Example assessment & marking criteria Assessment type: Essay Subject: HSM404 - Management and Leadership of Health and Aged Care Services This subject examines the nature of management and leadership in health service organisations. It emphasises foundations of organisation and management theory as a basis for understanding aspects of organisational behaviour including culture, power and politics, control, decision making, communication, groups and teams, conflict, leadership and change management. Subject learning  be able to discuss the nature of health service organisations; outcomes:  be able to analyse own organisational context in relation to contextual and structural dimensions;  be able to formulate an explanation of management in relation to evolutionary, historical and theoretical perspectives and relate to own practice;  be able to explain the relationship between management/leadership and organisational performance with reference to culture, power and politics, control, decision making, communication, groups and teams, conflict and change management;  be able to analyse the management of change and conflict in own workplace and justify recommendations for improvement.

Assessment task: 2. Essay: Organisational behaviour and performance Value & length: 35%, 1500 words Task description: Describe an objective that guides planning and activity in your workplace. This may be a formal long term objective, as represented in a strategic or operational plan, or may be a less formal short term objective that has emerged in response to a local or recent issue. Briefly explain the rationale for your choice (200 words). Discuss how managers can or have influenced the achievement of this objective in relation to two of the following concepts in organisational behaviour: culture, control, power, and politics. Refer to one example of each from your current or past experience to support your argument (1000 words). (Allow 300 words for your introduction and conclusion.) Rationale: This assessment task provides students with an opportunity to consider the relationship between organisational behaviour and organisational outcomes, and of the role of managers in influencing this relationship. It also enables students to apply feedback from assignment one, and to strengthen their academic writing skills in preparation for the final assignment. Marking criteria & standards of performance Developed by Margaret Yen Criteria HD D CR P FL A relevant workplace objective has been There is a clear and succinct description of a relevant workplace objective. The rationale clearly There is a brief description of a The workplace objective and described. 10% contextualises the student’s choice relevant workplace objective. the justification for it cannot be The rationale is unclear. determined. Two concepts from organisational The concepts have been explained succinctly, underpinned by The concepts have been The concepts have been The concepts have been behaviour have been identified and synthesis of relevant literature. explained with reference to the defined with reference to the defined but there is a lack of explained. 25% literature. literature. clarity and the meaning is unclear. The use of these concepts, from a managerial Theory has been used critically and reflectively to discuss Theory has been used to relate Theory has been used to Management influences on perspective, in influencing the achievement of managers’ use of organisational behaviour in enhancing organisational behaviour to the describe organisational performance using concepts the objective has been discussed. 50% performance/ achievement of the nominated organisational enhancement of performance/ behaviour, performance/ from organisational behaviour objective. achievement of organisational achievement of organisational have not been explained. Justification of key arguments is based on an integrated, objectives, within the objectives and management succinct and extensive use of subject and other relevant management role. A line of roles. There is no clear line of sources. argument has been included in argument and the work is the essay, although does not largely descriptive. underpin all of the content. Examples are clearly described and their Examples are relevant, and Examples are relevant and Examples are relevant and their Examples are relevant. Their Examples are not relevant or relationship to the argument explained. 15% their meaning succinctly and their meaning integrated meaning related to the meaning in relation to the description of them is unclear. critically integrated within the within the argument. argument. argument has not been Their relationship to the argument. established. argument unclear.

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