General Assessment Guidance - Your summative assessment for Leading Business Organisations is a Coursework submission. You are required to submit your assessment via Turnitin online access. Only submissions made via the specified mode will be accepted and hard copies or any other digital form of submissions (like via email or pen drive etc.) will not be accepted. For coursework, the submission word limit is 3500 words. You must comply with the word count guidelines. You may submit LESS than 3500 words but not more. Cover sheet, numerical Tables, diagrams, bibliography, appendices, annex and headings are NOT included within word count calculations. You must specify total word count on the front page of your report.

For coursework, please use font size 12 for body text and the typeface (font) should be Arial or Times New Roman with minimum 1.5 spacing. For headers and titles, please use font size 14. Your submission must have standard margins and page numbers. Please use English (UK) as your language in the submission. Do not put your name or contact details anywhere on your submission. You should only put your student registration number (SRN) which will ensure your submission is recognised in the marking process. A total of 100 marks are available for this module assessment and you are required to achieve minimum 50% to pass this module. You should include a completed copy of the Assignment Cover sheet. Any submission without this completed Assignment Cover sheet may be considered invalid and not marked. Each answer is worth 20 marks. You must attempt all of the tasks to achieve a pass.

Your answers should be in standard business writing format and expressed in the third person for questions one, two, three and four. References should demonstrate your critical engagement with module concepts, models and theory and include both academic and authoritative web-based and professional sources. It is important to show that you understand the limitations of the web sources and appreciate the significance of the professional and academic ones. This is evidenced by the number and the quality of the sources referenced. For this assessment, a minimum of 12-15 references is expected as evidence of broader reading and research. References must be cited using the Harvard Referencing Style. In addition any figures or graphs used in the report must have captions and, be properly referenced if these are not prepared by yourself.

General Grading Criteria - Strong evidence of a comprehensive and systematic understanding of an extensive range of appropriate issues, concepts, theories and research. Sustained excellence in the application of thoughts and practices at the forefront of the discipline. Consistently precise, accurate and reasoned analysis, synthesis and/or evaluation, addressing issues with insight or originality. Numeric analysis that is complete and free from errors with application of methods that may be insightful or original.

Extremely strong and consistent argument making a convincing whole with evidence of originality. Impressive dexterity in the use of information gathered to support the argument. Evidence of an innovative or original use of extensive personal research which has been thoroughly critically evaluated both conceptually and methodologically. Excellent structure and presentation Precise, full and appropriate references and notes. Subtle use of language expressing highly nuanced thought with clarity and precision to a level appropriate for submission for publication.