ASSIGMENT OUTLINE
Assignment title: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Weighting: 30%
Programme: EMIHM
Course name: Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Course number: M9114
Faculty responsible: Mr. Loiti
Hand-out date: 07/11/2022
Hand-in date: (End of module)
Full written project report. You are required to submit the written
report to www.turnitin.com. See link in Moodle\Assessment area
Learning outcomes
1. Adapt a leadership model to a business environment by assessing its
suitability and impact.
2. Determine the factors involved in managing, leading and developing
people within cultural diversity.
Project Overview: The project is designed to develop the student’s level of selfawareness, and to define their life priorities in order to develop an efficient and
effective personal & professional development plan.
Overall Aim: To enable students to undertake a learning process about interpersonal
skills and their preferences, in order to set an starting point for their leadership
development for a successful career.
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Organisation and methodology
With this project, the students are encouraged to write down personal insights and
reflections on their experiences in the course.
The necessary steps to do this are as follows:
1. Each student will generate their own personal profile based on the self-assessments
done in class (Appendix 1).
a. Objectively explain the results obtain through the self-assessment
inventories done in class. What do your results say? Which traits does your
profile have?
b. Subjectively reflect about your results. How do you feel about those results?
Are you aligned with them? Were they a surprise?
2. The student will have to prepare their personal / professional development plan.
The steps to prepare this plan are as follows:
a) The student will need to present 2-3 professional objectives to be achieved
by the next 3-5 years. Follow the SMART system for defining those goals (see
Appendix 2).
b) Reflect about your strengths and weaknesses for achieving the defined
goals. What and how much you need to improve to become or to reach
those defined objectives? Which skills, knowledge, abilities and behavioral
traits you need to work on to be successful upon your goals? Explain that
area.
c) Based on these self-assessments and discussions above, the student will
have to develop an action plan (Development Plan) in order to be able to
achieve the goals stated above following his/her reflection on part b.
The students are required to keep the following format within the project:
– Report Layout: The sequence in which the project material should be arranged is as
follows:
Wordcount: 1,500 (excluding references and bibliography if any)
Students self-awareness exercises
Students reflection.
Development Plan
Citation/References (APA style, 7th Ed.). If using any, the project must include
the references, citations or quotations respecting APA style. See intranet: Library
-> Library services -> 4.7 Instruction and information literacy service.
– Typing instructions:
One and a half spacing should be used for typing the general text. The general
text shall be typed in the font style ‘Times New Roman’ and font size 12. Margins:
3cm on LHS, 3cm on RHS. Top margin 3cm, bottom margin 2cm.
Page numbered (Arabic numbers).
Word format only.
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– Assessment tasks and weighting:
Assessment task Weighting %
Format (layout, completion of documents, citations…) 5%
Description of students professional profile and reflection 25%
SMART goals 20%
Development plan 40%
English Skills in Assignment 10%
– Turnitin Instructions:
Check your Turnitin link in Moodle.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of presenting another’s ideas or words as one’s own.
Cheating includes, but is not limited to, the intentional falsification or fabrication of any
academic activity, unauthorized copying of another person’s work, or aiding and
abetting any such acts.
Particular care must be taken when presenting information that has been
obtained from an internet site. Should this information not be correctly referenced, then
you are guilty of plagiarism and will be penalised accordingly.
With respect to projects/assignments, faculty reserves the right to randomly call
upon any student and ask them to defend their work orally.
Any assignment/exam which is found to contain plagiarism will automatically be
awarded a grade of 0, and an e-mail will be sent to the student or the student’s
parents/tutors/sponsors. Depending on the circumstances, additional penalties could be
imposed (see LRM Academic Regulations, Section 11).
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Statement of authorship
Following the title page of your assignment there should be a page on which
you sign a statement that the work included in the assignment is your own work except
where appropriately referenced. The following statement should be used:
Signed ………………………………………………….
Name ………………………………………………….
