MGMT1011 Organisational Behaviour
Task overview:
Organisations attempt to address gender equality in the workplace by offering family-friendly benefits such as parental leave. However,many mothers and fathers are still reluctant to take long parental leave due to potential bias and discrimination from their co-workersand supervisors at work. In this assignment, you are required to apply relevant OB theories/frameworks/perspectives to address thefollowing questions:
1.
Using stereotyping perspectives in Block 2a topic, discuss the potential stereotyping problems from their colleagues or supervisorswhen mothers/fathers takes a long parental leave;
2. When a mother/father experiences prejudice or discrimination for taking a long parental leave (e.g., not being promoted or not givencareer opportunities), how does this perception of inequity impact their motivation and also their actions in reducing this inequity tension?Discuss these issues from motivation perspectives (see Block 3a topic).
Additional requirements:
Please read carefully the marking rubric provided at the bottom of this page. For further information on essay writing, please consult
Study's page on essay writing
: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/mod/book/view.php?id=5573107
Subheadings should identify each of the two sections. You only need to address the two questions identified above, i.e., you do notneed to write an introduction or conclusion.
The response length should be 1500 words (excluding the reference list and up to 750 words per question).
Students must strictlyadhere to the word limit (750 words per question) set for each question
. Mark will only read up to the word limit for each questionand mark accordingly. Your submitted document MUST be in a Word format or PDF format - we will not mark any papers in any otherformats.
You are required to reference (i.e. use and cite within their document) at least
six (6) peer-reviewed journals
. You must distinguishclearly between your own words/analysis and those of your sources. Failure to provide appropriate citations is plagiarism. Your list ofreferences should
only
include material cited in the assignment. The reference list will not count towards your final word count. Thereference style adopted for this unit is APA 7th edition (further information at https://libguides.mq.edu.au/referencing/APA7thEdition).
Your essay must use double spacing, and a 2.5cm margin at the top and bottom of the page, and on the right-hand and left-hand sides.You should use Arial, 12-point font for the text