Assessment weighted at 100% assessing all module learning outcomes (Task1 – 30% & Task2 – 70%).
Activity:
Prepare a management report of 3,500 to 4,000 words* on an organization** within one of the
followingindustry/sectors***:
1. Agriculture, forestry and fishing (Section A)
2. Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding (Section K, Division 65)
Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security
3. Human health and social work activities (Section Q)
4. Arts, entertainment and recreation (Section R, Divisions 90, 91 & 92)
Creative, arts and entertainment activities
Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities
Gambling and betting activities
[An organization profile must be included in your submission as “Appendix1”.]
This report should assess the impact of external business environmental factors on the organization
and evaluate the organization’s position and responses. In the case of a large organization it is
permissible to confine your report to part of the organization. An organization’s activities may range
beyond the designated industrial sector in which case the focus of your report must be on the
organization’s activities within the designatedsector.
* You are advised to write between 3.500 and 4,000 words and the word limit is 4,000 words. This
word limit does not include the title page, the executive summary, the contents page, the
organization profile, tables, diagrams, appendices or references. You must include an accurate a
word count on your title page.
(See the following link https://docushare.sunderland.ac.uk/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-8851/AQHF14%20Policy%20on%20penalties%20for%20exceeding%20the%20prescribed%20limit%20for%20an%20assignment.pdf
for guidance)
** If you wish to select a firm from outside the identified industries/ sectors, you are required to
seek approval from your module tutor (your lecturer). A note from your lecturer confirming her/ his
approvalshould be uploaded to JIRA. This is your (student)responsibility.
*** According to the “International Standard Industrial Classification of All EconomicActivities”
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/publication/seriesm/seriesm_4rev4e.pdf
Task 1 (30%weighting)
Give a brief overview of the primary external influences to which the organization is subject and
briefly explain the particular importance of each to theorganization.
This first task should contribute no more than one third of your overallreport.
Task 2 (70%weighting)
Choose one of the following themes:
1. Ethics and Corporate SocialResponsibility
2. Regional geopolitics
3. Climate change
4. Changing demography
5. Migration
In relation to your chosen theme:
i. analyse its relevance to your chosen organization and how it influences policies and
decision-making within your chosen organization orindustry-sector.
ii. critically evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’sresponse.
iii. (if possible and appropriate) demonstrate some areas for improvement in the response of
the organization. If you consider it not possible and appropriate to suggest areas for
improvement, justify yourposition.
Guidance notes:
Whatever organization you choose and whichever theme you chose, you must clearly demonstrate
knowledge and understanding from research and reading wider than that contained in the module
pack and core textbook. This is a REPORT and so must be presented in business report format and
style. You must also structure your report to cover the tasks including points 2.i to 2.iii above. This is
an academic piece of work therefore you are expected to link theory and practice. You should take
care to ensure that the work you submit has a high standard of presentation. This is an individual
assignment. You must acknowledge your sources of information and evidence using the Harvard
referencing system. All assignments are subject to the University’s regulations on collusion and
plagiarism and must be submitted in electronic form for checking on SunSpace for Turnitin and the
Turnitin report must be submitted to JIRA along with yourassignment.
Summary AssessmentCriteria
1. Relevance: Directly relevant to the requirements of the assessment.(10%)
2. Knowledge: A substantial knowledge of relevant material, showing a clear grasp of themes,
questions and issues therein.(20%)
3. Analysis: Good analysis, clear and orderly(20%)
4. Argument and structure: Coherent and logically structured, using an appropriate mode of
argument and/or theoretical model(s).(20%)
5. Critical evaluation: Contains distinctive or independent thinking; may formulate an
independent position in relation to theory and/or practice.(10%)
6. Presentation: Well written, with standard spelling and grammar, in a readable style with an
acceptable format. (10%)
7. Reference to literature: Critical appraisal of up-to-date and/or appropriate literature.
Recognition of different perspectives. Good use of a range of sources.
(10%)
(See marking scheme below for more detailedguidance)
