Organizational Communication

Task

Assignment W8 - Effective Communication for training purposes.

Purpose of the Assignment: The assignment is designed to provide students the opportunity to critically analyse the issues and constraints in relation to the use of business information in organisations, critically discuss how to deal with real business communication issues and explain the significance for companies of implementing effective communication strategies to enhance their performance and productivity.

Self-Contained Multimedia activity: Creating a Power-Point Presentation based on a given scenario.

You are a consultant who has been hired to improve the effectiveness of corporate trainers. These trainers often make presentations to employees on topics such as conflict management, teamwork, problem solving, and performance appraisal. Your goal is to teach these trainers how to make better presentations.

Your task: Please create six visually appealing slides on the following content, which will be spoken during the presentation titled Effective Employee Training.

You need to provide a detailed explanation - in 2500 words - of your introduction, opening statement, transition methods between different topics/slides and other choices. Remember to go through the course slides and notes on effective presentations in order to create your own effective mini-presentation.

This should be a purely academic approach giving supporting sources of information and references. Evidence of research, knowledge of the topic and, in particular, the level of analysis and justification are important in determining the grade for the assignment. Referencing and bibliography are formally assessed in this assignment.

The word limit is 2500 and 6 Power Point slides.

Deadline: Sunday 20 September 2020 - 23:59 CET

Assignment Weight: 60% of the total mark

Suitable Reference System: Harvard

Credit will be given for evidence of:

 Library/Internet based research. Try to use a mixture of resources - books, articles as well as the internet.

 Understanding of the issues raised by the questions.

 Concise and clear presentation. Acknowledge any quotes, ideas or arguments that are not your own using the Harvard system. Include a list of references.

 Originality and a critical and questioning approach. It is important to be objective and to support statements with evidence.

 A logical structure and well-argued conclusion.

Good luck!

COURSE CODE BCO323 COURSE NAME Organizational Communication Task brief & rubrics

Formalities:

 Word count: 2500

 6 Power point slides

 Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

 Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

 Text alignment: Justified.

 The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.

Submission: Week (8) – Via Moodle (Turnitin). Deadline: Sunday 20 September 2020 - 23:59 CET

Weight: This task is a 60% of your total grade for this subject.

Rubrics

Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge & Understanding

(20%)

Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner.

Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary.

Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.

Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary.

Application (30%) Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident.

Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident.

Critical Thinking (30%)

Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors.

Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors and references.

Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic. References may not be relevant.

Student makes little or none critical thinking insights, does not quote appropriate authors, and does not provide valid sources.

Communication (20%)

Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck. Power point slides are professionally developed.

Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck. Power point slides are thoroughly developed.

Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the wordcount limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident. Power point slides are satisfactory developed.

Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed wordcount excessively and misspelling errors are evident. Power point slides are poorly developed.