TASK
The first assessment will showcase your ability to examine a change in an organization. You will use your critical analysis skills on your chosen company preferably your workplace and explore how the organization responded to a particular change scenario.
Minimum four scholarly references are required for this assignment.
COVID-19 has resulted in making changes in most organizations. Prepare a maximum of a 10-minute video presentation from your experiences of change at the workplace due to COVID-19. Discuss the following in your presentation:
- What was the change and how was it implemented?
- Was the change accepted among the stakeholders? Provide some insights.
- Was it an effective change? How? If the change was not effective, then could you think of an innovative solution that could have resulted in a better outcome?
- Does your organisation have values that facilitate change? Discuss.
- Were there any ethical concerns around the change?
Prepare a video or voice presentation supported by PowerPoint slides no longer than 10-minutes in duration. Support your argument with four recent academic and professional sources of information.
Create a maximum of eight slides in the following manner:
- a title slide
- up to six slides for the three questions, and
- a final slide that has a list of references to support your argument
Flexible Assessment Submission
The ASSIST study planner tool is available with this subject to support the assessment process. This tool provides information about the submission flexibility of assessment tasks and is a way to organise adjustments to submission dates. A link to ASSIST can be found on this subject site.
RATIONALE
SUBJECT LEARNING OUTCOMES
This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:
- be able to identify drivers of organisational change.
- be able to examine stakeholder responses to change.
- be able to analyse and assess the ethical and sustainability issues surrounding organisational change.
MARKING CRITERIA AND STANDARDS
| Criterion and weighting | High Distinction (85-100) | Distinction (75-84) | Credit (65-74) | Pass (50-64) | Fail (49 and below) |
| Quality of critical analyses of the topic questions
(10 marks)
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Your presentation demonstrates excellent critical thinking ability in analysing the relevance of the issues raised in the topic. | There is compelling evidence of critical thought in analysing the relevance of the issues raised in the topic. | Your presentation demonstrates critical thinking ability in analysing the relevance of the issues raised in the topic but there are some gaps and some descriptive sections. | Your presentation attempts critical thinking ability raised in the case but does not succeed in analysing almost all relevant issues. Issues are quite descriptive in nature. | Your presentation makes almost no attempt at analysing the relevant issues raised in the case. Most of the discussion is very descriptive. |
| Depth of knowledge and understanding of the subject content
(4 marks) |
Discussion demonstrates an excellent understanding of the relevant subject content. Depth of knowledge includes outstanding perspectives. | Discussion demonstrates a great understanding of the relevant subject content. Depth of knowledge includes many appropriate perspectives. | Discussion demonstrates a suitable understanding of the relevant subject content. Depth of knowledge includes some appropriate perspectives. | Discussion demonstrates an acceptable understanding of the relevant subject content. Depth of knowledge lacks in rigour and have many gaps. | Discussion demonstrates minimum or no understanding of the relevant subject content. Almost no evidence of depth of knowledge. |
| Use of references to support arguments; following APA7 style
(1 mark)
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At the end of your presentation is a list of at least 4 recent academic and professional research articles which have been used to inform your argument critically.
Referencing follows all of the APA7 requirements. |
At the end of your presentation is a list of at least 4 recent academic and professional research articles which have been used to inform your argument. Referencing follows almost all of the APA7 requirements. | At the end of your presentation is a list of at least 4 recent academic and professional research articles which have been used to inform your argument. Referencing follows the APA7 requirements but there are some errors. | At the end of your presentation is a list of less than 4 recent academic and professional research articles which have been used to inform your argument. A credible attempt is made to follow the APA7 referencing system. | At the end of your presentation is a list of less than 4 recent academic and professional research articles which have been used to inform your argument. Almost no attempt is made to follow the APA7 referencing system. |
| Quality of presentation (confidence level, professionalism, and level of captivating of audience); quality of slides
(5 marks)
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Your presentation is confident, professional, clear, and captivating the audience. Excellent slides are highly appropriate and appealing to the audience.
Language, grammar, punctuation, and formatting of the slides are error-free. |
Your presentation is mostly confident, professional, and clear. In a few instances, the presentation fails to captivate the audience. Great slides are appropriate and mostly appealing to the audience.
Language, grammar, punctuation, and formatting of the slides are almost error-free. |
Your presentation is somewhat confident and professional. In several instances, the presentation is not clear and fails to captivate the audience. Suitable slides are somewhat appropriate and appealing to the audience.
Language, grammar, punctuation, and formatting of the slides have some errors. |
Your presentation lacks confidence and professionalism. The presentation is mostly unclear and fails to captivate the audience. Slides are not appealing to the audience.
Language, grammar, punctuation, and formatting of the slides have several errors. |
Your presentation lacks in confidence and professionalism. The presentation is totally unclear and fails to captivate the audience from the beginning to the end. Mostly reading out from the slides. Slides are poorly made.
Language, grammar, punctuation, and formatting of the slides are full of errors. |
PRESENTATION
Please read the marking criteria and standards guide below before commencing this task.
The following information will help you to prepare your presentation:
- Record a video or voice presentation to a maximum of 10-minutesanalysing the topic questions.
Slide presentation:
- The title slide must provide a title for the presentation, the subject code and title, and your name and student number.
- The final slide must show all sources used including the four additional references used for the presentation, in APA7 format.
- Beyond these requirements, you have a free hand to format the slides as you wish.
- Diagrams and images may be used if you wish.
