Introduction to Management Assessment Task: What does it mean to be an effective Manager?
Learning outcomes - This assessment task addresses the following Course Learning Outcomes:
- Research management theory and explain how this theory applies to contemporary and socially responsible practices.
- Critically reflect on the relationship between management theory and management research evidence and communicate your knowledge of responsible management practices.
Online critical analysis of your style of managing
Assessment task: What do I need to do?
You will research and select an academic article about managing diversity in the contemporary workplace. You will then use the key ideas from this article to help you critically evaluate your own potential for managing diversity, both as a learner and as a future manager. You will need to formulate a question that you will respond to through your research. For example, you may question: Do managers need to be good motivators to be effective?
Rationale: Why is this important?
The contemporary workplace is diverse, global and changing. Effective managers need to be able to locate and evaluate information and use it to develop and apply appropriate strategies to workplace situations. Managers must also understand their personal style of leadership in order to lead teams and manage people.
This assessment task will help you develop your skills in research, critical thinking and evaluation. You will also develop your ability to analyse your responses to key concepts/issues in a reading and communicate your discussion clearly in a short piece of academic writing.
Method: How complete this assessment task?
- Use the RMIT library databases or Google Scholar to find a scholarly article (peer-reviewed) about managing diversity.
- Read the article and outline the main points.
- Analyse how these main points address the issue of managing diversity responsibly in the contemporary workplace.
- Reflect upon and describe your possible strengths as both a learner and future manager working with diverse groups.
- Compare and contrast your personal analysis with the article's main points.
- Identify what is critical in responsible management practice.
- Write a short response (approximately 750 words) using paragraphs and complete sentences to support your discussion.
- Use RMIT Harvard EasyCite to correctly reference your article and cite any direct quotations or paraphrasing used.
Attachment:- Assignment File.rar