HOTO6005 Leadership & Professional Development in Tourism & Hospitality Coursework 2 Brief 2026 | Oxford

HOTO6005 Coursework Brief 2: CW#2 Group Leadership & Mentoring Poster

Summary information

Assessment instructions

To demonstrate that the module learning outcomes detailed above have been achieved, you are required to prepare and submit the following.

• Working effectively as a small group to research and critically evaluate a specific and contemporary leadership challenge, issue or opportunity facing IHTI leadership teams (changes each year by seminar set and group). 
• You should take account of the combined perspectives of each of your Bacchus Mentor.
• You are required to communicate concisely and critically through words, pictures, tables and figures to summarise and depict your analysis, evaluation, findings, and conclusions (with any appropriate recommendations)
• Produce a one-page, A1-size poster as a group.
• Your poster must include a wide range of academic and other sources (using Harvard citations).
• A full (Brookes’) Harvard Reference List is required as a separate document, that will be submitted for the assessors to consult. 

Assessment criteria

To mark your assessment your tutors will use the following assessment criteria,

Oxford Brookes ‘Group work Guidance

Please find the Oxford Brookes Business School guidance on group work, here. 

1.The Center for Academic Development has also provided guidance and resources to assist students in their group work, see here.
2.CW#2 is designed and validated for all the students to partake in formal work groups, and to produce a poster. The group poster aims to demonstrate your collective ability to plan and execute a sustained independent research study focused on an in-depth evaluation of a leadership challenge, issue or opportunity facing hospitality and/or tourism. Specifically, Learning Outcome #7 highlights that group work intends to enable: Demonstrate the ability to work productively in formal work groups. Group work aims to enable a collective co-created and a really interesting piece of work that could be of value to external bodies, including your mentors. 
3.The intention is that all groups should work effectively, and ideally as final year students, any issues should be managed within your group. However, it is clear that some issues might occur in such preliminary elements as: the debate preparation, debate attendance, or, lack of, or varying levels of, contribution to the final poster. To address the above issues the following Group Work Policy can be applied to CW#2, and was approved by UG Hospitality and Tourism Programme Leader, and Associate Dean Student Engagement.
4.If any group cannot resolve any issues or dysfunctional group dynamics, this should be raised with the Module Leader.

❖Peer Assessment by Contribution

This means you (as a Group) have the opportunity to influence the final grade received for CW#2.  You have 10 percentage points to play with to reflect the additional contribution or lower levels of contribution. As a Group, you will need to agree with the Peer Marking recommendations, and the recommendations must be 'neutral' - see below example. As a Group, if you choose to keep everyone to receive the same assessment mark, please just notify the Module Leader of that. Please read on for further information.

❖Peer Assessment Rules 

Peer marking will be used by your group to assess individual contribution. Through Peer Marking you have the opportunity to influence the assignment mark of individuals who you believe to have contributed significantly more than or significantly less than the rest of the group. The Group's mark may be increased by up to 10 marks or decreased by up to 10 marks, but the increase/decrease across the group total must equal zero, i.e. if one person’s mark is increased by 10 one or more of the other members of the team must lose marks to the equivalent sum. The total impact must therefore be neutral. The assessed grade will be jointly assessed by your Module's teaching team (Module Leader plus internal moderator), and thereafter adjusted through any submitted adjustments.

❖Peer Assessment Worked Example

An example: The Group has 10 marks to use. The Group (Tash, Jen, Ash and Mo) meet and decide that as Jen did not attend the team working sessions regularly and consistently failed to produce the work promised on time that she would lose 8 marks. They did not want to use the full 10 marks. The team also agreed that as Ash showed extreme commitment to the task and helped solve a number of problems, he should get 6 of those marks and Tash and Mo get one each. As follows:

Therefore, if tutors assessed the submission as 57, the final adjusted results would be entered as such:

❖Peer Assessment Final Moderation

In line with the University Regulations all peer marks will be moderated by the Module's teaching team (Module Leader plus internal moderator).  Based on their observations/knowledge of each group and how they have worked together, Module's teaching team may amend your group’s final distribution of marks based on attendance and participation in group planning sessions, contribution to the final poster, individual performances during the in-class group tasks e.g. a student missing the day of the debate, and not contributing to the debate preparation.

Presenting coursework for assessment: Coursework #2 – Group Poster: 

Your assignment when submitted should not include your name – we use a system of anonymous marking to reduce the risk of any unconscious bias. For some authentic assessments, there may be an exception to this, so please confirm with your Module Leader.

The authentic and essential requirements for this piece of assessed work are listed below. These requirements form part of your professional and skills development to produce high quality and professional-looking documents, as required in business.

