BTM4ORB Organisational Behaviour Assignment Brief | CCCU

Submission Dates and Times (Day: Date & Time)
Submission deadline	Monday, 7^th July 2025, by 2 pm BTM4ORB_JAN24: Essay – First Submission Inbox \| Global Banking School
Late Submission	Wednesday, 9^th Jul 2025, by 2 pm BTM4ORB_JAN24: Essay – Late Submission Inbox \| Global Banking School
Resubmission 1	Friday, 26^th September 2025, by 2 pm BTM4ORB_JAN24: Essay – Resubmission 1 Inbox \| Global Banking School
Resubmission 2	Friday, 21^st November 2025, by 2 pm BTM4ORB_JAN24: Essay – Resubmission 2 Inbox \| Global Banking School
Grade & Feedback Release Dates	All grades and feedback release dates are 21 days after the submission date. If an assignment deadline is Monday 1^st 2:00 pm, then the grade release date will be Monday 22^nd, 2:00 pm.

BTM4ORB Module Learning Outcomes

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

Module Outcome 1

Demonstrate an understanding of organizational behaviour, drawing on relevant theories, concepts and business-related examples.

Module Outcome 2

Show the ability to apply concepts and frameworks from organizational behaviour to different types of businesses.

Module Outcome 3

Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how organisational theories, concepts, and evidence can explain the way that people behave and interact at work at individual, group, and organisational levels.

BTM4ORB Assignment Requirements

Overview

This assignment invites you to explore the dynamic field of Organisational Behaviour and Management, with a particular focus on the tourism industry. Whether your future lies in managing a luxury resort, coordinating airline operations, or leading cruise ship teams, understanding how organisations function and how individuals and groups behave within them is essential in today’s fast-paced, service-driven environment.

In this 3,000-word essay, you will critically analyse the evolution of management theory, examine key concepts in contemporary organisational behaviour, and evaluate how these ideas are applied in real-world tourism contexts. Drawing on relevant models, academic theory, and practical examples from organisations such as Hilton, Emirates, and Booking.com, the essay aims to demonstrate how effective management and people-focused strategies contribute to operational success, employee engagement, and innovation in the global tourism sector.

Assignment Tasks to be Completed

Essay (3000 words) 100%

Essay Title: Tourism in Transition: The Evolving Role of Organisational Behaviour and Management

The essay MUST respond to the following:

Introduction (Approx. 200 words)
The Evolution of Management Practices (Approx. 300 words)
Current Theories and Concepts in Organisational Behaviour (Approx. 600 words)
Personality, Individual Differences & Motivation (Approx. 500 words)
The Concept of Learning Organisations (Approx. 300 words)
Organisational Culture & Structure (Approx. 400 words)
Globalisation and a Diverse Workforce (Approx. 450 words)
Conclusion (Approx. 250 words)

A step-by-step guide is available on the Assignment Guide, which is available on the Moodle.

You must reference all information used in the essay, using the Harvard Referencing Guide, and include in-text citations throughout.

See the attached grid for grade descriptors.

Give the full CCCU Harvard reference within the reference page for each item used, and the correct CCCU Harvard ‘shortened’ reference within the essay.

The task requirement is an essay, not a report or reflective journal. You must, therefore, ensure that you use an academic essay structure outline. Headings are not permitted in this essay, as they violate the required format and disrupt the structure of your argument.
Include both direct and indirect citations from a wide variety of sources. Include a minimum of 20 references.
Make use of the relevant core texts, additional resources provided in Moodle, and research items from within the module.

Additional Information Required to Support Completing the Tasks Above

Ensure appropriate formatting. For example, you should use a 12-point font size, 1.5 line spacing, and distribute your text evenly between margins.
You must use the correct Canterbury Harvard Referencing conventions* for your in-text citations and reference list.
You must use and reference at least four of the core texts and academic resource materials provided in Moodle.
You must use a minimum of 20 sources, including textbooks, journals, and other reliable and credible published and web sources.
Do not use Wikipedia or unverifiable blogs.

