Summer Semester

Prepared by Elena Ashley & Ahmad Khaldi

Prepared by Dr Annie Delaney

CHANGING CONTEXT OF WORK

BMO3353

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT& INFORMATION SYSTEMS

BMO 3327 ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE & DEVELOPMENT

UNIT OF STUDY GUIDE

21

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & LAW

Duration: 5 minutes + leading class discussion

Following presentations to the reading group, all students who presented in that week jointly lead a class discussion about the readings and ideas presented. Contribution and participation in this session is peer &facilitator assessed and is worth 5 marks.

Students will be required to submit their written summary on readings to Turnitin, for the purpose of plagiarism detection and online marking. Note no mark will be awarded for this assessment unless Turnitin submission is completed with evidence of a satisfactory rating (20% or less and subject to correct referencing and all sources readings, internet sources cited in text and in bibliography). Students are responsible to edit and resubmit the presentation until an acceptable originality rating is achieved on Turnitin. Work may be required to be resubmitted if referencing is incomplete, any resubmitted assessment can only receive a maximum of 50% of the total mark. Further information will be provided on Webct and in class.

Marking criteria

Length: Approximately 1200 words

Due: Week 5 before seminar submitted via Turnitin;

Mark Allocation: 30%

The purpose of this assessment is to evaluate your depth of analysis of the journal articles. The analysis will improve your understanding of the readings and assist your preparation for the group written report. You will analyse 5 journal articles from the prescribed reading list provided (choose from ones marked with *). Your submission should include the following format and headings:

1. Five analyses, each analysis should be approximately 200 words long and Identify the key ideas and arguments addressed in each paper 25 marks

2. The final section should be approximately 200 words and discuss connections from the ideas raised, drawing on what you have learnt from each paper and extending this to changing work trends 5 marks

3. Your analysis should discuss key arguments NOT JUST SUMMARISE articles and focus on key relevant ideas from each journal article.

4. Each article should be numbered 1-5 and include the citation at the top of each annotation.

5. Each article will be referenced using the Harvard referencing system (i.e. Author, date, title, source – consult library guide for help). You should avoid quotations and referencing other authors or works in your analysis. You are expected to critically analyse each paper and discuss the concepts and ideas and reflect on these.

Students will be required to submit their assignment to Turnitin, for the purpose of plagiarism detection and online marking.

Assessment 3: Group written assignment: Predicting the future of work

Due Date Hurdles: EOI due week 5; Draft report week 8;

Final report week 9 before class submitted to Turnitin

Length Approximately 1000 words per student

Mark Allocation 25%

· Submit EOI on theme and FOW idea in seminar in week 5

· Email group draft report to the facilitator in week 8.

The purpose of this assessment is to evaluate skills in research, the application of ideas from the literature, problem solving and critical analysis.

Your assignment will outline your team’s vision of identifying future trends in work in 2040. You will need to incorporate key theory and identify factors that can affect changes in work trends and affects on individuals, organisations and society. Focus on one of the four key themes in your report (Globalisation, Gender and diversity, Technology and Management innovation – labour use) to guide your discussion of the literature and recommendations.

This task is designed to develop research, communication, and team project management skills. In addition, you report should demonstrate evidence of critical thinking, analysis and problem solving in the way your team discusses and reports on the future of work.

In developing your recommendations, the written report must utilise scenario planning, reflect on key readings and recommended readings relevant to your chosen theme and demonstrate understanding of relevant theories such as commodification, labour process, division of labour, Informalisation and formalisation and issues of relevance in applying these to a HRM or Management context.

The following research questions will assist you to focus how you approach this report.

How does our understanding of what has occurred in the past and present inform how we hypothesise future work trends?

To what extent does our current understanding of technology or globalisation or gender and diversity or management innovation-use of labour inform our view of what will occur in the future?

Will social, economic, environmental and political trends have a strong influence on how work trends will evolve? Why? How? Which ones?

Future forecasts often include a lot of hype but often fail to eventuate, how can you substantiate your thesis for the future of work?

Suggested steps to undertake this assessment

1. Decide on the theme and areas you would like to cover in relation to the theme and literature

2. Develop your group scenario plan and framing questions

3. Identify the gaps between issues that are identified & discussed in the literature review and your scenario of a future work context

4. Develop some recommendations around how to address some of these gaps

5. Follow the suggested structure outlined below and address the research questions.

Structure: Word count – for a group of 4 is approximately 4000 words.

Title: Title and group members

Introduction: This section should clearly outline the team’s key arguments about the future of work. It should clearly state the theme covered in the report. It should also provide a two-sentence summary of the team’s recommendations (approx 200 words). The section should reflect on teamwork by including a short summary outlining clearly the student responsible for each section (by name) and indicating how each member has contributed (not just what each person has contributed) (approx 200 words).

Rationale: This section outlines the rationale of why you selected the theme and what are the key features or context to consider when thinking about how work will develop in the future and why. Your thesis on the future of work should be clearly outlined here (Approx 200 words).

