Assignment: Individual Report - Diagnosing the causes of the organisational challenge.
Feedback mode:
Formative feedback is provided throughout the semester in your in-class workshops/tutorials. Your workshop leader will work with you providing you with real-time feedback based on the work that you share with her/him. If you come prepared to your workshops then your workshop leader will have more opportunity to provide you with formative feedback.
Summative feedback will be provided in the marking rubric. We will provide comments in each cell of the marking rubric and in the general comments section at the end. We aim to provide feedback that is:
• Specific - that is, the feedback will relate to the work that you have completed
• Informative - that is, the feedback will help you to understand the level of achievement that you attained
• Directive - that is, the feedback will give you strategies, ideas and a direction for further improvement
Learning Objectives Assessed:
This assignment assesses Learning Objectives 1 and 5
1. Apply broad theoretical and practical knowledge of management in real business situations.
2. Evaluate management approaches and alternatives through a collaborative process to solve business problems in ethical and socially responsible manners.
Details:
Purpose of the assignment:
This assignment is designed to get you to identify and analyse the contextual elements that contribute to the challenge that the partner organisation faces. You are to present your work in a business report format. This involves undertaking and external and internal analysis of the organisation and making predictions about the future.
Requirements for the assignment:
• Examine the data provided by the partner organisation and undertake your own research to find more relevant data.
o Have you got all the data you need? What other data would be helpful?
• Analyse the data you have collected using appropriate management tools and theories
o External organisational analysis
o Internal organisational analysis
• Explain how the nature of the challenge is a result of the combination of external and internal factors that you have discovered through your research and subsequently re-define the management challenge as a problem that can be solved through the combination of management theory and practice. (Note: we are not expecting you to provide the solution at this stage - just re-define the problem through a management theory lens)
• Write a business report describing the nature of the challenge through the particular management lens that you are viewing the problem (we will provide you with a list from which you can choose, or you can choose your own.)
o Use a report format.