INSTRUCTIONS ON ASSESSMENT: 

The overall coursework assessment for this module is comprised of three components.  Component 1: Discussion Board Participation (weightage 10%)  

Component 2: Reflective Written Account (weightage 10%)  

Component 3: Individual Written Report (weightage 80%) 

COMPONENT 1: DISCUSSION BOARD PARTICIPATION (WEIGHTAGE 10%)  

You are required to respond to a discussion board question and participate by responding with an answer (400  words). The discussion board question will be released on 9thth November and you will have time to examine and  respond to the question with an answer by 27th November. For this assessment, you are required to engage with  the relevant reading of articles highlighted in Week 8 of the Teaching and Learning Plan (available on blackboard). 

COMPONENT 2: REFLECTIVE WRITTEN ACCOUNT (WEIGHTAGE 10%)  

You are required to produce a 600-word personal reflective account of your experience of having undergone  change in an organisation. Your reflective account should address the following:  

▪ your experience/views about the need and usefulness of the change experienced. 

▪ your experience/views of how the change affected the organisation and people within it. ▪ your experience/views of what role leaders in the organisation played (or not) in the change.  

The reflective account should be written in first person and should be a personal narrative of your experience.  

COMPONENT 3: INDIVIDUAL REPORT (80% WEIGHTAGE) 

You are required to produce a 3000-word report on leading responsible change in a chosen organisation. This can  be any organisation of your choice. It can also be an organisation that you currently work for (or have worked for) 

The selected piece of change must be a relevant and contemporary issue that the organisation is facing and which  leaders in the organisation must strategically and practically address. 

You should use the tools, theories and frameworks covered in this module to carry out an analysis of the  change and provide recommendations on how to lead the change responsibly in your chosen organisation.  

Suggested Report Structure  

Cover Page (not included in the word count) 

The cover page should include student name, student ID, programme title, module title, module code, module  tutor, report title, submission date, and word count.  

Acknowledgements (not included in the word count) 

Table of Contents or Index (not included in the word count)  

The table of contents/index should provide details of all the contents in your report (including Appendices) List of Figures and Tables (not included in the word count) 

List of Abbreviations/Acronyms (not included in the word count)

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Module Assessment Brief 

Introduction (15 marks) [300 words] 

This section should provide a brief background about the organisation and the change being addressed, to give  the reader enough information to understand the context in which the report has been carried out. A rationale  should also be included here by explaining why you selected this contemporary change issue for your report.  

Academic Underpinning (20 marks) [800 words] 

In this section, you should make a critical evaluation of, and demonstrate critical application of theory, frameworks  and principles to your contemporary change and leadership, drawn from a range of relevant and appropriately  referenced academic and practitioner literature. You must demonstrate wide reading from a range of sources.  

Analysis (25 marks) [800 words] 

You should use relevant tools and models covered on the module to frame your analysis of the change.  

Discussion and Recommendations (30 marks) [1000 words] 

Based on your review of literature and your analysis of the change, you should engage in a critical discussion of  how to lead the change and provide practical recommendations to enhance responsible change in your chosen  organisation. For this, you should draw on key evidence from the literature and from your analysis of the change. 

Conclusion (5 marks) [100 words] 

A suitable conclusion which summarises the key arguments and contributions of the report and brings the report to  a clear ending should be provided.  

Presentation, Structure, Academic Writing Style and Referencing (5 marks) 

You should ensure your report is free from spelling, punctuation, and grammatical error and that your writing style  is detached and passive (remember to write gender free and in the 3rd person). Citations and referencing must be  error free using the APA 6th Edition system of referencing. This element must be written in the third person.

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Module Assessment Brief 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 

Please refer to the HR9738 module site for further detailed guidance on how to complete each  component effectively. Please also refer to the HR9738 module site for further details of the marking  criteria for each assessment component. 

Late submission of work 

Where coursework is submitted without approval, after the published hand-in deadline, the following  penalties will apply. 

