contain supplementary/supporting material. They are not to contain material that is essential to achieving the assignment criteria. Marking criteria A rubric, provided at the end of this document, will be used to assess your work. Referencing You must use the Swinburne Harvard referencing style throughout your assignment and include a reference list, not a biography, at the end of the assessment. Extensions and late submission Please read the section on extensions and late submission in the Unit Outline. Plagiarism Please read the section on plagiarism in the Unit Outline. Assignment help If you have any queries or concerns, you may discuss them with the convenor and/or instructor in the Canvas discussion board in the appropriate discussion forum or by email. Technical help Technical assistance can be obtained from the Swinburne Service Desk:
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