• One single A1 poster for the whole group, suitable for electronic submission.
• Separate and detailed poster instructions will be made available via Moodle.
• Uploaded electronically and also available for print to display (if/where appropriate)
• The Group Poster should be written in third person, using critical academic writing.
• The poster should contain the Set number and Group Identifier, plus the individual student ID numbers of the group participants. It should not contain your name(s)

Assignment length / equivalent

Whilst we acknowledge that learners will prepare and produce assessments in different ways and at different paces, an indication as to how much time it will take you to prepare, produce, edit and submit this assessment is detailed below. Words/pages that exceed the maximum allowed (see table below) will not be marked. If in doubt, you should discuss this with the Module Leader before submission.

Artificial Intelligence and its use in this assessment

All students should complete the ‘Use of Artificial Intelligence’ course available on Moodle. After taking it, please upload your Certificate of Completion to the submission link Hosting Core Module HOTO6005: https://moodle.brookes.ac.uk/mod/assign/view.php?id=2933473
This link will take you to further guidance on the use of AI tools at Brookes. This link will take you to the Moodle course Use of Artificial Intelligence.

For this assessment specifically, the extent you can use AI tools is detailed below,

• If you use any AI tools for this assessment, you need to state your use in the declaration form when you submit your work.
• In this assignment, you can use AI tools as follows: for initial planning and brainstorming ideas, to find references (in accordance with the Brookes Library guide to using AI tools for research) and for final proofreading to check grammar before submission. You MUST state your use in the declaration form when you submit your work.

Use of Turnitin

The new Turnitin policy effective from September 2022 can be found via this link. You are expected to be familiar with it. It is important to know that the reference list and quotations are included in the overall similarity report, and that these matches are expected and not problematic.
For more information on how to interpret your similarity index report, please refer to this link.

Submission instructions

Assignment(s) on this module will be submitted through Moodle, using the Turnitin tool. You can find these in the following Moodle section: Assessment Information & Submission Boxes

There will be three different and distinct submission dropboxes for each assessment:

1.    Draft drop box - for student use only, to check your Turnitin SI% Report (see here)
There is a module draft submission box for each assessment (see #1 above) and this will not be viewed by the module leader, and any work submitted will not be assessed. You should upload a draft version of your assessment to produce a personal Similarity Index % (SI%) report. This should be done well in advance of the submission deadline. These submissions are not returned to the Turnitin repository, i.e. are not stored and therefore should not cause a future match.
2.    Final submission drop box - for most submissions due on the (stated) submission deadline
Each coursework also has a separate ‘final’ submission dropbox (see #2 above), for the original deadline, as stated. 
For all submissions, please take note:

• It is your responsibility to upload your final submission to the correct drop box
• Only upload your document to the allocated Module dropbox; never another Turnitin access or drop box - this will likely create a match and will be referred for academic integrity investigation.
• Any late submissions (without approved extenuating circumstances) will not be assessed and will receive zero grade
• Please follow this naming convention for your final submission file(s) when you upload to Turnitin: <SeminarSet# Group#>_CW#2_POSTER_HOTO6005

How your work will be marked

Once the submission date has passed your module tutors will begin to mark your work. There are a number of phases to this which ensure fairness is maintained across the whole team including a pre-marking calibration meeting, marking and post-marking internal moderation of grades.  Following internal moderation, a sample of work is reviewed by the External Examiner for the programme to ensure that the standards applied are comparable to those at other institutions. To read how your work is moderated please go to your programme handbook for details.

Feedback

Feedback on your work will be provided in a range of ways at various times throughout this module, and different feedback will serve slightly different purposes. Feedback is designed to support your learning and help you to improve subsequent work, so you need to engage and get the most out of the feedback provided. 
Please note that feedback is provided throughout the module not just on formally assessed tasks. It will be provided on your work and contribution in class, on the formal assessment tasks and, in some circumstances, during student office hours. 

If you would like further information about feedback, or how to use it, please talk to your academic tutor on this module or your Academic Adviser or Programme Lead.

• Feedback on student learning will be provided in class on a regular basis, through discussion and interactive learning activities. Feedback is designed to support student learning and help students improve subsequent work (this is called ‘formative feedback’). Regular attendance at all taught sessions will ensure that students maximise feedback opportunities.
• Valuable feedback opportunities are also offered via interactions with the two mentoring programmes. Specifically, students are expected to ask for feedback from industry mentors and first year student mentees and this will require students to actively engage with and manage mentoring relationships.
• This module provides an opportunity for tutorial prior to the submission of each assignment so that students can discuss their approach to the assignments and receive verbal feedback from a tutor on this. Students can also seek one-on-one advice through tutor office hours.
• Written feedback is given on each assignment, and in addition, performance on the first assignment is discussed in class.
• Active participation in debates enables both peer and tutor-led feedback of their critical analysis of a contemporary leadership subject.

In the case of mid-semester assessments, provisional marks will normally be released 15 calendar days after the date of the submission and on the assumption that all students will have submitted by this date.  For end of semester assessments, marks will normally be released after the exam board at the start of the following semester. Please note that all marks are provisional until they are ratified by an Examination Committee.

Assessment criteria rubric assessment 2: Group Poster CW#2