Industrial Placement Portfolio Assignment
Background
To enable you to complete this module satisfactorily you must be studying for the MBA with placement and must have secured a placement of the minimum duration.
Details of the how to secure the placement, the selection process and the management of the placement are provided in the Industrial Placement Student Handbook for SG7120.
Introduction to Assessment
You are to produce a portfolio of work comprising a detailed written reflective report based on your placement company, and the work that you have undertaken over the period of the placement.
The assignment comprises three main parts as follows:
- Part A: Preparation forPlacement
- Part B: Reflective Diary of PlacementExperience
- Part C: Appraisal by your Supervisor/LineManager
Part A: Preparation for Placement (300 words)
- UndertakeaskillsauditofyourpastemploymentandlearningexperiencesandsetoutadraftTraining PlanofwhatyouexpecttoachieveonyourIndustrialPlacement.Thiswillinvolveyouresearchinginto thetypeofemploymentavailableandshouldincludetheproductionofadetailedCurriculumVitaeand letter ofIntroduction.
Part B: Reflective Diary of Industrial Placement (1000 words)
Produce a detailed ‘Placement Log’ evaluating the work that you have done during your placement and reflecting on what you have learnt and your own skill and knowledge development over this period.
Your Placement Log should include the following elements:
- ExplainwhatyouhavelearntaboutyourcompanyincontextwiththeConstructionIndustryor the methods/processesused.
- Describe the project(s) that you were associated with including issues / problems/ solutions that were present either in its design, planning orconstruction.
- Provide an evaluation of the work that you did (i.e. physical output produced), indicating clearly your role in the tasks that you were set. Describe the elements for which you were responsible or to which you made a significant contribution. You should emphasise the personalexperiencegainedthroughyourworkingcontributions;particularlywithregardtothe skills and competencies set out in Table 1 below. All these should be evidenced by appropriate documentation that was used or produced.*
- A descriptive reflection on how the placement applies to you and your future career plans. You should enlarge on any special problems that you have met and occasions when you gained unusual or extensive experience or learned valuablelessons.
Part C: Appraisal by your Supervisor/Line Manager
- You must provide a copy of your line manager’s completed Employers’ Appraisal Form (see Guidelines in Appendix 2 to thismanual).
- A copy of this Form must also be emailed by your manager / supervisor to thePlacement Team.
* Wherever appropriate you should provide documentary evidence produced by yourself in a suitable cross-referenced Appendix*. This could be for example, calculation sheets, numerical analyses, cost data, drawings or other relevant documentation used or produced. If the work is NOT your own it should be properly referenced. Any materials placed in Appendices are not to be included in the word count for the report.
Submission instructions
- Coversheet with student number, job position, company name
- All pages to be numberedsequentially.
- Turnitin Submission via link on Moodle SG7120.
We strongly suggest that you try to submit all coursework by the deadline set as meeting deadlines will be expected in employment. However, in our regulations, UEL haspermitted students to be able to submit their coursework up to 24 hours after thedeadline.
Further information is available in the Assessment & Feedback Policy at https://www.uel.ac.uk/Discover/Governance/Policies-Regulations-Corporate-documents/Student-Policies (click on other policies)
Guidance on referencing
As a student you will be taught how to write correctly referenced essays using UEL’s standard Harvard referencing system from Cite Them Right . Cite them Right is the standard Harvard referencing style at UEL for all Schools apart from the School of Psychology which uses the APA system. This book will teach you all you need to know about Harvard referencing, plagiarism and collusion. The electronic version of “Cite Them Right: the essential referencing guide” 9th edition, can be accessed whilst on or off campus, via UEL Direct. The book can only be read online and no part of it can be printed nor downloaded.
Further information is available athttps://uelac.sharepoint.com/LibraryandLearningServices/Pages/default.aspx
Notice is hereby given that all submissions for this Module must be submitted to Turnitin.” If you fail to submit component to Turnitin, in accordance with the guidance provided on the Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle), a mark of 0 will be awarded for the component.
