Assignment #1
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• The Meaning of Effectiveness
• Due: 11.55pm 16 August – 20%
• Format: Written Essay
- Lodgement: Electronic Lodgement
- Do not send your assignment to your lecturer
- Check lodgement requirements
- As they actually are, not as you might wish them to
• Think about an organisation that you have had a significant interaction with
- g. A workplace, university, hospital, service provider
• Do not invent a scenario with an organisation
- Be specific – when did the interaction occur?
- Don’t manufacture a situation from information in the
public domain
- Examiners know how to web surf also!
• Questions to Answer in your Essay
- What is the purpose of the organisation?
- What is the scope of its operations?
- Effectiveness
- From your perspective what criteria would use to evaluate the effectiveness of the
– Justify your selection of the criteria
• If you’re unsure about the Essay, check with your
lecturer
- This Essay is about quality writing, not quantity
- Give yourself time to consider your writing
- Stakeholders
- Consider the criteria that two other stakeholder groups of the organisation might use to evaluate its
- Stakeholder Groups (examples)
- Employees
- Government
- Community
- Creditors
- Customers
- Owners
- Suppliers
- Analysis of Effectiveness
• What do you conclude from this analysis
- The effectiveness from the perspective of the different stakeholders?
• What are the implications for the development of a coherent approach to organisational effectiveness
- Synthesis of your findings
- Your perceptions of the term ‘effective’
- Experiences, ideas and observations that you have had in response to the ideas that you have explored
- What you found confusing, interesting, difficult or inspiring
- Any unanswered questions that you may have
- What might the literature say?
- Comparisons and connections between what you are learning and your experiences/pre-conceptions
- How new ideas challenge what you already know
- Your speculations or hypothesis
• A reflective essay allows you to use different modes of writing and language, including:
• Descriptive
- Outlining what something is or how it is done
• Explanatory
- Explaining the why or how
• Expressive
- I think or I believe
- Phase 1 (pre-writing)
• Analyse, Anticipate, Adapt;
- To ensure the approach meets the purpose
- Phase 2 (writing)
• Research, Organise, Compose;
- Shape to write your message
- Phase 3 (editing)
- Revise, Proofread, Evaluate the document
- It is expected that Masters level students will engage with the contemporary literature and demonstrate evidence of this
- For every 500 words, it is expected a minimum of three (3) different references apart from the subject textbook taken from peer reviewed journals.
- A submission with fewer than this number of references, while it may not fail against the rubric (marking criteria) it will not excel in the criterion referring to the
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