HRMM080 Ethical and Responsible Leadership Assessment 2 Brief | UON

HRMM080 The Assessment Task

Reflection is the pioneer for success as it has an opportunity to find a new self or novelty in action. Therefore, this assessment task plays an important role in shaping your leadership identity.

You are required to develop a reflective portfolio based on the learning experience of this module and your previous leadership experience concerning your leadership development. How can you better position yourself as an ethical and responsible leader?

This reflective process will require you to critically discuss, evaluate, reflect on and apply learning activities that you have experienced during learning. These may have taken place within the classroom, but not necessarily. Your reflections may relate to learning arising from any of the following:

Class activities
Online learning activities
Discussions with other students in your learning set
Reading an article or book chapter
Watching a video or listening to a podcast
Experience at work or in another social situation

The portfolio will be developed in the given format below with an evidence-based approach (This should be relevant to the reflective experience that you are using to build your reflection).

You must ensure that your work contains a reference to appropriate theories and produces evidence of critical thinking that helps you to develop your critical self-awareness, and you apply this reflection to your professional development.

Introduction to the portfolio.	Approx. 100 words
Traits and techniques associated with responsible and ethical leadership. Your appraisal must be supported by relevant academic theory and supporting literature where you attempt to categorise, evaluate and illustrate the ethical leadership positioning yourself and providing your own reflection. What have you understood on Traits and while doing self-evaluation, what gap have you observed? Recommended writing style: Critical and reflective writing Examples of evidences that could be signposted: Reflective journals, activities sheets and other activities as per your engagement with the topic. Note: The arguments must be supported by relevant academic theories and supporting literature and must provide your own reflection at the end.	Approx. 600 words
Section Two: Your own leadership identity and decision-making abilities This section must address the second learning outcome and you need to Define your own leadership identity and ability to make responsible decision making, what reflection you have on your existing practices and what you need to improve in future. Recommended writing style: Critical and reflective writing Examples of evidence that could be sign posted: Reflective journals, activities sheets, as per your engagement with the topic Note: The arguments must be supported by relevant academic theories and supporting literature and must provide your own reflection at the end.	Approx. 600 words
Section Three: Reflection and Professional Development This section must address the third learning outcome where you will Critically reflect upon your positioning in previous section and your respective alignment with possible strategies of development. Recommended writing style: Reflective writing Examples of evidence: Reflective journals, activities sheets, CIPD events, as per your engagement with the topic Note: The reflection must be supported with evidence on several learning experiences within or outside of the module, this should be well aligned with the reflection that you have mentioned in the previous sections	Approx. 600 words
Conclusion Your concluding remarks on overall findings from the above evaluations and reflection.	Approx.100 words
Reference List – this must fully comply with the Harvard Referencing style.	Not included in wordcount
Section Three – Appendix Here you may include any documentary evidence of additional activities or learning that you have engaged in to support your reflection in each section. Note: This is an important segment as all the evidence that you have signposted in section 1, 2 and 3 will be listed here. Hence please give them the suitable number, this should be the same as you have reflected in the previous section. Also remember that the reflective journals that has deliberately developed to meet the assessment requirement, mostly near to submission hand in date will not be considered for marking. Hence please develop your reflective journal as you go along in the learning journey.	Not included in wordcount

HRMM080 Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this assessment, you will be able to:

Categorise, evaluate and illustrate traits and techniques associated with responsible and ethical leadership.
Apply different methods of personal and professional development to situate own leadership identity and decision-making skills.
Reflect on evidence generated through personal and professional development to inform self-development and actualisation.

Your grade will depend on how well you meet these learning outcomes in a way relevant to this assessment. Please see the final page of this document for further details of the criteria against which you will be assessed.

HRMM080 Assessment Support

Specific support sessions for this assessment will be provided by the module team and notified through NILE. You can also access individual support and guidance for your assessments from Library and Learning Services. Visit the Skills Hub to access this support and to discover the online support also available for assessments and academic skills.

