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Individual Analysis & Reflection

Available: Aug 5, 2024 23:59 until Nov 1, 2024 23:59Available: Aug 5, 2024 23:59 until Nov 1, 2024 23:59

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The ability to critically reflect upon oneself and one’s actions is a critical management skill. Managerial self-awareness can be enhanced through examination of one’s own prior actions, which can help improve our understanding of previously unquestioned beliefs and assumptions. Courses such as Foundations of Management provide an occasion for both reconsidering some of your taken-for-granted assumptions, but also to consider other perspectives or alternative ways of viewing and handling management situations.

Generative AI is a resource that will be used more and more by managers to assist them access information, analyse information and organise their time more effectively. This assignment asks you to both undertake your own reflection and use generative AI as a way of making sense of it.

For this assignment, think of a challenging management situation you have experienced, either when you have acted as the ‘manager’(leader) or as the ‘subordinate’(follower). This situation could relate to paid employment, volunteer work, a student club or society you have been involved with (not personal relationships with friends or partners). For example, think of an event where you may have faced resistance, conflict, or lack of compliance. Alternatively think of a management situation where you have had to examine your own values, beliefs, and prejudices when dealing with others.

You should use the framework suggested by Borton to structure your reflection. The key elements of this framework are:

1.What?

(What was the problem issue/What happened/What did I do)

2.So What?

(What was the outcome/What did you learn from this situation/What was important)

An important element here is making sense of the situation using only one or two concepts or frameworks that have been covered in weeks 3 and 4 of the unit)

3.What next?

(How do you (would you) resolve the situation or improve the outcome/How will what you have learnt change your future practice)

(This section of your assignment should be around 750 words).

Use generative AI in this assignment.

After you have sketched your own analysis of the situation and how this might prompt you to behave if a similar situation occurred in the future, ask generative AI tools (preferably MS Co Pilot or Perplexity) to suggest a potential solution to the challenges you faced in your nominated situation. You can interrogate this salutation by providing more detailed information about the situation in follow up questions.

Compare these AI-generated solutions with the strategies and insights you have drawn from your key readings.

Reflect on the similarities and differences between the AI-generated solutions and the solutions you were proposing based on your reading. Discuss which solutions you find more applicable and why.

(This section of your assignment should be around 250 words)

Reading:

Draw on the reading materials from Week 3 (Individual Behaviour in Organisations) & Week 4 (Management & Teams). Supplement this reading with at least three articles from academic journals that relate specifically to the topics of individual behaviour in work settings or management and teams in work settings.

WORD COUNT

Total = 1000 words. Please note that the word limit INCLUDES in-text referencing, headings (apart from the Assessment title), and ALL words contained in tables, figures, graphs, charts or diagrams (even if inserted as an image instead of as text). It DOES NOT INCLUDE either the 'Reference List' heading or the reference list itself, at the end of the document.

UPDATED: Please include the chat with the generative AI as an appendix to your reflection. This appendix will not count toward the word count.

SUBMISSION DATE

The response is due 5 September at 11:59 pm (SYDNEY local time).

Late Penalties

· Any assessment submitted after 11:59pm on the due date will incur a late penalty of 5%, and a 5% penalty of each additional day. For further information, see: https://business.sydney.edu.au/students/policy

IMPORTANT: In your tutorial, your tutor will go through a range of previous submissions to demonstrate what the WORK1004 Teaching Team will be looking for when we grade your responses. We will also have a Cogniti AI agent on Canvas which can help you with questions you have about the reflection exercise