MGMT90140 Management Competencies
Management Competence Assessment Guidelines

Department of Management & Marketing
MGMT90140 Management Competencies
Prepared by Vanessa Pouthier and Franz Wohlgezogen
Assessment Overview
Assessment Submission Details & Weighting
This is an individual assessment that will contribute 20% to your overall mark in the subject.

Due Date:
• Due on Sunday, March 29th, 2026 by 6pm
Submission:
• Submit a soft copy via Turnitin (link on LMS). Please attach an assignment cover sheet,
which can be downloaded from LMS.
Overall Word Length:
• 1000 words (+/- 10%). Supportive graphs/visuals, appendices, in-text citations and the
reference list itself will not be included in the word count.
• Marks will be deducted if you go over the word limit of 1000 words +10% (i.e. if you go
over 1100 words). See the subject guide for more information about Penalties for
Exceeding the Word-Count Limit.
Assessment Weighting:
• Submission as appendixes of all three completed competence-assessment questionnaires
10%
• Discussion of the assessment results, including critical review of assessment differences
30%
• Focus and motivation for competence development 10%
• Insights from conversation with learning buddy 10%
• Competence development plan 20%
• Linkage with theory 10%
• Style 10%
Assessment Task
This individual, written assignment will allow you to improve your self-awareness, and to focus your
competence development efforts this semester.
Follow the following three steps:
Step 1: Complete the competence-assessment questionnaire (which will be posted on the LMS), as a
self-assessment. Your responses to the questionnaire must be exclusively based on your own views
and judgments. You must submit (as an appendix) the completed questionnaire as part of your
assignment.
Step 2: Contact two colleagues, friends, or family members, and ask each one to complete and email
you an assessment of your competences using the competence-assessment questionnaire. You must
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submit (as an appendix) the two filled-out questionnaires as part of your assignment.
Step 3: Analyse the questionnaire results, identify and unpack what seem to constitute your
particularly strong and weak competence areas, while reflecting on major differences between your
self-assessment and the two other assessments received to gain additional self-knowledge and refine
your assessment of what makes you particularly good or weak in particularly competency domains.
Think about which two competence areas you want to develop most this semester (your development
focus) and why. Then start researching and brainstorming ideas about steps you could take to improve
in your chosen areas.
Step 4: Contact your learning buddy and initiate a conversation about your reflection and further
brainstorm together steps you could take to ensure some developmental progress in your two chosen
competence areas by the end of the semester. (Please make sure to check the learning buddy
guidelines for further details regarding this step and related expectations).
Step 5: Write a short essay (1000 words, +/- 10%, reference list excluded) based on the assessment
results. In this essay, you will:
• discuss key assessment results (e.g. particularly strong/weak competence areas) and reflect
on major differences between your self-assessment, and the two assessments you received
from colleagues, friends, or family members (you need to discuss why these differences in
assessment may have occurred). Make sure to communicate clear and rich insights you have
gained into what makes you particularly strong and/or weak in particular key competency
domains.
• state which two competence areas you want to develop most this semester (your “focus”), and
what motivates you to make these two competence areas your priority. Make this choice
carefully: it will be the basis for your final reflection essay.
• describe some insights gained from your conversation with your learning buddy
• describe two concrete steps for your personal development for each of your two chosen
competences. These steps should be feasible and relevant, i.e. you should be able to
implement them during the semester, and clearly demonstrate how they will lead to the
development of the chosen competences.
In the short essay (step 5), make use of the concepts and theories from the seminars and the
assigned materials, to support a) your analysis of assessment results, b) your choice of focus
and c) your developmental plan. We expect consistent efforts to integrate theory from class
throughout the main sections of your essay (see FAQs 9, 10 & 11).
Be sure to consider the layout and presentation of the report to ensure that it is of a professional
standard. This includes (but is not limited to) aspects such as spelling/grammar checking, formatting,
conforming to the word count limit, references, citations and the use of supporting graphics.
Make sure to carefully read the Assignment 1 FAQs at the end of this document for further guidance.
MGMT90140 Management Competencies
Management Competence Assessment Guidelines

