Business Psychology for Managers

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Scenario
 
In recent years the economic downturn, recession, the global banking crisis, political and social unrest in some regions have an impact on organisations of all shapes and sizes on a global scale. This has resulted in organisations having to assess their business strategy and to align their human resource strategy to meet these new organisational imperatives in order to survive, let alone grow and prosper.
 
You have been appointed to the role of Managing Director of an organisation of your choice. Your bank manager is concerned about the future of the organisation and whether the organisation is making best use of business psychology to meet the challenges of an increasingly digital global market. You need to develop a human resource strategy which applies the theory and literature in the following areas of business psychology: learning and development, leadership, motivation and engagement, organisational change, personnel selection, diversity and talent.
 
The bank manager has asked you to present you proposals on how you will use business psychology to support the globalization and improve profitability of the organisation in the form of short report style business psychology consultancy report. The report must be methodologically robust and it should assess your organisation’s overall strategic capability and make recommendations on the preferred strategic option. The bank have made it quite clear that they want a practical report grounded in theory which is accessible to senior managers in the bank.
 
Tasks:
 
Select a company of your choice through the case study approach and undertake the following tasks:
 

  1. Identify the personality profiles and leadership development needs of you management team including:

 
(a.) Assessment of the strengths of their personalities and areas for development using the IPIP-NEO personality questionnaire and any other valid psychometric instrument (250 words)
 
(b.) Do you have an appropriate spread of personality types across your leadership team? (250 words)
 
 
 

  1. Using the relevant psychometric questionnaires that instruments you were introduced to in the module critically analyse your team’s leadership styles and compare this to you own leadership style:

(a.) Are your senior leaders participative or authoritian leaders? What are the implications of their leadership style to the success of your organisation?  (200 words)
(b.) Do your senior leaders adapt their approach to leading across situations, if so how? If not what how can flexibility in leadership style be introduced? Or   (200 words)
(c.) Will their leadership style impact on the ability of you organisation to survive and grow? (200 words)
 
 
 

  1. Develop a high level project plan with supporting narrative to lead your team through the change. The narrative should include:

(a.) How will engage and motivate your team through the change? (300 words)
(b.) What processes will you use to select any new staff that you need or to assess in more detail the development needs of your staff. Or (300 words)
(c.) The project plan should include a brief section on learning and development setting out how you will coach and develop your top team (300 words)?
 

All sources must be referenced and Use the Harvard system of referencing and include a bibliography that lists all resources referenced.

 
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Early Childhood Education and Care

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Assignment Guidelines: (word count: 3000 words)
“Assessment and Subject Knowledge in Early Childhood Education and Care”( module name)
Q- Choose an area of learning from the EYFS framework (UK). Drawing on your reading of the key texts, and your observation of a child, what do you consider the key issues in assessing this area of learning?
Details of writing assignment:
Discuss all of the following aspects,

  • Discuss and reflect on the different approaches to assessing children, and curricula within the different curriculum documents.

– (Use Singapore curriculum and discuss one area with compare with EYFS)

  • Separate the areas, looking different approach the area of learning, critic by link area of EYFS.)
  • High level of comprehension of contemporary issues in assessment of early years curricula.
  • Excellent understanding of key themes and concepts in two early years curricula.
  • Ethical issues explicitly addressed with reference to relevant reading.
  • Critically examine the ways in which different early years curricula are developed and maintained.

– (Discuss other early year’s curriculum, example: Scotland, New Zealand curriculum, Montessori, Reggio Emilia Approach)

    • (Imposed as govt. level EYFS, 2012) and history of different curricula.
    • (Able to select and apply specific theories to child observation. Able to apply theory to –practice of assessment of curriculum areas.)

 

  • Critically examine the factors that influence the interpretation and implementation of the early year’s curriculum by practitioners

– (what issues of practitioners face to deliver this curriculum.)

