LO1 Demonstrate sound knowledge and understanding of a variety of business types and their functions

Module code and title:

MGBBT0UBN

Understanding Business Organisations

Module leader:

Assignment No. and type:

Essay 1,500 words

Assessment weighting:

50%

Submission time and date:

Before: 14:00 Monday 16^th January 2023

Target feedback time and date:

3 weeks from the date of final submission

Assignment task

This assignment involves preparing an individual written essay on your understanding of the business organisations.

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 1

Demonstrate sound knowledge and understanding of a variety of business types and their functions;

LO 2

Appreciate the impacts of the organisations’ structure and culture on their overall performance.

Task requirements

OVERVIEW

This assignment will encourage students to gain an understanding of the business environment in which business operates.

DESCRIPTION OF THE TASK – WHAT YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO DO?

The submission of a written essay that discusses a business types and functions using a wide variety of research materials (1,500 words).

Students are required to produce an essay that examine the different business organisations includes:

1) Select three types of business organisations (e.g. sole proprietorship, limited, cooperative,…etc) and describe three advantages and disadvantages of each of them.

2) Compare and contrast tall and flat structure of an organisation. Make sure you include hospitality and tourism Industry examples in your discussion.

3) Discuss different business functions such as Human Resource Management, Production, Operations, etc. and the impact of their functional management activities on organisations and the people within the organisations.

4) Define organisational culture and explain how positive culture impacts on the success of organisation.

Essential recommendations

• Make sure you include hospitality and tourism Industry examples in your discussion.
• You must reference all information used in the essay, using the Harvard Referencing Guide.  
• Please reference your work according to the Canterbury Harvard style guidance which you can access on Moodle. 
• You must use a minimum of 10 Academic Sources, including Journals, Books and use a variety of academically accepted sources.
• Make sure you have in-text citations in the body of your Essay, which can be found in your full references list.

Essay Structure

Introduction- 150 words

Give an overview of what the Essay aims to do. Give a definition of what is a business organisation cited from the core textbook. Explain briefly what will be discussed in the essay.

Paragraph 1: 300 Words

Define and outline two advantages and disadvantages of any three different types of business, for example: sole trader, partnership, limited company, etc. When defining and outlining advantages and disadvantages of a type of business, ensure that you explain the benefits and drawbacks of that business structure for the business owner. Use the core readings and other academic research for your information.

Paragraph 2: 300 words

You should define both tall and flat structures, using citations from core text, and elaborate on the advantages and disadvantages of each of them. You should use two different tourism organisations to support your writing. All of this section should draw on academic research – do not use google, use Google Scholar.

Paragraph 3: 300 words

Discuss any two business functions such as Human Resource Management, Production, Operations, etc. and their impact on the culture of the organisation. You can use the same companies you discussed previously.

Paragraph 4: 300 words

Define organisational culture using well-reputed sources and explain how positive culture impacts the success of the organisation. All your information should come from academic sources.

Conclusion: 150 words

Your conclusion should be a brief summary of all of the elements covered in the essay.   Important!  Do not introduce new ideas in your concluding paragraph. 

How your work will be assessed

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and your subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend upon your use of academic referencing conventions.Select three types of business organisations (e.g. sole proprietorship, limited, cooperative,…etc) and describe three advantages and disadvantages of each of them.

This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 0

Submission details

This assignment should be submitted electronically via Moodle (module tutors will discuss this process with you during class time).  

• Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format (Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, or PDF are the most widely used; Google Docs is also accepted). Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size.

• You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version. Demonstrate sound knowledge and understanding of a variety of business types and their functions

• Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment

• You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be viewed on the University website: Academic Misconduct Policy.  In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations.

Submission date and time

This assignment should be submitted to Moodle before: 14:00 Monday 16^th January 2023.

You should submit all work for summative assessments by the above deadline. The five percent penalty per day will be applied to the work submitted up to seven working days after the deadline, after which a mark of 0 will be recorded. The five percent penalty will be five percent of eligible mark.

For more information please refer to Student Handbook on Moodle.

Feedback and marks for this assignment will be available in three weeks from the deadline.