Assessment 2
Task overview
- Course learning outcome assessed
- CLO1 Explain the dynamics of employee engagement and the value it can provide to both employees and the organisation.
- CLO2 Discuss approaches used to cultivate engaged employee.
- CLO3 Use reflective thinking in relation to one’s own engagement experiences to inform responses to future work experiences.
Task Rationale
This assessment provides opportunities that to critically evaluate personal experiences and preferences to clarify fit with potential employers and opportunities. Developing a few guidelines about ‘how to engage me at work’ will help you to assess your potential fit with career and employment opportunities.
Task description
A piece of reflective writing drawn from the content appearing in Topics 2 to 5 that covers reasons for, and approaches to, cultivating EE. This reflection is designed to help you develop a response to the statement: ‘What I need to be engaged at work’.
Task details
Select a personally significant learning highlight from Topic 2: Why EE is important, Topic 3: Organisational and Global Approaches to EE, Topic 4: The Psychological Climate for EE, and Topic 5: Trust and an Integrated Approach to Facilitating EE.
Reflect on how your weekly learning highlight informs your personal beliefs about the conditions that you need to be a fully engaged employee that contributes towards organisational goals.
1. You will end up with 4 x separate reflections (one per Topic), approximately 500 words each. Use headings to label each reflection.
2. Write in the first person. Write in sentences and paragraphs.
3. Use the following DIEP (describe, interpret, evaluate, plan) approach to reflective writing.
Describe
Begin by describing the aspect of the learning that you found personally interesting from that week’s Topic. Be objective and deliver the facts.
Examples of starting phrases:
Interpret why that learning highlight appealed to you, i.e., How does this learning insight connect with other things you know, learned, believe or experienced before? How did the insight make you feel? Why is this personally relevant to you?
Examples of starting phrases:
• This idea is relevant to me because…
• This reminded me of the idea that…
• I think this information was valuable because
Make a judgement about the impact that learning highlight will have for you. How useful was this insight for you? Why do you think this might be?
Examples of starting phrases
• I think that the implication of this information is …..
• Having realised the importance of …, I can now understand…
• This experience will change the way I view …
• Being able to see… in this way is extremely valuable for my EE because…
This final stage of each of these 4 reflections effectively represent your response to the statement: ‘How to engage me at work’. In this section of each reflection, describe how you could apply what you’ve learned in the future? How might the insight relate to your future professional life? Here, you need to comment on how this insight can inform future tactics you could employ (such as thoughts, actions, suggestions for others) to enhance your capacity to be an engaged employee.
Examples of starting phrases
• This insight (idea) is beneficial to me as my future career requires…
• In order to further develop my sense of engagement …I will…
• It would be helpful for my supervisor to know …
• It would be helpful for my work colleagues to know…
For inspiration, the following questions may assist you to launch into identify a learning highlight from each Topic that is personally relevant to you. These questions are for inspiration only, you are free to identify any insight from each topic that resonates with you:
Topics 2: Why is important
• Are there external factor(s) that capture an aspect of your personal situation and how it influences your sense of EE?
• What positive associations do you have with EE in terms of your job, wellbeing, or its impact on other work-related attitudes?
• At the organisational level, what things can it do that will make you engaged?
Topic 3: Organisational and Global Approaches
- Due to its size and nature are the organisational drivers that you have experienced more aligned to a hard or soft EE philosophy/a disconnected vs connected organisation?
- Have you only ever experienced EE from a transactional (as opposed to a transformational) perspective? Is flexible and/or remote working something that appeals to you?
How does your culture and cultural heritage align with the identified universal EE drivers’ and culturally universal leadership styles conducive to EE? is EE for you affected by the fact that you work in or have a preference to work in – or volunteer to work in – the non-profit sector?
Topic 4: The Psychological Climate for EE
• What psychological conditions are most important to you?
Topic 5: Trust and an Integrated Approach to Facilitating EE
• What key engagement principles do you find most indicative of how you become engaged at work?
• What makes you trust people at work?
Level 1 – AI Assisted Structure Checking
Description: Students may use Artificial intelligence (AI) tools to organise and check the structure and flow of their Assessment Item. This includes grammar checks, coherence, and flow of arguments but excludes using AI to generate new text and/or new content.
Additional Information Required: Indicate the AI tool(s) used for structure checking at the beginning of the Assessment Item and include the prompts you have used. Save copies of your drafts and content before/after AI was used, to produce upon request.
Example of a reasonable prompt for Level 1
- Proofread this article/paragraph/sentence using Australian English for clarity, grammar and punctuation. Do not change anything. Instead, separately list the suggested changes you would make to my draft.
- Example of inappropriate prompts for Level 1:
- Give me a first draft as the start of a personal reflection about the psychological climate for creating employee engagement.
- Here is a draft of my personal reflections about what I need to feel engaged at work, how can I improve my article so that it makes good reference to theory?