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UMAN3011 XXXXXXXXXXSPRING 2019 COURSEWORK BRIEF
UMAN3011
Understanding Management
Spring 2019
Coursework Brief
Handout: [Time (am/pm), Date Month Year]
Access via GSM Learn
Deadline for Submission:
Wednesday, XXXXXXXXXX2pm
Submit this coursework through the Student Portal with a Turn-it-in Report
Word Limit: 1500 (Plus or minus 10%)
Learning outcomes assessed:
At the end of the module students will be expected to be able to:
1. Identify the principles of management and organisational structure in relation to
size and purpose.
2. Explain the nature of management culture and how this may vary from one
company to another as well as the impact it has on corporate success.
3. Identify the relationship between business planning and operations and the
problems of ensuring consistency.
4. Illustrate the importance of effective communication between managers with
different responsibilities.
This Coursework is worth 100% of the total marks for this module.
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Coursework Instructions
Please read carefully
• Carefully read the module handbook, the marking criteria and the grade
descriptors.
Academic Misconduct
You are responsible for ensuring you understand the policy and regulations
about academic misconduct. You must:
• Complete this work alone except where required or allowed by this
assignment
iefing paper and ensure it has not been written or composed
y or with the assistance of any other person.
• Make sure all sentences or passages quoted from other people’s work in
this assignment (with or without trivial changes) are in quotation marks, and
are specifically acknowledged by reference to the author, work and page.
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Assignment Questions
Written Report (100%)
The assessment for this module is for students to write a report that
demonstrates their development of appropriate skills and knowledge through
the module. Since there is no written examination in this module, the tasks
elow cover all the learning outcomes of the module.
Task 1
The four functions approach to management describes the functions of a
manager as planning, organising leading and controlling.
You recently opened a small business which you have long been interested in
with a team of 5 staff. Explain the nature of your business and how you can
ca
y out your planning activities effectively? 10 marks
How are your planning activities relevant in achieving consistency and success
in your business operations? 5 marks
Suggest a possible structure for your business and explain how an
organisation’s structure can help it achieve its purpose. 10 marks
LO1, LO3 (suggested word count=400)
Task 2
Explain organisational culture highlighting the importance of culture to the
success of an organisation. 10 marks
Discuss three ways employers can pass on the culture of their organisations to
their employees.LO2 (suggested word count= XXXXXXXXXXmarks
(During your tutorials/drop in sessions, you would be expected to write how you
would want to express the organisational culture of your business thinking of
Edgar Schein’s first level of culture - behaviours, processes, policies, systems)
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Task 3
Effective communication ensures information is given clearly, delivered and
understood clearly. Good communication skills are relevant to success. Some
members of your team are underperforming. As the manager, you have to
inform them of their job responsibilities and expectations.
Explain why it is important that you communicate effectively with your team.
10 marks
Using relevant examples, discuss three ba
iers you may face in your role as a
manager and how you can overcome them. (During tutorials/drop in sessions,
students are expected to write a sample mail to their team members on the
need to improve their performance.) LO4 (suggested word count=400)
15 marks
Task 4
Write a short reflective summary highlighting your experience, learning
managerial skills and studying organisational functions, from the beginning of
the module to the end.
How is the knowledge you have gained understanding the principles of
management, the nature of culture, communication and business planning
elevant to the way you will now manage your own business or ca
y out your
managerial role in an organisation?
This summary should highlight the things you are now able to do and things you
will do differently. You are expected to complete and attach your building skills
log to your submission. LO1,2,3,4 (suggested word count=300) 25marks
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Assignment Structure Guidelines:
A cover page and table of contents must be provided at the beginning of the
assignment.
An introduction, conclusion or executive summary are not required for this
assignment.
Your answer should be supported by references to relevant texts, journal
articles and/or websites.
All the activities ca
ied out during the tutorials/dropin session with the
tutor which has been refe
ed to in the report must be included as appendices.
A completed skills log should be included.
A reference list must be included at the end of the assignment.
Each of the tasks ca
ies a total of 25 marks.
End of Assignment Brief
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Marking Criteria (Level 3)
KNOWLEDGE &
UNDERSTANDING
INTELLECTUAL &
COGNITIVE SKILLS
Graduate Skills:
transferable,
employability, practical
and academic skills
Factual and conceptual knowledge
and understanding; use of class
materials; independent reading
Critical thinking;
conceptualisation;
creativity; synthesis,
analysis and evaluation;
application; problem
solving and
esearch/investigation
Written, oral and
presentation skills;
interpersonal, group and
teamwork skills;
leadership skills;
numeracy; digital skills;
practical, professional
and academic skills
(including
eferencing/presentation)
MARKING
BAND
CLASSIFICATION WEIGHTED AT 50% WEIGHTED AT 25% WEIGHTED AT 25%
XXXXXXXXXX% FIRST (1ST) Includes all required factual content,
accurately summarised.
Well developed, relevant
introduction and
conclusions.
Within word count or
presentation time.
Includes relevant factual content only. Clearly and logically
structured material.
Accurate spelling,
grammar, punctuation,
paragraphing.
Very accurate identification of pre-
defined concepts, theories and/or
principles, appropriate to this level.
Information or data
selected from highly
elevant sources, and
categorised, analysed or
evaluated using a
ecommended format.
Fluent, interesting writing
style, appropriate to the
assignment OR engaging,
confident, audible and well
paced presentation.
Excellent understanding of factual and
conceptual