Department of Management & Marketing
MGMT90140 Management Competencies
Prepared by Vanessa Pouthier and Franz Wohlgezogen
Marking Criteria for the Assessment
CRITERIA
H1 H2A / H2B H3 P N
SUBMISSION OF
ASSESSMENT
QUESTIONNAIRES
10%
Submission (as appendixes) of all three completed competence-assessment questionnaires (your self-assessment, and the two
assessments from colleagues, friends, or family) grants you 10%. Points will be deducted proportionally if you fail to submit some or
all the competence-assessment questionnaires and/or if the questionnaires are only partially completed.
DISCUSSION OF
ASSESSMENT
RESULTS (incl. critical
review of assessment
differences)
30%
Excellent analysis and
discussion of the assessment
results with clear and rich
insights into key strengths
and weaknesses.
Excellent critical review of
the differences in
assessment results (own
personal assessment vs.
feedback received)
Good analysis and
discussion of the
assessment results with
some good insights
into key strengths and
weaknesses.
Very good critical
review of the
differences in
assessment results
Solid analysis and
discussion of the
assessment results with
some room for better
articulating key
insights.
Good review of the
assessment differences
but room for more
critical reflection
Superficial analysis
and discussion of
competency
assessment, showing
little insight.
Superficial review of
assessment differences
Seriously
underdeveloped
analysis of competency
assessment.
Discussion of
assessment differences
is missing.
FOCUS AND
MOTIVATION FOR
COMPETENCE
DEVELOPMENT
10%
Very clear and specific
articulation of development
focus for the semester with
excellent motivations for
the two chosen areas
Clear statement of
development focus
with well-articulated
motivations for the two
chosen areas
Development focus is
stated and justified but
room for more clarity
and elaboration of
motivations for the two
chosen areas
Development focus is
stated but is somewhat
vague and motivations
for the two chosen
areas need significant
elaboration
Statement of
development focus is
very vague and
motivations for the two
chosen areas are
inadequate or missing
INSIGHTS FROM
CONVERSATION
WITH LEARNING
BUDDY
10%
Very clear description of
key insights gained from
conversation with learning
buddy
Clear description of
key insights gained
from conversation with
learning buddy
Insights from chat with
learning buddy are
stated but room for
more clarity and
elaboration of the key
learnings from the
exchange
Vague description of
insights gained from
conversation with
learning buddy
No evidence that a chat
with learning buddy
occurred
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CRITERIA
H1 H2A / H2B H3 P N
COMPETENCE
DEVELOPMENT
PLAN
20%
Excellent description of 2
concrete, feasible and
highly relevant steps for
each of the two chosen
competence areas
Good description of 2
concrete, feasible and
relevant steps for each
of the two chosen
competence areas
Some description of
concrete steps for each
of the 2 chosen areas
with room for more
specificity and/or
relevance
Vague description of
concrete steps for the
chosen competence
areas or steps only
articulated for one
competence area
Severely
underdeveloped or
missing description of
concrete steps
LINKAGE WITH
THEORY
10%
Excellent use of the
concepts and theories
from class to support
arguments throughout the
essay, demonstrating in-
depth understanding

Very good use of the
concepts and theories
from class to support
arguments


Solid effort to integrate
concepts and theories
from class to support
arguments


Little effort to
integrate concepts and
theories from class to
support arguments

No effort to integrate
concepts and theories
from class to support
arguments

STYLE
10%
Overall clarity and logical
organization of thoughts.
Use of correct grammar,
spelling, presentation and
references.
APA referencing
guidelines followed with
high accuracy.
Minimal writing
problems.
APA referencing
guidelines followed
with minor errors.
There are some errors in
this report in terms of
grammar and/or spelling
or you need to pay more
attention to the
formatting and layout to
ensure that your
message is clearly
presented.
APA referencing
guidelines followed with
a few errors.
Clarity of essay
suffers due to weak
organisation or
spelling and grammar
errors.

APA referencing with
many errors.
Difficult to read
because of choppy
writing, redundancies,
many spelling and
grammar errors and/or
poor organisation.

