ASSIGNMENT FRONT SHEET

Title:Within an action plan, critically analyse the nature, role and tasks of people management

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Programme: WGU Online MBA

Level: Post Graduate

Academic Year:  20/21

Semester:  NA

Module title:  Conceptualising Leadership in Healthcare

Assignment no.  2

Module code:  ONL718

Word guide: 750

Percentage Weighting of this assignment for the module: 25%

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Lecturer:  

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Notes for students:

1.Electronic copy of assignment must be submitted through Turnitin.

2.Students should ensure that they comply with Wrexham University’s plagiarism policy.

3.Students should make correct use of the Harvard referencing method.

Learning Outcomes Tested in this Assignment:

Within an action plan, critically analyse the nature, role and tasks of people management.

Overall Comment:

 

Mark (%)

 

Would students please note that achievement of the learning outcomes for this assessment is demonstrated against the assessment criteria shown below (which are not necessarily weighted equally).  All marks/grades remain indicative until they have been considered and confirmed by the Assessment Board

Assessment Criteria

Marks Awarded

Marks Available

1

Clarity of structure shown in development of plan.

15%

 

2

Evidence of critical appraisal of the material from the module and insight into how knowledge gained can be applied to enhance leadership skills in practice.

 

50%

 

 

 

 

3

Demonstration of the contextual benefits expected from inclusion of the actions in the plan.

20%

 

 

 

4

Self-reflection on the support required to achieve the development goals.

 

15%

 

 

 

Conceptualising Leadership in Healthcare – Assignment 2: Reflective Practice

This assignment is to be submitted as a self-development plan.

Assignment Brief

For detailed instructions on completing this assignment, see the associated course page.

This assignment requires you to present a self-development plan demonstrating how you will use the knowledge acquired in weeks 1-6 of the module to enhance your leadership of healthcare.

For this assignment you will need to consider how you will present you plan to have impact, motivating you to complete it. You should be able to demonstrate learning from the course to date and how you will apply this to further develop yourself as a leader. Include consideration of support you will need to achieve your plan and where you will obtain this from. The plan should demonstrate you have reflected on your own strengths and weaknesses in considering what further you could do to become a more effective leader.

Your plan should not exceed 750 words in total (+/-10%). You may wish to present this as a narrative or a table or a chart or you may choose visual presentation to assist you in conveying the learning intend to take forward in your development 

While this assignment is weighted at 25%, your marks will be out of 100%

All referenced work should be obtained from credible sources such as academic journals and textbooks.

All written work must be in line with Harvard referencing.

Reference lists and any appendices/additional documents will not be included in your final word count. 

Masters level Marking Criteria

No work has been submitted in the time allowed, or the work submitted demonstrates little or no understanding of the task or the subject matter.  This may be evident where the work is substantially incoherent, irrelevant or lacking in factual content, or where these shortcomings are present in combination such that the work as a whole is unsound.  Major errors of fact, or evidence of substantially poor cognitive or other relevant skills will also lead to a fail.

Fail:

Marks below 30%

The work shows some knowledge and required skills are present to a degree.  There may be appreciable error or omission of facts, poor structure, misdirection to the task, or poor conceptualisation or illustration of the work.  Evidence of analysis and evaluation is weak.  There will be indications in the work that the candidate is capable of improving it by further application to the task

Fail:

Marks in the range

30% – 39%

The work contains sufficient descriptive information.  There is some analysis and explanation with appropriate illustration and example, and some attempt to evaluate.  The work will generally be coherent and relevant, it will contain some useful proposals or solutions related to familiar solutions and there will be some attempt at originality.  It will be communicated clearly.

Pass:

Marks in the range of

40% – 49%

The work contains all the necessary contextual information.  There will be adequate analysis, explanation and conceptualisation, with appropriate illustration and example, and sound attempts to evaluate and judge.  The work will be substantially coherent and will contain relevant and feasible proposals or solutions related to familiar situations, some responses to uncertainty or ambiguity and some acknowledgements of the implications of change.

Pass:

Marks in the range of

50% – 59%

The work will contain complete explanations using most available information.  There will be substantial analysis; the ability to recognise evidence, use ideas, conceptualise, evaluate and judge in familiar situations will be clearly demonstrated.  Proposals or solutions will be contextually relevant and useful, with substantial evidence of the skill necessary to operationalize them in a variety of situations, including those in which uncertainty, ambiguity or change are present.  The work will provide evidence of originality and of useful knowledge transfer to novel situations.  It will be coherent and convincing.

Pass:

Marks in the range of

60% – 69%

The work will clearly demonstrate the ability to analyse accurately, reliably and fully, all relevant information; to use evidence; to conceptualise, evaluate and judge; to propose and operationalise effective solutions, and to show substantial originality and creativity in a variety of familiar situations or in the face of ambiguity, uncertainty or change.  It will demonstrate valuable knowledge transfer and propose feasible solutions for a wide range of situations.  Evidence of the ability to innovate will be present.