ASSIGNMENT

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BMOD5103
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
SEPTEMBER SEMESTER 2021

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTION

1. Answer in English or Bahasa Malaysia.

2. Number of words: 6,000 – 10,000 words excluding references.

3. Submit your assignment ONCE only in a SINGLE file.

4. Submit your assignment ONLINE.

5. Submission date: 4th DECEMBER 2021.

6. This assignment accounts for 100% of the total marks for the course.

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 ASSIGNMENT QUESTION

QUESTION/TASK 1 (30%):

OBJECTIVE:

To discuss the issues on employee learning and coping with organisational change.

REQUIREMENT:
Many organisations have had to make changes as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic
in order to deal with operational and economic issues. Based on your own
experience, use a narrative essay to describe how you as an employee learn and
manage changes during the pandemic. Evaluate the narrative essay to understand
individual learning and the process of change.

What is a narrative essay?

https://www.sjsu.edu/writingcenter/docs/handouts/Personal%20Narrative%20Essays.pdf
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/essay_writing/narrative_essays.html

[Total: 30 marks]

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QUESTION/ TASK 2 (70%):

OBJECTIVES:

1. To discuss the concepts and theories of emergent organisational development

and change and apply in organisational setup.
2. To evaluate the issues related to organisational development and change.

REQUIREMENT:
Organisational change has become more extensive and complex in recent years.
Organisational practitioners and academics have intensively introduced various
concepts and strategies related to organisational change. As the results, some
organisations are unsure how to select the right organisational change strategy.

In order to comprehend the various approaches taken by academics and

practitioners in the field of organisational change, as well as how organisations
should select the optimal organisational change strategy, prepare the following:

a. Review and explore from academic literature on the organisational change

tactics or strategies.
b. Collect news on the real organisational change tactics or strategies from
reliable sources such as The Wall Street Journal, The Edge, Reuters, The
Economic Times, etc.
c. Analyse the similarities and differences of the organisational change tactics or
strategies between academics and practitioners.

[Total: 70 marks]

[GRAND TOTAL: 100 MARKS]

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ASSIGNMENT RUBRICS
BMOD5103 ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE / SEPTEMBER 2021

QUESTION/TASK 1 (30%)

Excellent Good Fair Poor Unsatisfactory Max

*QN CLO Criteria Weight
4 3 2 1 0 Marks
Introduction Very clear and
Clear and detailed Moderate Vague introduction
detailed introduction
introduction of introduction of of organisational No introduction was
1 1 1 of organisational 4
organisational change organisational change change and the given.
change and the
and the pandemic. and the pandemic. pandemic.
pandemic.
Narrative Essay Very clear and Clear and interesting
Moderate way to tell Vague way to tell a
interesting way to tell way to tell a story
a story related to how story related to how
a story related to how related to how No narrative essay
1 1 3 individual manage individual manage 12
individual manage individual manage was given.
change due to change due to
change due to change due to
pandemic. pandemic.
pandemic. pandemic.
Finding Very clear evaluation Clear evaluation of Moderate evaluation Vague evaluation of No finding was
of finding from the finding from the of finding from the finding from the given.
narrative essay on narrative essay on narrative essay on narrative essay on
1 1 3.5 14
individual learning individual learning individual learning individual learning
and the process of and the process of and the process of and the process of
change. change. change. change.
Total 7.5 30

*QN = Question Number

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QUESTION/TASK 2 (70%)

Excellent Good Fair Poor Unsatisfactory Max

*QN CLO Criteria Weight
4 3 2 1 0 Marks
Introduction Very clear and Clear and detailed Moderate No introduction was
Vague introduction
detailed introduction introduction on the introduction on given.
on dilemma of
on the dilemma of dilemma of dilemma of
organisation to
2 2 2 organisation to adopt organisation to adopt organisation to adopt 8
adopt the best
the best the best the best
organisational
organisational change organisational change organisational change
change strategies.
strategies. strategies. strategies.
Literature review Very clear literature Clear literature Moderate literature Vague literature No literature review
review of 4 review of 4 review of 4 review of 4 was given.
organisational change organisational change organisational change organisational
2 3 4 16
tactics or strategies tactics or strategies tactics or strategies change tactics or
with the good use of with the good use of with the use of past strategies with the
past studies. past studies. studies. use of past studies.
Business news report Very clear discussion Clear discussion on 4 Moderate discussion Vague discussion on No business news
on 4 real real organisations on 4 real 4 real organisations report was given.
organisations examples of organisations examples of
2 3 4 16
examples of organisational change examples of organisational
organisational change tactics or strategies.organisational change change tactics or
tactics or strategies. tactics or strategies. strategies.
Analysis Very clear analysis of Clear analysis of Moderate analysis of Vague analysis of No analysis was
similarities and similarities and similarities and similarities and given.
differences of differences of differences of differences of
organisational change organisational change organisational change organisational
2 3 3.5 14
tactics or strategies tactics or strategies tactics or strategies change tactics or
between academics between academics between academics strategies between
and practices. and practices. and practices. academics and
practices.
Recommendation Very clear Clear Moderate Vague No recommendation
recommendation of recommendation of recommendation of recommendation of was given.
which organisational which organisational which organisational which organisational
2 2 3 12
change strategies change strategies change strategies change strategies
should be chosen in should be chosen in should be chosen in should be chosen in
specific scenarios. specific scenarios. specific scenarios. specific scenarios.
2 2 Overall presentation (APA formatting for 1 Totally free of errors. Few errors. Several errors. Many errors. Not follow the APA 4
citation, table, figure, references, formatting.
2
 numbering, etc.)
Total 17.5 70

*QN = Question Number