Consistent errors and
inaccuracies in
following APA
referencing guidelines.
MGMT90140 Management Competencies
Management Competence Assessment Guidelines

Department of Management & Marketing
MGMT90140 Management Competencies
Prepared by Vanessa Pouthier and Franz Wohlgezogen
Frequently asked questions
1) Can I send the questionnaire to more than two people? Yes you can. But we strongly advise you build your analysis on two external assessments alongside your own self-assessment. Be mindful of the space constraints.

2) Can I use other personal assessment surveys in my analysis (e.g. Myer Briggs, VIA
character strengths, etc)? Yes, but make sure to use the provided survey on the LMS as primary and any others as secondary/additional resources in your analysis.

3) Is there a specific methodology you are expecting us to use to analyse the results
when comparing the self-assessment with the 2 other assessments (other than
linking these to the theory) or can we be creative in the way we conduct and present
our analysis? The analysis format is up to you and you can be creative. No technical / statistical analysis is required. We also recommend doing some research on how to analyse and reflect on multi-rater/360 degree assessment results. That may give you some ideas!

4) Is it necessary to discuss all of the 11 competences? As suggested by the use of the word “key” in the description of the task, we clearly do not expect you to present a comprehensive competence profile with detailed discussion of where you stand with regard to all competencies - there is no space for that, although it's important self-knowledge (and you may want to keep a record of all the insights gained from your in-depth analysis of all of your assessment results). Instead, in your essay, we recommend that you focus on what seem to be your key strengths and areas for improvement. You may choose for example to discuss your 1 or 2 principal areas of strength and 2 areas for improvement that feel particularly relevant to you and that you’d like to invest in this semester. As indicated in the rubric, we care about the clarity and richness of the insights you’ve gained through your analytical and reflective work into your strengths and weaknesses.

5) Do we need to comment on all the differences in assessment? Similarly, we do not expect you to comment on all gaps between your self-perception and the feedback you received from others. The differences between your own assessment and the assessments that others have done for you – or gaps in assessments - are part of the key results that you need to focus on. Look for the differences (and similarities) within and across competency domains and dwell on them to see what key insights you can gain about your strengths and weaknesses and which sub-aspects of particular competencies you think are important for you to develop further and why. The objective is to critically reflect on why the differences exist and gain self-knowledge in the process. If you are particularly surprised by some gaps (positive or negative), you may find it helpful to seek out additional feedback from your assessors to make further sense of the discrepancies, in addition to reflecting on why they may see you in that way based on e.g. past experiences.
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6) Since I got very different results from two assessors, I asked them follow-up
questions to make sense of it. Is it OK for me to quote their answers as evidence to
support my analysis on weakness and strength? You may of course use in your essay the additional feedback you solicited to make further sense of the discrepancies and gain insights into your strengths and weaknesses.

7) For the third part of the assignment, the development plan, are we required to think
about two practical ways to improve for each of the two chose competencies or are
we required to follow the immunity to change worksheets, i.e. filling out two specific
sheets for each of the competency areas? Yes please do list two concrete, specific and relevant steps for each of the two competency areas you target (that is, a total of 4 steps). Please remember that the steps can involve passive modes of learning and more active modes of learning. While you are not required to use the immunity to change framework, you may find it a helpful tool to leverage in identifying robust development steps. You may include such worksheets as appendices.

8) Also regarding the TWO steps of development plan, does it mean the two steps
should be listed in order (eg. firstly do a. and secondly do b. and there is an order
between a. and b.) or it is just two different way to develop yourself (a. and b. is not
necessarily relevant)? The two steps for each of the two competency areas do not necessarily have to build on each other.

