HC2101 Performance Management for HR

Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester	T1 2019
Unit Code	HC2101
Unit Title	Performance Management for HR
Assessment Type	Individual
Assessment Title	Individual Essay
Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping)	It is expected that at the completion of the assessment, student able to:   Understand different methods and levels of measuring performance in organisationsDemonstrate the capacity to express ideas, concepts and arguments in a logical and coherent written form conforming to relevant standards of academic writing.
Weight	15 % of the total assessments
Total Marks	15
Word limit	Not more than 1,500 words (+/- 10%)
Due Date	Friday, Week 6, at 5PM
Submission Guidelines	All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page.The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page numbers.Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style.

Assignment 1 Specifications

Discuss the following statements:

Performance Management involves a range of activities, one of which is performance appraisal and feedback. For many years, researcher in the field of HRM and industrial organisational psychology focused on performance appraisal as a measurement technique. The goal of these performance appraisal systems was to measure individual employee performance reliable and validly and in order to do this we need to understand the performance management process (Kramar, et al. 2014). Based on your research, Identify and discuss the components of an effective performance management system.

Instructions:

1. This is an individual assignment with a maximum of 1,500 words (+/- 10%, excluding references list). All finalised individual essay MUST be uploaded to Blackboard by the due date.
2. Student must present the assignment in an essay format. The following summary from UOW would be a good starting point to build your essay (https://www.uow.edu.au/student/learningcoop/assessments/essays/index.html)

1. Introduction: The introduction of an essay is where the topic of the essay is introduced and an overview of your argument is given. It includes a general statement about the topic followed by a thesis statement. A thesis statement is your answer to the essay question in one or two sentences – in other words, it is your main argument, point or idea. Your introduction should also include a brief summary of the arguments, points or ideas that back up your claim
   1. Body: The body of your essay is where you clearly state and elaborate on the arguments, points or ideas that back up your claim. The number of paragraphs in the body of your essay will depend on how many individual points you need to make to develop your argument and, of course, the required word count.
   1. Conclusion: The conclusion of an essay is where you restate your main argument and the arguments that back it up. You may also want to include a one final comment if appropriate.
   1. Reference List: At a higher education level, you are expected to research widely and build your knowledge from the expertise of others. Thus it is important for you to reference all your sources to:
      1. to allow you or someone else to find the source of your information
      1. to avoid plagiarism by acknowledging that you’ve used the ideas and work of others
      1. to strengthen your arguments and add credibility by referring to expert ideas

The reference list we used within the Institute is the Harvard Referencing style. Please click the following link for further information:

http://uow.libguides.com/refcite/uowharvard

Marking criteria

		TARGET   9-10	ACCEPTABLE HIGH                        LOW 7-8                              6	UNACCEPTABLE   4-5
Content		out of	Interesting content	Some interesting	Conventional ideas	Cursory; gives the
	10 points	and presentation;	content; points not	or clichés; little	impression of writing
		ideas well	sustained or not fully	supporting detail	just to complete the
		conceived and	developed.	included.	assignment.
		developed with
		sufficient
		examples.
		9-10	7-8	6	4-5
Analysis		out of	Essay shows a	Shows evidence of	The essay is largely	Essay is generally
	10 points	resourceful and	analysis using ideas	descriptive with some	descriptive and
		imaginative	and principles	discussion using	uncritical. Some
		analysis using	introduced in the	ideas and principles	inaccuracy in the
		ideas and	module	introduced in the	material
		principles beyond		module
		those introduced
		in the module
Structure, Logic		out of	Logical	Logical progression of	Gaps in logic or no	Disorganized;
and Transitions	5 points	progression of	ideas but often lacks	transitions.	appears to have
		ideas with well-	transitions.		been written as
		executed			thoughts occurred to
		transitions.			the writer.
		5	4	3	2
Grammatical		out of	Appropriate level	Confined to simpler	Errors frequently	Message is largely
Accuracy	5 points	of complexity in	sentences or	affect	incomprehensible
		syntax with very	structures with very	comprehensibility, or	due to inaccurate
		few errors, if any.	few errors OR shows	very basic types of	grammar, which
			variety and complexity	errors (subject-verb	alters or obscures it,
			in syntax with errors	agreement; noun-	OR reader must
			that do not affect	adjective agreement,	know English to
			comprehensibility.	etc.)	comprehend much of
					the message.
		5	4	2-3	0
Vocabulary/		out of	Uses sufficient,	Usually uses	Often uses	Uses only
Word Choice	5 points	appropriate, and	appropriate vocabulary	inappropriate, or non-	elementary
		varied vocabulary;	with some variety;	specific vocabulary;	vocabulary; creates
		English influence	some errors in usage	lack of variety in word	non-existent words
		not apparent; rich	that do not affect the	choice; avoids use of	from English OR
		variety of idioms;	message; occasional	idioms; English-	uses words in
		no literal	appropriate use of	influenced word	English; translates
		translation from	Spanish idioms.	choice.	English idioms
		English.			verbatim.
		5	4	2-3	0
Punctuation,		out of	Correct spelling	Occasional	Frequent mechanical	English spelling and
Spelling, and	5 points	(including accents)	mechanical errors.	errors.	punctuation: no
Presentation		and punctuation;			accents; mechanical
		neatly typed with			errors in most
		correct format as			sentences.
		specified (MLA).
		9-10	7-8	6	4-5
Reading and		out of	Essay fully	Clear evidence of wide	Effective use of key	Some use of very
Referencing	10 points	supported by	and relevant reading.	reading. Accurate	limited reading,
		reference to	Accurate use of	use of Harvard	although fairly
		relevant up to date	Harvard referencing	referencing system	superficial.
		material. Accurate	technique		Inaccurate use of

		use of Harvard referencing technique.			Harvard referencing system
Total		out of
50 points
Final Weight		out of
15 points

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