HOLMES INSTITUTE
FACULTY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
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Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
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Trimester
| T2 2019
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Unit Code
| HI6005
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Unit Title
| Management and Organisations in a Global Environment
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Assessment Type
| Group Assignment and presentation
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Assessment Title
| Research paper and presentation
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Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping)
| Students are required to research a topic from a list of topics provided based on topics discussed in lectures.
Topics include:
- Organisational culture and management
- Organisational structures and design
- Decision making
- Groups and teams
- Communication
- Managing Conflict and Negotiating
- Leadership in Organizations
- Power, Influence, and Politics
- Motivating Behavior
- Individual Characteristics
The research provided will provide more in-depth evidence of individual research on the topic, not only material which is provided within the lecture content.
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Weight
| 30 % of the total assessments
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Total Marks
| 20 marks – research paper and 10 marks for presentation
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Word limit
| Not more than 3,000 words
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Due Date
| Friday Week 10 – 5pm
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Submission Guidelines
| - All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page.
- The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page numbers.
- Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style.
Note: an in-class presentation will be required. Please ensure you check with your lecturer when your presentation will be held.
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HI6005 Manage Organisations in a Global Environment – Research Paper and Presentation
Purpose:
Assignment 1 Specifications
This assignment aims at ensuring that students have familiarised themselves with a general framework of at least one management related topic. Students will be required to apply relevant theoretical concepts with the use of practical examples in most cases in a written research paper and discuss their topic via a live presentation.
Details:
Topics and presentation schedule:
Organise yourselves into groups of not more than 4 students and not less than 3 students.
Please choose from one of the following topics from the list (see below).
Topics will be allocated on a ‘first come- first served basis’ and will be reserved by your lecturer in writing via email.
Please ensure that you include a list of all of the group members in the email. In the event of too many students choosing the same topic, preference will be given to those students who have secured the topic first and subsequent groups will be required to choose another topic.
Research on the broad topic is a group activity and each student must contribute to that work. Each student in the group will then research, in depth an individual component drawn from the broad research topic.
- Written report – worth 20% of your final grade and must be submitted Week 10 at 5pm. The written report should begin with the broad research topic which is then followed by each individual component identified by the individual student who prepared it.
Your report is to be written as a business report. It must include;- Executive summary
- Table of contents
- Section headings
- Paragraphing
- Page numbers
- Reference list at the end of the report
- Presentation – worth 10% of your final grade and will be presented at a date chosen by the lecturer commencing week 5.
These presentations must be organised as a business presentation. Use of visual aids is encouraged.
Strict adherence to the 10 minute limit is expected. You should allocate your time to allow for a very short introduction on the broad topic followed by a few minutes allocated to each student to present their individual component
HI6005 Management and Organisations in a Global Environment – Research Paper and Presentation
Discuss Performance Management in the context of the identifying the relevant School of Management Theory. Identify positives and negatives in the approaches to performance management.
Individual Components
1. MBO, Review and Agree, 360-degree Feedback
2. Compare and contrast strengths and weaknesses of cohesive versus non-cohesive teams and the application to High Performance Organisations
3. Performance Management from a Control Theory Perspective
4. The Balanced Scorecard Approach
