What key things have you learned about organizations and management in social work?

SOCW3010 Assessment Task 3:
Reflective essay: 45% of marks
The purpose of this assignment is for you to bring together key learnings from the course about social work as organisational practice. You will critically reflect on your learnings by linking course material and theory with your experiences and observations about your placement or your work in a human service organisation (or if this is not possible in a hypothetical organisation from the tutorials).
Assessment task:
You will write a reflective essay which answers the question: “What key things have you learned about organizations and management in social work?
Due: 24 November 2019 11PM
Word length: 2,500 words +/-10%
Note about early submission Given how this assessment is structured around specific topics you will be able to complete sections during the term, rather than needing to leave the essay to the end of the course. This mean you can submit the assessment before the due date, if you choose to reflect on 4 issues covered early in the course.
Guidelines
In writing this essay you will choose 4 topics from the course. This means you will select: 3 of the 7 issues covered in weeks 3 to 9; and 1 of the 8 organisational theories outlined in week 2. Note you can include a reflection about ethical practice (Week 10), but please note this week is close to the submission date.
You will analyse your past practice on placement or a human service agency in which you have worked for each of the issues and theory you selected. If you have not been on placement or worked in a human services organisation you will need to use one of the three case studies used in the tutorials (Avalon Care or Bluegum Community Services or and Currajong Metal Health).
In writing the essay you will:
o briefly describe your practice experience for each of your 4 topics (3 practice issues and 1 organisational theory)
o use the organisational and management literature to analyse your practice
o evaluate your practice learning
o finally reflect on the implications for your future social work practice.
In structuring and writing the essay, you will:
o combine personal reflections with academic literature. You should write in the first person when discussing your experience
o have an introduction and a conclusion to the paper (about 50 words)
o allocate between 400-600 words on each issue/theory (total 2000 words)
o have numbered pages, be one and a half spaced and in at least 11-point font.
o use proper referencing, including a correctly formatted reference list.
Assignments which do not comply will not be marked.
Assignments more than 10% over the maximum word count will be penalised
More detailed guidance will be provided on Moodle after Assessment 1 has been marked.
Marking criteria
See marking rubric on Moodle for a detailed explanation of the marking criteria.
You will see that each of your four reflections will be marked separately, using the same three criteria:
1. Learning about organisational practice (6% of total marks)
2. Interconnections between learning and course materials (7% of total marks)
3. Evaluation of your learning and implications for professional practice (7% of total marks)
This means each reflection about a practice issue or theory is worth 20% of the total mark for Assessment 3.
Blogs
See the information on Organisational Practice Blogs. You need to submit at least two blog posts. Ideally these should be about some of the topics you have selected for Assessment 3.

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