Submission: Due Date: Individual Reflective Essay PDF file due in Week 12 Sunday 11.59PM Online via Turnitin AEST) Assessment Description. For an optimum outcome, a reflective journal should be started in Week 1 and continued through the trimester. Keeping a daily 'reflective diary' will help enormously but try to make contributions to your critical reflective essay on a weekly or fortnightly basis if possible. Becoming an effective professional manager involves reflection and critical reflection. 'Refection' requires you to closely observe, describe and make meaning of your experiences. 'Critical reflection' requires you to take this one step further; to analyse, reconsider and question your experiences (in this case, your GB500 learning experiences) and relate these experiences to your previous knowledge, skills and experiences to gain deeper and broader understandings and from there to make changes (improvements) in your future behaviour. For instance how have your learning experiences and the major knowledge and skills you have developed during this subject affected you? What impact have these had on your current job and your attitude to work? How will this impact on your practice as a manager and future business leader? Critical reflections from GB500 Business Perspectives You should consider the following points: 1. Your view of business before entering GB500. 2. Your goal on entering GB500 in relation to the subject matter. 3. Your reflection what you have learnt about business during GB500. 4. Areas that have interested you the most and why. 5. Make proposals on how you will develop yourself further in your professional career. Further information and guidance: You are urged to study On Reflection and other readings about reflection that are available on the GB500 portal page. Beyond this, there are many models of reflective practice and, following this assessment, you might want to conduct your own literature review in order to find ones that suit your learning and development style (and which may well change over time due to 'accommodation'). COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of Kaplan Business School pursuant to Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 ('Act'). The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Kaplan Business School is a part of Kaplan Inc., a leading global provider of educational services. Kaplan Business School Pty Ltd ABN 86 098 181 947 is a registered higher education provider CRICOS Provider Code 02426B. NB: Title page, Reference List & Appendices do not count towards word limit of your report You must use a minimum of 10 references. These must comprise: • At least 6 academic articles • Up to 2 text books (including the prescribed text) • Up to 2 other authoritative sources of your choice. E.g. quality newspaper or professional journal, government or NGO website. Please avoid the use of corporate websites as these tend to be promotional and not authoritative. •Wikipedia and other 'popular' or non-academic sources are not to be used. 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Number of 1 - 9 days 5% per day for each calendar day late deducted from the allocated 10 - 14 days 50% deducted from the allocated marks for the assignment. After 14 days Assignments that are submitted more than 14 calendar days after Note Notwithstanding the above penalty rules, assignments will also be Penalty marks for the assignment. the due date will not be accepted and the student will receive a mark of zero for the assignment(s). given a mark of zero if they are submitted after assignments have been returned to students . . . COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of Kaplan Business School pursuant to Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 ('Act'). The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Kaplan Business School is a part of Kaplan Inc., a leading global provider of educational services. Kaplan Business School Pty Ltd ABN 86 098 181 947 is a registered higher education provider CRICOS Provider Code 02426B. Assessment Marking Rubrics Criteria HD (High Distinction) Research o High quality research 85%-100% effort evident with more than twice the recommended referencing requirements. o In-text referencing and reference list is DN (Distinction) 75%-84% o High degree of research effort evident, quality selection and range of scholarly sources employed. Much more than the minimum number of CR (Credit) 65%-74% o Research is focused, drawn from an appropriate range of scholarly sources, however could be more extensive in nature. o Mostly correct in-text P (Pass) 50%-64% o Research effort limited however evident; both intext referencing and reference list employed. At least the minimum number of referencing requirements adhered NN (Fail) 0%-49% o Research is either absent o In-text referencing missing