Assessment Item 1 Organisational Task
Description/Focus: Written Assessment – Workbook
Value: 10%
Related Learning outcomes: 1,2,3,4
Due date: Wednesday Week 10, 11:59 pm Darwin
time – 12.5.2021
Length: 700 words per task (not including figures, or
the reference list if the task specifies their
inclusion).
Task: CDU wants to develop an Assessment
Centre for the recruitment of their
Lecturing staff. CDU has asked you as an
Organisational Psychologist to design an
Assessment Centre.
Your design should cover the following details:
1. What job and organisational analysis issues do you think will need to be addressed to successfully develop the assessment centre?
2. Identify the components of your proposed Assessment centre.
Briefly describe each component of your assessment centre and provide a brief rationale for each components’ inclusion
3. Explain and justify how performance could be assessed for each component?
4. Explain who should oversee assessing said components. Justify your choice?
•Please ensure that:
You explain how the components/ proposed tasks address the needs of CDU (identified in
Q1)
•For your assessment centre design please justify your answer using supporting peerreviewed literature from the last 5 years.
Preparation:
To prepare:
In Week 8- details on this task will be provided. Study the readings for and participate in the related lectures and tutorials tasks for the corresponding task topic (Especially Week 8 and Week 9).
These materials are specifically designed to help you complete this task. Recommended readings to help you complete this task are available in the Leganto Reading List folder called “Organisational Task Readings” and in the
Week 8 folder.
Presentation: All submissions must be submitted as a .doc or .docx file. All other formats are not accepted, and your assessment will be
considered late until it has been submitted using the correct file type. see the rubric for details on formatting.
The task responses must be presented in a way that is APA style 7th edition. This style is the standard professional presentation format for psychologists worldwide.
This presentation and referencing style can be accessed and learnt through links available on the CDU Library’s Psychology
Guide.
Assessment criteria: The specific assessment criteria and rubrics
will be provided with the topic task in the corresponding week’s learning materials.
