NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS

HIGHER NATIONALS
BTEC HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS (RQF)

Assignment Brief

Unit Code, Number and Title A/618/5064– Unit 20: Organisational Behaviour

Semester and Academic Year Semester 1 | Academic year 2023 - 2024

Pham Thi Bich Ngoc | Nguyen Thi Lien Huong|
Unit Assessor(s)
Nguyen Thi Minh Hang|Nguyen Hoang Hieu

OB A2.1: Team dynamics and development

Assignment Title
(Assessment 2 of 2)

Issue Date Wednesday, 1st November 2023

Submission Date 10:00 AM, Wednesday, December 6th, 2023

Student name
NEU Student ID
Student declaration I certify that the assignment submission is entirely my own
work and I fully understand the consequences of
plagiarism. I understand that making a false declaration is
a form of malpractice.

Student name / Signature Date:

Submission Format

This assignment (Assessment 2 of 2) covers Learning Outcomes 1, 2, and 3 (LO1, LO2, and
LO3).
 This assignment is in a hybrid form, which consists of two parts: part 1 is a group
joint report and part 2 is a collection of individual reflective essays. You will be
assessed individually based on (i) your writing content, (ii) your contribution to the
group work, and (iii) your presentation. The quality of the part 1 of the assignment will
greatly affect the marks given to each group member.
  The submission format is in the form of a written assignment and a set of
presentation slides.
 The submission format is in the form of an E-report. Please refer the Student handbook
(Vietnamese version, Appendix 2) for the Assignment submission rules.
 The file on Turnitin must be in Word format and include the first page of this cover
sheet. The first page of the cover sheet should be in the picture format in order to
ensure the accepted similarity of Turnitin.
 The similarity allowed is up to 25% after excluding references.
 Name of the file includes Group name/ group number_Unit name_Assessment no.
(E.g. “Group 1_OB_A2.1”)
 Ensure that authenticity declaration has been signed electronically.
 Include a content sheet with a list of all headings and page numbers.
 Plagiarism is unacceptable. Students must cite all sources and input the information by
paraphrasing, summarising or using direct quotes. A Referral Grade is given when
Plagiarism is identified in your work. There are no exceptions.
 Your evidence/findings must be cited using Harvard Referencing Style. Please refer to
Reference guiding posted on Moodle. The Reference page is compulsory to upload
on Turnitin.
 This assignment should be written in a concise, formal business style using Arial 11 or
Times New Roman 13 font size and 1.5 spacing.
 The word limit is 7,000 words (Part 1) and 500 words per individual (Part 2) although
you will not be penalised for exceeding the total word limit.
 You MUST complete and submit softcopy of your work on the due dates stated on
Assignment brief. All late work is not allowed to submit. This rule is not waived under any
circumstances.
Read ALL Instructions on this Page and review the Pass, Merit and Distinction criteria carefully.
To pass the assignment, you must achieve ALL the Pass Criteria outlined in the marking sheet.
To achieve a Merit, you must achieve ALL the Merit criteria (and therefore the Pass criteria). To
achieve a Distinction, you must achieve ALL the Distinction criteria (and therefore the Pass and
Merit criteria).
Unit Learning Outcomes

LO1: Reflect on own personality and perceptions to understand how individual difference
informs and influences management approaches
LO2: Apply content and process theories of motivation to create and maintain an effective
workforce
LO3: Participate in a group team activity for a given business situation to demonstrate effective
team skills
Assignment activity and guidance

You will be assigned to work in the same team of 5-7 students over 6 sessions of the
course, from session 6 to session 11. In each class session, your team will be given a task
to implement. This gives you the opportunity to develop your ability to work with others,
based upon the understanding of group and group dynamics. After completing each task,
you should note down a description of your team’s interactions and an evaluation of the
team’s performance.

Using your notes as raw data, you are required to write a report on your team’s interactions
and performance over the class sessions. The report should include a discussion on how
 the various concepts and theories are applied in your team activities as well as your
analysis of the team members’ behaviours and the factors and skills that assist or hinder
effective teamwork.

The report should consist of 2 parts: part 1 is a syndicate effort that includes an analysis of
and a reflection on your team’s development and part 2 is a collection of individual team
members’ reflective essays on his/ her own work in the team. Specifically,
Part 1 – syndicate effort (7000 words) - should cover the followings:
1. An introduction of your team using group properties concepts;
2. An analysis of relevant team development theories (Tuckman’s theory and/or
Punctuated-Equilibrium theory) to support the development of team cooperation;
3. A reflection on the application of content and process theories of motivation for
enhancing and maintaining an effective team;
4. Reflect on own personality and perceptions to understand how individual difference
informs and influences management approaches in your team situation;
5. An explanation of factors that make your team effective/ ineffective;
6. A discussion of the relationship between the effectiveness of teamwork and goal
achievement;
7. A description of each individual team member’s contribution to the work of the team.

Part 2 - individual team members’ reflective essays (500 words each) - should cover
the followings:
8. An evaluation of each team member’s performance;
9. A reflection on what you have learned from other team members;
10. A discussion of the impact you had made on your team and how you might change
your behaviour in teams’ works in the future.

Recommended Resources
Please note that the resources listed are examples for you to use as a starting point in your
research – the list is not definitive.

1. Robbins, S. P. and Judge, T. A. (2018). Organizational Behavior (18th Edition). Pearson.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Reflect on own personality and perceptions to D1 Adapt personal perspectives,

understand how individual difference informs and traits and attributes to justify
influences management approaches improvements that influence and
P1 Assess own
personality traits and
attributes in terms of
them having a positive or
negative effect on M1 Challenge own
management perspectives and individual
approaches and traits and attributes to
company performance influence and improve
P2 Reflect on the value managerial relationships
and importance of
personality and
perception for effective enhance employee motivation
managerial relationships and create an effective workforce

LO2 Apply content and process theories of motivation

to create and maintain an effective workforce

P3 Apply content and M2 Critically assess the

process theories of extent that employee
motivation for enhancing motivation can be enhanced
and maintaining an and maintained by practical
effective organizational application of content and
workforce, providing process theories of
specific examples motivation

LO3 Participate in a group team activity for a given

business situation to demonstrate effective team skills

P4 Contribute to the
creation and
management of effective D2 Revise personal contribution
M3 Reflect on personal and skills for effective teams to
teamworking in a given
contribution to group
business situation make justified recommendations
behavior and dynamics in
P5 Explore the relevance for own improvement
the creation and
of group behavior and
management of effective
team theory in the
teamworking
creation and
management of effective
teamworking