Submitting Assessments Using Turnitin:
Turnitin is required for coursework assessments, such as report/research papers or projects in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and in PDF format. There are two main reasons we want you to use Turnitin:
- Turnitin can help you avoid academic breaches and plagiarism. When you use Turnitinbeforea submission deadline, you can use the Originality Report feature to compare your work to thousands of other sources (like websites, Wikipedia, and even other student papers). Anything in your work that identically matches another source is highlighted for you to see. When you use this feature before the deadline, you will have time to revise your work to avoid an instance of academic breach/plagiarism.
- Turnitin saves paper. When using Turnitin to electronically submit your work, you will almost never have to submit a paper copy.
Turnitin System Failure
Best advice: Don’t wait until the last minute to submit your assessments electronically. If you experience a problem submitting your work with Turnitin, you should notify your lecturer/tutor by email immediately. However, deadlines are not extended unless there is a significant systems problem with Turnitin. UEL has specific plans in place to address these issues. If UEL finds that the issue with the system was significant, you will receive an email notifying you of the issue and that you have been given a 24 hour extension. If you don’t receive any email that specifically states you have been given an extension, then the original deadline has not been changed.
APPENDIX 1: Work Based Skills/Organisational Competencies*
| Skills | Competencies | |
| 1 | Problem Solving | • Being able to solve complex problems and make decisions
• Establish criteria, using appropriate decision-making techniques including identifying, formulating and solving business problems • The ability to create, identify and evaluate options • The ability to implement and review decisions |
| 2 | Decision Making | • Ability to contribute to the design,development, construction, commissioning or maintenance of business projects, processes, systems or services.
• Using information and knowledge effectively in order to abstract meaning from information and to share knowledge, including the use of quantitative skills |
| 3 | Management and Leadership | • Selecting appropriate leadership style for different situations; setting objectives, motivating, monitoring performance, coaching and mentoring
• The ability to recognise and address ethical dilemmas, corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues, applying ethical and organisational values to situations and choices. • |
| 4 | Strategic Thinking and planning | • Manage the creative processes in self and others;
• Organise thoughts, analyse, synthesise and critically appraise. This includes the capability to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, detect false logic or reasoning, identify implicit values, define terms adequately and generalise appropriately |
| 5 | Commercial Awareness | • Commercialawareness.
• Contractualawareness. |
| 6 | Resilience | • Ability to overcome setbacks |
| 7 | Innovation | • Contribute to the improvement of established work processes or business projects/products.
• The ability to recognize the need for and initiate change and to be able to manage change |
| 8 | Interpersonal Skills and Communication | • Networking, listening, oral and written communication of complex ideas and arguments, using a range of media, including the preparation of business reports
• Understanding the needs of others and empathy towards them; • Sensitivity to diversity in people and in different situations • Effective performance within team environments and the ability to recognise and use individuals’ contributions in group processes and to negotiate and persuade or influence others; |
| 9 | Professional commitment | • Understanding and compliance with appropriate professional bodies Code of Conduct.
• Commitment to current and future CPD of selfand others. – Minimum 2days • A personal commitment to professional standards, recognizing obligations tosociety and theprofession. |
*Adapted from the QAA benchmark skills for master’s programmes.
APPENDIX 2: Employers’ Appraisal Form Template
Candidate details
| Candidate Name | John William | |||
| Dates of placement (mm/yyyy) | From: | 12-06-2019 | To: | 04-04-2022 |
Skills Please tick as appropriate
| Excellent | Very Good | Good | Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | |
| Organisational skills | ü | ||||
| Interpersonal skills and communication | ü | ||||
| Commercial awareness | ü | ||||
| Professional commitment | ü |
General Conduct
| Excellent | Very Good | Good | Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | |
| Punctuality | ü | ||||
| Professional conduct | ü | ||||
| Reliability | ü | ||||
| Attendance record | ü |
| Do you have any other comments to make regarding this individual?
There have required to develop the potentiality in decision making. |
Employer contact details
| Name | XYZ company |
| Position | Manager |
| Contact number | |
| Name of theorganisation candidate worked at |
| Signed: |
| Date: | 04-04-2022 |
