. Research Paper 1:Assessment criteria

ASSESSMENT
Weighting:
Length/Limit: / 25%
Maximum of 1,000 words / 1
This is an individual assignment.
Each week, based on the hour of e-learning activity that has been prescribed, you are required actively to engage with the material by writing a short discussion of how the material that was prescribed relates to the topic(s) of this subject and how it relates to your own personal experience. You create a blog each week where you provide evidence that you have engaged in this way with the prescribed e-learning activity. In the blog, you mention any extra material relevant to the activity that you have researched on the net.
These blogs are assessed in the following way:
  1. Blogs are spot checked by your lecturer.
  2. A record is kept each week of whether you created a blog or not (1 or 0)
  3. By the end of Week 6, students choose their best two blogs and submit them as an assignment (due Friday Week 6).
  4. At the end of the semester, the total number of blogs you have created determines the mark you receive out of 10 (10 for ten blogs or more, 9 for 9 blogs, 8 for 8 blogs)
Each blog should be in two sections: Section 1 lists the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity. In Section 2 you apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.
The written report of your two best blogs needs to be 1½spaced and has a 1,000 word limit. / 15
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REPORT STRUCTURE:

Introduction::what are the two blogs about?

Blogs 500 words each

Conclusion: a summary of what you learned promptly

References 5 minimum.

In your blog 4, you should address the following two sections:

Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.

Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.

Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking.

Activity 1: Structure and strategy

URL:BCG’s Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designx

Questions to consider:

  1. Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?

Activity 2: Holacracy

URL: Zappos just abolished bosses. Inside tech's latest management craze.

Questions to consider:

  1. What’s your understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-based structure?
  2. Discuss howContingency Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?
  3. In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?

In your blog 5, you should address the following two sections:

Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.

Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.

Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking.

Activity 1: The Milgram Experiment

URL:

1. Milgram Experiment -

2. Milgram Experiment replicated in Australia (Psychology study by La Trobe University in the 1970s)-

Questions to consider:

  1. To what extent would you be capable of inflicting real pain (physical, mental and/or emotional) on another human being?

Activity 2: Solomon Asch and Group Conformity

URL:

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Questions to consider:

  1. Does your own personal decision-making always reflect an objective process?
  2. Does the desire to be accepted as a part of a group leave one susceptible to conforming to the group’s norms?
  3. Identify and discuss situational factors that can enable a group to exert pressure strong enough to change a member’s attitude and behaviour.