9) Is there a minimum number of references expected for this assignment? As you can tell from the marking guidelines, we pay attention to your efforts to integrate concepts and theories from class (this includes seminars, and required readings) in your assignment, in particular the quality/effectiveness of those efforts. You may feel compelled to engage in independent research as you realise the importance of learning/increasing your knowledge base for effective competence development. If done well, integration of independently sourced materials typically translates into better critical analysis and more solid/well-informed competence development plans. You may want to think about how additional readings might support the quality of your analysis and plans and thus may improve your marks on those criteria (and more importantly your chance at more effective competence development). The key is how effectively you use those resources to support your analysis and development planning, not the number of resources used. The same holds for concepts and theories from class materials.
10) To what extent do we need to reference? For example, if we mention the Johari
window in the discussions, do we need to cite the original source of this theory or
just the lecture materials? When you are referring to specific insights gained from the readings (or other media) from the course (or external resources), please do cite and reference the source in your submission. When you use concepts from the lectures, make sure you name/label the concepts/frameworks explicitly in the text of your essay.
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11) If I take up competencies (e.g.: Communication and Creativity) that have not been
discussed in the weeks covered so far, can I use theories from external articles? or
should I make connections to the theories we have discussed so far? We encourage everyone to draw on the theories from the first two weeks, given the nature of the assignment. The first two weeks of content (and readings) may prove helpful when you engage with the results from the questionnaires and when you articulate your development steps for the communication and creative problem-solving competencies (or the competencies of your choice). Substantive use (and referencing) of that material will likely strengthen your analysis and planning.
Any references to sources that relate directly to the areas you have targeted as your development focus for the semester are a plus. And yes, you are absolutely welcome to conduct some independent research to inform your self-reflection and development plan in the competency areas we have yet to cover. We generally recommend that students consult some of the required and suggested readings and/or viewings (already available under Modules/Subject Materials for the later sessions/competency domains as well) as it may help with the discussion of your strengths and weaknesses and give you some ideas for concrete improvement steps.
12) Can I choose self-awareness or self-improvement as one of the two competency
areas to focus on? While you are not constrained in terms of which competency domains from class to reflect on and focus your development plan around, we usually do not encourage students to pick self-awareness or self-improvement as a target area. The risk with choosing self-awareness or self-improvement as a focus is to not be concrete enough and thus to end up with a self-development project that may not be very effective. One exception to that tends to be when students choose to focus on the following self-improvement sub-skills: time/attention management or stress management. Overall, keep in mind that self-awareness and self-improvement are muscles/skills you can/will practice in the context of a self-improvement project that targets other competency areas. Part of what we're trying to do with assignment one (and assignment 3) is in fact to help you build up your meta-competency of self-management, hence the recommendation to keep in mind the theories and concepts from week 1 and 2 to guide your analysis, choice of focus and the development of your plan.

13) Are there any specifications about font, size, margins and line spacing to be used as
mandatory for writing our assignment? There are no mandatory specifics re font size, margins and line spacing. However, when making decisions about the format and presentation of the document, always keep the reader in mind and what would facilitate readability of your document.

14) Does professional formatting of the report mean the report should have a structure
with a summary, introduction, body part, conclusion, references? We reward clarity and logical organisation of thoughts. You do not need a summary, nor an
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elaborate conclusion. A reference list (APA style referencing) is needed for the resources you leverage and cite in your essay.

15) Can I use a more personal tone (e.g. personal pronoun) in this assignment? Yes, it is in fact expected of any reflective essay.

16) Are we allowed to put tables/graphs/visuals as Exhibits, at the end of our essay? Yes, you can add tables/graphs/images in an appendix if you want and guide your reader to them. However, remember that if the table, graph or image is integral to your discussion then the placement needs to be thought through. Again, the idea is to always keep the reader in mind and how you can effectively guide them through your narrative of self- awareness and self-development. While tables and visuals are not included in the word count, you need to make sure that you are not overusing them - be judicious as to which ones to include and use them as a support not as a substitute. Using one to provide an overview of your key assessment results or to provide concrete illustrations of steps/strategies you have introduced/discussed in the core of your text would be fine for example. Appendixes will be seen but not marked, any key insight they may contain and that you think is important to communicate to your reader should be included in the body of your essay as text.
17) Should we submit only 1 .pdf/.docx file with everything in it? Yes, you can only submit one file so you will need to merge your essay and the assessment surveys into one file and submit them all together. See details on how to merge documents under Modules/Assessment Information/Assignment 1.

18) Can you look over my assignment before I submit it? For fairness purposes, we do not read individual essays before submission. We remain available however to answer specific questions you may have regarding your essay.

19) I submitted my essay and find the Turnitin similarity score is 76% with 75% of the
similarity coming from the survey result pdf documents in the appendix, does that
matter? As long as the high similarity is not linked to your discussion of assessment and development plan, it is fine. We know that the similarity percentage will be high due to the survey documents that everyone has used and submitted.




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