For coursework submitted up to 1 working day (24 hours) after the published hand-in deadline without  approval, 10% of the total marks available for the assessment (i.e.100%) shall be deducted from the  assessment mark. 

For clarity: a late piece of work that would have scored 65%, 55% or 45% had it been handed in on time will  be awarded 55%, 45% or 35% respectively as 10% of the total available marks will have been deducted. 

The Penalty does not apply to Pass/Fail Modules, i.e. there will be no penalty for late submission if  assessments on Pass/Fail are submitted up to 1 working day (24 hours) after the published hand-in deadline. 

Coursework submitted more than 1 working day (24 hours) after the published hand-in deadline without  approval will be regarded as not having been completed. A mark of zero will be awarded for the  assessment and the module will be failed, irrespective of the overall module mark. 

For clarity: if the original hand-in time on working day A is 11:59pm the 24-hour late submission  allowance will end at 11:59pm on working day B. 

These provisions apply to all assessments, including those assessed on a Pass/Fail basis. 

Word limits and penalties 

If the assessment components are within 10% (plus or minus) of the stated word limit, no penalty will apply. 

The word count is to be declared on the front page of your assignment and the assignment cover sheet. The  word count does not include: 

• Title and  
  

Contents page• Reference list • Appendices • Quotes from 

• Glossary • Bibliography interviews and  focus groups. 
• Appropriate tables,  figures and 

illustrations 

Please note, in text citations [e.g. (Smith, 2011)] and direct secondary quotations [e.g. “dib-dab nonsense  analysis” (Smith, 2011 p.123)] are INCLUDED in the word count. 

If this word count is falsified, students are reminded that under ARNA page 30 Section 3.4 this will be  regarded as academic misconduct. 

If the word limit of the full assignment exceeds the +10% limit, 10% of the mark provisionally awarded to the  assignment will be deducted. For example: if the assignment is worth 70 marks but is above the word limit by  more than 10%, a penalty of 7 marks will be imposed, giving a final mark of 63. 

Students must retain an electronic copy of this assignment (including ALL appendices) and it must be  made available within 24/hours of them requesting it be submitted. 

Note: For those assessments or partial assessments based on calculation, multiple choice etc., marks will  be gained on an accumulative basis. In these cases, marks allocated to each section will be made clear.

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Referencing your work 

The APA method of referencing uses the author’s name and the date of the publication. In-text citations give  brief details of the work you are referring to in your text. References are listed at the end of the text in  alphabetical order by the author’s name. The general format of an electronic journal reference in the APA  style is shown below: 

Coutu, D. (2009). Why Teams Don’t Work. Harvard Business Review, 87, 5, 98-105. Retrieved 29th April  2012 from EBSCO http://searchebscohost.com 

Author/s name and initials are listed first, followed by year of publication in brackets. Then there is the title of  article and the journal where the article appears, which is in italics. Then state the volume and issue number  (in brackets) along with the pages where article can be located. Finally add the date the article was retrieved  and then the name of the database, followed by the web address. Wherever possible use the homepage  

URL rather than the full and extended web address. 

For further information on why it is important to reference accurately go to the Referencing and Plagiarism  topic in Skills Plus available from the Library website: 

www.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus 

You will find other useful help guides on Skills Plus to help you with the skills involved in writing your  assessments and preparing for exams. 

For further information on the APA style of referencing see the Concise Rules of APA style and the APA  website http://www.apastyle.org/learn 

Academic Misconduct 

The Assessment Regulations for Northumbria Awards (ARNA) contain the Regulations and procedures  applying to cheating, plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. 

The full policy is available at: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/central/ar/qualitysupport/asspolicies/ 

You are reminded that plagiarism, collusion and other forms of academic misconduct as referred to in the  Academic Misconduct procedure of the assessment regulations are taken very seriously by Newcastle  Business School. Assignments in which evidence of plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct is  found may receive a mark of zero.