Business and Management Assessment 1 Brief Interview and Report Pdf

Business Management A - Assessment 1

Learning outcomes to be assessed

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the theory and practice of different leadership models in business;
2. Show an understanding of the concepts and theories around organizational behaviour and operations management;
3. Demonstrate awareness of limitations of approaches and models in their application in a business environment;
4. Demonstrate confidence in the use of texts, journals and related materials in their understanding of the subject matter.

This is an individual written assessment

Word count: 

1500 words (note: appendices and tables do not contribute to the overall word count).

You will be permitted a window of +/- 10%. Once the word limit is reached any additional content will not be assessed.

Assignment layout:    Times New Roman or Arial, font size 12, double line space page number in footer
Submission    Week 13

Weighting:

This assignment accounts for 50% of your final module grade

Please use formative feedback received on your first piece of work to write this report.

Referencing:

You are expected to read relevant academic literature and cite it properly in your report and reference list. You must use Harvard Referencing style.

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism may be classed as a dishonest practice and can lead to expulsion. Copying from any other source (including: other students, staff hand-outs, websites or digital material, or published articles/texts) without the appropriate referencing is plagiarism. Failure to identify your sources properly may be deemed as plagiarism, whether there is intention to deceive or not. As such, do not be tempted to present other people’s work as your own.

Assignment Instructions

Write an article based on an interview with a manager of a company. The interview and article should focus on their management style.

The interview may be in your original language, but responses should be translated into English for the article and noted appropriately using direct and indirect speech as learned in EAP. The interview can take place over digital channels or in person.
However, it must be a live interview, not a text-based interview (ie no email or messaging). If you do not have someone you can interview, please ask your tutor to provide you with a manager to interview.

The article should include:

Summary of the interview (100-150 words)

• Analysis of their leadership style based on one or more of the management theories noted in this module (600-700 words)
• Reflection on what you’ve learned (200-300 words)
• Conclusion (100-150 words)

Provide supporting evidence by citing when appropriate from Business Management and/or Leadership and Change Management (available in Kortext).

Also include a separate document with (to submit as a formative):

• Person’s name
• Name of the company
• When and where the interview took place
• List of questions asked in the interview

You are to be asking about management style, so provide relevant questions

Submitting the work

The report should be submitted in one document as a Word (.docx) document by the deadline which you can find on Moodle.
You should include a cover sheet that clearly outlines:

• the module title,
• the title of your essay
• the word count (The word count should: Include all the text, including title, preface, introduction, in-text citations, quotations, footnotes and any other items not specifically excluded. Exclude diagrams, tables (including tables/lists of contents and figures), equations, executive summary/abstract, acknowledgements, declaration, bibliography/list of references and appendices. However, it is not appropriate to use diagrams or tables merely as a way of circumventing the word limit. If a student uses a table or figure as a means of presenting his/her own words, then this is included in the word count.)
• the following personal declaration:

I confirm that this piece of work is a result of my own work. Material from the work of others not involved in the project has been acknowledged and quotations and paraphrases suitably indicated. Furthermore, I confirm that I understand the definition of plagiarism that is used by OIDI, and that all source material has been appropriate cited and referenced. I understand that only the content in the main body of the work will be marked, and that the content in the Appendices will be checked, but will not contribute to the final mark.

Contents Page:

SEE ABOVE

This work should be produced in Arial, 12pt, with 1.5-line spacing. You should not alter the margins from their default setting

Marking Criteria

Performance in is judged against the following criteria as outlined in the level 6 grading rubric please refer to this for further instructions.