Summative Assessment:
This module is a pass/fail module. The Assessment for this module comprises of two parts which are:
Assignment 1- Group work (40%)
Assignment 2- Individual work (60%).
Assessment Introduction for the Group Work:
As part of your group work, you will be forming a group between 3 to 5 members by week 3. Your group will be participating a real (Live) consultancy briefing session (guest lecture) between week 4 to week 5, when a director of a business organisation will be sharing his/her experiences of leading the business organisation. He / she will be also highlighting some of the current challenges and opportunities faced by the business organisation as well as the future aspiration of the business. Based on the briefing and further secondary research (you are also open to conduct primary research if needed but not mandatory), you as a group need to write consultancy report. It is important that during the briefing session, you have identified some key investigative questions (which need to be very strategic and live consultancy case oriented); so that you can produce a consultancy report and strategic recommendations.
Assessment Introduction for the Individual Work:
The second part is an individual assignment where you need to write a literature review of 3000 words and Reflective Learning Statement for 1,000 words. In the review section, you need to find an area to conduct critical review which needs to link with the consultancy case scenario or the wider industry of the consultancy case. You must critically evaluate relevant literature, key theories (relevant to consultancy or relevant industry/ business), frameworks, strategic models, and principles, drawn from a range of relevant and appropriately referenced academic sources, industry data and recent research report.
Your reflective learning statement (1,000 words) is to be based / derived from the reflection of your group work experiences and client engagement. You should make regular entries (i.e., weekly from when you start working on your Group Client Project). Your entries should detail your reflections on the competences that you have developed or any relevant challenges that you have faced while working with people/ team. Your reflective learning statement must indicate areas that you could further improved in relation to your career aspirations, professional development, employability, and leadership attribute skills.
Assignment Guidance Notes:
Include guidance on wordcount, submission, format and style advice for written assessments, specific guidance on focus (research, theory, links to practice, etc.), referencing requirements.
Assignment 1- Group Consultancy Report
A group consultancy report with Strategic Solutions (40%) – 4000 words group report. This report assesses MLO3, MLO4 and MLO5.
Weighting: 40% of final mark
Word Count: 4000 words (+/or-10%)
It is also required to prepare a poster presentation for the client (between week 10 to 12) to demonstrate key findings and provide consultancy solutions. The duration of the poster presentation Is 10 minutes + 10 minutes Q & A.
Assignment 2- Individual Assignment
Individual Assignment (4000 words) (60%) comprising a Literature Review (3000 words) and Reflective Learning Statement (1,000 words). You must critically evaluate relevant literature and demonstrate application to your project of, theories, frameworks, strategic models, and principles, drawn from a range of relevant and appropriately referenced academic sources, industry data and recent research report. You must demonstrate wide reading from a range of sources.
This will assess MLO1, MLO2 and MLO3.
Weighting: 60% of final mark
Word Count: 4000 words (+/or-10%)
Literature Review – 3000 words & Reflective Learning Statement (1,000 words).
Please also note that word count does not include:
- Title and Contents page
- Reference list
- Appendices
- Appropriate tables, figures, and illustrations
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Quotes from interviews and focus groups.
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Where to find additional assessment support:
Additional assessment support and guidance will be provided during the weekly seminar sessions and relevant materials will be available in your module blackboard site.
General notes:
Include general guidance on word limits (penalties, what is included, etc.), you may choose to include notes on plagiarism and reference to assessment policies or the ARTA (Academic regulations for Taught Awards).
The Assessment Regulations for Taught Awards (ARTA) contain the Regulations and procedures applying to cheating, plagiarism, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems, and other forms of academic misconduct.
The full policy is available here
You are reminded that plagiarism, collusion, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems, and other forms of academic misconduct, as referred to in the Academic Misconduct procedure of the assessment regulations, are taken very seriously. Assignments in which evidence of plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct is found may receive a mark of zero.
Submission of Assessment:
The University and Newcastle Business School has in place comprehensive and robust assessment criteria, marking and moderation processes, which are adhered to and regularly audited as part of our quality assurance processes. You will submit the assignment electronically, and it must be submitted online via Turnitin by the given deadline. You will find a Turnitin link on the module’s eLP site.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your assignment arrives before the submission deadline stated above. Coursework submitted more than 1 working day (24 hours) after the published hand-in deadline without approval will be regarded as not having been completed. A mark of zero will be awarded for the assessment and the module will be failed, irrespective of the overall module mark.