  • (Inclusion issues are SEN, culture and family background English as additional language, PEDAGOGY and learning theories).
  • Excellent relationship of recent research to practice.
  • Evidence of independent research into early years curriculum.
  • Evidence of reflection upon a wide range of inclusion issues and barriers to participation, and how these may affect

 
You are asked explicitly to focus on the issues of assessment of the EYFS framework for England. However, key texts have included curricula from a variety of countries. You should refer to at least one of the other curricula studied, for help look week A
Week A folder

 –                       Comparing approaches.docx
–                 HighScope.docx
http://www.highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=86
  Infant-ToddlerCurriculum_3-13-15.pdf
  Jamaica.pdf
  South Africa.pdf
  Special_Needs2015.pdf
  World Bank Turkey report 2013.pdf
  • Top of Form
  • Download folder
  • You should consider issues of inclusion and the barriers to learning and progress that they may present. Refer to the study  week B.

Week B folder

 

  A Child in Our Time.docx
  A_Better_Start Why Classroom Diversity Matters in Early Education.pdf

 

  Early Childhood Education and Care and poverty.pdf
  Early Education countering socio-economic disadvantage.pdf

 

  Kindergarten readiness.pdf
  Secret Life of 5 year olds.docx

 

  shared book reading and dual language learners.pdf
  Strong Foundations for Gender Equality in Early Childhood Education.pdf

 

  The REggio Effect and Inclusive Early Childhood Programs.pdf

Top of Form
Download folder
Bottom of Form
 

  • You should consider theories of child development and pedagogy and the extent to which the practice of assessment in the early years may contradict these theories.
  • You should refer to your child observation for examples of the issues that may be encountered when assessing the progress a young child in one area of learning.
  • Your observation should be referenced with your student number and the date of the observation, e.g. (U123, 7/11/16). It should also appear in your reference list: U123 (2016), Observation of Child.

 layout of assignment:
Title: The key issues in assessing personal, social, emotional development (PSED)
(Use child observation sheet for writing its area of development PSED and asses issues.)
You should include: (In third person but observation will be use in first person.)

  1. An introduction outlining how you intend to proceed with this assignment, and a statement regarding your approach to the ethics of research involving young children, families and settings. (Use Bera ethical document for writing this, I attached herewith.) Why have you chosen this curriculum area?

How did you ensure that your approach was ethical? Link to reading on ethics
Ethical statement should cover:

  • Child protection and family/ setting anonymity
  • Your duty as an academic observer to represent the child truthfully.

(The BERA statement should be helpful in finding the wording) Attached herewith.
 

  1. The area of learning (PSED)on which you are concentrating

 

  1. A summary of reading about this area of learning, including the approaches taken to this area in at least one other curriculum

 
 

  1. The issues of assessing this area, backed up with examples from your observation, and wider reading in inclusion, pedagogy/ learning theory and at least one other curriculum

 

  1. A conclusion summarising your argument

 
 

  1. A reference list correctly presented using Harvard referencing conventions

 
Comparing approaches: English (EYFS) and Singapore (Kindergarten)
Bottom of Form

 1- Areas of learning
2- Assessment (issues)
3-Inclusion (issues)
4-Link to pedagogy

 
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MGMT 2004: Business and Sustainable Development

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Tutorial Question- 10%
This assessment requires you to submit individual response to ONE Tutorial Questions. This assignment ideally assists with gauges your ability to critically think/reflect about the issue. Your answer therefore should demonstrate that you can identify these issues, and that you can understand the complexity of the problems that they represent. The response should be 800 words (±10%), structured in an essay format (introduction, body, conclusion, references). Referencing should follow the Chicago style and are not counted in the word limit.
Penalties
Students submitting the response with fewer than FOUR (4) academic journal articles could be penalised at the rate of 1 mark deduction out of 10 marks per missing source. For instance, if your response has ‘0’ scholarly references, then a maximum of up to 3 marks could be deducted. Assignments which do not meet the word count i.e. 800 words (±10%) could be penalised at the rate of 1 mark deduction out of 10 marks per 100 words above or below the limit. For example, if the length of your response is either 500 or 1100 words, then a maximum of up to 2 marks could be deducted.
Tutorial Question:
Critically assess the merits and demerits of ethical investment .
Total Value: 10 marks
 

