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Current Issues in Management: Coursework

Coursework Instructions:

Individual Assessment Specification

 

Assessment Title

Individual Coursework Report

Module Title

Current Issues in Management

Module Code

STO306

Number of Credits

20

Assessment Weighting (%)

100%

Issue Date

w/c 2nd February 2021

Submission Deadline

Part 1: 12:00 noon, Thursday 25th March 2021

Part 2: 12:00 noon, Thursday 20th May 2021

Procedure for/where to submit work (including file name format for TurnItIn where applicable)
  • A Moodle submission link will be provided for the submission of the assignment.
    • Please ensure that your work is uploaded at least 2 hours before the deadlines to avoid any problems linked to slow uploads etc.
    • Please ensure that you receive a digital receipt that your file has successfully uploaded.
    • Please submit one file only – i.e. don’t have the main body of the report as one file and the summary as another file etc. Combine everything into one file.
    • Anonymous marking is being done so please do not include your name on the file 

  

 

Expected Feedback Return Date

29th April 2021 for Part 1.

17th June 2021 for Part 2

 

 

 

Description of

Assessment Task

Part 1

You are required to select ONE of the organisations listed above and:

Critically evaluate their Sustainability practices against theory and best practice by:

Researching the company using secondary sources to make justified conclusions and recommendations based on the issues evaluated. 

The report should be approximately 2,000 words in length and must involve a review of academic theory on the issues covered.

Please note that you must use one of the companies listed above as the use of any other company will not be marked and a fail will be recorded

 

Part 2

ü  Globalisation

ü  Innovation and creativity

ü  E-networks or/and Big Data or/and Cyber Security

 

  • You are required to do this by critically evaluating the management of their business issue practices against theory and best practice.
    • You are to research the company using secondary sources and to make justified conclusions and recommendations based on the issues evaluated. 
    • The report should be approximately 2,000 words in length and must involve a review of academic theory on the issues covered

Please note that you must use one of the companies listed above as the use of any other company will not be marked and a fail will be recorded

 

 

Module Learning Outcomes assessed:

 Assessed Learning Outcomes

How Achieved by the Assessment
  1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the full scope, complexity and responsibility of the management role

You are asked to evaluate a company's practices and how it is affected by current issue/s studied in the Module
  1. Demonstrate ability to critique the social, political, environmental, structural and technological processes and relationship that impact on management
  2. Demonstrate exploration of the range of individual, organisational and societal responses
 

You are asked to make justified conclusions and recommendations based on the issues evaluated. 
  1. Evaluate a range of appropriate responses to issues and dilemmas
  2. Demonstrate intellectual skills through engagement with literature and multi-media information sources
 

You are asked to research the company using secondary sources of information

 

Presentation Format

The report must be done in Business Report Format, and be Word processed in Arial 12 pt font. This should be a Word document rather than a PDF..

Word Limit

Each part: 2000 words. Please note that: The Cover Page, Contents Page, Diagrams, Executive Summary, Reference List and any Appendices are all NOT included in the word count. However, tables are included in the word count.

Resources/ Support Available

Relevant Course Materials are available on the DLE (Moodle) including lecture slides and tutorial materials.

 

Also, see the Library web pages as this has sections on:

 

 

 

Assessment CRITERIA: Part 1 

MARK 

1) Sustainability Theoretical Review

  • Sustainability course concepts that can be used to evaluate the organisational sustainability practices
  • Contemporary examples provided to illustrate points
  • Degree of critical evaluation, supported by appropriate sources

40%

2) Evaluation of organisation’s Sustainability practices

  • Consideration of the strategic relevance of sustainability to the organisation and potential impact on the organisation.
  • Audit and critical evaluation of current practices using course concepts identified in the theoretical review
  • Identification of potential practices linked to theory review

40%

3) Conclusions/Recommendations

Justified conclusions  with respect to:

  • The strategic relevance of sustainability to the organisation
  • The organisation’s sustainability practices.

