| Category |
Assignment |
Subject |
Business Management |
| University |
DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY |
Module Title |
BMIB5004 Critical Management and Organisation Studies |
Assessment Information:
Your presentation should:
- Describe the chosen issue: Please select a video from the World Economic Forum. The video you will select should be in the panel discussion format in which at least 3-4 panellists are having a debate on a specific topic. Those videos typically are around 40 minutes long. Please select a video with no less than 30 minutes and three panellists. After carefully watching the video you selected, please describe the topic debated. This is a descriptive part, so you do not need to be concerned about evaluating or reflecting on the debate; instead, you need to provide an overview of the topic in the debate as framed. You can structure your overview in any way you would like. We suggest starting with providing a brief overview. The general structure would be a good way to move forward, such as on what topics/points/aspects they agreed on or disagreed with and what topic/point/aspect they didn’t discuss or omitted.
- Critically evaluate the views expressed by the panellists at WEF: You should introduce each panellist as a start. At the beginning of the debates, the facilitator briefly introduces each panellist, including themselves. You can further research their backgrounds and bring anything interesting about the panellist that will add value to understanding their views. Please remember that the facilitator is one of the panellists who should also be introduced. Your report should introduce the panellists but, more importantly, evaluate their views concerning their professional and/or social positions, identities, ideologies or any salient aspect that you think may have a role in shaping their views. You can address questions like: Why have they expressed some particular views over others? Where do their views primarily come from? Who or what they may be considered a representative of? Please feel free to be creative here by aligning with an evidence base.
- Expresses the group’s views on the issue by applying the concepts, theoretical frameworks, and perspectives learnt within this module: In your analysis, you should apply the critical management and organisation studies concepts, frameworks or perspectives you have learned throughout lectures and seminars. After you describe the topic and analyse the panellists' views, you should have a very good understanding of the topic, the narratives that emerged from the group discussion, and each panellist’s views. So, it is time to apply the critical lens to this debate and clarify and share your position and views. There is no limit to what concept, framework or perspective you can apply. Ask yourself what concept(s), theory(ies), or perspective(s) might potentially best explain this debate or narratives or any aspect of it. How does this concept or theory help me to frame the topic from a critical perspective? Can I learn more about this concept or framework by reading more from my resource list or external academic journal articles? Can I learn more about this topic by reading critical management and organisation studies literature that I can find in my resource list or external academic journal articles? After reviewing the CMS literature on the topic or concepts you applied, you address the question: How does my analysis add to the literature on critical management and organisation studies?
Criteria for Assessment
Further information on this assessment's Grade Descriptors (Rubrics) is copied at the end of this brief-Appenda and in the module Handbook. University mark descriptors can be found here.
This assignment is designed to assess the following learning outcomes:
- E1: Thoroughly understand the contemporary and historical frame of global management and organisation
- E2: Demonstrate familiarity with a critical theoretical lens in analysing global business practices
- E3: Appreciate the complexity of managing in a contemporary global environment
- E4: Develop skills required to deconstruct discourse of business models and management practices and consider the wider implications of those narratives
- E5: Consider data drawn from the wider context to develop skills for improved problem analysis
- E6: Develop a critical awareness of the strengths and limitations of different theoretical and practical approaches to organizing and managing in a global context
- E7: Assimilate material on course topics through a combination of learning methods, including self-study and guided reading, presentations and class discussion
- E8: Consciously apply an appreciation of the real-world context in appraising complex problems for initiating and implementing innovative outcomes
- E9: Display skills at generating innovative and practical courses of action
- E10: Apply skills of critical analysis in assessing the relative merits of discourse reported in the business media
- E11: Appreciate the transitions and relationships between the individual, corporate, national and global perspective, within the global business environment
- E12: Begin to appreciate the ambiguities between the theoretical and the real-world business environment
- E13: Be able to marshal and deploy ideas, theories and evidence to substantiate written and verbal case analyses and presentations
Assessment Details
Generative AI tools CANNOT be used for this assessment. You must NOT use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to generate any materials or content concerning your assessment.
You can find the library guide on generative AI use here - https://library.dmu.ac.uk/genai
Faculty of Business and Law Grade Descriptors
This is a guide to the criteria used by staff in the Faculty of Business and Law assigning a mark to a piece of postgraduate work. The final mark awarded to a piece of work will be informed by its predominant correspondence to these descriptors. The University generic descriptors as well as advice for students, can be accessed at:
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/quality-management-and-policy/academic- quality/learning-teaching-assessment/mark-descriptors.aspx
Modules are marked from 0 to 100%. Mark descriptors are given in the table below. A mark below 50 % indicates a Fail grade (the shaded boxes).
