https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34324772
Your task is to identify and select a contemporary management issue from current affairs. In particular, you should find a news item on the BBC News Website (news.bbc.co.uk) from the last six months. Examples could be business ethics, globalisation, social or industrial conflict, outsourcing, regulation and/or deregulation of business or indeed any substantive issue that impacts on managerial decision making. You should then develop and write an essay on your chosen issue (sanctioned by your tutor) using the concepts, themes and issues explored in the course. You are required to have developed your idea by week 5 and have it signed off by your tutor at the seminar (see the pro forma in the
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appendix of this document and on Moodle). You must supply this form as an appendix to your submitted assignment. Please note also that there is a space on the pro forma for the full URL of the story you have chosen which you must also supply.
A successfully completed assignment will be consistent with the following guidelines:
• Be appropriately structured, written, presented and referenced (using the Harvard style)
• Feature an appropriate contemporary management issue with sufficient currency, substance and relevance to this course and its learning outcomes (properly justified) to merit analysis and debate
• Feature and make substantial reference to a range of theories and concepts
• Engage in a critical debate which evinces deep insight into an contextual awareness of the topic in hand
• Word limit: 2000
Please be aware that the University operates a very strict policy on plagiarism and any student who breaches academic regulations will be subject to the strongest disciplinary sanction.
Marks allocated to criteria:
Criteria
20%
Focus
Does the essay set up a clear essay question to address? Does the essay stay within and fulfil the topic parameters?
30%
Synthesis
Does the essay bring together the literature in a significant manner that addresses an essay question?
30%
Soundness
Does the essay indicate a comprehensive understanding of the topic area and literature discussed?
10%
Clarity of structure
Is the essay well organised and logically constructed to achieve synthesis while being mindful of the needs of the reader?
10%
Mechanical Soundness
Is the essay clearly written, spell checked and grammatically sound and referenced appropriately?
On completing this course successfully you will be able to:
· Demonstrate critical knowledge and understanding of current debates about how, through effective management, organizations interact with and respond to their complex operating environments.
· Demonstrate critical knowledge and understanding of advanced social science concepts relating to managing and working with people for performance in the contemporary organizational domain.
· Display a critical awareness of a range of often apparently conflicting and contradictory schools of management and social science thought requiring them to make informed analytical judgements
· Debate ethical dilemmas related to management practice in the contemporary sphere and be able to debate and seek to resolve them
· Continually develop their ability to analyse and articulate – in a variety of communicative forms – the implications of challenges faced by managers in the contemporary domain.
key term to use in relating to the article
Deontological
Teleological
Proposed title Volkswagen: The scandal explained
Summary of
proposed
content
200 words max.
The article talks about how a multi billion pound organisation fooled its customers
all around the world by lying about it emissions which is ethically wrong. By
putting in devices to detect when they were being tested so they provide a low
emission reading. By doing this they have broken the trust of their loyal customer
by deceiving them. If the management decide not to do this would it have been a
greater impact by choosing that decision then cheating their customers.
Relationship to
course content
(e.g. topics /
issues featured)
Global problem all around the world, worldwide customer impacted, unethical
business decisions that the business has done.
URL from BBC
News Website
Name of
student
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34324772
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