Literature review: This section reviews the literature on key topics and makes links to the chosen theme. Include definitions of key concepts, and analyse and compare the effects and importance of the various trends based upon the readings. The literature review requires the group to address key areas in relation to the topic and theme, and divide the review of the literature according to appropriate sub headings. Each student must complete a literature review section on one sub heading from the chosen topic.

This section will discuss the key evidence from the literature, including all the prescribed readings and other readings found by each individual student plus recommended and other peer-reviewed journal readings. Each student should reference 10-15 articles in their individual literature review section. Discussion of the literature should refer to the different types of changes to work covered in this unit and must address relevant concepts such as labour process, division of labour, informalisation and commodification (Approx 1000 words).

Scenario plan: Working together the group is required to construct a future scenario using the scenario template. The completed scenario will be attached in the appendix. You will need to insert in your report a summary of your future scenario identifying the evidence/trends it is based upon, framing questions and key elements around work that are relevant to your analysis to the future of work (Approx 500 words). (The template & framing questions should be in your appendix.)

Future of work: The literature review and your scenario plan are the key documents that will inform this section. This section should include a summary of the key learning/findings from the literature review, including any controversies. It should clearly respond to the research questions about the future of work. It is recommended that you apply the same sub headings in this section that you used in your literature review.

You should identify the areas of change to work in the future and discuss related questions about the effects of these changes. You need to link arguments from the section about the literature and should be able to draw out the key issues in the literature to assist you to argue and support your thesis on the future of work.

Draw on your analysis from the scenario plan around your chosen context, such as the organisation /industry, effects on employees, corporate strategy, new expressions of employment, trends in society that will impact on work, the way work is done, location, who will do it, how monitoring, performance appraisal and supervision may change. In discussing the proposed trends you will also need to identify current gaps and how these may improve or change in the long term and why.

This section should be drawing on the gap between the current state as described in the literature review and the future state as described in your scenario plan (Approx 1000 words).

Recommendations: This section should outline your specific recommendations. It should follow your discussion and illustrate ideas and issues raised in your future of work section incorporating issues from the literature review and scenario plan. It should highlight ways to address perceived gaps between the current as outlined in the literature review and future trends drawn from the scenario plan (Approx 600 words).

(This section will be further expanded upon in your expo/ poster presentation in week 10)

Conclusion: This section should sum up the main arguments of the report and reflect on teamwork and the group approach to this report (Approx 300 words).

List of References: This section will list all references cited in the report. Each group member is required to contribute to the report a minimum of 10 journal references, including prescribed and recommended readings used plus 2 journal articles that you have located yourself. These should all be listed together alphabetically, using the Harvard referencing style. You may only list in the bibliography those references that are cited in the text of the assignment (the list of references is not included in word count).

Marking criteria

Marking Criteria

All assignments are to be submitted in hard copy via seminars and through turnitin unless otherwise advised.

You should retain all graded assignments until after the final results in the subject have been officially released.

Students can apply for an extension to the submission date for a piece of assessment for medical reasons, personal hardship or other extenuating circumstances. Documentation, in the form of a medical certificate, counsellor’s report or statutory declaration, is required to support applications.

If students wish to apply for an extension they must do so in writing before the original due date of the assessment to the Unit Co-ordinator. Applications for an extension will not be considered after this time unless there are very extenuating circumstances. You may nominate a proxy to communicate with the Unit Co-ordinator. The proxy must communicate in writing with the Unit Co-ordinator.

The Unit Co-ordinator will respond to you in writing within two working days indicating that an extension has been provisionally granted subject to the supply of the relevant documentation (i.e. medical certificates, counsellor’s reports or statutory declaration). At this time, the Unit Co-ordinator will also provide you with the revised due date for submission of the assessment. The revised due date will be no later than seven days after the original due date of the assessment

For group assignments in this unit you must email the facilitator before the assessment is due. The request for an extension by email needs to provide a reason for late submission and propose a date of submission. No late submissions will be permitted if this process is not followed.

Special consideration

If students are not able to submit their work by the extended submission date, and there are valid grounds (i.e. medical, personal hardship or other extenuating circumstances) for not doing so, he or she can apply for Special Consideration. Contact your:

1. Unit of Study co-ordinator in the first instance; or

1. The Student Centre

Work submitted after the due date, without an extension granted or the relevant documentation provided, will be recorded as being submitted but will attract a zero grade.

This procedure applies to both individual and group assignments. Only one member of a group need apply for an extension to the due date, but ALL group members must be copied into the communication to the Unit Co-ordinator for the application to be valid. Applications submitted without ALL members of the group copied into the email will not be accepted.

