Industrial Leadership
The aim of this assessment is to allow you to critically reflect on the subject content, develop your own definitions of issues, respond to feedback from other students, apply the subject content to your own context, and encourage you to reflect and develop your own approach to leadership in preparation for your professional career.
Reflective writing aims to get you to think about and understand your learning experiences. It encourages Tacit (unarticulated, ‘as yet unspoken’) knowledge to become Explicit (captured in words, writing and drawings, knowledge that has possibilities of being universal, supporting the capacity to act across contexts) knowledge. ‘Tacit and explicit knowledge interact so that an individual might, for example, shift understanding between a task and the tools, reflect on his or her own experiences, use language to remind him or herself of what he or she already knows, thematise certain circumstances and discuss these with others’ Tsoukas, (2003) p 802. Specifically, you will be reflecting on your thinking, before, during and after the writing, pondering on progress and how to improve, Silby and Watts (2015) p.803.
Reflective Essay
Reflect on the all the learning activities/experiences of the subject, including yours and others response(s) to the topics/questions/issues around the poster, the research topic and discussion forums (attached as forum 1 and 2)*, and address the following questions:
1. Discuss the impact and implication of those topics/questions/issues to an industry that you are familiar with OR plan to be working in.
2. Explain your approach (how you intent to practice) to leadership as a result of completing this subject.
What does Explain mean?
Clarify a topic by giving a detailed account as to how and why it occurs, or what is meant by the use of this term in a particular context. Your writing should have clarity so that complex procedures or sequences of events can be understood, defining key terms where appropriate, and be substantiated with relevant research.