Assessment Information
The module assessment necessitates your analysis of the organisational behaviour and
practices of one chosen organisation. To achieve this, there are two elements that you
should complete and submit.
Assessment pre-work:
First you should select one case organisation. For example, you might select an
organisation you have worked with or would like to work with and for which you can access
employee / ex-employee views
Both elements of your assessment will focus on the same case organisation

Assessment Element One: Research poster to be submitted in week 9 of our module –
20%
You will design an A3 size research poster in MS Powerpoint that provides an overview of
your planned essay assignment focus (see Element Two below).
The poster is intended to develop your creative thinking as future managers and should be

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visually engaging using images and carefully worded and designed text
The poster should detail:
• the chosen organisation and reason(s) for selection
• your chosen paradigm position
• two topics chosen from the weekly sessions and explanation of the inter-relations
between the two topics
• your chosen organisation’s behaviour/practices
You should provide alongside, a list of academic references cited within body of the poster
(excluded from the word count)
You will receive feedback on this from your tutor, with a mark given, which will account for
20% of your final mark. The poster word limit is 600 words.

Assessment Element Two: A 3000-word structured essay (ie. using headings and sub-
headings) that uses organisation theory from one paradigm perspective and across two topic

areas to critically analyse the behaviour and practices of a chosen organisation – 80%
This essay should
• Explain why your selected paradigm is most suited for understanding the
organisation (you should take into account organisational stakeholders such as
organisational owners, customers and employees)

• Explain why you have selected the two topics that you have and what the inter-
relationship between the two is

• Critically analyse your chosen case organisation in relation to two inter-related
topics covered in the module
• Use organisation theory about the topics to critically analyse selected

behaviours and practices in the chosen organisation. You should use multi-
stakeholder evidence (e.g. management statements on the corporate web-site,

press-reports and employee/ex-employee statements on rating sites) to support
your critical analysis
• Based upon your critical analysis, you should identity three practice-focused
recommendations for the organisation (use the template provided below). These
recommendations account for 500 words of the total 3000 words