ASSESSMENT 1 BRIEF
Subject Code and Title		MGT602 Business Decision Analytics
Assessment		Decision Style Analysis Reflective report
Individual/Group		Individual
Length		Up to 1000 words
Learning Outcomes		a)  Select and evaluate the usefulness of a range of
		decision making tools and reflect on your
		decision-making styles and contrast with other
		styles to determine the respective levels of
		rationality and intuition utilised
		b)  Compare, contrast and critically evaluate sources of
		data as influences for decision-making in a range of
		business contexts
Submission		12 week class: By 11:55pm AEST Friday of Module 2.2
		(Week 4)
		Intensive class: By 11.55 pm AEST Sunday end of
		Module 2.2 (week 2)
Weighting		20%
Total Marks		20 marks

 

Context:

 

Fast changing workplace demands in the 21^st century call for greater flexibility in the ways individuals and work teams make and implement decisions.

 

This assessment draws on learning activities and resources from weeks 1-4. It is designed for you to record and reflect on the decision-making preferences, processes and tools that you use personally on a daily basis and compare and contrast this with one or two major personal or business decisions. You should include in your reflective report:

 

1. Decisions actually made during a one- week period (select from weeks 1-3)

 

2. 1-2 major decisions you have made

 

3. Your decision-making preferences (see activity Module 1)

 

4. Personality style/ strengths and their impact on your decision-making style, bias and blind spots
5. Reflection on feedback and insights from at least three class members

 

6. Sources of data and use of decision-making tools to make decisions

 

7. Evaluation of those decisions and their significance

 

8. Visual interpretation of data / trends/ patterns

 

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9. References from weeks 1-4 (modules 1-2) subject learning resources that demonstrate your reading, understanding and ability to apply effective decision-making tools. MGT602_Assess 1_Decision Style Analysis Page 2 of 4

Please Note: Your Decision Style Analysis is a Reflexive Writing piece –

You should write in the first person, because this is about YOU, your reflections and your interpretations. (e.g. “I considered this advice to be…… because it had a big impact on

 

me………and it helped me to understand my…………”).

 

Try to be as specific as possible, use brief concrete examples from your real experience to illustrate and demonstrate learning outcomes (see grading rubric).

 

All principles of academic integrity apply, including acknowledgement of all sources in your report and a corresponding list of all references cited in your report, using APA 6^th edition reference style. Only list references that have been cited by you.

 

The APA referencing guide can be located in the Academic Writing Guide at http://library.think.edu.au/ld.php?content_id=1882254

 

1. Submit Assessment 1 in Turn-it-In; obtain your report.

 

2. Upload Assessment 1 PLUS the TII Report via the Assessment link in MGT602 Business Decision Analytics on the Student Portal for Blackboard. Then press ‘SUBMIT’.

 

3. The Learning Facilitator will provide feedback via the Grade Centre in the Student Portal. The rubric below summarises the grading criteria and standards required for each grade.  MGT602_Assess 1_Decision Style Analysis Page 3 of 4

 

Learning Rubric: MGT 602 Assessment One Decision Style Analysis 20 % (20 marks)

 

		Fail	Pass	Credit	Distinction	High Distinction
			(Functional)	(Proficient)	(Advanced)	(Exceptional)
	Assessment Criteria	(Unacceptable)
			50-64%	65-74%	75 -84%	85-100%
		0-49%
1.	Reflect on a	Little or no authentic personal	Some personal reflection on	A clearly authentic personal	Comprehensive reflection on	Comprehensive and sophisticated
range of personal daily		reflection on daily decisions or	daily decision-making and	reflection on daily decision-making	daily decision-making and	reflection on daily decision-making
decisions and one major		major decision.	major decision-making is	and major decision-making is	major decision-making is	and major decision-making is
decision to analyse and		No, or limited analysis or	evident, with reference to at	evident, with clear analysis and	evident, with clear analysis and	evident, with explicit analysis and
evaluate sources of data,		evaluation of sources of data	least two sources of data,	evaluation of at least two sources	evaluation of at least three	evaluation of multiple sources of
						data, decision-making styles and
decision-making style and		input, decision-making styles	decision-making styles and	of data, decision-making styles and	sources of data, decision-
						tools.
decision-making tools.		and tools.	tools.	tools.	making styles and tools.
(25% -5/20)
2.	Compare and	Little or no evidence of	Some evidence of discussion	Clear evidence of discussion with at	Comprehensive evidence of	Sophisticated analysis and
contrast with other		discussions and feedback from	with two classmates and	least two classmates and	discussion with at least three	comparison of decision-making
decision-making styles and		classmates about bias and	comparative analysis of	comparative analysis of decision-	classmates and comparative	styles and the implication of bias
processes to identify bias		blind spots or comparison with	decision-making styles and	making styles and the implication of	analysis of decision-making	and blind spots for decision-
and blind spots (25% -5/20)		other decision-making styles	the implication of bias and	bias and blind spots for own	styles and the implication of	making. Feedback from at least
			blind spots for own	decision-making	bias and blind spots for own	three classmates is discussed with
			decision-making.		decision-making	recommendations to enhance own
						decision-making
3.Prepare a business style		Report lacks logical	Report has basic	Report has a clear logical	Report has a strong	Excellent logic and structure.
report with headings and		coherence and clear	logical flow and	flow and structure,	logical flow and	Concise, accurate Executive
content that includes visual		structure	structure.	Clear expression of	structure. Accurate	Summary
representation of the data		Limited data analysis and no	Basic concepts and analysis	concepts and analysis.	Executive Summary.	Conclusion accurately captures
(25%-5/20)		visual representation of data.	are explained	Adequate visual	Conclusion accurately	deep learning and insights.
			Attempts basic visual	representation of data	captures key learning.	Creative and engaging visual
			representation of data.	trends/ patterns	Clear visual representation of	representation of data
					data trends/ patterns	trends/ patterns.
4.Support your report with		No, or few references from	Makes some attempt to use	References support an adequate	References support a mostly	Sophisticated references support
references to key readings		within subject learning	relevant references from	argument and application of major	comprehensive argument and	comprehensive argument and
from the subject resources		resources weeks 1-4 (modules	within subject learning	concepts from within subject	application of major concepts	application of major concepts
weeks 1-4 (25%- 5/20)		1-2)	resources weeks 1-4	learning resources weeks 1-4	from within subject learning	from within subject learning
			(modules 1-2)	(modules 1-2)	resources weeks 1-4 (modules	resources weeks 1-4 (modules 1-2
		Many errors in text citations				and beyond).
					1-2). Strong level of accuracy of
		and reference list according to	Several major and minor	Several minor errors in text
					in-text citations and reference	High level of accuracy of in-text
		APA referencing guidelines.	errors in text citations and	citations and reference list
					list according to APA 6th ed.
			reference list according to	according to APA referencing		citations and reference list
					style guidelines
						according to APA 6th ed. style
			APA referencing guidelines.	guidelines.
						guidelines.
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