7043SSL Organisations and Strategy, Individual Report (Coursework 3) - Coventry University

Assignment Task

This assignment is an individual assignment.
This assignment requires you to consider organisations that operate in the construction industry and to write a report that addresses the following task:

Critically evaluate how industry structure affects organisational culture and ethical conduct. Use examples of specific organisations to aid your analysis and provide recommendations to resolve the ethical dilemma.

To perform this task, you should first analyse the industry or sector environment to understand the competitive pressures organisations are exposed to. To aid your analysis, you should then consider organisation(s) that gained attention through ethical misconduct. After examining their organisational structure and culture, a critical evaluation of the organisations’ ethical behaviour in the context of strategic decision making might follow. It is expected that you evaluate to what extent organisations in that particular industry have the freedom to proactively adopt ethical practices.

Note: You are expected to use insight obtained from the core textbook, relevant additional reading from the lectures (available on Aula) and your own research using the University’s library facilities (locate.coventry.ac.uk).

Your report should follow the below structure:

- Introduction – 200 words
- Discussion and critical evaluation – 600 words
- Conclusion and recommendations – 200 words

Assessed Module Learning Outcomes

• The Learning Outcomes for this module align to the marking criteria which can be found at the end of this brief.
• Ensure you understand the marking criteria to ensure successful achievement of the
  assessment task. The following module learning outcomes are assessed in this task:
• Critically evaluate organisational culture and business ethics, and their relations to organisational strategy in a multinational organisational context.