Assessment Brief

Students are required to submit their coursework through JIRA. Only assessments submitted through JIRA will be marked. Any other submission including submission to your study centre in hard copy will be treated as a non-submission.

If your centre supports Turnitin©, a copy of your Turnitin© originality report must be submitted in conjunction with your assignment.The University’s Generic Marking Criteria attached will be used to assess the work.  

Introduction

For this module there is one individual research based assessment which is presented as a ‘Developing Reflexive Practitioner Reflection’.

Increasingly there is recognition of the significance of professional development within the management professions (e.g. HRM, Marketing Management, Financial Management and Management including Leadership). Therefore this research aims to present you with the opportunity to develop as a reflexive professional and scholar practitioner (Armstrong, 2018b).

Managers today increasingly find themselves facing unexpected problems, needing to learn how to cope with complex environments and to take action in an often chaotic flow of events. This is achieved by creating space for collaborative dialogue between managers and researchers, and supplementing it with the integration of a reflexive writing practice(Ripamonti et al., 2016: 55).

This research is positioned within a critical qualitative inquiry (Denzin, 2017) and using a bricolage approach as reflexive digital bricolage (Armstrong, 2018a).

This research consists of two parts as follows:

Part A: Introduction and Research Design

This includes:

Research Aim, Research Context and Literature Review (30 Marks)

For this research you choose one of the research aims:

• Making sense of feelings and emotions
• Increasing self-awareness
• Understanding and making sense of a trigger (‘A Critical incident’).

The research context is based on which professional identity you feel describes you now and or your future aspirations:

• HRM = CIPD located at https://www.cipd.co.uk/learn/career/profession-map

• Marketing = CIM located at https://www.cim.co.uk/more/professional-marketing-competencies/

• Financial Management = ACCA located at http://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/member/standards/rules-and-standards.html

• Management = CMI located at https://www.managers.org.uk/policies/code-of-conduct-and-practice

From the professional body to frame your research choose at least 3 behaviours or values or professional standards (this is dependent upon the professional body).

For this part you are required to write at least 1000 words on your choice of research aim, the choice of professional body context and how you will approach this reflection as a literature review using academic citations of the approach to journaling (e.g. writing through the mirror; metaphorical approaches; artistic approaches; critical incident; mirror metaphors; cycles of reflection; experiential approaches; biographical approaches).

Research Design, Methodology and Method(40 Marks)

The purpose of this part is for you to critique and justify your research design in terms of your methodology (e.g. reflexive dialogic action research; reflexivity; auto-ethnographic practices; arts based or a bricolage of methodologies) and your method (Cycles of reflection e.g. Gibbs cycle or Gardner Cycle; JOHARI window; your personal cultural texts including your approach to coding these as qualitative data) and a critique of the research design (this is where you discuss and evaluate your researcher voice and the challenges you faced completing this critical qualitative inquiry).

This should be at least 1000 words and you are expected to have academic citations to support your critique and evaluation of your research design, methodology and method.

You are required to provide a full bibliographic list of academic citations (all readings which you have cited in text and also read but not cited) using the Harvard referencing system. This does not count towards the word count.

Part B: Digital Storyboard(30 Marks)

This is the presentation of the analysed personal cultural texts in the form of a ‘storyboard’. The storyboard can be presented as either (choose 1 only);

• At least a 1000 word Critical Incident Analysis
• At least a 1000 word Creative Writing
• Video reflection in the form of a vlog(at least 5 minutes and no longer than 10 minutes)
• Audio reflection in the form of a podcast (at least 5 minutes and no longer than 10 minutes)

Whichever method of presentation you choose you should include

List of Sources which have been used to create the storyboard (not counted in word count)