You have to re-edit a paper (reflective report.doc) the part in Red are off-topic and should be deleted and write from scratch but there is some info you could use in it, the Orange part contain good materials but should be deeply edited to fit the structure.
The purpose of this paper is to have a reflective approach about team experience during a business simulation game (DO NOT talk about strategies or business governance, it is about personal experiences toward a team problem and the reflection about it). You should use the Kolb learning circle theories and other reflective learning theories to support your ideas.
-Write an executive summary and re-write the part on critical incident:
Critical incident analysis: (Do not talk about the Critical incident technique (In red) but the incident itself, linked to the logbook).
You should explain 2-3 incidents or events (A positive one, or a negative one) and analyzed it.
there is example of critical event and analysis from another student in “example critical incident” (the structure is not good, but you have a example of what kind of event you should talk and analyse)
IT SHOULD BE LINKED TO THE LOGBOOK.
Example:
Critical event 1: in week 3, I had an argue with one of the team member, He wanted to increase the price of the Family car, I wanted to reduce it blablalbalabla I tried to explain my point of view, but he was not receptive blalblalbabla
THEN you analyse this situation linked with theories : What happened, what should have done, what could I do in the future to avoid this situation, what kind of tools can I use etc
HERE is the structure, please follow it
Having undertaken the MEGA business simulation in a team from early October 2013 up to the end of December 2013, you are now required to write an individual report (NOT AN ESSAY) based on reflective analysis. This should contain the following in 2000words (+/- 10%)
1. An introductory discussion on how reflective practice techniques can be useful to analyzing your MEGA team experience. (short)
2. Use of relevant academic theories and concepts applied to the context of your reflective analysis.
3. An outline of critical incidents (positive or negative) that affected your team and you as an individual (2-3-)
4. Elaboration on the consequences of these incidents
5. A concluding chapter on how the areas discussed previously have:
(i) Developed transferable skills (or not)
(ii) The influences that your learning experiences will have in any future organisational and team roles that you undertake.
(iii) You are encouraged to use relevant academic theories in your conclusions as well.
6. You MUST include in the appendices the log-book/diary of your MEGA team meetings. Do not worry about the fact this part of the assignment would be the same for every team member. We are aware of this. (log book = diary, and it is the team one – not essential to attach an individual one)
NOTE: YOY CAN SUBMIT (ON TURN-IT-IN) ONLY ONE FILE – SO PREPARE ONE WORD FILE TO BE SUBMITTED ONCE – NO SECOND CHANCE OF RESUBMISSION OR ADDITIONAL FILES 🙂
Assessment Criteria for assessment 2
? Use and detail of critical incidents: 30%
? Application of academic theories & concepts: 30%
? Conclusions (Quality of critical insight or else Critical Evaluation /Transferable Skills developed): 30%
? Structure, clarity & presentation of work: 10%
Proposed Structure:
• Front Cover (excluded from the word count)
• Ex. Summary (excluded from the word count):
Describing max one page what is this assignment on, key concepts, key incidents and mostly the learning outcomes on your transferable skills)
• Table of contents (excluded from the word count)
• Introduction:
Short – one/two paragraphs ideally describing briefly reflective techniques and their value. Here you mention the key theories on reflection that you will use (or not) and why. For example theories from authors suchs as Kolbs, Gibbs, Schon, etc. A smart way to get points is not just to mention and reference the ones that you use but also the ones that you will not use and why (and of course reference them).
• Critical Incidents analysis:
Over here you can write from 2 to 4 critical incidents either positive or negative from your experience in MEGA simulation. Avoid writing only one or more than 4 (since then you either overanalyse or analyse too thinly). Ideally 3 would be just fine depending on your writing style (extensive or not). Within those critical incidents (for every one): you need to analyse what happened shortly and not write a narrative/personal story or self justification. You need to identify both your view and the other members’ views looking at things in a reflective manner. You can also write in the 1st person if you need to.
It is for you to reflect on the most memorable (important for you) moments/processes/feelings and then go on the next level to analyse them through the relevant theoretical concepts – up to now this is the ”Use and detail of critical incidents: 30%” interwoven of course with the next part!
