LOC1: Relate and examine selected academic knowledge to a specific industry of work
LOC2: Apply clear SMART OBJECTIVES concerning learning and individual development
LOC3: Evaluate smart objectives through reflective logs and reports.
LOC4: Explore the workplace as a Learning Resource
LOC5: Evaluate one`s performance and learning experience through a review of workplace experience with a bid to identify areas of competence
Learning Outcomes 2 and 3 (2000 words) – 100 marks As part of your workplace reflection, you are required to provide a reflective log report covering your activities at your place of work for a period of six weeks. Guidance Your report will be assessed against the specific learning outcomes identified above. You should consider the following criteria as a guide to producing your work in addition to the university’s generic assessment criteria:
Within your examination of your skills reflection, you must:
Demonstrate your individual development with specific examples and evidence from the workplace.
You must use and reference key concepts, models, and terms from relevant academic reading e.g., teamwork, motivational and leadership theories.
Support your work using extracts from and references to suitable academic reading.
Details of your workplace organization and your organization including the nature of its activities
Critical analysis of your day-to-day activities and performance within the organization in relation to the organisational theories in development of your skills, knowledge and understanding Critical evaluation of the role of others in the organization
As part of your workplace activities assume that you have been accepted to do placement in company ABC a prominent organisation in UK as an advisor to the senior management
The CEO of the company ABC is very concerned with what is recently happening in the organisation. He has observed that most of the staff’s morale and performance have drastically dropped in most of the key departments and he is wondering why. The senior management has seen in your CV that one of the areas you studied during your degree qualification is stress management and how to manage stress at workplace. He has therefore asked you to prepare a 2000-report on stress Management. Using academic theories and research you will inform the management team on the concept of Stress, what it is, causes of Stress, symptoms of Stress at workplace and how Stress can be managed at the workplace to improve employee commitment, motivation, performance, and improved organizational productivity. Your report must have a clear introduction, main body, conclusion, and recommendation and supported by research from academic sources and referenced following Harvard referencing method. Use theory to support your discussions.