HRMT

 Assessment 1 Presentation guidelines

Task

Select a topic. On-campus students will nominate for a topic in class in Week 2. Only 3-4

presentations can be held each week, and the Lecturer will re-allocate students as required for

an even distribution. Distance students should advise the course coordinator by email

HRM topics are as follows:

Week 4 HR planning

Week 5 Recruitment and selection

Week 6 Employee relations challenges

Week 7 Managing diversity and work-life balance

Week 8 Performance management

Week 9 Learning, development and career management

Week 10 Motivation, rewards and compensation

Week 11 Employee turnover and retention

Week 12 Evaluating and improving the HRM function

Select two articles for your presentation. Start gathering ideas for your topic with a review

of a relevant textbook chapter and the references at the end of the chapter. Identify two (2)

good quality journal articles from the CQU library databases and business press publications

such as Harvard Business Review. The articles must have been published within the last five

years. Critically analyse the chosen articles to identify a key theme for current research and

thinking on your topic, rather than simply summarizing the articles.

Design your presentation. Creatively design your presentation with the aim to engage your

class on the latest thinking research on your HRM topic. Presentation is to be a maximum of

eight (8) minutes with a maximum of six (6) PowerPoint slides. For each article, you

should communicate : the title, topic, objective of the research, method for the research,

argument/findings, and Conclusion. Your presentation should also include a discussion of the

contribution of both articles to the field. (Distance students record a voiceover on powerpoint)

Upload your slides before the presentation. Your powerpoint slides should be uploaded

before your presentation, to assist with prompt marking. You should also provide your

lecturer/tutor with a printed copy of the PowerPoint slides including a separate page for the

references.

Referencing

APA referencing.  For more information, see : https://www.cqu.edu.au/?a=14033

Plagiarism

Copy detection software (TurnitIn) is used in this course and work found in contravention of the

copying and plagiarism rules will be investigated. Penalties apply in the case of proven

instances of copying, plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Please check the following links to

know more about TurnitIn: http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/student-training/viewing-

originality-reports http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/student-training/about-originalitycheck

TurnitIn is only a tool and judgement needs to be used when you view your Originality Report.

TurnitIn does not make a judgement as to what is referenced properly, it highlights the non-

original material in a piece of work. You should use the similarity score as a guide only and

must then check the originality report to determine whether or not changes need to be made to

the assessment.

Required

Students must familiarise themselves with the following policies and procedures at

http://policy.cqu.edu.au: Assessment of Coursework Policy; Assessment of Coursework

Principles; Assessment of Coursework Procedures

HRMT20024 Assessment 1 Rubric –Presentation

Note: This is an illustration of the marking criteria that will be used in the Turnitin system. To see your marks on the criteria, open your assessment through Turnitin and click on the marking criteria button.The markers will provide feedback throughout your assessment in the ‘Grademark’ view in Turnitin. You can access this by clicking on the small blue pencil icon next to your assessment submission.

While there is no set rule for what your similarity index should be, you should aim for a similarity score that is less than 20%. It is possible that you could have a higher level if you have a very long reference list though. The main thing to look out for is WHERE the similarity is being shown. If there is a high level of similarity found in the body of the assessment, you will probably lose marks for not presenting your own ideas. A high level of similarity in the body of your assessment may significantly affect your marks for each of the criteria, as marks are given based on original text and appropriately referenced text only. It is suggested that you reduce the use of direct quotes from other sources wherever possible. Markers will analyse the similarity score reported by Turnitin on a case by case basis.

Key Criteria	0 (Not Shown)	2 (Poor)	3 (Unsatisfactory)	4 (Satisfactory)	5 (Good)	6 (Very Good)	7 (Excellent)
Introduction (10%)	No introduction.	No topic, key points and/or	Topic introduced, but the	Topic, key points and	Topic, key points and	Topic, key points and	Topic, key points and
		purpose is introduced or the	introduction is	purpose of the presentation	purpose of the presentation	purpose of the presentation	purpose of the presentation
		introduction is irrelevant to	underdeveloped in terms of	is introduced with	is introduced in a clear and	is introduced in a clear and	is introduced in an
		assessment item.	key points and/or purpose of	satisfactory clarity.	interesting way.	interesting way which	exceptional and interesting
			presentation.			captures the audience's	way which effectively
						attention.	captures the audience's
							attention.
Knowledge of Content	No knowledge nor	Inaccurate knowledge of the	Insufficient knowledge of the	Demonstrates satisfactory	Demonstrates above	Demonstrates good	Demonstrates a
(30%)	understanding of the HRM	HRM topic. Irrelevant	HRM topic. Information	knowledge of the HRM topic.	average knowledge of the	knowledge of the HRM topic	comprehensive and highly
	topic.	information presented. Poor	appears to be randomly	Information from existing	HRM topic. Relevant	with insight and depth.	insightful knowledge of the
		understanding of information	chosen and not related to	thinking in HRM presented	information presented from	Accurate, interesting, and	HRM topic. Highly relevant
		and concepts presented.	material covered in the unit.	and explained. Satisfactory	latest thinking research in	relevant information	and informative material and
			Limited understanding of	understanding of information	HRM. Above average	presented from latest	evidence presented from
			information and concepts	and concepts presented.	understanding of information	thinking research in HRM.	latest thinking research in
			presented.		and concepts presented.	Well-developed	HRM. Highly developed
						understanding of Information	understanding of information
						and concepts presented.	and concepts presented.
Presentation Delivery	No ability to present.	Ideas on the HRM topic is	Ideas on the HRM topic is	Ideas on the HRM topic are	Ideas on the HRM topic are	Ideas on the HRM topic are	Ideas on the HRM topic are
(30%)		disorganized and not	unclear and not in a logical	satisfactorily organised with	presented in an organised	presented effectively and	clearly and professionally
		coherent. Pace is highly	way. Pace is inappropriate.	clarity in parts, pacing	way, though lack clarity in	expressed in an organised	articulated, presented
		inappropriate. The student's	The student's voice is: not	adequate, though may be	parts, adequately paced. The	way, appropriately paced.	effectively in an organised
		voice is: not clear; not	clear at times; not expressive	over-or under length. The	student’s voice is clear and	The student has a clear	way, and are appropriately
		expressive and/or the	and/or the student	student’s voice is clear and	expressive for most of the	voice, and expressive during	paced. The student has a
		student pronounces a	pronounces occasionally	expressive at times during	presentation.	the presentation.	clear voice, exceptionally
		number of terms incorrectly.	some terms incorrectly.	the presentation.			expressive during the whole
							presentation.
Conclusion (10%)	No conclusions provided.	Brief conclusion but no links	Brief conclusion with limited	The conclusion provided	The conclusion provided	Clear and concise summary	Clear and concise summary
		established to the	links established to the	some links to the introduction	links to the introduction and	of the presentation with links	with effective links to the
		introduction and body of the	introduction and body of the	and body of the presentation,	body of the presentation, but	to the introduction and body	introduction and body of the
		presentation.	presentation.	but was not concise or	was not concise or unclear at	of the presentation.	presentation.
				unclear.	times.
Visual Aids (20%)	No visual aids are used.	The visual aids are poorly	Limited visual aids are used	The visual aids are	The visual aids are well	The visual aids are well	The visual aids are well
		designed or unrelated to the	and inappropriately	satisfactorily designed and at	designed and adequately	designed, confidently used	designed and confidently
		message presented.	designed.	times support the	support the presentation.	and effectively support the	used, which effectively
				presentation.		presentation.	support and add impact to
							the presentation.