PSY1082 Social and Organisational Psychology

PSY1082 A3

Module: PSY1082 Social and Organisational Psychology

Task Description

In matters of consultancy, industrial and organisational psychologists may work together on a one-to-one basis or as part of a team, where it will often be important that team members can provide each other with constructive, professional feedback on their work. In this assessment, your work entails a review of the reports produced by your peers in assessment two. The assessment therefore requires you to review the work of your peers. You will be assigned two presentation videos prepared by your fellow students to review. Watch these in full. Re-watch the presentations and make notes on the key messages and the form of the presentation.

Write two short (500 word +/- 10%) documents, providing peer feedback to these presenters. Your tone should be professional, courteous, and retaining appropriate APA citation and reference format.

The content of your peer-feedback reports should involve a summary of the key ideas of the presentations as well as a brief description of the format of the presentations and an evaluative component. In the evaluative component, you should provide comments on the content, theory, and style of the presentation. Be supportive, understanding, and kind in your evaluations. These are your peers with whom you wish to maintain a good working relationship, yet you wish to help them improve their work where you can. Consider the merits of ‘compassionate critiquing’. You should also foreground any positive points that you feel are worth highlighting. These may be useful for the individual to recognise and perhaps employ in future work.

The following questions may stimulate your thinking for this task, but do not feel constrained by them:

●        Did your peers make their points succinctly?

●        Would more detail in some areas be useful?

●        Was any peer-reviewed research accurately presented?

●        Were ideas presented in a clear manner?

●        Which points did you find most compelling? Why?

●        What might you have done differently?

●        Where points interlinked well?

●        What other theories could your peer have used?

●        What are the advantages/disadvantages of theory used by your peer?

●        Did the visual aids used aid the audience to understand the subject?

To give a good evaluation of the content of the presentation, you should be well-versed in the topic yourself. You will therefore need to recall relevant reading from the learning materials and engage in appropriate wider reading, as prompted by the topic and the points made by your peers.

When evaluating the style of the presentation, mention but focus less on technical details, such as any crackling or noise artefacts from recording devices, and instead the approach to presenting the material.

Submit your report in the online learning environment via the relevant drop box by the specified deadline. Please note that, in addition to submitting the peer review reports in your final assignment submission, you are also required to upload your peer review reports to the Workshop activity, such that your peers can see and learn from your peer feedback (and so that you will get your feedback from your peers).

NB: Generative AI tools are not permitted in the development of content (text, images, audio, etc.,) in completing this assessment.

Task Objectives

On completion of this task, you should show evidence of the following:

●        Knowledge of the content of relevant module learning materials and other relevant literature;

●        An ability to summarise and critique the work of colleagues;

●        An ability to write concisely and to keep to recommended word limits.

Sources

l  Module learning materials on Organisational Psychology

l  Web resources and further reading identified in the learning materials.

l  Source academic journal articles on the topic from the Library, which provides access to Psychology journals, reports and books through the PsycInfo, PsycArticles, and Science Direct databases

l  Additional reading outside the module learning materials and suggested core textbooks will be essential for this assignment.

Evaluation Criteria

This assignment will be evaluated using the peer review report rubric, which can be found in Appendix A.

Appendix A:

Peer Review Report Rubric