Module title: Managing strategy, operations and partnerships
Assessment guidelines: Provide a critical self-reflection of the
process of completing assignment 1 (Assessment 1 – A Strategic Analysis of The International Monetary Fund.docx)
- The professor’s feedback on the assignment is also attached (Professors Feedback on Assessment 1.pdf)
- All chapters leading up to week 6/assignment 1 are attached.
For completing this Task successfully, you must summarize
all the academic knowledge you receive from the module’s content and
professional benefits you received while critically analyzed the company selected including strategic implications and strategic business
issues, during the development of summative assignment 1 during the 6th Week of
this module.
The indicators of a good reflection are:
• It is personal to you
• It is clear how the learning relates to your role or
prepares for a future role
• It outlines the content and method of the learning
activity
• It describes how your knowledge, skills and attributes
have developed as a result of the learning activity.
• It identifies any further gaps or learning you did not
cover and how you might fill these.
• It describes how your current practice might change as a
result (My position: Assistant Accounting Manager at a Cruise Port)
• It indicates how you will use knowledge acquired for your
career benefit (My position: Assistant Accounting Manager at a Cruise Port)
You can approach your Self-Reflective writing as per the
four stages below:
1. What did I expect to learn?
2. What did I learn?
3. What will I do differently after forwards?
4. My actions and next steps
A strong Assignment Critical Reflection Requires
addressing to the following issues:
High personal effectiveness:
• Critical self-awareness;
• Self-reflection and self-management;
• Time management;
• Sensitivity to diversity in people and different
situations and
• The ability to continue to learn through reflection on
practice and experience.
As this is a self- reflective practice within your
writing you can use of the first person such as ‘I’ or ‘we’.
Introduction – 250 words
General background on the topic
you are going to discuss.
Possible definitions for terms relating
to the question.
What the essay will include and/or
leave out (scope).
What themes the essay will discuss
and the order they are presented.
What the essay will argue / demonstrate
(thesis statement).
Main Body – 1000 words
Summarize all the academic knowledge
you receive from the module’s content and professional benefits you received
while critically analyzed the case study/company selected including strategic
implications and strategic business issues, during the development of summative
assignment 1.
In doing so:
– Critically reflect on your personal learning
experience
– Make effective use of relevant literature (but not
extensive)
– Provide your own argument and show evidence of
critical thinking.
Conclusion – 250 words
Links back to the themes
identified in the introduction.
A reminder of what the essay
has argued.
A recap of the main themes that
have been discussed.
Formatting and Referencing
High quality presentation of
the material that conforms to principles of academic writing and contains
minimal errors in sentence construction, grammar, and punctuation. The assignment
followed appropriate academic conventions regarding in-text citations and referencing.
Learning outcomes applied in this
assessment:
1. (critically) demonstrate
understanding of the theory and practice of strategic development and
operations
5. (strategically) think and assess
the impact of strategic change processes
7. explain how to influence the
strategic direction of an organization
9. judging complexity, diversity, and
a multiplicity of perspectives accommodated in management decisions
Please use a few sources o the reference page of the attached document Assessment 1 – A Strategic Analysis of The International Monetary Fund.docx