 

Well thought through recommendations with respect to the organisation’s sustainability practices

10%

 

4) Business Report Format + Presentation

 

Report Format

Executive summary

Does this cover:

  • What are the purpose/objectives of the report?
  • How well were the objectives achieved?
  • What conclusions did you draw

 

Introduction

Does this cover:

  • What are the purpose/objectives of the report? Why are these important? (i.e. why should the reader bother to read the report?)
  • Scope of report (what the report will cover)
  • Methodology used to get information
  • Some Background on the company and the issues

 

Presentation

  • Well expressed + grammar/spelling
  • Well presented. Good “Readability (e.g. use of headings and diagrams or tables)
  • Referencing done within the report and supported by reference list at the end
  • Within word limit +/- 10%

 

10%

 

 

 

 

 

Assessment CRITERIA: Part 2 

MARK

1) Business Issue Theoretical Review

  • Course concepts that can be used to evaluate the organisation’s business issue practices
  • Contemporary examples provided to illustrate points
  • Degree of critical evaluation

40%

2) Evaluation of organisation’s Business Issue practices

  • Consideration of the strategic relevance of the business issue to the organisation and potential impact on the organisation’s brand and competitive situation.
  • Audit and critical evaluation of current practices using course concepts identified in the theoretical review
  • Identification of potential practices linked to theory review

40%

3) Conclusions/Recommendations

Justified conclusions  with respect to:

o    The strategic relevance of the business issue to the organisation

o    The management of the organisation’s business issue practices.

 

Well thought through recommendations with respect to the organisation’s Business Issue practices

10%

 

4) Business Report Format

 

Executive summary

Does this cover:

  • What are the purpose/objectives of the report?
  • How well were the objectives achieved?
  • What conclusions did you draw wrt. the objectives of the assignment?

 

Introduction

Does this cover:

  • What are the purpose/objectives of the report? Why are these important? (i.e. why should the reader bother to read the report?)
  • Scope of report (what the report will cover)
  • Methodology used to get information
  • Some Background on the company and the issues

 

Other Business Report Formatting

  • Written in 3rd person and no slang?

 

5%

5) Report Presentation

  • Well expressed + grammar/spelling
  • Well presented. Good “Readability (e.g. use of headings and diagrams or tables)
  • Referencing done within the report and supported by reference list at the end
  • Within word limit +/- 10%

 

5%

 

 

Coursework Sample Content Preview:

Current Issues in Management
Student’s Name
Course
Professor’s Name
Institution
Location of Institution
Date
Current Issues in Management
Globalization ranks among the most disruptive forces in contemporary society. The course on globalization dates back to the Great Depression of the mid-30s as people and nations sought to recover from the massive economic crisis (Peicuti, 2014). This phenomenon has gone to become an influential metric in modern economics and supply chain systems. The modern degree of globalization shows an exponential increase in the flow of people, commodities (goods and services), capital, cultural values, ideas, and information (Awdel and Saadi, 2020). Today, globalization is a major attribute of the global economy, which explains why many firms are keen on integrating the ensuing dynamics from globalization.
Firms and their management are compelled to undertake related steps to guarantee their survival in a ruthless marketplace. Global managers are faced with major predicaments that arise with a competitive, global landscape leading to their strategic mantra that the world is flat (Friedman, 2007). Friedman highlights that the changes thereof have compelled global managers to be and remain more competitive. Nonetheless, the knack to retain a certain degree of flexibility in decision-making has been relatively maintained. Global managers at times appear to lack the quality needed in global-related decisions. To this end, the report will use Halma Corporation of how globalization has influenced a company's managerial aspect relative to environmental flatteners such as open sourcing, intra-organizational flatteners, and inter-organizational flatteners.
The need to develop a global decision-making model has become one of the most prominent needs among many multinationals, given the degree and frequency of changes happening daily. Such a model would enable them to be proactive to the changing needs instead of reactive. The global manager has major responsibilities, which consider various things to be managed, including the individual, group, environment, and task. The reference theory highlights the global manager as a major character because they possess the risk/return ratio of their decisions from a global context (Fiegenbaum et al., 1996). Developmentally, the organization is aware of the challenge in determining the global skills for managers. Thus, they have tasked their human resource departments in evaluating, developing, and testing new ways of learning how to effective in a global context. Human resource management has realized the importance of creating a new crop of global leaders (of different cadre) by integrating training programs whereby they get acquainted with the predominant nuisances of cultural novelty. Thus, they have enhanced capabilities to handle the ever-changing overseas markets. In this regard, the global managers' decision-making skills are assessed to make them more proficient. A substantive model of this type is highly likely to bring a much more efficient global manager. However, it is essential to articulate the implementation of such a model in a modern environment.
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