 
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Corporate Finance

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CASE STUDY: CAPITAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
 
 

  • The investment bank your group works for has been hired by the Board of Directors of the company assigned to your group to perform analyses of the company’s capital structure and to provide advice on whether the current capital structure is optimal.
  • Since, your group will report directly to the Board of Directors, you can assume Financial Management level knowledge of finance, i.e., you can assume that your readers would be familiar with Modigliani and Miller (MM) theorem with corporate taxes. The report should therefore cover material more advanced than MM with corporate taxes.
  • You should thoroughly read lectures 6 through 8, the relevant textbook chapters, and pp. 1-34 of the survey, “The Theory and Practice of Capital Structure”, by Henri Servaes and Peter Tufano (available on UTSOnline in the Course Documents/Case Study Documents folder) to gain the background necessary to undertake the project.
  • Your group’s assigned task is to produce a report on the capital structure of the company assigned to your group. In the report, you should analyse the capital structure of the assigned company following the guidelines provided below, and determine whether the firm is under, over or correctly leveraged.

 
 
GUIDELINES FOR THE REPORT

  • In your report, you must apply the theories and concepts discussed in class to the facts of the firm assigned to your group. The report should demonstrate your understanding of the theories and their practical implications.
  • The report should be no longer than 12.5 pages, including the executive summary, tables and graphs but excluding references and appendices. You can include one page of references and up to 2 pages of appendices.
  • The report will be marked on both its content (discussions/analyses/arguments) and the quality of its write-up (organization, conciseness, clarity, grammar and punctuation).
    • When the information reported in a table can be easily and more effectively presented in a graphical form, a graph representing the relevant information should accompany the table.
    • You must discuss the relevance and the significance of the information provided in tables and graphs included in the report. You should not include redundant information in tables.
    • Tables and graphs that are marginally relevant should be included in the appendices
    • You should use line graphs to show trends in variables.
    • All graphs and tables included in the report must be produced by the group members. You may not copy figures, graphs or tables from other sources such as company annual reports or financial databases.
      • You may obtain raw financial data from financial databases.
    • 3D effects are often distracting and should be generally avoided.
    • In order to receive high marks on the report, the report must successfully apply the theories and concepts discussed in class to the assigned firm.
  • The report will be marked out of a total of 60 marks.
  • A case study cover sheet is available on UTSOnline. The report should be submitted with a completed and signed cover sheet attached.

 
The following is a summary of the areas your group needs to work on. Please note that it is not comprehensive but it gives you a sense of what is expected in your submission.
 

  1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY and COMPANY AND INDUSTRY OVERVIEW (7 marks)

1.1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (max ½ page)
Include a brief (half page) summary of the report highlighting its major conclusions and recommendations and how you arrived at those conclusions and recommendations.

  • Half of the executive summary page should be left blank.
  • Executive summary should not be a list of the content of your report.

 
1.2 COMPANY AND INDUSTRY OVERVIEW (max. 2 pages)
Provide a brief summary of the firm’s business activities and business segments and recent developments in the company and its industry.

  • This overview of up to 2 pages should also identify two comparable firms, which you will use in your analyses in the next section. You should fully justify your choice of the comparable firms.

 

  1. CAPITAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS (45 MARKS)

In this section you will analyse the company’s capital structure and leverage policy.
 
Your discussion in this section should include but not be restricted to the following:
2.1 Historical Company Leverage/Financing Analysis and Peer/Industry Leverage Analysis (max. 4 pages, 20 marks)

  • You should document the financing and leverage history of the company and characterise the company’s historical (and current) leverage policy using:
    • recent trends in the use of debt and equity and recent financing activities of the firm (debt and equity issues, placements and share buybacks); current and recent history of leverage and interest coverage ratios; management discussions about the firm’s leverage policy.
      • Does the company have a target leverage ratio?
      • Does the past pattern of the company’s leverage support
        • the managerial inertia theory?
        • the security mispricing theory?
      • recent capital expenditures (including mergers) and their financing
        • Is the financing behaviour of the company consistent with the pecking order theory?
      • You should document and discuss the firm’s leverage policy relative to the leverage policies of comparable firms.