Mandatory Referencing and Research Requirements
CCCU Harvard Referencing Style.
Core reading: Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (2022). Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management. 4th ed. Andover: Cengage Learning.
Mullins, L. (2019). Organisational Behaviour in the Workplace. 12th ed. Harlow: Pearson Bratton, J. and Bratton, J. (2017). Introduction to Work and Organizational Behaviour. 3rd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan Other Learning Resources Bucheli, M. and Wadhwani, R.D. (2013). Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press. du Gay, P. and Vikkelsø, S. (2016) For Formal Organization: The Past in the Present and Future of Organization Theory. New York: OUP Oxford. Further Digital Resources Academic Search Index • Aphasiology Archive • Archive of European Integration • arXiv • British Library EThOS • Business Source Complete • CINAHL Complete • ClinicalTrials.gov • Communication Source • Construction News • eBook Business Collection (EBSCOhost) • eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) • Economist • E-LIS (Eprints in Library & Information Science) • Entrepreneurial Studies Source • FT.com • GOBI E-books • IndianJournals.com • Industry Studies Working Papers • JSTOR Journals • Library Catalogue • Milne Open Textbooks • Minority Health Archive • PhilSci Archive • SCOAP3 • Supplemental Index

Format of your submission and how your assignment will be assessed

This assignment should be submitted electronically via Moodle (module tutors will discuss this process with you during class time).

You must submit your work in a Microsoft WORD document format.
You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.
Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment.
You are reminded of the on academic misconduct, which can be viewed by following the links at the end of this document. In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations.
It is the complete and sole responsibility of the student to upload their assessment to Turnitin for marking before the specified deadline. Students should not request lecturers or SSTs to submit assessments on their behalf as they are unable to do so.
To avoid uploading issues, students should aim to upload their assessment several hours before the deadline to avoid Turnitin issues around the deadline time or accidentally submitting to the wrong submission link. It is recommended to check that the assessment that has been uploaded is able to be read after you have uploaded it, and if not, to re-upload it. Contact the SST on your campus if you have any issues.
Any assessment submitted after the specified deadline will incur a late penalty as specified in CCCU Academic regulations unless prior approval has been granted for Exceptional Circumstances.

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend on your use of academic referencing conventions.

The assignment will be assessed against the specified rubric as uploaded to Moodle.

Marking Scheme / Rubric – The Marking Scheme (otherwise known as a rubric) is available on the Module Assessment Tab on Moodle.

Submission Requirements

Submission Platform

This assignment should be submitted electronically using Moodle to the Module Submission link.

Submission Date & Time

All submission & resubmission dates and time are as stated at the beginning of this Assignment brief.

You should submit your Assignment for all deadlines earlier than 2:00 pm on the date stated.

Late submissions can be accepted for Summative Submissions only up to a maximum of 2 working days after the submission deadline. This does not apply to resubmission deadlines. A 10-mark deduction will be made by CCCU for all late submissions.

Work submitted more than two working days after the deadline will not be accepted and will be recorded as a non-submission.

Assignments submitted to the resubmission deadlines will be capped at 40 by CCCU.

If you are affected by unexpected events, outside your control, and short-term in nature (i.e., lasting one to two weeks), under the exceptional circumstances procedure, you may be eligible for:

Self-Certification – A seven-day extension to your coursework. Students are allowed a maximum of 2 self-certification requests per academic year can be requested.

Please note that Examinations and time-constrained tests are not eligible for the seven-day self-certification request

Extenuating Circumstances – A 14 day extension to your coursework, but there must be evidence to support the request.

