Part 1
You are required to Evaluate their Environmental Sustainability practices against theory and best practice by:
• Identifying at least 3 course concepts that can be used to evaluate the management of your company’s environmental sustainability practices. Illustrate these course concepts using contemporary examples (these examples can be linked to ANY company – i.e. not just your chosen company) and critically evaluate the chosen course concepts.
• Evaluating the management of your company’s environmental sustainability practices using the course concepts that you have identified.
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 18 companies listed above as the use of any other company will not be marked and a fail will be recorded Part 2
• For the same company used in Part 1, you are required to evaluate how they manage one of the following current business issues covered in the Module:
ü Globalisation
ü Innovation and creativity
ü E-networks or/and Big Data or/and Cyber Security
• You are required to do this by evaluating the management of their business issue practices against theory and best practice by:
a) Identifying at least 3 course concepts that can be used to evaluate the management of your company’s business issue practices. Illustrate these course concepts using contemporary examples (these examples can be linked to ANY company – i.e. not just your chosen company) and critically evaluate the chosen course concepts.
b) Evaluating the management of your company’s business issue practices using the course concepts that you have identified.
• 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 the same company used in Part 1 above and 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
2. Demonstrate ability to critique the social, political, environmental, structural and technological processes and relationship that impact on management
3. 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.
4. Evaluate a range of appropriate responses to issues and dilemmas
5. 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. Notes on Business Report Writing can be found in the Week 2 Assignment Briefing slides.
Two possible report structures are given in the Week 2 Assignment Briefing slides – any of the structures can be used for either of the assignments.
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
The following guide is available under the Assessment folder of Moodle:
1. Assignment Marking Guide
Other Relevant Course Materials are also available on Moodle including lecture slides, assignment workshop slides and tutorial materials.
Finally, please see the Library web pages as this has sections on:
