Assessment item 2
Professional Practice and Professions
Value: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Due Date: 06-Aug-2018
Return Date: 27-Aug-2018
Submission method options: Alternative submission method
Task
You are required to choose two professional areas in which you have an interest and research those professions and their professional Body’s or associations.
1. Define a profession
Many professions have organisations or professional body’s or associations that provide guidelines for conduct/ ethics/ professional practice within that profession. A lot of time, money and effort goes into creating these but how aware are the individuals working in these professions of these guidelines and do they influence their day to day actions at work?
2. Define a professional body? What do they do? How can they assist you in your career moving forward?
Examples of professional bodies’ code of conduct include.
· Early childhood: http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/our-publications/eca-code-ethics/
· Public Relations: https://www.pria.com.au/aboutus/members-code-of-ethics
· Marketing research: http://www.amsrs.com.au/professional-standards/amsrs-code-of-professional-behaviour
· IML: https://managersandleaders.com.au/code-of-conduct/
· CPA: http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/about-us/member-conduct-and-discipline
More information on these is presented in modules.
3.Select two professions and describe them.
For example: Look at this site for the Tax Practitioners Board https://www.tpb.gov.au/recognised-professional-associations. This looks at all the recognised professional associations for Taxation professionals.
4.Choose two professional association/bodies for each of your chosen professions
Research them online. You may wish to call them up and talk to them or get some promotional material from them.
5.Compare and contrast the four professional Associations /Body’s Mission, Vision, Values, codes of conduct and ethics.
6. Reflect How much emphasis do the groups you have choose place on their codes of conduct/ ethics/ behaviour? What issues arise for the professional body and how do they police their code? How do they communicate it to their members? Are there legal ramifications if the code is breached? Do they have to do continual education? You can if you wish contact the professional body to ask some of these questions. What influence do you believe these codes have on their member’s behaviour? What can the consequences be for Members in their career if they breach either their professional body’s code or the organisations code/s?
7.Review
Which organisation would you choose to join and why?
8.Then reflect.
What this means for you in your career and what actions should you take now.
Rationale
This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:
· be able to critically reflect on and evaluate the application of theory in a workplace setting.
· be able to apply knowledge of contemporary thinking in employability skills, career planning and development to enhance personal skills applicable to the work environment.
· be able to develop practical competence through personal professional experience by participating in work placement.
· be able to evaluate personal development across a range of professional practice skills.
Professional body’s/organisations, Ethics and professional conduct are extremely important in the workplace and different professions have different requirements and expectations of the people within the professions. To develop your career you will need an understanding of these for your chosen profession but you will also need to understand the requirements if you are to join a professional association. For some professions membership of a professional association is mandatory and you will need to be working towards acquiring the experience and credibility to be able to join the professional association.
The aim of this assessment is to: •To gain knowledge of professional body’s / organisations/ associations •To get a real world understanding of how codes of ethics/ conduct /behaviour impact individuals in their career; •To understand the difference between a professional Body’s code and expectation of their members and the member’s expectations and actions; and •To reflect on this in your career.
Marking criteria and standards
| Criterion | High Distinction | Distinction | Credit | Pass | Fail |
| Executive Summary
Highlight aims of the assignment Outline of report structure Main points previewed Summarises the conclusions |
Comprehensive; purpose and significance of the main points are clearly explained and signposted through the report structure.
Conclusions clearly articulated |
Provides a comprehensive summary of the report and a clear, succinct identification of the main points.
Some conclusions Identified. |
Provides an adequate summary of the report that identifies the significant aspects and how they inter-relate.
Indicates there are conclusions |
Attempts to identify the requirements, but does not draw out their significance in relation to the assignment.
No conclusions |
Does not identify or provides only a limited identification of the requirements. No indication of any conclusions. |
| Mark /10 | 8.5-10 | 7.5-8.4 | 6.5-7.4 | 5-6.4 | 0-4.9 |
| Body
To gain knowledge of professional body’s / organisations/ associations
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Clear and well-reasoned logic as to the choice of professional body’s / organisations/ associations demonstrating detailed knowledge and thinking.
Clear and well-reasoned logical definitions of a professional body or a profession.
Insightful and well-reasoned questions with support from theory and literature.
Logical connection to own career.
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Key aspects of professional body’s / organisations/ associations identified, and their choice explained and related well to its importance.
Clear definitions of a professional body or a profession
Some connection to own career. |
Appropriate explanation of which professional body’s / organisations/ associations was chosen but inadequately explained with some aspects missed or mis-described.
Definitions of a professional body or a profession that that may miss some aspect or are not clearly described.
Connection to own career not made clear. |
No/ inappropriate explanation of who and what professional body’s / organisations/ associations was chosen and why.
