Description
BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY
BIRMINGHAM CITY BUSINESS SCHOOL
ASSESSMENT BRIEF FIRST ATTEMPT
MODULE TITLE: The Global Manager (MAIN)
MODULE CODE: MAN6038
MODULE LEADER (HK): Dr Tim Li
HAND IN DATE: Class A: 11:59PM 20 July 2024
Class B: 11:59PM 27 July 2024
Assessment Brief: First Attempt
- Assessment Overview
1.1. Rationale
This module is assessed through one piece of coursework in the form of a portfolio as outlined below. The assessment tests all the learning outcomes for this module. The assessment requires you to apply knowledge obtained in class and through independent further reading. This assessment allows you to demonstrate your ability to use appropriate tools and techniques to develop a solution to a given situation. It also allows you to reflect on your journey through the module to the point of assessment.
You will demonstrate knowledge, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation from your choice of distinct Global Management literature and their impact in different organisational settings that you will have learned throughout the module. You are expected to draw on your choice of conceptual and theoretical frameworks covered in the class to review how the businesses tackle the issues related to the businesses operating in global market and how the variety of cultural, ethical and value-based considerations effect the way business manager conduct.
This assessment method is relevant and appropriate for this module as it allows you to consider your learning by critically reviewing literature on various academic, theoretical, and practical domains and test proposed theories and models in a real environment through academic investigation, analysis, evaluation, and subsequent recommendations. This form of assessment prepares you for the real world where you may be working at strategic level and/or be involved in the change processes.
2.1. Required task(s)
Using academic theories and a case study, evaluate and analyse key traits of a global manager from a global mindset perspective, include elements of cultural, ethical and value-based considerations, following which carry out a self-audit of your global mindset skills and a personal development plan.
2.2. Guidance Notes
The following structure shall be used:
- Introduction. Clearly outline the structure of the work (approx. 100 words)
- Part 1. A literature review about key traits of a global manager and the importance of a global mindset in today’s rapidly changing global environments (approx. 700 words)
- Part 2. A literature review about cultural, ethical and value-based considerations (approx. 700 words)
- Part 3. A case study about a business of your choice highlighting how the business has or has not benefited from elements related to cultural, ethical, and value-based considerations (approx. 700 words)
- Part 4. A self-audit, in which you score yourself on a scale of 1-10 about global mindset skills and competences, followed by a detailed personal development plan about how and by when you intend to develop these traits (approx. 700 words)
- Conclusion. Clearly summarise your work (approx. 100 words)
- List of references (not included in the word count). In-text citations and the list of references should follow BCU Harvard Referencing style. A minimum of 10-15 academic references are required.
2.3. Word count The maximum word count is approximately 3000 words.
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