Assignment:
1: Research management theory and explain how this theory applies to contemporary and socially responsible practices.
2: Effectively collaborate with others to locate appropriate resources to organise information and generate management solutions.
3: Critically reflect on the relationship between management theory and management research evidence and communicate your knowledge of responsible management practices.
Research task:
Your group will research how a manager or leader manages teams in an organisation. Identify, contact, and interview a manager or leader to determine how s/he encourages or supports staff to work in teams.
Your group will ask the manager the following key questions:
1. What formal or informal training have you had as a manager to manage work within a team?
2. How do you encourage staff to work in a team and why is this important?
3. In your opinion what is the value of working in a team?
Rationale: Why is this important?
The contemporary workplace is diverse and complex requiring effective and responsible management plus teamwork skills. Teamwork assignments such as this one will allow you to develop skills required to successfully negotiate, delegate, contribute to and lead a successful team.
Assignment task:
Working with a group of 4 to 5 students, you will research and analyse responsible management principles and practices. Your team will develop a presentation outlining your research and analysis to present to an audience. The format of your presentation is to follow the Pecha Kucha model of 20 slides for 20 seconds each. Given the limited number of slides, material on your slides must contain analysis and evidence, rather than decorative images. Sources of material used should be listed alongside your academic sources on your reference slide.
Use a PowerPoint template to prepare your presentation of 20 slides + 1 slide for references. Your presentation must include:
• Background of the organisation and outline of your presentation
• Description of the manager's role, including the level of authority, and what experience they have managing people
• Summarise your findings
• Identify key theories to which your research links and why you believe theory is relevant in describing this management style
• Outline the recommendations your team would make to the manager/leader to improve the way in which they manage in organisations
Provide a theory-based rationale for why you think this approach, if implemented, would improve the employee experience
How do I Complete Assignment
As a group member:
• Understand and agree on good practices for working together as a team.
• Refer to the ‘Equity of Contribution' policy
Actions
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• Undertake an interview and agree on the purpose of your presentation and the recommendations you will make.
• Determine which theory or theories to link your findings to and any recommendations or improvements these theories suggest.
• Allocate roles and responsibilities for the assessment equally to individual group members.
• Use the RMIT library databases or Google Scholar to find scholarly (peer-reviewed) and professional articles about responsible principles and practice in managing teams and diverse groups in a global organisation context.
• Analyse and synthesise the research to support your team's findings.
• Design and create a presentation that demonstrates your group's understanding of the topic, your understanding of how practice applies to theory, your methodology and research.
• Use Harvard EasyCite to correctly reference your research and cite any direct quotations or paraphrasing you use.
• Agree on how your group will deliver the presentation and ensure the group rehearses the presentation.
• Keep a journal whilst working on this presentation as this will assist you in the completion of your reflective report (Part B of this assignment).