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The Management of Contemporary Organizations

Management• Rubric• Workplace Skills

Reflection on Instructional Change:

I am trying to use rubrics in my course since rubrics are scoring guides that assess and helps on articulations of important components and expectations for assignments in developing students’ skills. Although rubrics are used for a variety of assignments in my HROB 101 Management of Contemporary Organizations I developed a rubric for the Developing Leadership competencies assignment for the students. With the rubric development it became clearer to the students that leadership competencies capture the main qualities that are required in leadership positions. More importantly, leadership competencies could be applied across industries and job roles so they play a vital role in helping organizations to crystalize strategies in selection, training, and promoting their talented employees.

I decided to do this because Rubrics help the students to better understand expectations and components of the assignments, from their feedback from them helps the students to become more aware of their learning process and progress, and also improves their work through timely and specific feedback which also have helped on student participation in the class discussions.

The ACUE resources were a great source for instructional changes and creative ideas how to develop my instructional capabilities. I also enjoyed the "Observe and Analyze" zoom session with other colleagues which provided ignition for further creativity and feedback on the development of rubrics help also professors in equity for assessing assignments with consistency from one student to another. The rubrics help in short term and long-term grading. The rubrics provide a lot of benefits in reinforcing a sustainable student learning and timely feed-back. I realized that with the development of the rubric, certain components of the assignment became clear and I was more satisfied with the outcome. It also helped with refining the methods I used for teaching by considering the rubric results. teaching methods by evaluating rubric results.

**Evidence of Instructional Change**
ACUE Practice Reflection	Student Discussing the elements of the rubric

**Faculty Bio**
	Laura Riolli is a Professor of Management and Organizations in the College of Business at California State University, Sacramento. Her research focuses on : employee wellbeing specifically the interaction of individual and situational variables and their effects on strengths, resilience and stress in the workplace.

**Program Sponsors**
	This work was supported by: National Science Foundation Hispanic Serving Institution Project STEM Zone DUE 1832335 US Department of Education Hispanic Serving Institution Project Degree with a Purpose P031S210061 US Department of Education Hispanic Serving Institution Project STEM4Equity P031C210012 *Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the US Department of Education.