BUSM4590 People and organisations

Assessment 1: Engagement and application

Due date: Part 1: Weekly reading annotations Sunday 23:59 of Weeks 1-5, Part 2 due Sunday of Week 3, 23:59 (Melbourne Time)

Weighting: 20%

Word limit: Part 1: Weekly reading annotations, Part 2: 300-word response

Assessment type: Weekly reading annotations and written analysis

Group or individual assessment: Individual

Overview

This assessment consists of two parts. In Part 1, you will use the tool Perusall to complete weekly reading annotations for Weeks 1-5. You will analyse and annotate the provided weekly readings within the context of an organisation of your choice. In Part 2, you will choose a comment from one of your peers in Perusall to critically analyse within 300 words.

Purpose

The assessment has been designed to be an opportunity for you to demonstrate your capacity to apply the course concepts to real world, industry relevant contexts. Using Perusall also gives you the opportunity to actively engage in weekly readings by interacting with your peers and building your knowledge and understanding based on these interactions.

What do you need to deliver?

• Weekly reading annotations in Perusall
• 300-word written analysis

Tools

• Perusall
• Microsoft Word or similar

Course learning outcomes

This assessment is linked to the following course learning outcomes:

Analyse the literature on organisational behaviour.

Demonstrate interpersonal skills and persuasive communication.

Marking criteria

This assessment will measure your ability to be:

PART 1:

Digitally Adept: Uses collaborative technologies to independently connect and work with others, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints and broaden learning opportunities (10 points).

PART 2

Critically Engaged: Uses theory and evidence to address questions, test hypotheses and evaluate claims and solutions (7 points).

Connected: Demonstrates an ability to effectively exchange information and shape ideas through the written word (3 points) .

Assessment Details

Part 1: Weekly reading annotations

You will access Perusall and annotate the weekly readings for Week 1-5. See below for instructions on Perusall. Please ensure that you annotate the weekly article by Sunday 23:59 of each week to receive marks.

You are required to read through and annotate the chosen weekly reading in relation to a relevant live case via Perusall. You are to choose an organisation (could be your own organisation, an organisation you are familiar with, one you recently read about in a news article, follow on YouTube clip or social media etc) to analyse with reference to the article to gain a better understanding of the real-world case. You can alternatively respond to other students annotations, adding additional insight to their chosen real-world case. Your goal is to stimulate discussion by posting meaningful comments and questions and to help others by answering their questions/providing further insight to their comments.

To complete this assessment, you must first enrol in the Perusall course by following the below steps:

1. Go to com click Login, and then either log if you have an existing account or create an account using your email address and password (use your RMIT student account as a Gmail account).
2. Select 'Enroll in course'
3. Enter the course code: STAFF-U7WAE
4. Go to Assignments to access the readings

Instructions: How Perusall Works

Perusall helps you master readings faster, understand the material better, and get more out of your seminars. To achieve this goal, you will be collaboratively annotating the cases with others in your course. The help youll get and provide your classmates (even if you dont know anyone personally) will get you past confusions quickly and will make the process more fun. While you read, youll receive rapid answers to your questions, help others resolve their questions (which also helps you learn), and advise the instructor how to make class time most productive. You can start a new annotation thread in Perusall by highlighting text, asking a question, or posting a comment; you can also add a reply or comment to an existing thread. Each thread is like a chat with one or more members of your course, and it happens in real time. Your goals in annotating each reading assignment are to stimulate discussion by posting good questions or comments and to help others by answering their questions.

Research shows that by annotating thoughtfully, youll learn more and get better grades, so heres what annotating thoughtfully means: Effective annotations deeply engage points in the readings, stimulate discussion, offer informative questions or comments, and help others by addressing their questions or confusions. To help you connect with classmates, you can mention a classmate in a comment or question to have them notified by email (theyll also see a notification immediately if online), and youll also be notified when your classmates respond to your questions.

You will be evaluated by the annotations you submit on time (see below). Based on the overall body of your annotations, you will receive a score for each as follows

2 = demonstrates exceptionally thoughtful and thorough reading of the entire assignment

1 = demonstrates thoughtful and thorough reading of the entire assignment

0 = demonstrates superficial reading of only part of the assignment

How many annotations do I need to enter?

At a minimum you must provide at least 2 annotations.

When will I see my scores?

You can review your scores after the weekly assignment deadline by clicking My Scores in the left panel on Perusall.

Part 2: Written analysis

Provide a 300-word response to a chosen Perusall comment from another student critically analysing why you do/do not agree with the comment drawing on insights from the corresponding article. Please provide the chosen comment at the beginning of your document in quotation marks.

Referencing Guidelines

Use RMIT Harvard referencing style for this assessment. If you are using secondary sources, include these as a reference list in your report.

You must acknowledge all the sources of information you have used in your assessments.

Refer to the RMIT Easy Cite referencing tool to see examples and tips on how to reference in the appropriate style. You can also refer to the Library referencing page for other tools such as EndNote, referencing tutorials and referencing guides for printing.

Submission instructions

Part 1: Your individual Perusall comments/article annotations must be completed electronically by Sunday 23:59 each week (Weeks 1-5) in Perusall. Late submissions will not receive any marks.

Part 2: Your written analysis must be submitted electronically via Canvas using the Turnitin e- Submission procedure by Sunday of Week 3, 23:59 (Melbourne Time).Turnitin will review your submitted work and provide an originality report for you and your facilitator.

Extension requests

If you need an extension for Part 1 or Part 2, you will need to apply for an extension via the Extensions tab in Canvas. If you need an extension for just one weeks annotations, you can simply email your facilitator prior to Sunday 23:59 of that week.

Academic integrity and plagiarism information

Academic integrity is about honest presentation of your academic work. It means acknowledging the work of others while developing your own insights, knowledge, and ideas.

You should take extreme care that you have:

• Acknowledged words, data, diagrams, models, frameworks and/or ideas of others you have quoted (i.e., directly copied), summarised, paraphrased, discussed, or mentioned in your assessment through the appropriate referencing methods
• Provided a reference list and /or bibliography of the publication details so your reader can locate the source if This includes material used from Internet sites.

If you do not acknowledge the sources of your material, you may be accused of plagiarism because you have passed off the work and ideas of another person without appropriate referencing, as if they were your own.

RMIT University treats plagiarism as a very serious offence constituting misconduct. Plagiarism covers a variety of inappropriate behaviours, including:

• Failure to properly document a source
• Copyright material from the internet or databases
• Collusion between students

For further information on our policies and procedures, please refer to the University website.

Assessment declaration

When you submit work electronically, you agree to the assessment declaration.