ASSESSMENT1: Progress Report/ Reflection
DUE: Monday, Week 7 (Midnight, Darwin time – 11.59 pm)
MARKS: 40%
WORD LIMIT: Maximum 3500 words.
FORMAT: Word Document only.
Introduction:
State the internship type (Accounting, Management etc),
Company and your role in one statement.
What you will be presenting in this report.
Background:
Describe the organisation, its core business, location, spread, national or international image etc.
Explain the role of your department or division structure, your supervisor/s, your role, reporting
lines.
o (Hint: Do you know all the staff members in the department and the reporting lines?
(Particularly names, designation and roles?). Try to develop a diagram and describe key
areas (gather information). Make a simple diagram.
What is the organisational culture in your placement organisation and did you pick any evidence
of this? (Examples could include training and development opportunities, reporting hierarchies,
work unit structures, communication mediums, and intercultural issues). How do you think (if)
you fit in?
Work Experience
List the tasks that you are undertaking. What skills have you had from your studies already, and
what are the skills you needed to acquire (and are in the process of doing it?)
o (Hint: refer to your contract, duties listed, and objectives. See if they are matching with
your ongoing work).
What is the training provided in relation to technical/discipline specific skills (formal and
informal). What did you do to improve your capabilities in the skill and knowledge areas
required for this role? Describe at least one activity in which you participated that improved your
skills/knowledge for this role.
How did this placement relate to your university learning (your career path – accounting,
marketing, HR etc) which unit contents did you draw from mostly during this placement? What
facets of this content were important in the work that you performed?
Reflection
(NOTE: Critically reflect on your development as a professional. This need to include technical/discipline
specific skills and personality development.(For this you can use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action,
Result) and applying them to the following: Acquisition, Application, Communication, Team work,
Responsibility, Flexibility, Leadership. For example, you may pick examples of a situation where you
have ‘acquired’ new knowledge, or have been able to ‘apply’ it effectively. You should be able to demonstrate
it using a situation, relating it to the task involved, what action you took and the result or outcome (STAR
method). In doing the above, try to answer the following questions.
1. What did you like the best/least about your placement/organisation? Try to pick up at least one
aspect and describe it (note that this is more about culture, structure, people, administration etc).
2. Were there new experiences and what did you learn from it? Did the experience hone your
specific technical skill and/or made you learn a new skill? Do you feel it helped your professional
development? Which attribute has it helped develop?
3. Did you get any compliments on your work or criticisms and what did they mean to you? How
did you react to this? In hindsight, could you have dealt with these better or differently?
4. Did you face any personal challenges? (for eg. made a mistake, did not have a required skill, had
someone reprimanding you, teamwork). Do you see them forthcoming in future in your career?
And how do you think you will prepare for it?
5. Do you feel that you made a difference to the organisation? What was your contribution to the
workplace in your opinion?
6. What aspects of the placement are you finding the most interesting and most challenging?
7. What are the key highlights of your placement experience? Did it change your career direction?
Progress Report
Introduction
I have been doing my placement at the invoice office of Australia’s one of the largest supermarket chain Woolworths group Ltd. The type of my internship is accounting related as most of the tasks and activities I have been performing is related to company’s day to day general accounting activities.
I have been appointed as a Store Service Assistant at the invoice office of Woolworths casuarina and my role is to assist the Store services compliance officer with her various day to day activities.
The focus of this progress report is to shed light on to the company background, its core business activities, its national and international spread, various departments and department of my internship, reporting supervisor and company hierarchy, organization culture, working environment etc. Moreover, this report is aimed to reflect the applications of the academic knowledge as well the knowledge gained from the internship within 150 hours.
Company Background
Woolworths have first opened their door on Friday 5th of December 1924 and has been delivering its service for 95 years. Mr. Brad Banducci, is the CEO of the company and is responsible for all its strategic, managerial and operational activities. Woolworths Limited also named as “woolies” has got its formal name of Woolworths group limited on 2017.
Woolies mission is to convey the best in accommodation, worth and quality for their clients. they utilize 201,000 colleagues who serve more than 29 million clients over their brands each week. They are a believed colleague to many nearby ranchers and producers.
Woolies vision is to be one of the world’s most mindful retailers which mirrors the energetic promise to doing great business, for their clients, their kin and for the entire world.
