Microsoft Word - Asst 1 Progress Report MMH356 T1 2019.docx MMH356 – Change Management Trimester 2, 2019 Assignment 1: Progress Report DUE DATE AND TIME:Sunday 11 August, 2019, 11:59 PM PERCENTAGE OF FINAL GRADE:10 marks; 10% of final grade HURDLE DETAILS:None NUMBER OF WORDS:500 (+ or – 10%) Learning Outcome Details Unit Learning Outcome (ULO) Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO) ULO 1: Demonstrate a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of theoretical frameworks, key concepts and contemporary human resource and management issues associated with organisational change GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities ULO 2: Use digital technologies to locate and access information relevant to change in a real‐life organisation, and to then effectively communicate that account using a specified academic referencing style and specified professional report format GLO 3: Digital Literacy ULO 3: Critically describe, analyse and evaluate practical change‐ related behaviours, processes and outcomes by referring to organisational change theories and concepts GLO 4: Critical thinking Assessment Feedback: Students who submit their work by the due date will receive their marks and formative feedback on CloudDeakin before 30 August 2019, 11:59 PM. However, members of the Unit Team will make every effort by to provide these results one week earlier, in order to better assist students complete their Final Report assignment. Students who submit the Progress Report after the due date should expect to receive their results a few days after those released for on‐time submissions. Description / Requirements: Task Please write your Progress Report about ONE (1) of the following business organisations from the Stressbusters site: http://ezproxy.deakin.edu.au/login?qurl=https://edutv-informit-com-au.ezproxy-b.deakin.edu.au/watch-screen.php?videoID=26912: 1. W.A. Communications 2. Express Link 3. Swancare 4. RSPCA NB: the series was filmed several years ago, so ensure you analyse the organisation at that time (ie don’t research the organisations from a present day perspective). 1. Organisation profile: Identify the organisation you have chosen, its industry classification and its core business activities. (Include relevant citations; approx. 100 words; 1 mark) 2. Environmental forces (internal & external; driving and restraining): Identify and discuss the internal and external forces pushing change/hindering change. (Include relevant citations; approx. 150 words; 3 marks) 3. Cause/symptoms: Identify the presenting symptoms and determine what the actual cause is. (Include relevant citations; approx. 100 words; 2 marks) 4. Diagnostic model: As this is a progress report where you take the research and findings from Ass 1 into Ass2, it is expected that you will read and understand the requirements for Ass 2. Select one diagnostic model from the unit content (it is expected that you will use this model for Ass 2); provide a rationale for the use of this model and why it is appropriate for the organisation? (Include relevant citations; approx. 150 words; 3 marks) 5. References/citations: Provide accurate in‐text citations for all responses: · using the Harvard Deakin Guide to Referencing · for ALL ideas obtained from ALL sources · for direct quotations, AND/OR paraphrases or summaries written in your own words · citations are not included in the task indicative word counts Provide full reference details for a total of four (4) academic sources and four (4) non‐academic sources, all of which are relevant to your Progress Report. These must include all sources cited in the Progress Report, and may be later used in your Final Report. Present these sources as ONE list using the Harvard Deakin Guide to Referencing (1 mark) Description / Requirements: Presentation Your Progress Report must: · be submitted using the Progress Report template supplied on CloudDeakin; · be submitted in MS Word .doc or .docx format (NOT .pdf or .pages); · include total word counts where indicated in the template; and · meet specified total word count (not including template questions, citations or references) · Page 2 of 6 Submission Instructions 1. Save your assignment as a Word file (.doc or .docx) with a file name which includes your ID number, unit code plus the name of the assessment task. e.g.StudentID_MMH356_Progress Report 2. Click on the Assignment Submission Dropbox within MMH356 on CloudDeakin to declare that the Progress Report is totally your own work and submit your assignment. 3. Check carefully to confirm that your report was submitted and received correctly. Submission Conditions · Assignments are on time if they are submitted via CloudDeakin before the due date/time. · You may resubmit your assignment, at any time up until the due date/time. · Do not, under any circumstance, email your assignment to the Unit Chair or Cloud Co‐ordinator. It will not be assessed. · Requests for Special Consideration, extensions or variation to the assignment task will be considered only if caused by some unexpected, unpredictable and unavoidable event AND supported by documentation. Requests and documentation must be emailed to the Unit Chair (
[email protected]) before the assignment due date. · Late submissions without extensions will be accepted up until five days after the due date/time, with 5% of available marks deducted per day late; the late penalty in MMH356 is calculated as follows: · 1 day late: submitted one hour late after 11.59pm Sunday on due date but before Monday 11.59pm – 5% penalty. · 2 days late: submitted after 11.59pm Sunday of the due date but before Tuesday 11.59pm – 10% penalty. · 3 days late: submitted after 11.59pm Sunday of the due date but before Wednesday 11.59pm – 15% penalty. · 4 days late: submitted after 11.59pm Sunday of the due date but before Thursday 11.59pm – 20% penalty. · 5 days late: submitted after 11.59pm Sunday of the due date but before Friday 11.59pm – 25% penalty. · Plagiarism declaration: By clicking on the SUBMIT button to submit your assignment, you are declaring that the work is entirely your own, except where material quoted or paraphrased is acknowledged in the text by use of quotation marks and citations where appropriate. You are also declaring that it has not been submitted for assessment by any other student or by you in any other unit or course. Assignment Results Your report results, rubric scores and feedback will normally become available in the Assignment Folder in CloudDeakin within 15 business days of the due date, although the unit team will make every effort to release results for the Progress Report within 10 business days. If you have been granted an extension for the assignment, your score and feedback may be released later than for on‐time submissions. Before results are returned to students, the unit team will moderate the marking process to ensure that the same marking standards are applied to all students within the unit and to check all assignments for plagiarism using Turnitin software. Marking penalties will be applied to reports which contain evidence of plagiarism, collusion or other forms of cheating. If any student believes an error has been made in the marking of their assignment and wishes to request a review, they must (1) email the Unit Chair (
[email protected]), from their Deakin email account, within 5 working days of the CloudDeakin release of marks, and (2): (i) attach e‐copies of their assignment and their completed Grade Form Rubric; (ii) identify the specific rubric criterion involved; (iii) explain why their work should have received a higher score for that criterion; and (iv) support their claim by referring to specific evidence from their assignment. Receiving a disappointing result is not a justification for review. In the rare case of a report being granted a review, the reviewed score will be final. That score may increase, decrease or remain unchanged from the original.