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MGT201 Managing Self and Others

Assessment Guidance, Tips and Signposts

The purpose of the assessment for MGT201 is for you as potential managers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, as well as employees to explore, unearth and discover your identity (personal – how you manage self and future professional – how you interact and potentially manage others).

The purpose is to increase awareness in terms of the above; therefore, this is a reflective learning approach based on considering, exploring and evaluating an experience or experiences which captures 1 of the following:

Topic	What does this mean
Dealing with a sensitive issue.	Exploring how your values or your managing of emotions (in self and others) or personality (light and dark extroversion or light and dark introversion) or mood, or motivations influence how you behave when dealing with an issue which could be seen as sensitive – taking this from a people perspective or a task perspective (of a combination).
Motivating others for developing performance.	Exploring how your values or your managing of emotions (in self and others) or personality (light and dark extroversion or light and dark introversion) or mood, or motivations influence how you behave when dealing with managing performance – taking this from a people perspective or a task perspective (of a combination).
Dealing with conflict.	Exploring how your values or your managing of emotions (in self and others) or personality (light and dark extroversion or light and dark introversion) or mood, or motivations influence how you behave when dealing with conflict– taking this from a people perspective or a task perspective (of a combination).
Influencing others through negotiation	Exploring how your values or your managing of emotions (in self and others) or personality (light and dark extroversion or light and dark introversion) or mood, or motivations influence how you behave when dealing with persuasion or influencing – taking this from a people perspective or a task perspective (of a combination).

The above is based on any experience or experiences (they do not need to be work related)..

The way to approach the assessment is as follows:

Choose one of the topics (indicated in the table above)
Then write freely about an experience or experiences (this is the start of your 2000-word storyboard)
Once you have written your story and account of experience or experiences then go through and edit and or add
Decide how you wish to structure the storyboard as one of the following:

Professional Identity

Personal Identity

This is where you draw from the professional standards from one of the professional bodies related to ‘Management’ which is either:

Marketing – Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) https://www.cim.co.uk/membership/global-professional-marketing-framework/

Management – Chartered Management Institute (CMI) https://www.managers.org.uk/education-and-learning/professional-standards/

Financial Management – The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/about-us/regulation/ethics/acca-code-of-ethics-and-conduct.html

HRM/HRD/OD (People Management) – Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

https://www.cipd.org/uk/membership/professional-standards/

This is drawing from the self-images cited within the article by Pettica-Harris and McKenna (2013) – this article is located within the MGT201 Library Reading List for Week 5.

The 7 self-images are:

Self-doubters

Strugglers

Surfers

Storytellers

Strategists

Stencils

Soldiers

The descriptions of these self-images is located with the article (so please read!)

Once you have decided you wish to structure your storyboard either as professional identity or personal identity then consider whether you are approaching the coding and data as follows:

Individual Differences	Diagnostics (Traditional Reflective Learning)	Poetics (metaphorical and Artful Reflective Learning)
Emotions (including mood)	Extracts from diagnostics related to emotions (EI, SI, Mood), personal resilience, controlling emotions, stress management, assertiveness, management skills	Can use any artful poetic as extracts from poetry, lyrics, drawings, photographs, proverbs, religious text, extracts from plays, novels, films, television please note: for international students you can use poetics from your culture and your language, all I ask is you translate into English
Personality (light and dark introversion or extroversion)	Extracts from diagnostics related to personality	Can use any artful poetic as extracts from poetry, lyrics, drawings, photographs, proverbs, religious text, extracts from plays, novels, films, television please note: for international students you can use poetics from your culture and your language, all I ask is you translate into English
Values, beliefs, motivations	Extracts from diagnostics related to values, motivation to work, management skills	Can use any artful poetic as extracts from poetry, lyrics, drawings, photographs, proverbs, religious text, extracts from plays, novels, films, television please note: for international students you can use poetics from your culture and your language, all I ask is you translate into English

You can combine the individual differences (however do not try and cover all as this would make your reflection too messy).

You can also structure your reflection using a metaphor (which could include the use of characters) …

You can present your reflection (storyboard) as a play, a chapter from a book, a diary, an album (lyrics or photos), an art exhibition, there are many imaginative, artful and metaphorical ways to present. You do not achieve a higher grade by doing this, your grade is determined by how much depth of theoretical understanding you demonstrate.

PLEASE NOTE: In the 2000-word Reflective Storyboard you have NO References (academic citations) you source your data (diagnostics or poetics) as follows:

Diagnostics:

(Source: Extracted from Motivation to Work Test, located at https://mbaworld.careercentre.me/Members, Accessed 21^st February 2025)

Poetics (e.g. a lyric):

(Source: Wake by Arcade Fire, 2004)

This would be the same for all textual based poetics, for a visual poetic, e.g. a photograph it would be:

(Source: Taken from Personal Album, date photograph was taken)

You complete the reflective storyboard first, once you have done this then you:

Write your 1000-word introduction which is the theoretical understanding of how you recognize the reflective learning approaches (swampy lowlands, reflection, in, on and through action, critical altering perception, artful, metaphorical) and connect this with academic literature with your individual differences approach – expecting to have academic citations throughout this 1000 words
Once you have completed this then complete the table as follows:

JOHARI Window Coding Table (not counted in the word count)

JOHARI Window Pane	Colour or Bold or Italics	Reason ^[1]
Open	Outline where this pane would be seen by either using colours or bold or italics, in terms of whether this is professional or personal identity and make connections with individual difference(s) – if you have structured as a metaphor – outline and explain the metaphor	Outline the reason for this choice, use academic citations to support your choice – within this you can draw from the citations from the introduction and add citations which justify the use of diagnostics and or poetics
Hidden	Outline where this pane would be seen by either using colours or bold or italics, in terms of whether this is professional or personal identity and make connections with individual difference(s) – if you have structured as a metaphor – outline and explain the metaphor	Outline the reason for this choice, use academic citations to support your choice – within this you can draw from the citations from the introduction and add citations which justify the use of diagnostics and or poetics
Blind	Outline where this pane would be seen by either using colours or bold or italics, in terms of whether this is professional or personal identity and make connections with individual difference(s) – if you have structured as a metaphor – outline and explain the metaphor	Outline the reason for this choice, use academic citations to support your choice – within this you can draw from the citations from the introduction and add citations which justify the use of diagnostics and or poetics
Unknown	Outline where this pane would be seen by either using colours or bold or italics, in terms of whether this is professional or personal identity and make connections with individual difference(s) – if you have structured as a metaphor – outline and explain the metaphor	Outline the reason for this choice, use academic citations to support your choice – within this you can draw from the citations from the introduction and add citations which justify the use of diagnostics and or poetics

Once you have completed all the above you then present the assessment as one document:

Introduction

JOHARI Window Coding Table

Reflective Storyboard

Bibliography (this is everything you have read not just what you cite/reference)

Good luck, use the opportunities which exist within the MGT201 Canvas site for clarifying understanding, I am looking to pass you all and providing you complete the assessment I have set you will pass.

Paul-Alan

Dr P-A Armstrong, VC Teaching Fellow, SFHEA, Chartered MCIPD, Senior Lecturer HRM and Leadership, Module Leader: MGT201

Within this I would expect you cite from the articles on vulnerability and authenticity which are located within the MGT201 Library Reading list Week 5 – you should also consider if you are not ready to share as you are not ready to be vulnerable then refer to readiness for reflection (and find academic citations/references to support this). ↑