Reference no: EM132369303
Assessment item: Personal Reflection
Task description:
The purpose of this assignment is to encourage you to consider and critically reflect on your own experience as a volunteer and to use this as a segue into a deeper and personally meaningful understanding volunteering and volunteer management. It is preferable that your assignment is based on an actual volunteer role that you have experienced in a formal setting (ie., as a volunteer you were managed or supervised by another person--paid staff or volunteer). While it is preferable, given the focus of this course, that you chose an experience that is in aSPORTor EVENT context or closely related. You are free to choose a volunteer experience in another context. If you have no experience as a volunteer in a formal setting (ie., in a sport, event or other organisation) your personal reflection should draw upon an experience where you have freely chosen to give your time for no expectation of a reward.
You will be asked to:
Describe your volunteer experience, the role, the context, whether and how you were managed or supervised as a volunteer. Think critically about your experience analysing your motivation, action and emotions as a volunteer. Reflect critically on management issues as a volunteer (ie., how you were 'managed' or 'supervised') and apply selected core course concepts and theories. Demonstrate your knowledge of volunteer management systems and processes.
Learning Outcomes
The following learning outcomes are assessed in this task:
1. Understand and apply specific conceptual elements of various organisational and human resource management theories as they apply to leadership, intrapersonal, and interpersonal practices considering individual differences in volunteers.
2. Understand and apply specific conceptual elements of various organisational and human resource management theories as particularly relate to the motivations of volunteers.
3. Critically understand and integrate the conceptual processes of managing volunteers in sport / event contexts.