Woolworths group limited is Australia’s one of the largest supermarket chain with 981woolworths supermarket and 43 woolworth’s metro convenience stores (Annual report 2019). It specializes in groceries like vegetables, meat, fruit cereals and offer various household appliances, baby products, DVD’s, magazines etc. It’s headquarter is located at Bella vista, NSW Australia and has 1024 stores Australia.
The company operates retail stores under different names in various countries like New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa. It has approximately 205,000 employees with a yearly revenue of $1.7 billion in 2019 financial year (Annual report). Woolworths has other various affiliate brands for instance Big W, BWS, Dan Murphy’s Pty Ltd, Masters Home Improvement Australia Pty Ltd, Cellarmasters Pty Ltd, Caltex Woolworths Pty Ltd, FreshChoice Ltd, SuperValue Ltd, Statewide Independent Wholesalers Limited, Winemarket Pty Ltd, Witchery, Trenery, Mimco, Country Road, Politix etc.
In addition, Woolworth has a wide range product of its own brands which are categorized in six types like Essentials, Woolworths food range, Gold, Macro wholefoods market, Delicious nutritious and the Odd bunch.
All Woolworths Supermarket is divided into nine department such as Customer service, Fresh service, Bakery, Fresh convenience, Fruit and Veg, Non-trade, Grocery and Grocery Nightfill, Online.
Each department has its own concerned area for example Fruit and veg is responsible delivering fresh produce to the customers whereas customer service department ensures that customers have a good checkout experience.
Moreover, woolworths follows a liner hierarchical structure for all its departments. Exhibit 1.1 shows how the store is structured by maintaining upright working environment.
(
Store Manager
)
(
Assistant Store Manager
)
(
Grocery
Nightfill
dept
) (
Bakery dept
) (
Grocery
) (
Non-trade dept
) (
Online dept
) (
Fruit and Veg dept
) (
Fresh Convenience dept.
) (
Fresh Service dept.
) (
Customer Service dept.
)
Exhibit: 1.1 Store Hierarchy
Department of internship
The department in which I am pursuing my internship is the Non-trade department of the store. This department of the store encompasses all the administrative accounting related activities of the store. This department directly reports to the store manager and is responsible for various essential activities which includes cash management, payroll, maintaining employee records, cost forecasting, keeping track of the hours each employee is doing, ensuring the legislations of labor law of the country and so on.
Exhibit 1.2 shows the hierarchy of this department with all the team members and supervisor of the department.
(
Store Manager
)
(
Assistant
Store Manager
)
(
Store Services Compliance officer
)
(
Store Service Assistant
)
The Non-trade department is a small department comparing to other departments of the store. The SSCO is the manager of this department and reports directly to the store manager. At the Casuarina store Quazi Sharmin Laila is SSCO who reports to the store manager Durant Rinaldi. As I have been offered the internship as the Store services assistant my supervisor is Quazi and I report to her. The department has total of four team members who all report to Quazi and she only reports to the store manager.
The non-trade department is concerned with all the managerial administrative and accounting related activities of the store. This department manages all the payroll of all the employees of the store and forecasts wage cost every day.
Department Role
Rostering Employees:
Reconciling Adjustments:
Maintaining Timecard:
Costing:
Sign off Employee timecard:
Armaguard:
Ailes maintenance:
Promotion display:
Cash management:
Maintaining Safe:
Payroll:
Maintaining compliances:
Petty cash:
Communicating Various communications:
Maintaining Office folders:
Reporting discrepancies:
Retrospective payment:
Preparation of wage bundle:
Maintaining Archive:
Other administrative activities:
Progress Report
Introduction
I have been doing my placement at the invoice office of Australia’s one of the largest supermarket chain Woolworths group Ltd. The type of my internship is accounting related as most of the tasks and activities I have been performing is related to company’s day to day general accounting activities.
I have been appointed as a Store Service Assistant at the invoice office of Woolworths casuarina and my role is to assist the Store services compliance officer with her various day to day activities.
The focus of this progress report is to shed light on to the company background, its core business activities, its national and international spread, various departments and department of my internship, reporting supervisor and company hierarchy, organization culture, working environment etc. Moreover, this report is aimed to reflect the applications of the academic knowledge as well the knowledge gained from the internship within 150 hours.
