Developing an Improvement Plan

Developing an Improvement Plan

The post is made of two assignments

1:Developing an Improvement Plan

Order Description

All in APA style this will be a 10 page essay with title and reference pages

2 pages of the outline with the topic
Begin the outline of your paper, what topics you may include, and how you will structure the comparative paper. You can begin writing the first sections of the paper based on the questionnaires you completed.

6 pages
Complete the two questionnaires in your text book (Questionnaire 1 – The Personal Bargaining Inventory and Questionnaire 5 – Communication Competence Scale. The scoring key for Questionnaire 5 can be found below). Upon analysis and evaluation of your responses and within the context of the material you learned in the course, complete a summary paper and improvement plan outlining your findings regarding your own negotiation style. From this you will develop a plan to improve your personal negotiation skills based on the type of negotiator you are (as determined by the questionnaires).
The first section of the paper should consist of a summary of your findings as a result of completing the questionnaires. The second section should consist of your plan to improve your negotiation skills based on the ten best practices and how they relate to your findings. You should include at least five examples of strategies that you think would work well for your own negotiation style. Give your example strategies within the context of a negotiation situation. If you have a specific negotiation experience, you can use this situation. If you don’t, you may formulate a mock negotiation in order to use the different strategies. You may use a different negotiation situation for each strategy or one situation for all strategies.

Communication Competence Scoring Kenya

Explanations of the five cognitions
•Planning cognitions. This is ability to anticipate, rehearse and monitor topics of conversation—anticipate the audience, plan what one is going to say in advance, etc.
•Presence cognitions. This is the awareness of how the other is reacting to a conversation—knowing when to recognize others’ negative reactions or resistance, change the subject, etc.
•Modeling cognitions. This measures the respondent’s awareness of contextual variables that provide information about how to interact with the other party—i.e. “sizing up” the environment, paying attention to how other people are reacting and responding, etc.
•Reflection cognitions. This measures the tendency for the respondent to reflect upon a communication performance, with the objective being to improve one’s self presentation (e.g. reflecting on what I said, my past performance, what I could have said, etc.)
•Consequence cognitions. This measures the respondent’s awareness of the consequences of a communication performance (e.g. thinking about how others might interpret what I have said, understanding the effects of my communication on others, etc.)

2:Legal Research Exercise

Order Description

LABOUR LAW 2016
Assessment Task 1 – Legal Research Exercise
What you are required to do:
You are employed as a research officer in the Fair Work Commission and you have been asked by your manager to prepare a background paper on the nature of the influences and changes in industrial regulation in Australia since Federation in 1901. Your manager will be presenting an issues paper on the Australian industrial relations system.
You have been asked to provide background information and advice on the following:
• How the conciliation and arbitration system developed and why it fell out of favour with governments?

• The nature and extent of the influence of the International Labor Organisation on Australia’s industrial relations system over the years and what accounts for this influence or lack thereof.

• How important has the federal structure of government in Australia been to the making of labour law and why?

[Note: you are not expected to know or assume any characteristics of any particular industry for the preparation of this background briefing]
Criteria for Legal Exercise:
1. Demonstrated appropriate research and understanding of key issues and problems.
2. Informed and accurate information presented about the law and the institutional structures as relevant. Refer to provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and cases where relevant.
3. Ability to express ideas clearly and use appropriate grammar. Write the briefing in essay style – no dot points – and with a brief introduction and conclusion.
4. Use a consistent bibliographical style (Harvard recommended – see under Assessment tab on the Blackboard), provide at least 3 different references and provide referencing throughout.
5. Keep to the word length.
**Please refer to the Assessment Sheet for the Legal Exercise on blackboard**
Length: 1000 words (you may write up to 1500 words without penalty)
Value: 25%

Assessment criteria:
1.Degree of understanding
2.Discussion across all aspects of question/s
3.Evidence of appropriate reading of the statute and other materials
4.Critical reflection and logical development of argument with evidence in support
5.Structure
6.Degree of expression
7.Length (within 10-15%)
8.Referencing & d bibliography
9.General presentation

The Legal Research Exercise does involve research around 3 specified areas (weeks 1-3 inclusive) and it will need to be written in an essay style with a brief introduction and conclusion.

Please keep in mind that the exercise is meant to have a ‘practical sense’ to it by specifying that you are a research officer employed with the Fair Work Commission and that you are preparing a background information and advice piece towards a larger paper on the influences and changes to industrial relations regulation. So please frame the paper to take account of this.

The topics as given are understandably broad but ensure you give equal treatment to all three of them. Also read the criteria on the sheet with the topic areas as well as the Assessment Sheet itself, which is what I will be using to assess each paper.

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