REFLECTIVE PORTFOLIO
Assessment Category 2: Written Assignment / Self reflective writing 1 - Critical
Reflection on Dissertation/project completion
Dear Students,
During this week, you are required to submit your second written summative
assessment of 3.600 words, which counts for the 30% of your overall grade.
Please pay attention on the below Task Requirements:
Task:
Provide a critical self reflection of the process of completing your
dissertation project through different phases.
During the process of completing your dissertation, you have gone through
different phases as an attempt to act as business consultants and assist the
client to meet its requirements. In order to do this successfully you have gone
through the identification of aims and objectives towards client’s requirements,
located and discussed industry’s related information as supportive evidence for
business position and your aims and objectives towards the suggestions you
made, completed an A3 map including a Gantt Chart that comprised a concise
summary of the problem and solution as well a communication tool for reporting
problems and suggestions for improvement to management.
Now in this summative assessment you need to identify how the process of
completing your dissertation/project that included the above brief main steps will
assist you to apply this knowledge to your business’ future operations as well
identify how this learning process expanded your thinking as well developed
your skills as future business leader.
You can approach your Self Reflective writing as per the below:
1. Assumptions 25%
Why it is critical to identify clearly stated business’ requirements? If the clients’
requirements were not provided in a pre-determined view and you were
responsible to identify or assume what is required to improve a business, will you
be able to summarize all the information needed? You can rely your answers
based on the below:
Challenging assumptions ie double loop learning (Argyris and Schon,
1974)
Reflection, reflectivity and reflexivity
2. Ethics and values 25%
How did you come up with the specific aims and objectives? Did your ethical
principles and values play any role to your proposed intentions to come up with
certain aims and objectives to assist the Client to meet its requirements? Should
our aims and objectives reflect corporate social responsibility by avoiding
decisions that could possible harm organizations or society?? You can rely your
answers based on the below:
Understanding our personal values
Transactional Analysis Drivers (Kahler, 1975)
o Be perfect; Be strong; Try hard; Please people; Hurry up
The impact of values on professional work
(Anti) -discriminatory practices (Thompson, 2012)
3. Time Management 25%
Why it is important to create a Gantt chart that outlines the main tools and
timeframes of the completion of your suggestions? Do you believe that listing
down certain timeframes for future actions may impact the way of dealing with
tasks?
4. Learning from Experience and Moving Forward 25%
In case you will identify similar requirements in your business environment,
will you do the same process again? I yes why, if not what would you do
differently going forwards? You can rely your answers based on the below:
Theoretical models of experiential
learning o Driscoll’s ‘What’ model
(2007)
o Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle (1984)
Progression and Regression (Illeris, 2014)
Managing change as a way of moving forward
Managing stress as a way of moving forward
Moving from ‘doing reflection’ to ‘reflection as a way of being’ as a way of
moving forward.
Guidelines for completion:
1. The word limit is 3.600 words, +/- 10% inclusive of appendices. Bear in mind
that the appendices count towards the word limit so avoid including
organisational material such as annual reports in any appendices.
2. Where you quote directly or take ideas from something you have read you
must reference these correctly using the Harvard referencing system, not
numbered footnotes.
3. Assignments should be word-processed in Times New Roman 12 point type.
4. As this is a self reflective practice within your writing you can use of the first
person such as ‘I’ or ‘we’.
Plagiarism
You are free to quote directly or indirectly from any publication, provided that you
give a reference for the author or originator. In other words, if the research or the
views you cite are not your own, then you MUST acknowledge your source(s), in
accordance with the Harvard style whereby citations are made in the text by
author and date, with a full alphabetical listing at the end of the paper. If you fail
to acknowledge your sources, you run the risk of being accused of plagiarism,
which is an academic offence. The University’s guidelines on academic offences
are available online. http://asaqs.southwales.ac.uk/documents/download/5/
Please note that tutors cannot read large amounts of material prior to handing in,
so please do not ask them to do so. We can advise on style and overall structure
but will not proof read. Draft assignments cannot be evaluated by module staff.
Please submit your work through the Turnitin link set up in the Assessment folder
on the module’s Blackboard site. Please use your University identification
number, not your name, and ensure that the document is clearly marked in terms
of your Scheme, the module and the module leader. Number each page of the
document submitted. It is recommended that you place your identification
number on each separate page of the document.
Length: A word processed self reflective essay of 3,600 (+/- 10%) words
(inclusive of appendices, NOT inclusive of references).
Submission deadline: End of week 15
REFERENCES
Argyris C. and Schon, D. (1974), Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional
Effectiveness, San Francisco, CA: Jossey- Bass
Driscoll, J. (2007), (ed), Practising Clinical Supervision: A Reflective Approach
for Healthcare Professionals, Edinburgh: Baliere Tindall, Elsevier.
Illeris, K, (2014), Transformative Learning and Identity, Abingdon: Routledge
Kahler, T., (1975), ‘Drivers – the key to the process script,’ Transactional
Analysis Journal, 5/3, 280-4
Kolb, D. (1984), Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and
Development, New Jersey: Prentice Hall
th
Thompson, N. (2012), Anti-Discriminatory Practice, 5 Edn, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
