Description of assessment task and purpose
The assessment is an individual 2000-word literature review which demonstrates your learning on the module. The aim of the assessment is to measure your ability to carefully plan and write a literature review in formal/academic English using writing skills such as summarising, paraphrasing, giving direct quotations and referencing (both in-text citations and a separate list of references at the end of your literature review). Additionally, the assessment aims to assess your ability to present, organise, synthesise and critically evaluate arguments in carefully constructed paragraphs made up of grammatically sound sentences. Coherence and cohesion will also be assessed along with the ability to use appropriate vocabulary that reflects understanding of technical terminology used in the discipline.
Please choose one topic only from the topics below:
Topic 1: The aging of the UK population means that fewer taxpayers are paying for the cost of a growing proportion of elderly citizens. Use the following sources as a starting point (you are expected to use more sources for this task):
IFS (2014) `Retirement in the 21st Century` [Online] Available at: http://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/comms/R98. pdf [Last Accessed 11/10/19]
Royal Geographical Society (2013) `UK Ageing Population` 21st Century Challenges[Online] Available at: https://21stcenturychallenges.org/britains-ageing-population/ [Last Accessed 25.09.18]
UK Parliament (2015)`Challenges of an ageing population` Parliament Research Publications[Online]
Available at: https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/key-issues-parliament2015/social-change/ageing-population/ [Last Accessed 25.9.18]
Topic 2: In what ways do Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) need to adapt their product for sale in overseas markets? Use the following sources as a starting point (you are expected to use more sources for this task):
Yadong Luo and Rosalie L. Tung (2007) ‘International Expansion of Emerging Market Businesses’, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol 38(4) pp. 481-498
Tallman, Stephen & Yip, George. (2009). ‘Strategy and the Multinational Enterprise’. The Oxford Handbook of International Business (2 ed.)
Verbeke, A. (2013) International Business Strategy. Cambridge: CUP
Topic 3: Work related stress and ill-health cost Britain 12.5 million working days in 2016-17 (Health and Safety Executive, 2017). The human costs of unmanaged work-related stress extend far beyond this. Identify the main causes and effects of work-related stress and poor work-life balance. Who should be primarily responsible for maintaining a healthy work-life balance, the employer or the employee? Use the following sources as a starting point (you are expected to use more sources for this task): Marsh, N. (2010) `How to make work-life balance work` TED Talk [Online] Available
at:https://www.ted.com/talks/nigel_marsh_how_to_make_work_life_balance_work [Last Accessed
21.11.18]
Byrne, U. (2005) `Work-life balance: Why are we talking about it at all?` Business Information Review
[Online] Available at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0266382105052268 [Last Accessed
25.9.18]
Maulik, P.K.(2017) `Workplace stress: A neglected aspect of mental health wellbeing`. Indian Journal of Medical Research, Vol 146(4), pp. 441–444