HRMM080 Academic Integrity and Misconduct

The work you produce must be your own, with work taken from any other source properly referenced and attributed. This means that it is an infringement of academic integrity and, therefore, academic misconduct to ask someone else to carry out all or some of the work for you, whether paid or unpaid, or to use the work of another student, whether current or previously submitted.

For further guidance on what constitutes plagiarism, contract cheating or collusion, or any other infringement of academic integrity, please read the University’s Academic Integrity and Misconduct Policy. Other useful resources to help with understanding academic integrity are available from UNPAC – the University of Northampton’s Plagiarism Avoidance Course.

N.B. The penalties for academic misconduct are severe and include failing the assessment, failing the module and even expulsion from the university.

HRMM080 Assessment Submission

To submit your work, please go to the ‘Assessment and Submission’ area on the NILE site and use the relevant submission point to upload the assessment deliverables. The deadline for this is 11.59 pm (UK local time) on the date of submission. Please note that essays and text-based reports should be submitted as Word documents and not PDFs or Mac files.

Written work submitted to TURNITIN will be subject to anti-plagiarism detection software. Turnitin checks student work for possible textual matches against internet available resources and its own proprietary database.

When you upload your work correctly to TURNITIN, you will receive a receipt, which is your record and proof of submission. If your assessment is not submitted to TURNITIN, rather than a receipt, you will see a green banner at the top of the screen that denotes successful submission.

Criteria	No Submission/ No Evidence	Fail	Pass	Commended	Distinction
Learning outcomes: Learning Outcome – c Categorise, evaluate and illustrate traits and techniques associated with responsible and ethical leadership	Work submitted is of no academic value/ nothing submitted.	There is no sufficient understanding and evaluation of traits and techniques that are associated with responsible and ethical leadership. The discussions are not sufficiently supported using relevant and up-to-date academic literature	There is sufficient and acceptable evaluation of traits and techniques that are associated with responsible and ethical leadership. The discussions are sufficiently supported using relevant and up-to-date academic literature.	There is a very good evaluation/critical analysis of traits and techniques that are associated with responsible and ethical leadership. The discussions are well supported using relevant and up-to-date academic literature.	There is an excellent engagement with the literature to support the discussions. The work critically discusses the traits and techniques that are associated with responsible and ethical leadership.
Learning Outcome – d Apply different methods of personal and professional development to situate own leadership identity and decision-making skills	Work submitted is of no academic value/ Nothing presented.	The portfolio does not have sufficient evidence of the application of different methods of personal and professional development to situate own leadership identity and decision-making skills	The portfolio has sufficient evidence of application of different methods of personal and professional development to situate own leadership identity and decision-making skills	The portfolio provides very good evidence of application of different methods of personal and professional development to situate own leadership identity and decision-making skills. The arguments are sufficiently critical, analytical and well-supported	There are excellent evidence of application of different methods of personal and professional development to situate own leadership identity and decision-making skills. The arguments a critical, analytical and well-supported
Learning Outcome – f Reflect on evidence generated through personal and professional development to inform self-development and actualisation	Work submitted is of no academic value/ Nothing was presented.	There is no sufficient evidence of reflecting on evidence generated through personal development to inform self-development and to enhance understanding of their relevance and application.	There is sufficient evidence of reflecting on evidence generated through personal development to inform self-development and to enhance understanding of their relevance and application.	There is very good evidence of reflecting on evidence generated through personal development to inform self-development and to enhance understanding of their relevance and application.	There is excellent evidence of reflecting on evidence generated through personal development inform self- development to enhance understanding and application
Academic/Professional Quality	Absent or poor command of academic / professional conventions appropriate to the discipline	Unsatisfactory command of academic/professional conventions appropriate to the discipline.	Satisfactory command of academic/professional conventions appropriate to the discipline.	Sound command of academic / professional conventions sufficient and appropriate to the discipline.	Authoritative command of academic / professional conventions appropriate to the disciplin