Student number …………………………………..
Common skills developed (italics)/ assessed (bold)
MANAGING AND
DEVELOPING SELF
1.Manages
own role and
responsibilities
2. Manages
own time in
achieving
objectives.
3.Undertakes
personal and
career
development
4. Transfers skills
gained to new
and changing
situations and
contexts.
5.Uses a
range of
thought
processes
WORKING WITH AND
RELATING TO OTHERS
6.Treats others’
values, beliefs
and opinions
with respect
7.Relates to
and interacts
objectively
with individuals
and groups
8.Works
effectively as a
member of a
team
COMMUNICATING
9.Receives and
responds to a
variety of
information
10.Presents
information in
a variety of
visual forms
11.Communicates
in writing
12.Participates
in oral and
non-verbal
communication
MANAGING TASKS AND
SOLVING PROBLEMS
13.Uses
information
sources
14. Deals with
a combination
of routine and
non-routine
tasks
15.Identifies and
solves routine and
non-routine
problems
BECOMING NUMERATE
AND USING
TECHNOLOGY
16.Applies
numerical skills
and
techniques
17.Uses a
range of
technological
equipment
and systems
Statement of authorship
I certify that this assignment is my own work and contains no material which has been
submitted as part of an assignment in any institute, college or university. Moreover, to
the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or
written by another person, except where due reference is made in the text of the
assignment.
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English skills assessed
English skills will be assessed in the written report, and will count as 10% of the final grade
in it.
English Skills Full
Achievement
Good Reasonable Adequate Fail
Coherence/Structure/Flow
Writing is structured
Has a beginning & end
Ideas are well connected
Clear flow – easy to read
Effectively
organised.
Well-structured
with good flow
Generally well
organised.
Sometimes ideas
are not linked
together
Structure
could be
better with
clearer
development
for better
reading
Shows some
organisation –
just enough to
pass
Not clearly
organised
Difficult to
follow
Relevant Use of Language
Writing uses specific language
used in hospitality asked for by
assignment
Minimum
errors – wide
range of
appropriate
vocabulary
Good range of
appropriate
vocabulary
More than
adequate
range used
Uses limited
variety of terms,
and is often
repetitive
Poor use or no
use of specific
terms
Appropriate Tone
Required use of either formal
or informal style of writing
Appropriate
tone
throughout
and reflects
assignment
requirements
Tone on the
whole
appropriate
Some
inconsistent
use of
language
Not always
appropriate
therefore not
entirely
successful
Inappropriate
tone used in
most of the
task
Clarity & Accuracy
Writing is clear with no
confusing areas
Extremely
clear
Well
developed &
expanded
upon
Slight confusion
due to minor
inaccuracy.
Ideas on the
whole
developed well
Occasional
confusion due
to ideas not
being clear
but message is
given
At times, difficult
to follow and/or
repetitive
Difficult to
read due to
inaccuracies
Impact/Effectiveness on
Reader
Impact on reader
Excellent Very Positive Positive Satisfactory –
just a pass
Poor effect on
reader
Overall Appreciation – Final % 100% – 85% 84% – 75% 74% – 65% 64% – 60% Fail
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Appendix 1
Summarizing your profile:
You now have calculated your scores for interpersonal needs, assertiveness,
cognitive style, locus of control, and type “A” personality. Together, they make
up your self-awareness profile. The interpretation sections for each
characteristic have allowed you to analyze your scores and interpret what they
say about you. Summarize your self-assessment profile in the spaces in the
following tables for future discussion.
Self-Awareness Score:
FIRO-B Scores
Expressed Wanted
Inclusion
Control
Affection
MBTI Type:
Assertiveness Scores
Passive
Aggressive
Assertive
Conflict Management Style:
A = Collaborating:
B = Compromising:
C = Accommodating:
D = Competing/Forcing:
E = Avoiding:
PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
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Appendix 2
SMART GOALS TEMPLATE