MSc in Management Contemporary (Responsible) Issues in Management

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Assessment

  1. Your assignment must be no longer than 3000 words excluding reference list and appendices
  2. Appendices are only to include supplementary material. Any information/ diagram vital to your answer must appear in the main body of your assignment
  3. You must include a word count on the coversheet of your assignment
  4. Please use Arial or Times New Roman font in 12 point and double spacing of lines
  5. You must critically draw upon relevant academic theory and research covered in the module and identified through your independent research and reading
  6. Your assignment is to be fully and consistently referenced. Note that your essay will be submitted to ‘turnitin’ (i.e. anti-plagiarism software)

Assignment Brief
 
For this assignment, you are asked to critically analyse how ONE specific company is addressing TWO of the contemporary issues facing organisations.
 
This assignment requires that you undertake independent research to examine:
 

  1. How do your TWO selected issues affect your selected company?
  2. How is your selected company responding to your selected two issues?
  3. How are commentators (media and other stakeholders) interpreting and evaluating your selected company’s response?
  4. What recommendations would you make to the company in how they should respond to the two issues in the future?

To complete this assignment, you will need to critically reflect, in light of your wider reading of academic literatures concerned with the issues you focus on, on the opportunities and challenges for your selected company, and what the firm might do differently or more effectively deal with them going forward.
 
Assignment Instructions
Step 1: Select ONE company from the list below or any you are familiar with
 

1. 3M 6. HSBC 11. Novartis 16. Sony
2. Amazon 7. Intel 12. Siemens 17. Unilever
3. Apple 8. McDonalds 13. PepsiCo 18. Vodafone
4. Disney 9. Microsoft 14. Primark 19. Volkswagen
5. Google 10. Nestlé 15. Samsung 20. Walmart

 
Step 2: Select TWO issue areas. Following is a list for example. This is not an exhaustive list. You are free to explore sub-issues related in this the list:
 

  1. Management issues, trends and practices in 21st century
  2. Corporate Political Activities, Non-market Strategies in Challenging Institutional Environments
  3. Gender and Sustainability; Gender & Executive Pay in Organisations
  4. Sustainable Global Supply Chains
  5. Precarity in the Workplace
  6. Family Businesses – Parochial Dinosaurs?

 
Step 3: STRUCTURE your coursework as follows
 

  • Introduction: justify selection of your ONE company & TWO issue areas (500 words)
  • Critical examination of your first selected issue (1000 words)
  • Critical examination of your second selected issue (1000 words)
  • Conclusion: summary and key recommendations for your selected company (500 words)
  • Reference list (include only sources that you have cited in your coursework)
  • Appendices (only supplementary information should appear here)

Assessment Criteria
Your assignment will be graded according to the following criteria:

  • Logical structure & quality of presentation – is your assignment appropriately structured and presented? Does it meet the assignment brief? – 10%
  • Evidence of quality business research – have you clearly undertaken wider research into your company that is integrated and analysed within your assignment in ways that add value in relation to your assignment brief? – 15%
  • Evidence of wider reading of academic literature – is there evidence of wider academic reading into the issues you focus on that informs and enhances your analysis of the threats and opportunities faced by your chosen company? Have you made use of appropriate theory and wider evidence to inform your analysis of the issues you examine? – 15%
  • Quality and depth of analysis – how effectively have you evaluated the significance of the issues raised, situating their significance within wider debates, and demonstrating their implications for your chosen company? – 20%
  • Establishing soundly argued solutions, actions, and responses to the issues raised – have you developed possible responses to the issues raised for your company, substantiated by theory or evidence? – 20%
  • Evidence of a capacity for critical reflection – Does your assignment demonstrate a capacity to use evidence and theory reflectively and appropriately within context, showing a sensitivity to its likely limitations? – 20%

 
Sources of useful information:
http://www.wsj.com/europe
http://www.ft.com/home/uk
https://www.theguardian.com/uk
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news
http://uk.reuters.com/business
Alternatively, many useful databases (e.g. Nexis for media sources, and Business Source Premier for business and management academic papers) can be found at:
http://findit.bham.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=44BIR_VU1
Advice on these databases can be provided by The University Library

 
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Westcliff University Business Administration Questions

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Question Description

PA-2 should be the continuation of your CLA1. Therefore, you need to prepare the following information about your company (or previously chosen by you for PA1) and answer to the following questions:

  • How would the decision process differ for an emotion-driven purchase compared to a more functional purchase?
  • Do you think that the product produced by the chosen by your company, generally are associated with nominal, limited, and extended of consumer’s decision making? Why?
  • Under what conditions, if any, would these products be associated with a different form of consumer’s decision making?
  • What products generally are associated with brand-loyal decision making and which with repeat-purchase decision making? Do you think that the product of you are the company writing, is it can be associated with brand-loyal decision making?
  • Justify your response.

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Syracuse University Ethical Business Cultures Summary and Discussion Questions

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Question Description

Please summarize the article and write two critical discussion questions based on this article.
Dimensions of ethical business cultures:
comparing data from 13 countries of Europe, Asia,
and the Americas
Alexandre Ardichvili , Douglas Jondle & Brenda Kowske
To cite this article: Alexandre Ardichvili , Douglas Jondle & Brenda Kowske (2010) Dimensions
of ethical business cultures: comparing data from 13 countries of Europe, Asia, and the Americas,
Human Resource Development International, 13:3, 299-315, DOI: 10.1080/13678868.2010.483818
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2010.483818
 
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Power Point Presentation Barclays Bank in the UK, accounting homework help

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Question Description

Barclays Bank in the UK
Based upon your papers, the accounting standards paper and the company analysis paper, prepare a PowerPoint presentation of 10-15 slides in which you summarize what you have learned regarding the international accounting standards of your chosen foreign country as well as of the company you selected.
This is the final assignment for your course project. It will be evaluated here and contribute to your total grade for the project.
In your PowerPoint make sure you:

  • Summarize what you have learned regarding the international accounting standards of your chosen foreign country as well as of the company you selected.
  • State your opinion on the quality of the company’s report and why you think it is or is not up to US standards.
  • Make sure your main ideas are clear to the audience and it is stated in the PowerPoint.
  • Also, make sure you use and cite the sources that you used in your paper to back up your argument.
  • Remember that your presentation should consist of 10-15 slides. Make sure that they are visually appealing and follow a logical flow. Your PowerPoint should be free of grammatical errors.

Barclays Bank in the UK
This will be a power point presentation.
Please make this 10-15 slides.
Please make sure that you cite your sources that were used in the papers, within the power point presentation.
I have attached three different papers that I used.

 
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