Assessment Your assessment brief:

Assessment Your assessment brief:

You are required to write a 2,500-word management report to analyse major decisions made by organisation within the time frame of no earlier than September 2020. Although the number of decisions is not capped for the assessment, you are strongly encouraged to focus on one major decision to ensure that your essay presents a clear scope of analysis. If you decide to choose more than one major decision, you must ensure that these decisions are clearly and logically related to each other.

Organisational context

You are encouraged to choose an organisation that you are familiar with or interested in. The choice of organisation could be based on reputable news articles related to this organisation and/or your own professional experience related to the organisation. If you struggle to identify an organisational context yourself, you can use the follow case study as a starting point and focus your report on the company WeWork.

Conceptual understanding

You are expected to demonstrate awareness, understanding, and ability to apply conceptual and theoretical ideas covered by this module to the organisational context in a critical manner.

The key conceptual and theoretical ideas covered by this module include rational choice theory, institutional logic, evidence-based management, bounded rationality, intuition, judgemental heuristics and bias, behavioural decision making, system 1 and system 2 thinking, utility theory, prospect theory, and framing effect.

Report content and structure

Introduction approx. 300 words

Introduce the organisational context and describe specific organisational problems and decisions

Outline key concepts covered by this module that are most relevant to the organisational context

Stakeholder analysis 700 words

Identify the key stakeholders based on the three-attribute framework, including power, legitimacy, and urgency & analyse the relevance of the chosen organisational decisions to these stakeholders

Organisational decision evaluation 1200 words

Identify four different types of evidence relevant to decisions, including

1) scientific evidence from peer-reviewed empirical studies published in academic journals;2) organisational evidence such as information from Statista information or company annual report;

3) practitioner evidence such as CIPD, CMI report based on expert opinions; and

4) stakeholder evidence such as stakeholder views and values shared with reputable news outlets or stakeholder survey such as employee survey including trade union member survey

Based on the identified evidence, analyse contextual factors at the managerial, organisational, sectoral, and institutional level that might influence or had influenced the decisions

Discuss any judgmental heuristics and bias that might influence or had influenced the decision making

Recommendations 300 words

Suggest actions for the decision makers based on the previous section

Discuss what might encourage and prevent the decision makers to take the suggested actions, such as resource availability and cost

Consider the impact of these actions on the most relevant stakeholders

References

Include only the references that you have read and cited in the report

Use Harvard referencing

Word count: 2,500 words

A submission with word count or + 10% of 2,500 is acceptable; submissions without meeting the minimum or the maximum word count would be penalised)

Example organisation & organisational decisions:

WeWork is an American commercial real estate company that offers workspace rental services to individuals and organisations. The company reported a loss of $2.1b in the first quarter of 2021 due to losing 200,000 customers amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the restructuring costs that include scaling back from unprofitable locations and paying a settlement the co-founder Adam Neumann (Hammond, 2021). The company has made strategic decisions to reduce its global expansion and costs since Sandeep Mathrani replaced Adam Neumann as the new Chief Executive Officer.You are expected to step into the role of the General Manager for WeWork UK, Ireland, and Emerging Markets to produce a report for the executive team and the investors. The executives and investors are concerned with the financial losses, the history of problematic decisions, and the negative coverage of the company in the media.

You are tasked withevaluating the strategic decisionsyour company recently made, which include the decision to restructure the organisation that involved making staff redundant (Nast, 2020), and the decision to attract and retain customers through expanding the membership benefits, focusing on city centres, and developing a new Growth Campus initiative that targets UK university students and Small Medium Enterprise employees (Thomas, 2021).

Your report shouldreview four types of evidencerelevant to these decisions, including scientific, organisational, stakeholder, and expert evidence, and analyse the impact of these decisions on different stakeholders using the stakeholder salience model.You are expected torecommend future actions based on your review of evidence and stakeholder analysis, taking into account ofthe specific operational environment of the UK and/or Ireland.

References

Hammond, G. (2021) WeWork loses $2.1bn and sheds members as lockdowns bite, Financial Times, 20 May. Available at: https://www.ft.com/content/60ea2f72-586f-4f3e-b153-3455b93539b8 (Accessed: 9 June 2021).

Nast, C. (2021) WeWork triggers second wave of mass layoffs in the UK, Wired UK, Available at: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wework-redundancies-uk-restructure (Accessed: 30 July 2021).

Thomas, D. (2021) WeWork offers UK tenants greater flexibility to tempt them back, Financial Times, 15 February. Available at: https://www.ft.com/content/d540a330-d64c-4ae7-bd03-6e6ec0ad651b (Accessed: 12 March 2021).

Undergraduate rubric template (numerical scale). If you cannot access the file, please check the assessment marking criteria file on Moodle.

Important note: Coursework is marked on the understanding that it is the students own work on the module and that it has not, in whole or part, been presented elsewhere for assessment. Where material has been used from other sources, this must be properly acknowledged in accordance with the Universitys Regulations regarding Academic Misconduct.

Marking, feedback and next steps

To pass this module, you must achieve an overall mark of 40+ for all assessments.

For coursework, the marks and feedback will normally be provided to students within fifteen working days of the submission deadline. In exceptional circumstances, where there is a delay in providing feedback, you will be informed by the module leader.

If you do not pass a module at the first attempt, you may be eligible for a resit opportunity on the failed assessments. The Exam Board will decide whether you will have an opportunity to resit. They will consider your overall set of results and profile, including other modules, and your engagement on the programme, for example, whether you have attempted assessments or not. Note that marks on resit assessments are capped at 40% unless extenuation has been applied for and granted.

For further details on resit assessments, please see section 7 below.

The assessment and feedback policy can be accessed at Assessment and Feedback PolicyExtenuating circumstances and student support

The University recognises there are times when serious and unexpected matters which are beyond a students control (such as serious illness or injury, death in family) impact on their academic performance and ability to complete assessments by the deadline. Guidance on claiming extenuation can be found at: Extenuating circumstancesExternal Examiner

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Please note that the role of the External Examiner is to evaluate the overall standard of assessments on the module. They are unable to correspond with individual students about their work. If you need to discuss your marks or feedback, please contact the module leader.

Resit assessments

Assessment Schedule

Resit assessments Deadline

Weighting out of 100%* Maximum length Marking type Learning outcomes mapped to this assessment.

Management report 10th July 2023

11.30pm

100%

2,500 words

stepped 1,2,3

Q&A sessions to support resit will be held in due course.