Question Description
Time for requesting changes : Standard 7 days
Paper instructions : NOTE: The guidance offered below is linked to the five generic assessment criteria overleaf.
1. Engagement with Literature Skills
Your work must be informed and supported by scholarly material that is relevant to and focused on the task(s)
set; you should make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources, as appropriate (for example, refereed
research articles and/or original materials appropriate to the discipline). You should provide evidence that
you have accessed a wide range of sources, which may be academic, governmental and industrial; these
sources may include academic journal articles, textbooks, current news articles, organisational documents,
and websites. You should consider the credibility of your sources; academic journals are normally highly
credible sources while websites require careful consideration/selection and should be used sparingly. Any
sources you use should be current and up-to-date, mostly published within the last five years or so, though
seminal/important works in the field may be older. You must provide evidence of your research/own reading
throughout your work, using correctly a suitable referencing system, including in-text citations in the main
body of your work and a reference list at the end of your work.
Guidance specific to this assessment: The goal here is to engage with credible and relevant literature.
You should be able to demonstrate a wide level of reading from sources such as textbooks, academic journals
and academic-based websites.
2. Knowledge and Understanding Skills
At level 7, you should be able to demonstrate a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical
awareness of current problems and/or new insights, much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of your
academic discipline, field of study or area of professional practice, with a comprehensive understanding of
techniques applicable to your own research or advanced scholarship. Your work must demonstrate your
growing mastery of these concepts, principles, current challenges, innovation and insights associated with
the subject area. Knowledge relates to the facts, information and skills you have acquired through your
learning. You demonstrate your understanding by interpreting the meaning of the facts and information
(knowledge). This means that you need to select and include in your work the contemporary concepts,
techniques, models, theories, etc. appropriate to the task(s) set. You should be able to explain the theories,
concepts, etc. meaningfully to show your understanding. Your mark/grade will also depend upon the extent
to which you demonstrate your knowledge and understanding; ideally each should be complete and detailed,
with comprehensive coverage.
Guidance specific to this assessment: You should demonstrate a systematic understanding of key
strategic management concepts and principles, and how these may be applied to your chosen organisation.
3. Cognitive and Intellectual Skills
You should be able to: evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship in the discipline;
evaluate methodologies and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, to propose new hypotheses;
deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively to make sound judgements in the absence of
complete data. Your work must contain evidence of logical, analytical thinking, evaluation and synthesis. For
example, to examine and break information down into parts, make inferences, compile, compare and contrast
information. This means not just describing what! But also justifying: Why? How? When? Who? Where? At
what cost? At all times, you must provide justification for your arguments and judgements. Evidence that
you have reflected upon the ideas of experts within the subject area is crucial to you providing a reasoned
and informed debate within your work. Your choice of methodologies to gather data and information must
be rigorously defended. Furthermore, you should provide evidence that you are able to make sound
judgements and convincing arguments using data and concepts. Sound, valid, persuasive conclusions are
necessary and must be derived from the content of your work. Where relevant, alternative solutions and
recommendations may be proposed.
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Guidance specific to this assessment: Here your aim is to pause and reflect on the key issues raised by
your strategic analysis. We do not simply describe. Rather, we dig in and explore current research and
scholarship in the sector-specific context of our organisation.
4. Practical Skills
At level 7, you should be able to demonstrate originality in the application of knowledge, together with a
practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and
interpret knowledge in the discipline. This includes acting autonomously in planning and implementing tasks
at a professional or equivalent level, originality in tackling and solving problems, and decision-making in
complex and unpredictable contexts or situations.
You should be able to demonstrate mastery of the leading edge subject-related concepts and ideas as they
relate to real world situations and/or particular contexts. How do they work in practice? You will deploy
models, methods, techniques, and/or theories, in those contexts or circumstances, to assess current
situations, perhaps to formulate plans or plausible, justifiable recommendations to solve problems, or to
propose new models, or to create artefacts, which may be innovative and creative, thereby demonstrating
your understanding of how the boundaries of knowledge are advanced through research and/or application.
This is likely to involve, for instance, the use of real world artefacts, examples and cases, the application of
a model within an organisation and/or benchmarking one theory or organisation against others.
Guidance specific to this assessment: At such a challenging period in history the imaginative and
innovative exploration of practical solutions is a boost to any organisation. What does best practice look like
for your organisation? Who are the cutting-edge thinkers and how can we learn their lessons?
5. Transferable Skills for Life and Professional Practice
Your work must provide evidence of the qualities and transferable skills necessary for postgraduate-level
employment in circumstances requiring sound judgement, personal responsibility and initiative in complex
and unpredictable professional environments. This includes demonstrating: the independent learning ability
for continuing professional development to advance existing skills and acquire new competences of a
professional nature that will enable you to assume significant responsibility within organisations; that you can
initiate and complete tasks, projects and procedures, whether individually and/or collaboratively, to a
professional level; that you can use appropriate media to effectively communicate information, arguments
and analysis in a variety of forms for a variety of audiences; fluency of expression; clarity and effectiveness
in presentation and organisation. Work should be coherent and well-structured in presentation and
organisation.
Guidance specific to this assessment: Your final report must be accurate, exceptionally coherent, very
fluent and presented well. It should be written in a formal style in the third person using Times New Roman
or Arial font 12 with at least 2.5 cm space at each edge, double spaced and page numbers entered. The
report should be in business format, with a clear title page with course and name or ID number, a contents
page, executive summary, introduction, main findings, conclusions, recommendations, references and if
appropriate, appendices.
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Additional Generic Guidelines for Completion of the Assignment
exceeding the word limit and your tutor might stop reading/grading beyond this limit.
(minimum of 50 references).
accurately reference using the Harvard Referencing System both in the main body as well
as full details of all references used provided in the reference list. Guidance with regard to
this system is also available in the Student Toolkit on Canvas. You should note that
quotations count against the word limit for MBA and that you are required to use quotation
marks when quoting directly, so that when your script is being assessed by the plagiarism
software, Urkund, it is clear you have acknowledged that the text is a quotation.
However, permission would be required if you intend to quote it elsewhere, e.g. outside the
MBA website, in your blog or in any external source e.g. a report or journal paper. In such
cases you would seek permission or quote it anonymously and would omit any text that
might identify the poster such as name, employer name or other obvious identifiers. It is
perhaps more appropriate that you maintain the confidentiality of any contributions that
others make in your MBA ‘learning environment’ so that you can openly benefit from each
other’s insight.
with 1.5 or 2.0 line spacing.
submission. Also ensure that the module code is included in either the header or footer of
work submitted and that the document is saved in Word.
professionally presented with no spelling or careless grammatical errors.
day of submission. Your tutor will collect your assignment from this system. Once graded
and feedback comments written, your marked assignment will be available for your review
on Canvas
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