Reflecting, you need to mostly explain through the use of theories why this/these happened. For example, in the beginning/first week of your teamwork for the simulation you might experienced issues on getting together as team members and take the appropriate decisions. This can be viewed though the ”team formation” theories (i.e.norming, storming, performing), through communication theories, through leadership, through power, through culture, through team working/group dynamics concepts and or course through strategy concepts when talking of the appropriate strategy. These concepts (and many more similar) should be used for you to analyse your experience (providing the referencing) and talking about the implications to you and your team. (This is the ”Application of academic theories & concepts: 30%”)
In the end of every incident OR after the incidents, you need to say clearly how this experience helped you develop your skills (which skills and why) and these can be used in the future to your professional life. That is why we call them transferable skills. For example how did you develop more your interpersonal, organisational, communication, planning (and many more) skills and their value since using them in the future professional life. This is the ”Quality of critical insights: 30%” and part of the conclusions.
• The conclusions can be either part of every incident or a final part of the report. In any case, please make them clear for us by making them either separate sub-chapters in every incident or a different chapter in the end of the report. Over here you need – as said before – you need to explain clearly the transferable skills developed
• Sources/ References (excluded from the word count):
Make sure you list all the theories, concepts that you mention inside the text and also the ones that you read to write the text (even if they are not mentioned in it!). Use of course, the Harvard Ref Style.
• Appendices (excluded from the word count):
Make sure to include the log-book/diary of your team (it is the same thing) Still, if no log-book is included then 5% is deducted from the overall mark of this assignment!
NOTE:
Theories and Concepts that can be used in your critical incidents analysis and reflection (you don’t need to use all of them but we are sure that you can if you want to):
• Reflection theories and techniques
Final Project Instructions: Develop a project/presentation of 750 to 1000 words minimum/maximum (or the equivalent) with an introduction, body, and conclusion. This may be a traditional essay, or it may involve other sorts of projects/presentations.
Potential Projects include:
1. Write your own original piece following the style of one piece we read. You could craft your own religious allegory using the American church or rewrite the General Prologue in Modern English. Possibly you would like to write your own Soldier’s Tale or Mother’s Tale. Creativity is key here.
2. Recast one of the works in another form. For example, turn the “Miller’s Tale” into a script for a popular sitcom (using those sitcom characters as stand-ins for Chaucer’s characters), or rewrite one of the pieces we’ve read as a play. Be creative–just be sure to submit ideas for approval before WEDNESDAY of week sixteen, so that we have a chance to discuss it.
3. Select any piece we’ve read and modernize it for a new generation.
Pieces we have read:
Cademon’s Hymn
The Dream of the Rood
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
“The General Prologue”
Summary: “The Knight’s Tale”
“The Miller’s Prologue and Tale”
“The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale”
Queen Elizabeth
The Doubt of Future Foes
On Monsieur’s Departure
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
The Golden Speech
Spencer
The Faerie Queen Book I
George Herbert
“Redemption”
“Easter”
“Easter Wings”
John Donne
“The Flea”
Song (“Go and catch a falling star”)
Song (“Sweetest love, I do not go”)
“Love’s Alchemy”
“The Apparition”
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
Robert Herrick
“The Argument of His Book”
“His Farewell to Sack”
“Corinna’s Going A-Maying”
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
Andrew Marvell
“To His Coy Mistress”
“The Definition of Love”
Milton’s Paradise Lost (Books 1 and 9)
John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (1-99)
Aphra Behn’s “Oroonoko”
Edmund Burke, “Speech on Conciliation with America”
Samuel Johnson, “Taxation No Tyranny”
Olaudah Equiano, “Interesting Narrative”
• Communication,
• Culture,
• Decision Making
• Group Dynamics
• Strategy concepts (e.g. cost leadership or differentiation approach from M. Porter)
• Leadership
• Team formation and co-working
AND anything more that you think relevant and you can reference it properly!
ALL THE ABOVE THEORETICAL CONCEPTS TO USE AND ITS REFERENCES EXIST (MOSTLY) ON ZORICA’S SIDE SLIDES AND MATERIAL.
Finally, wherever theory is mentioned we do mean to use the theoretical concepts (as the bullet points above) and reference them properly.
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