HC1062 T2 2020 Decision Making and problem solving

HC1062 Decision Making and problem solving


Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester	T2 2020
Unit Code	HC1062
Unit Title	Decision Making and problem solving
Assessment Type	Group Assignment, Group size: 3 to 4 members
Assessment Title	Research Report
Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping)	Students are required identify a management problem for a selected organization. (Excluding a market research problem) and Prepare a persuasive report showing how the management problem/decision should be managed.
Weight	30 % of the total assessments
Total Marks	30 marks – research paper
Word limit	At least 2,500 words
Due Date	Week 10 – 11:59pm

Assignment Specifications

Purpose:

In a group of 3 to 4 students, prepare a persuasive report showing how the management problem/decision should be managed. This assignment aims at ensuring that students have familiarised themselves with a general framework of at least one management related topic. Students will be required to apply relevant theoretical concepts with the use of practical examples in most cases in a written research paper.

Details:

Written report – worth 30% of your final grade and must be submitted Week 10 at 11:59pm.

Identify a multinational company.

Identify a management problem. (Note: not a market research nature). Specify research questions which address the management problem/decision. Design a research program.

Carry out the research.

Sourcing from ONLY secondary data. Analyse the findings.

Identify alternatives and make recommendations to improve the performance of the organisation.

Your report is to be written as a business report. It must include;

Executive summary
Table of contents
Section headings
Paragraphing
Page numbers
Reference list at the end of the report

HC1062 Decision making and problem solving

Marking Rubric – Written Report

	Excellent	Very Good	Good	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory
	Clear evidence of	Clear evidence of a summary which summarises the entire report (3 marks)	Some evidence of a summary which summarises the entire report (2marks)	Limited	No executive
Executive	a summary which	evidence of a	summary
Summary	summaries the	summary of the	included (0 marks)
(4 marks)	entire report (4	entire report ( 1
	marks)	mark)
Discussion on	Demonstration of	Demonstration of	Demonstration of	Demonstration of	Demonstration of
allocated	Outstanding	very good	good knowledge of	satisfactory	little or no
general	knowledge of the	knowledge of the	the chosen topic and	knowledge of the	knowledge of
framework	chosen topic and	chosen topic and	has included minimal	chosen topic and	the chosen topic and
(8 marks)	has included	has included some	research beyond	has included no	discussion has little
	significant research	research beyond	areas covered within	research beyond	or no relevance to
	which are beyond	areas covered within	the lecture notes. (6	areas covered	the topic chosen (<4
	areas covered within	the lecture notes. (7	marks)	within the lecture	marks)
	the lecture notes. (8	marks)		notes. (4 marks)
	marks)
Application of theory on Individual component discussion (8 marks)	Your interpretation of theory is accurate and insightful and has included significant research which goes beyond areas covered within the lecture notes. Identification of the author has been identified. (8 marks)	Your interpretation of theory is accurate and has some insight and included some research which goes beyond areas covered within the lecture notes. Identification of the author has been identified. (7 marks)	Your interpretation of theory somewhat accurate and has included minimal research which is beyond areas covered within the lecture notes. Identification of the author has been identified (6mrks)	interpretation of theory is very general and has included no research which is beyond areas covered within the lecture notes. Identification of the author has been identified. (4 marks)	Your interpretation of theory is missing or not relevant to the topic. No identification of the author had been given (<4 marks)
Overall	Report is	Report is well	Report is somewhat	Report is structured with some clarity, and use of some paragraphs and subheadings. (3 marks)	Poorly presented.
presentation	exceptionally	structured with	structured with	Report is not
and quality of	structured with	clarity, use of	clarity, use of	structured with
report (6	clarity, use of	paragraphs and	paragraphs and	any clarity, and
marks)	paragraphs and	subheadings.	subheadings. (4mrks)	does not use of
	subheadings. (6	(5mrks)		paragraphs and
	mrks)			subheadings.
				(<3marks)

HC1062 Decision making and problem solving

Referencing (4 marks)

Clear systematic referencing using Harvard style for all sources. At least 6 relevant references were used from good sources. All intext referencing done correctly and relevant. (4marks)

Clear systematic referencing using Harvard style for all sources. At least 5 relevant references were used from good sources. All intext referencing done correctly and relevant. (3 marks)

Clear systematic referencing using Harvard style for all sources. At least 4 relevant references were used from good sources. Most intext referencing done correctly and relevant. (2 marks)

Limited attempt at formatting references. References largely unrelated to the topic area. At least 3 references were provided. Most intext referencing done correctly and relevant. (1mark)

Poorly presented, no apparent structure. No use of Harvard referencing style. References were unrelated to the topic area. Only 0 r 1 relevant reference given (<1 marks)