6BM500 Assessment Brief 2026 Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:  Critically evaluate current theoretical approaches in business psychology.

6BM500 Assessment Brief 2026

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to: 

1. Critically evaluate current theoretical approaches in business psychology.
2. Critically analyse the external factors that facilitate certain behaviour and change at the individual and team levels. 
3. Apply business psychology techniques and theories to understand real-life situations and dynamics in an organisational setting. 

This module discusses the emergence of psychology within business and management literature and the ways psychology is used in managerial practice and in the workplace. It introduces psychological theories and frameworks that can be applied in business context, including but not limited to the recruitment, attitudes, job satisfaction, communication, and learning. Students explore the role that psychology can play in individual and team motivation, the effects of organisational culture and change, as well as in maintaining work-life balance. A variety of techniques, tools, and practices will be discussed to develop a better understanding of the underpinning psychological drivers in leading and managing people, while building and maintaining positive professional relationships.

Assessment CW Details

6BM500 Assessment CW 1 – Essay

For your CW1, you will write an essay on ONE of the below listed topics:

1. How can organisational psychologists help organisations navigate the ethical challenges that arise from competitive pressures and economic downturns?

2. Evaluate the effectiveness of Lewin’s three-stage model of organisational change in today’s continuously evolving business environment. What alternative models might be more suitable?

3. Assess the potential of business psychologists as organisational leaders. How can they integrate psychology with other business disciplines to improve performance?

4. Critically discuss the psychological and social consequences of organisational change on employees and how business psychologists can mitigate resistance to change.

6BM500 Assessment CW 2 – Individual Report

In recent times, businesses globally have had to respond to several challenges, which has affected how they operate. Your task is to write an individual report following the guidance below:

1. Choose one or two major challenges which are currently impacting, or are expected to impact soon, on organisations. This could be an organisation you are currently working at, have worked in the past, or are interested in and can research on the Internet.

2. Evaluate the role of the business psychologist with respect to preparing, planning and helping the organisation in implementing the necessary changes.

3. You might consider aspects such as leadership, teams and conflict, values, motivation, learning and development, talent management, stress and well-being, among others. While you can choose to explore several of those, we recommend focusing on 2 maximum to enable to achieve sufficient depth of analysis.

4. Refer to concepts and models that you have learned throughout the module, providing examples, where applicable, to support your arguments.

5. Remember that high grades require demonstration of wider reading of academic literature on the topic, beyond the module reading list. Please remember to use references to academic sources throughout your assignment and in the Reference list in the Harvard style.

Relationship to Programme Assessment Strategy

This module aligns with the programme assessment strategy. You can view its relationship to the programme learning outcomes at level 6 in the validated programme specification. You can find a copy of this in the programme information section for (Bachelor or Arts (Honours) in Business Management (online) on blackboard.

Attributes and Skills 

It is recommended that you access the folder named Develop@Derby.  This will provide further support with respect to those listed in the table.

Formative Activities and Assessment

Formative activities and assessments are opportunities for you to apply, practice and make sense of the learning materials and content that you have encountered. These may take the form of individual tasks, such as reading some text or watching a video and documenting your reaction to it, responding to some discussion points on the discussion board, considering a case study, or participating in a live online classroom session. The main aim of formative activities is for you to receive feedback on your contribution or performance that will help you prepare for and complete your final module assessment. You will be given ONE opportunity to submit a summary of your ideas (or an outline) for Coursework 2 (up to 500 words). Please check with your module tutor for details.

6BM500 Assessment Rubric

Please refer to the assessment rubric in the module assessment folder within the module site.

Assessment AI-assistance

In this assessment AI-assistance is permitted in the following ways:

• You MAY use generative AI tools to help develop ideas and/or create a structure for inclusion in your written assessment.
• You MAY use AI tools to help identify appropriate academic sources to use within your written assessment.
• You MAY use AI tools to fix spelling, grammar and syntax issues in a presentation draft that you have written.
• You MAY use AI tools to receive feedback on your work so that you can enhance and improve your written assessment.

In this assessment AI-assistance should not be used for:

• You MAY NOT include invented references, such as those created by generative AI tools.
• You MAY NOT use AI Tools to produce the final version of your work or make inferences in your work.
• You MAY NOT use AI Tools to generate visualisations of your data (e.g., graphs).

It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check ALL information generated by generative AI tools. Any misuse of generative AI tools could be considered ethical academic misconduct (as per Academic Regulations, Academic Misconduct, Section J2). If in doubt, please consult your module leader.

Anonymous Marking

You must submit your work using your student number to identify yourself, not your name. You must not use your name in the text of the work at any point. When you submit your work in Turnitin you must submit your student number within the assignment document and in the Submission title field in Turnitin. Guidance is available showing how to do this.

Submissions in Turnitin and Blackboard

You must submit your work using your student number to identify yourself, not your name. You must not use your name in the text of the work at any point. When you submit your work in Turnitin you must submit your student number within the assignment document and in the Submission title field in Turnitin. Guidance is available showing how to do this.

Assessment Regulations

The University’s regulations, policies and procedures for students define the framework within which teaching and assessment are conducted. Please make sure you are familiar with these regulations, policies and procedures.