You can make a self-certification request up to 14 calendar days before your deadline:

for coursework, it must be no later than 2 pm on the deadline date

Table of Penalties
Issue with the Assignment	Penalty to be Applied
Suspected Academic Misconduct or Breach of Academic integrity	The Assignment will be graded zero. Written feedback will be ‘This assignment has been identified as potential Academic Misconduct/Breach of Academic Integrity. You will be invited to a meeting to discuss’. You will be invited to a meeting with an Academic Misconduct reviewer. When you attend the meeting if Academic Misconduct or the breach of Academic Integrity is upheld you will be asked to rewrite the section of the assignment it applies to and re-submit the assignment. Do not upload any assignments to the AMC submission links before the meeting otherwise it will be removed. Failure to attend the meeting means the assignment will remain graded at zero and you will be unable to pass the module until you have attended the meeting.
The assignment is more than 10% over the prescribed wordcount i.e. for 3,000 words, if 3,400 is submitted excluding the cover page, table of contents, references and appendices.	A 10-mark deduction applied to the overall grade that is manually entered by the Lecturer. This deduction is capped at 40%, which means an assignment cannot get less than 40% if a deduction has to be made. For example, if the mark for the assignment was 60. The lecturer would deduct 10 marks and the mark will be 50. Written feedback will also state ‘This assignment is 10% over the wordcount and 10 marks have been deducted’.
Where assignments are more than 10% less than the prescribed wordcount and lecturers cannot identify if the learning outcomes have been met.	This assignment will be graded below 40.
Where a student submits a .pdf instead of a word document.	This assignment will be graded a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This is a pdf submission and is not allowed. All submissions should be in Microsoft Word format’.
Students not working in their groups as agreed by the lecturer.	This assignment will be graded a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This submission was not completed in the designated group’. *Please note: Where a student has asked the lecturer to move from their original group and the lecturer has agreed this does not apply.*
For a presentation assignment that requires oral delivery, and the student does not present in person.	The Oral rubric criteria is not moved, and the oral criteria will remain at zero.
For a presentation assignment and the student does not upload a converted PPT To Word File with speaker notes.	The communication rubric criteria is not moved, and the communication criteria will remain at zero.
For a presentation assignment that requires oral delivery, and the student did not present on the day or upload the presentation to a Word document with speaker Notes.	This assignment will be graded a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘There was no Oral presentation in class and the submission was not converted to Microsoft Word’.
For a presentation assignment the student uploads a file that contains no slides and is simply continuous text.	This assignment will be graded a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘There are no slides present in the assignment submission’.
If the assignment is group work and the resubmission is not changed to individual work. If a group assignment is failed then the resubmitted work must be changed by a minimum of 25% to make it an individual piece of work. This means if a Group Presentation is 12 slides a minimum of 3 must be different to the group submission. If the assignment is a Group Poster with 6 text boxes then a minimum of 2 of them must be different to the Group Poster.	This assignment will be graded a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This resubmission should be individual and a minimum of 25% of the assignment has not changed’.
Where a written assignment has text that is unable to be read by Turnitin because it is either a graphical image (excluding Presentations & Posters); for example, a screenshot or the assignment is written within text boxes on each page.	This assignment will be graded 0 and the written feedback should state ‘This assignment is unreadable by Turnitin and cannot be checked for Academic Misconduct. It has been referred for an AMC meeting’. The assignment will then be referred for Academic Misconduct investigation.
An assignment that does not make use of any Mandatory references provided in the assignment brief/Module Handbook.	The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero
An assignment has a reference list, but no citations.	The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero. Written feedback should state ’The reference criteria has been graded Zero as no citations have been used. Please include citations in your assignment to support the academic points being made’.
An assignment has no citations and no reference list.	Foundation & Level 4 – The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero. The written feedback will state ‘Please ensure that you use citations and references to support your assignment submission’. At Level 5 and Level 6 this would be graded as a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1 and written feedback will also show ‘This assignment has no citations and no reference list’.
Where False references are included in an assignment.	This will be referred for Academic Misconduct. This assignment will be graded 0, and the written feedback should state ‘This assignment contains false references and has been referred for Academic Misconduct. You will be invited to attend an Academic Misconduct meeting.
Assignment is submitted after the Late Deadline or if it is a Resubmission, after the Resubmission deadline	This assignment will be graded a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1, and written feedback should state ‘This assignment was submitted after the deadline. Please resubmit at the next resubmission opportunity.’

BTM4ORB Assignment Requirements Overview This assignment invites you to explore the dynamic field of Organisational Behaviour and Management, with a particular focus on the tourism industry