There are no supplementary assessments for this unit

Students must achieve less than the defined Turnitin 20% for each written submission. You must resubmit to Turnitin until the required percentage is reached is a pre-requisite to have the marks count towards your final grade, i.e. despite gaining a pass mark for your assessmetns, if your Turnitin originality percentage is above 20%, or it has unreferenced or other problems identified by the marker, you will receive no marks. There will be a comment at the top of your written work requesting that you resubmit or you will receive zero. It is your responsibility to ensure you resubmit to Turnitin until reaching the required percentage or other issues need to be addressed. If there are considerable issues identified by the marker and you are required to resubmit, you will only be eligible for a maximum of 50% of the total marks.

Student Learning Support Centres

It is expected that you will spend at least ten hours per week studying this Unit of Study (including seminar time). This time should be made up of reading, research, working on exercises and group work. In periods where you need to complete assignments or prepare for tests, the workload may be greater.

It is expected, as is indicated in the Student Charter, that you will attend all seminars. Many important issues will be discussed in class and your ability to successfully complete the unit of study will be enhanced by your attendance. Classes are used to develop ideas and explore their wider implications, exchange information, debate issues and improve presentation skills. Further, your regular and punctual attendance is expected, since punctuality and commitment to one’s work are some of the key attributes of professional practice.

You are expected to conduct yourself with consideration and respect for the needs of your fellow students and teaching staff as outlined in the Student Charter. Conduct which unduly disrupts or interferes with a class, such as ringing of or talking on mobile phones, is not acceptable and students may be asked to leave the class. The use of a laptop is not allowed unless permission is sought in advance. It is not acceptable to be talking in lectures or tutorials when anyone is speaking.

You should take note of all announcements made on Webct, via student email or in seminars.

You will be able to download lecture notes from your Unit of Study Webct website, post and read discussion comments and view other material that is relevant to the course. It is your responsibility to check Webct. Staff will assume that you are up-to-date with current information and latest announcements.

The responsibility of staff is to provide you with high quality learning experiences and a supportive, stimulating and effective learning environment. Staff will commence lectures and classes on time. If staff are unable to take a class, the class will either be conducted by a replacement lecturer/tutor, or be rescheduled.

The following are examples of Academic Misconduct practices that are prohibited:

1. Falsification of results from experiments, surveys or other research methods and fabrication of data.

1. Ghost-writing, where a second or third party authors an assignment or undertakes an assessment, in whole or in part, that is presented as the student’s own.

1. Recycling work which has previously been done as part of studies in another subject and presenting it for assessment again as if it was done expressly for the particular unit of study currently being taken, without the permission of the teacher(s).

1. Making contact with another person during an examination or any other form of assessment contrary to instructions.

1. Plagiarism refers to the practice of using of another person’s intellectual output and presenting it (without appropriate acknowledgement) as one’s own. Some examples of plagiarism are:

4. Word-for-word copying of sentences/paragraphs in an assignment without acknowledgement or with insufficient or improper acknowledgement;

4. Downloading essays or assignments from the web and presenting these for assessment;

4. Presenting another student’s work or research data as the student’s work;

4. Copying out parts of any text or using images/sound files without acknowledging the source(s).

The University has three levels of penalties for plagiarism, ranging from:

1. resubmitting the assessment,

1. downgrading the mark; failing the item of assessment and/or failing the Unit; and

1. suspension or expulsion from the University.

You are reminded that when you submit assessments through turnitin you are signing the Assessment Declaration, you declare that you have not committed plagiarism or any other form of academic misconduct with relation to that assessment.

See the Handbook in Webct for additional important guidelines and help for all your Units of Study.

Written Assessment criteria - guide

The following table is included to help in your understanding of what examiners look for when assessing written work; it suggests factors or qualities they look for to determine the levels of understanding and performance being demonstrated, and to differentiate between the various grades.

Word count min 700-1000 max.

The purpose of this assessment is for students to reflect on the subject, to critically assess their own performance and skills development and to analyse issues related to changing context of work.

The three headings and topics you must address include:

Reflection, Graduate Capabilities & Future of Work. You are required to answer all questions in each section and use the three headings.

1. Reflection: (approximately 100 words)

What have you found interesting or beneficial in studying Changing Context of Work? What activities and or assessment tasks best assisted you to achieve the learning outcomes? What activities or assessments were the least helpful? Why or why not?

(This section can be written in the first person and reflect on your own learning and performance and the unit overall). Its optional if you want to link examples of your learning in your responses.

2. Graduate capabilities: (approximately 100 words)

Select one of the graduate capabilities from the unit guide and reflect on how the readings, activities and assessments supported you to develop the graduate capability and if anything hindered you to achieve these skills.

(This section can be written in the first person, you should refer to class activities, evidence such as individual or group planning, limitations of how you applied yourself, class discussions, group meetings etc).

3. Future of Work (Approximately 500-800 words)

How can predicting the future work environment assist you to understand the current work patterns and therefore the influences that may impact on human resource and management areas?

Discuss how this may influence you as a current or future practitioner of human resources or management fields. Justify your response through the discussion of at least two of the prescribed readings.

(This section should include references from the readings).