BMIB5004 Critical Management and Organisation Studies Assignment 2 Brief | DMU

Assignment Number:	2
Assignment Title:	Essay

Assessment Information 

• This assignment is an individual assignment. Students need to answer two of the four questions. Your answer must primarily draw on critical management literature and use practical examples. Each mini-essay should be 1,000 words long, and students should write 2,000 words.
• There will be a penalty of a deduction of 10% of the mark for work exceeding the word limit by 10% or more.

The marking criteria for the essay are as follows:

1. Comprehensiveness and accuracy of presenting the critical management studies literature and the organisation and the structure in presenting the key arguments and findings in answering the question
2. Critical analysis of the critical management studies literature based on own ideas and practical examples in answering the question
3. The relevance of the real-life example or examples are chosen in answering the question
4. Presentational qualities of the Paper – citations, bibliography, paragraphing, spacing, spelling, Quotations etc.

All criteria are equally weighted. The hyperlink follows is to the University’s generic mark descriptors-Postgraduate mark descriptors. Further information on University mark descriptors can be found here.

learning outcomes:

• E1: Thoroughly understand the contemporary and historical frame of global management and organisation
• E2: Demonstrate familiarity with a critical theoretical lens in analysing global business practices
• E3: Appreciate the complexity of managing in a contemporary global environment
• E4: Develop skills required to deconstruct discourse of business models and management practices and consider the wider implications of those narratives
• E5: Consider data drawn from the wider context to develop skills for improved problem analysis
• E6: Develop a critical awareness of the strengths and limitations of different theoretical and practical approaches to organizing and managing in a global context
• E7: Assimilate material on course topics through a combination of learning methods, including self-study and guided reading, presentations and class discussion
• E8: Consciously apply an appreciation of the real-world context in appraising complex problems for initiating and implementing innovative outcomes
• E9: Display skills at generating innovative and practical courses of action
• E10: Apply skills of critical analysis in assessing the relative merits of discourse reported in the business media
• E11: Appreciate the transitions and relationships between the individual, corporate, national and global perspectives within the global business environment
• E12: Begin to appreciate the ambiguities between the theoretical and the real-world business environment
• E13: Be able to marshal and deploy ideas, theories and evidence to substantiate written and verbal case analyses and presentations

Questions:

1. Critically evaluate whether the quality of work and employment is better under human relations management than scientific management. Justify your answer with references to the academic literature and business practice.
2. Explore the implications that systemic contradictions have for concepts like growth and sustainability in the context of climate breakdown with cases/illustrative examples.
3. Analyse the mechanisms and the dynamics that shape distinct forms of power within organisations. Your answer should focus on a real-life organisation of your choice.  
4. Discuss the career aspirations and trajectories of young women and men in a context of your own choice. Your answer should describe how intersectionality helps to articulate both experiences of oppression and privileges in relation to your chosen context.