Not appropriate professional body’s / organisations/ associations or not a profession
No definitions of a professional body or a profession
No connection to own career. |
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| Detailed report on the research for the professional Body’s/ associations that support that profession.
Connecting the information with references from their web site or other sources and or theory. |
Very detailed, original and sophisticated.
Provides a comprehensive basis for further exploration with questions developing the concept and understanding of the issues faced by the professional body.
Augmented with references and theory.
Several source used to confirm opinions derived. |
Very detailed answers. Provides a sound basis for exploration with further questions, comments and inferences drawn for the interview.
Augmented with references and theory.
More than website investigated. |
Detailed research answers.
Augmented with references. Use of theory and other sources of information |
Reasonably detailed research response.
Use of theory and other sources of information.
Mostly web based sources. |
Basic answers only. No depth to the research.
No use of theory or other sources. |
| Introduce, define, and explain codes of conduct, ethics, and behaviour.
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Appropriate definitions identified and explained clearly to demonstrate detailed knowledge of them. Differing views provided.
Clear and relevant relationships made between principals and their application to the professions.
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Key aspects of codes of conduct, ethics and behaviour identified, and professional bodies explained and related well to its importance.
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Appropriate definitions are identified but inadequately explained with some aspects missed or mis-described | No/ inappropriate definitions of codes of conduct, ethics and behaviour are identified or explained.
No explanation of codes of conduct, ethics and behaviour, or inadequate explanations. |
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| The two areas of information compared and contrasted against each other demonstrating insight about the similarities and difference.
Personal reflection on what it would mean to you in your career.
Highlights which professional Body’s may be relevant for their career and why. |
The similarities and differences are described clearly and accurately with a comprehensive and insightful appraisal and evaluation.
Excellent personal reflection showing depth of thinking and what impacts it might have on the individual’s career.
Thoughtful comments on which professional Body’s might be appropriate with evidence of consideration. |
The similarities and differences are described clearly and accurately with a comprehensive assessment and evaluation.
Excellent personal reflection showing depth of thinking and what impacts it might have on the individual’s career.
Thoughtful comments on which professional Body’s might be appropriate
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The similarities and differences are described clearly with a sound assessment from a range of perspectives.
Good personal reflection identifying issues for the individual’s career.
Appropriate professional Body’s highlighted and linked to career. |
The description of the similarities and differences are adequate but the discussion and assessment limited and descriptive.
Some personal reflection but lacking in depth.
Professional Body’s listed with no or limited explanation. |
The two areas of information compared with little or no discussion or assessment.
Little or no reflection.
No professional Body’s listed .
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| Mark /70 | 59.5-70 | 52.5-58.8 | 45.5-51.8 | 35-44.8 | 0-34.3 |
| Conclusion
Main points summarised and linked to discussion. |
States a conclusion that is a logical extrapolation from the inquiry findings.
Comprehensive summary provided.
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States a conclusion focused solely on the
inquiry findings. The conclusion arises specifically from and responds specifically to the inquiry findings.
Good, reasonably thorough summary provided. |
States a general conclusion that, because
it is so general, also applies beyond the scope of the inquiry findings. Adequate but basic summary provided |
States an ambiguous, illogical, or
unsupportable conclusion from inquiry findings.
Little or no summary provided.
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| Mark /10 | 7.5-10 | 6.5-7.4 | 5-6.4 | 0-4.9 | |
| Presentation
Language is appropriate: reflects academic level and is neither-colloquial, nor opinion-based.
In-text citations.
Draws on appropriate academic literature.
Complete and correct reference list in APA 6.
Grammar and mechanics (e.g. spelling and punctuation) are accurate. Within word limit. Presentation clear and in report format |
Clarity of expression, accurate spelling and punctuation, citations are used throughout to support points made.
Reference list reflects citations and follows APA style accurately |
A structure is apparent, all questions answered.
Some mechanical errors.
Few or no citations, fair or poor reference list. APA style used with some errors.
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Extremely unclear,
lacks structure;
many mechanical errors and few or no citations.
No referencing.
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| Mark /10 | 7.5-10 | 5-7.4 | 0-4.9 | ||
| Total /100 | /25 | SAT/UNSAT |
Presentation
Your report should consist of:
· Title page;
· Table of contents;
· Executive Summary;
· Introduction:
· Body of the report answering the questions above
· Your reflections on what this means for you including which professional body’s you might need to join; and
· Conclusion.
The word count only includes the body of the assessment. Do not submit in PDF form – these will not be marked.
Requirements
This assignment must be submitted through Turnitin.
It is recommended that your name, student ID and page number are included in the header or footer of every page of the assignment.
Further details about submission in Turnitin are provided in On-line submission.
A ‘content structure’ will be placed on Interact2 for this assessment which students MUST use to complete this assessment. You MUST complete and submit all components of this assessment.