MANM513 Contemporary Issues In Sustainability Assessment Brief | University of Surrey

Assessment Objective:

This is a resubmission brief. Doing your reassessment on the topic of the original assignment will incur a ‘0’ mark. You MUST follow the instructions outlined below to be reassessed. 

The objective of this assessment is for students to be able to demonstrate their understanding of how the principles of sustainability can be integrated into THE business operations through a case study analysis. The completed report should reveal the students' awareness of the opportunities and challenges of integrating sustainability by real THE enterprises with application to the case study at hand.

Assignment Brief:

Students are required to submit a 2500 words report (max 10 % extra is allowed), which critically assesses student understanding of how well a case study company integrates (or how it does not) the environmental dimension of sustainability in their business operations. A key objective of this assignment is to critically analyse the opportunities and challenges of embracing environmental sustainability in business operations by a THE company. Implications for management will also need to be understood and examined in terms of best practices, and future expectations in THE industries. The weighting of this assignment is 85% of Module Grade.

Students MUST analyse the following THE company: Costa Coffee, https://www.costa.co.uk/ Failure to analyse this company and selection of any other company for analysis will result in the award of a ‘0’ mark

Report Guidelines and Notes:

• This is a case study report. Your answers should be written in a report style and structured accordingly. 
• In your report, you are expected to benchmark the environmental performance of your case study company AND compare it with that of its competitors.
• A clear set of managerial recommendations is expected at the end of your report. 
• The report should be looking at the environmental dimension of sustainability ONLY.
• The report should be a maximum length of 2500 words of text (this excludes Table of Contents, Executive Summary, List of References and Appendixes, if these apply). Please note a penalty will be incurred for going over this word limit. 
• Executive Summary is required, 200 words maximum, excluded from word count. 
• You should include the word count on your front cover page, along with your name, student number and date of submission.
•   All sources of information should be fully referenced using the Harvard Style.
• The University policy will apply in the case of copying, plagiarism, or any method by which students have obtained an unfair advantage.
•  A sample of reports will be collected for the External Examiner.
• The deadline for submitting this assignment is 12 March, 2025 by 4pm.
•   Submission via SurreyLearn AND a copy by email to v.filimonau@surrey.ac.uk
•   Late submissions will be subjected to a sliding scale of penalties. Please do not risk getting penalties for late submission – start with your assignment as early as possible!