Company Background
Woolworths have first opened their door on Friday 5th of December 1924 and has been delivering its service for 95 years. Mr. Brad Banducci, is the CEO of the company and is responsible for all its strategic, managerial and operational activities. Woolworths Limited also named as “woolies” has got its formal name of Woolworths group limited on 2017.
Woolies mission is to convey the best in accommodation, worth and quality for their clients. they utilize 201,000 colleagues who serve more than 29 million clients over their brands each week. They are a believed colleague to many nearby ranchers and producers.
Woolies vision is to be one of the world’s most mindful retailers which mirrors the energetic promise to doing great business, for their clients, their kin and for the entire world.
Woolworths group limited is Australia’s one of the largest supermarket chain with 981woolworths supermarket and 43 woolworth’s metro convenience stores (Annual report 2019). It specializes in groceries like vegetables, meat, fruit cereals and offer various household appliances, baby products, DVD’s, magazines etc. It’s headquarter is located at Bella vista, NSW Australia and has 1024 stores Australia.
The company operates retail stores under different names in various countries like New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa. It has approximately 205,000 employees with a yearly revenue of $1.7 billion in 2019 financial year (Annual report). Woolworths has other various affiliate brands for instance Big W, BWS, Dan Murphy’s Pty Ltd, Masters Home Improvement Australia Pty Ltd, Cellarmasters Pty Ltd, Caltex Woolworths Pty Ltd, FreshChoice Ltd, SuperValue Ltd, Statewide Independent Wholesalers Limited, Winemarket Pty Ltd, Witchery, Trenery, Mimco, Country Road, Politix etc.
In addition, Woolworth has a wide range product of its own brands which are categorized in six types like Essentials, Woolworths food range, Gold, Macro wholefoods market, Delicious nutritious and the Odd bunch.
All Woolworths Supermarket is divided into nine department such as Customer service, Fresh service, Bakery, Fresh convenience, Fruit and Veg, Non-trade, Grocery and Grocery Nightfill, Online.
Each department has its own concerned area for example Fruit and veg is responsible delivering fresh produce to the customers whereas customer service department ensures that customers have a good checkout experience.
Moreover, woolworths follows a liner hierarchical structure for all its departments. Exhibit 1.1 shows how the store is structured by maintaining upright working environment.
(
Store Manager
)
(
Assistant Store Manager
)
(
Grocery
Nightfill
dept
) (
Bakery dept
) (
Grocery
) (
Non-trade dept
) (
Online dept
) (
Fruit and Veg dept
) (
Fresh Convenience dept.
) (
Fresh Service dept.
) (
Customer Service dept.
)
Exhibit: 1.1 Store Hierarchy
Department of internship
The department in which I am pursuing my internship is the Non-trade department of the store. This department of the store encompasses all the administrative accounting related activities of the store. This department directly reports to the store manager and is responsible for various essential activities which includes cash management, payroll, maintaining employee records, cost forecasting, keeping track of the hours each employee is doing, ensuring the legislations of labor law of the country and so on.
Exhibit 1.2 shows the hierarchy of this department with all the team members and supervisor of the department.
(
Store Manager
)
(
Assistant
Store Manager
)
(
Store Services Compliance officer
)
(
Store Service Assistant
)
The Non-trade department is a small department comparing to other departments of the store. The SSCO is the manager of this department and reports directly to the store manager. At the Casuarina store Quazi Sharmin Laila is SSCO who reports to the store manager Durant Rinaldi. As I have been offered the internship as the Store services assistant my supervisor is Quazi and I report to her. The department has total of four team members who all report to Quazi and she only reports to the store manager.
The non-trade department is concerned with all the managerial administrative and accounting related activities of the store. This department manages all the payroll of all the employees of the store and forecasts wage cost every day.
Department Role
Rostering Employees:
Reconciling Adjustments:
Maintaining Timecard:
Costing:
Sign off Employee timecard:
Armaguard:
Ailes maintenance:
Promotion display:
Cash management:
Maintaining Safe:
Payroll:
Maintaining compliances:
Petty cash:
Communicating Various communications:
Maintaining Office folders:
Reporting discrepancies:
Retrospective payment:
Preparation of wage bundle:
Maintaining Archive:
Other administrative activities:
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