Assignment: Workplace Information Briefs
Length: 2300 words
The word limit applies to the essay itself and all references cited in the essay. It does not apply to the end reference list, cover page and title page. (An abstract and table of contents are not required.)
Topic: Perceptual errors & decision making, leadership challenges for new
Question: Having recently graduated with a Masters in Business with a managers, surviving/thriving organisational change specialisation in human resources, you work for a national engineering firm in the HR department. The firm has approximately 200 employees across five different states who, apart from a small administrative team, are professionals trained in engineering and information technology (IT). While highly skilled in their respective professions, they do not have training in management or business.
Your manager has been concerned about a number of people management issues in the different national offices relating to poor recruitment, performance management, leadership behaviours in early career managers, and resistance to ongoing change programs.
Your manager, impressed with your people management skills, has asked you to prepare an informative e-newsletter to be forwarded as a formal company document to all employees. You have been set the following tasks:
1. Write three information briefs on the topics,
a. Perceptual errors and decision making in recruitment and performance management
b. Early career challenges of junior managers/leaders
c. Resistance to organisational change
2. The e-newsletter is aimed at informing staff who have little, if any knowledge of the critical topics in organisationalbehaviour.
3. You should develop informative briefs of approximately 750 words each. Each written piece should clearly identify and conceptualisethe topic, explain its relevance to understanding and managing behaviour in organisations (one's own and that of others), and provide clear and concise guidelines to address any issues or improve behaviour and workplace performance. While these written pieces should be designed to inform (and also entertain if you would like them to), they should be linked to relevant theory and examples.
4. The news briefs should uphold academic integrity and use the author-date method for referencing so that the readers may follow up on your sources.
How to Present:
You may choose to present the information briefs in words only or you may exercise your creativity and present the newsletter with appropriate illustrations, layout and colour. However, please ensure your newsletter is uploaded to Moodle as a word document (any artwork would need to be embedded into a word document).
Aim of the assignment:
The aim of this assignment is to develop an understanding of current issues in organizational behavior and to quickly and articulately communicate these in the context of organizational behavior theory. Additionally, students should be able to illustrate how knowledge of perceptual errors, leadership behaviours and managing resistance to change can be used to manage employee, and one's own, behaviours more effectively. Students are not required to cover every concept related to perception and attribution or leadership or change management. Instead, focus on the core concepts relevant to the tasks as they have been scoped by the question above.