 
2.2 Optimal Leverage Analysis (max. 6 pages, 25 marks)

  • You should discuss the implications of the various capital structure theories for optimal capital structure as they apply to your assigned company including:
    • Trade-off theory
      • The trade-off between tax benefits of debt (including personal taxes and dividend imputation credits (see Topic 8)) and the financial distress costs.
        • Analysis of tax benefits should be detailed.
      • The implications of the trade-off theory determinants (see Topic 6) of optimal leverage for the optimal leverage of the firm.
        • Analyses of the determinants should be both qualitative and quantitative.
      • You may incorporate stakeholder theory, agency theory and predation theory (see Topic 7) along the trade-off theory determinants mentioned above in a broader trade-off theory framework.
      • The analyses of the broader trade-off theory determinants should be detailed and should form the bulk of your analyses of optimal leverage.
        • You should have a separate sub-section for each determinant.
      • Agency theory
      • Stakeholder theory
    • You should determine the optimal leverage or optimal leverage range of the firm and whether the firm should increase, decrease or maintain its current leverage.
    • You should also suggest how and when any recommended leverage change should be implemented.

 
GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION AND CLARITY (4 MARKS)

  • The write-up should be grammatically correct and properly punctuated.
  • The write-up should be clear, concise and to-the-point.

 
FORMAT AND PRESENTATION OF THE REPORT (4 MARKS)

These requirements include, but are not limited to the following:

  • MARGINS: The left-hand margins should be approximately 3cm. The top, bottom and right-hand margins of each page should be about 2.5cm.
  • LINE SPACING: Line spacing should be 1.5 as a default. Between paragraphs, increase the spacing so that the paragraphs are visually distinct.
  • TABLES and GRAPHS: Tables and graphs must be properly formatted and labelled. The labels of the graph should clearly identify the x (horizontal) axis and the y (vertical) axis.
  • GRAPHS: When a graph contains multiple variables, the variables should be represented in a way so that they can be easily identified. If the original graph is in colour, it should not be printed in black and white.
  • FONT & POINT SIZE: The type-face should be 11-point or 12-point in a standard font such as Times New Roman or Arial.
  • PAGE NUMBERING: Page numbering should be included at the bottom of every page, except the title page.
  • PRINTING: Print your report on white A4 paper, and on only one side of the page.

References

  • The report should appropriately reference all sources used following the harvard-uts referencing style:

http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/help/referencing/harvard-uts-referencing-guide

  • Students should use the textbook, the lecture notes, company annual reports, industry reports and news about the company and the industry as the primary references in writing the report.
  • Other acceptable sources include published academic journal articles and articles posted on UTSOnline.
    • You may not use Wikipedia, Investopedia or other similar internet sources as references.

Appendices

  • Up to four pages of appendices are allowed. You may include tables showing historical financial statements and ratios in the appendices.

PLAGIARISM

  • Each member of the group must read the whole of the report before submission.
  • If there is evidence of plagiarism in any section of the report, and none of the group members inform the subject coordinator of this before the submission of the report, all the group members will be held partially responsible for this and be accordingly penalised.

 
RESOURCES

  • Your group should acquire the financial and other information necessary to complete the case study yourself from databases available through the UTS Library (e.g., DatAnalysis Premium: http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/databases/search_databases.py?search=datanalysis+premium
  • The UTS Library subscribes to many databases that provide information relevant for the case study such as company financials, industry reports, newspapers and journal articles.
    • You can access these databases on and off campus via the UTS Library website:

http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/databases/search_databases.py?subcategory_id=324

 
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