What are your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employment? How will you address your weaknesses? What targets will you set for your development?

Part 1 – You should prepare a 1200 word report on the topic of the effectiveness of work and organization at Tesla.

Your task is to research the effectiveness of work and organization at Tesla using good quality academic and journalistic sources. Please see the links below:

Spotlight on Tesla culture

Leadership at Tesla

Employees at Tesla

You should consider a range of views and seek to integrate them into a coherent argument. This may be informed by good quality journalistic sources but, more importantly, you must also show considerable evidence of using good quality ‘peer reviewed’ journal articles.

The key topics which you should include in your report on the effectiveness of work and organization at Tesla are:

1. organizational context

• The impact of globalization.

2. The whole organization

• The rational and social organization,
• Power and politics
• Governance, organizational Culture and organizational leadership

3. Groups and Teams

• Groups and teams

4. The Individual Level

• Motivation and job design

You will not need to draw on all organizational behaviour theories that you read but should select instead those which are most applicable to Tesla. It is more important to show knowledge of key debates within the literature on organizational behaviour, to be critical in your writing and to ensure a good level of integration and coherence than to include all theories. Please work on the level of criticality and the coherence and flow of your report. This will require effective discussion and debate.

Part 2 – Reflection on group work (900 words)

In part 2 you should write a 900 word reflection on your experience of group work. This would ideally be based on your experiences as a group member in this module within seminars but could include a consideration of group activities in other modules or in work experience. Do not just describe your experience of working in a group but situate your reflection within the wider literature on groups and teams.

To assist you with this you should use a theory of reflective practice such as Kolb’s learning cycle. Themes that you may explore include:

• Difference between a group and a team
• Team roles
• Balance of team roles
• Stages of group formation
• Asch effect and Groupthink
• Group dynamics, including unconscious group dynamics
• Were you a pseudo team? Potential team? Real team? High performance team?
• Leadership of the team

The emphasis should be on a critical evaluation, not on self-promotion. Try to identify strengths and weaknesses, and areas for personal development informed by the literature on groups and teams.

Part 3 – Personal Reflections on Employment (900 words)

You should write a reflection on what you have learned about the nature of employment in undertaking the People and Organizations module. In this reflection, you should make reference to any organizational behaviour literature that is relevant. You may address the following key themes in your analysis.

1. What types of organization would most engage and motivate you? Why would you be more productive in these organizations? Compare and contrast with other organizations where you would be less engaged and productive. You might in your reflections draw on the literature on leadership, classical, human relations and contemporary approaches to organizational behaviour, culture, motivation, or teamwork.
2. You might also reflect on how the literature on identity, personality and emotions relate to your experience of work
3. What are your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employment?
4. How will you address your weaknesses? What targets will you set for your development?

Note that a significant amount of the marks are awarded on the basis of wider reading, referencing, academic integrity and academic writing conventions. Please read the assessment criteria below:

Assessment Criteria:

In assessing HR4003 we will use the following criteria:

Part 1:

1. Effective analysis undertaken within the report informed by organizational behaviour literature appropriate to the case. (20%)
2. A well-structured and organised report involving cogent argument in line with academic convention (10%)
3. Wider reading in the report involving both seminal and contemporary articles/ books (5%)
4. Accurate and effective use of citations and references in the report (5%)

Part 2:

5. Effective reflection on group work informed by literature on groups and teams (15%)
6. A well-structured and organized reflection on group work (5%)
7. Wider reading evident in reflection on group work (evidenced through use of literature on groups and teams) to inform reflections (5%)
8. Accurate and effective use of citations and references in the reflection on group work (5%)

Part 3:

1. Application of academic concepts and models to reflection on employment (15%)
2. Presentation and organization of reflection on employment (5%)
3. Wider reading evident in reflection on employability (5%)
4. Referencing in reflection on employment (5%)

Referencing

Cite Them Right   – http://www.citethemrightonline.com/

Harvard referencing:  https://uelac.sharepoint.com/LibraryandLearningServices/Pages/HarvardReferencing-.aspx

Academic Integrity: https://uelac.sharepoint.com/LibraryandLearningServices/Pages/Academ ic-integrity.aspx g