Assignment Task
Introduction
Welcome to the Student Assessment Tasks for RIILAT402E Provide leadership in the supervision of diverse work teams . These tasks have been designed to help you demonstrate the skills and knowledge that you have learnt during your course.
Please ensure that you read the instructions provided with these tasks carefully. You should also follow the advice provided in the Civil Construction Works Student User Guide . The Student User Guide provides important information for you relating to completing assessment successfully.
For This Unit
For you to be assessed as competent, you must successfully complete two assessment tasks:
- Assessment 1: Knowledge questions – You must answer all questions correctly.
- Assessment 2: Project – You must work through a range of activities and complete a Project Portfolio .
Complete the Following
1. This assessment task requires you to provide leadership in the supervision of diverse work teams on two occasions. You can complete Activity Step 2 based on the information in the Simulation Pack or based on your workplace role. If you are completing this based on your workplace role, you must be able to access a range of information and documentation including the scope of your role and the team you manage, as well as workplace policies and procedures that are relevant to the supervision of diverse work teams, for example, those addressing behaviour expected, diversity, and conflict management. Activity Steps 4 and 5 are to be completed by all students based on the Simulation Pack.
Vocational education and training is all about gaining and developing practical skills that are industry relevant and that can help you to succeed in your chosen career. For this reason, basing your project on real relationships with classmates or work colleagues will mean that you are applying your knowledge and skills in a relevant, practical and meaningful way!
You will be collecting evidence for this unit in a Project Portfolio . The steps you need to take are outlined below. Before you begin, complete page 4 of your Project Portfolio .
2. Preparation
You are required to prepare to provide leadership in the supervision of diverse teams. This can be based on your own workplace role or the information in the Simulation Pack. You are required to document your role as team leader. This involves addressing all the questions in Section 1 of your Simulation Pack including:
- Confirming your role as a team leader.
- Identifying the policies and procedures (including performance management) and other documentation that apply to providing leadership in the supervision of diverse work teams.
- Determining a range of requirements as relevant to supervising diverse work teams including:
- Scope and boundaries of the supervisory role, including realistic expectations and conditions.
- Benefits of diverse work teams and their support requirements
- Benefits of mentoring in terms of the role of a team leader supervising diverse team, as well as how a mentoring arrangement should operate.
- Cultural factors that impact on diverse work teams.
- The impact of potential conflict on work teams.
- Diversity strategies that support the recruitment and selection of staff.
Work on Section 1 of your Project Portfolio
When you have completed the steps above, you are required to develop a presentation about diversity to present to your team and management. This will draw on work that you have completed so far, and the presentation will be one of the occasions in which you will demonstrate that you can provide leadership in the supervision of diverse teams.
You are required to develop a diversity presentation that can be provided to a team (your assessor and fellow students). Your presentation is to address:
- An overview of the role of a team leader in providing leadership in the supervision of diverse work teams as per the preparation work you completed.
- Benefits of diverse work teams – outline at least four.
- Unconscious bias, examples and the impact of unconscious bias.
- The importance of practising diversity in terms of avoiding allegations/complaints relating to harassment, discrimination and bullying.
- Examples of work practices that acknowledge diversity – at least three.
- The importance of demonstrating empathy, respect, and collaboration and strategies to achieve this.
- Diversity strategies that can be used for recruitment and selection – include at least two.
- Examples of networks that team members can draw on to assist with diversity issues.
Prepare your presentation in a format of your choice such as. PowerPoint for use in the next session. Your presentation will be for approximately 15 minutes and your assessor will advise you of the date and time.
Please note that at the presentation you will need to show that you can clearly and distinctively articulate diversity requirements and responsibilities and using language that your audience can understand. You must also be able to demonstrate that you can apply performance expectations as per the Code of Conduct. Choose at least two behaviours from your Code of Conduct and demonstrate these during your presentation. Make a note of these in your Portfolio so that your assessor can check that you have applied these.
After your presentation you are required to conduct a reflective practice activity with the team. The reflective practice activity should focus on allowing team members to reflect on what they do well in terms of diversity and what they feel are challenges. You should develop a series of simple questions that will promote discussion.
At the end of the meeting provide each team member with a personal development plan template and ask them to complete it and send it back to you within a specified time period. Review the personal development plans and then provide feedback in the form of an email to each team member.
3. Presentation
You are now to provide your presentation to your team as per the instructions above.
During your presentation, your assessor will be looking to see that you have provided leadership in the supervision of diverse work teams.
Your assessor will also confirm that you:
- clearly and distinctively articulated diversity requirements and responsibilities and using language that your audience can understand.
- Applied at least two behaviours from the reflective activity.
Remember to provide your team with the personal development plan templates and ask them to complete them so that you can review and provide feedback. Give a timeline for completion.
4. Case Study
By completing this activity step and the one following, you will demonstrate that you can provide leadership to diverse teams on another occasion. You are to complete this step regardless of whether you are completing the project in your RTO or based on your workplace.
Review the situation in your Simulation Pack (information required to complete Section 2 of the Portfolio) and assume that as per workplace policy you are to report to management on the situation. Remember to also review the conflict resolution policy and code of conduct to inform your report.
You are required to report on the situation by answering all of the questions in your Portfolio that will address:
- Exploring and reporting on the conflict, including assessing whether harassment, bullying and discrimination has occurred.
- Identifying cultural differences that has led to this situation.
- Using networks as a way of seeking advice
- Providing feedback on what you consider is an appropriate solution to the conflict issue.
You will also explore values and beliefs around conflict in this section and how this might impact on a decision.