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Leadership in a Digital Age
5,000 words
Advanced Practice Research Project – Reflective Individual Report and Poster Presentation
This assessment requires students to produce a 5,000-word individual business consultancy report based on a chosen organisation. The selected organisation may be a private company, a public organisation that is not government owned, or a non-governmental organisation. The chosen organisation acts as the client and the student takes the role of a consultant who investigates a current or potential business challenge, examines the resulting issues and develops recommendations that can provide strategic value to the organisation and its wider industry. The project requires students to formulate a business project that has strategic importance within a chosen area of management. The report should identify a specific organisational challenge and the issues resulting from that challenge, supported by recent evidence demonstrating that the challenge is ongoing, unresolved or likely to become significant in the future. The challenge should be connected to current affairs and emerging trends within the relevant industry and business environment. The report should also provide a consultant's perspective on why the challenge matters to the selected organisation. A clear purpose for the report must be established. This should explain why the selected challenge and issues are being investigated, how the research will benefit the client organisation and how the project relates to the chosen organisational specialisation area. The report should demonstrate an understanding of the importance of strategy in business and establish a clear connection between the identified problem, the research undertaken and the proposed solutions. Stakeholder analysis is a major component of the assessment. Students must identify relevant internal and external stakeholders, explain their relationship with the identified challenge and issues, and evaluate the impact of the research on these stakeholder groups. The analysis should consider stakeholder power and interest and demonstrate how the proposed project and its findings could affect different stakeholders. The main analytical section requires the use of secondary data, including both conceptual and numerical evidence. Students should critically evaluate relevant information using appropriate management frameworks and analytical approaches. The evidence should be used to investigate the challenge, understand its causes and consequences, and support the development of appropriate recommendations. The report should demonstrate critical thinking rather than simply describing information. The final section provides recommendations designed to resolve the identified challenge and resulting issues. Recommendations should be directly supported by the secondary-data analysis and critical evaluation and should be relevant and realistic for the selected organisation. The conclusion should return to the central challenge and explain how the purpose of the report has been addressed, while demonstrating the strategic value of the recommendations for the organisation and, where appropriate, the wider industry. The recommended structure consists of a declaration page, title page, contents, executive summary, introduction, challenge and issues, purpose of the report, stakeholder analysis, evaluation and analysis of secondary data, recommendations and conclusion, Harvard references and appendices where required. The suggested allocation is approximately 500 words for the executive summary, 300 for the introduction, 500 for the challenge and issues, 200 for the purpose, 600 for stakeholder impact, 2,000 for secondary-data evaluation and 900 for recommendations and conclusion. The total report length is 5,000 words, excluding the front cover, contents, bibliography and appendices.
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Business Project
5,000 words
Business Consultancy Project: Strategic Analysis of a Business Challenge
This assessment requires students to produce a 5,000-word individual business consultancy report based on a chosen organisation. The selected organisation may be a private company, a public organisation that is not government owned, or a non-governmental organisation. The chosen organisation acts as the client and the student takes the role of a consultant who investigates a current or potential business challenge, examines the resulting issues and develops recommendations that can provide strategic value to the organisation and its wider industry. The project requires students to formulate a business project that has strategic importance within a chosen area of management. The report should identify a specific organisational challenge and the issues resulting from that challenge, supported by recent evidence demonstrating that the challenge is ongoing, unresolved or likely to become significant in the future. The challenge should be connected to current affairs and emerging trends within the relevant industry and business environment. The report should also provide a consultant's perspective on why the challenge matters to the selected organisation. A clear purpose for the report must be established. This should explain why the selected challenge and issues are being investigated, how the research will benefit the client organisation and how the project relates to the chosen organisational specialisation area. The report should demonstrate an understanding of the importance of strategy in business and establish a clear connection between the identified problem, the research undertaken and the proposed solutions. Stakeholder analysis is a major component of the assessment. Students must identify relevant internal and external stakeholders, explain their relationship with the identified challenge and issues, and evaluate the impact of the research on these stakeholder groups. The analysis should consider stakeholder power and interest and demonstrate how the proposed project and its findings could affect different stakeholders. The main analytical section requires the use of secondary data, including both conceptual and numerical evidence. Students should critically evaluate relevant information using appropriate management frameworks and analytical approaches. The evidence should be used to investigate the challenge, understand its causes and consequences, and support the development of appropriate recommendations. The report should demonstrate critical thinking rather than simply describing information. The final section provides recommendations designed to resolve the identified challenge and resulting issues. Recommendations should be directly supported by the secondary-data analysis and critical evaluation and should be relevant and realistic for the selected organisation. The conclusion should return to the central challenge and explain how the purpose of the report has been addressed, while demonstrating the strategic value of the recommendations for the organisation and, where appropriate, the wider industry. The recommended structure consists of a declaration page, title page, contents, executive summary, introduction, challenge and issues, purpose of the report, stakeholder analysis, evaluation and analysis of secondary data, recommendations and conclusion, Harvard references and appendices where required. The suggested allocation is approximately 500 words for the executive summary, 300 for the introduction, 500 for the challenge and issues, 200 for the purpose, 600 for stakeholder impact, 2,000 for secondary-data evaluation and 900 for recommendations and conclusion. The total report length is 5,000 words, excluding the front cover, contents, bibliography and appendices.
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Strategic Management / Sustainability / Responsible Leadership
2,500 words
Organisational Strategy and Sustainability: Strategic Evaluation of Engineers & Planners Company Ltd
This Consultancy Project Proposal assessment requires students to develop a professional and feasible research proposal addressing a current organisational issue or business challenge affecting an existing organisation. The work combines critical business analysis with research design, secondary-data methodology, ethics and visual communication through an accompanying one-page digital poster. MSc Management Summative Assess… The first task requires students to introduce the selected organisation and critically examine between one and three current challenges. The discussion must be evidence-based and supported by recent sources. Stronger work should connect the identified issues to current affairs, recent news, Sustainable Development Goals and relevant academic or company evidence. MSc Management Summative Assess… The second task requires development of a clear research aim, three objectives and, for stronger submissions, one or two research questions. Students must demonstrate awareness and application of research methodology using secondary research only, while incorporating both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The research design should be directly connected to the selected organisational challenges. MSc Management Summative Assess… The third task focuses on the research plan and ethical considerations. Students must explain ethical issues associated with secondary-data collection and support the discussion using credible literature. The accompanying poster should present a coherent research plan and demonstrate effective data-analysis and data-presentation skills through relevant graphs, charts, tables or descriptive statistics. MSc Management Summative Assess… The fourth task assesses the student's ability to critically organise and synthesise information into a coherent proposal. The written report should use recent, credible sources, while the poster should include a short reflection on challenges encountered when synthesising evidence for the proposed study. MSc Management Summative Assess… The report must be written in the third person and use Harvard referencing. The proposed structure allocates approximately 150 words to the introduction, 400 words to the challenge discussion, 150 words to the research aim and objectives, 500 words to methodology, 200 words to ethical considerations and 100 words to the conclusion. The digital poster has no formal word count but must fit on a single A4 page and use a readable 10–12 point font. MSc Management Summative Assess… MSc Management Summative Assess… Overall, the assessment develops skills in consultancy problem definition, research design, secondary-data analysis, mixed-method thinking, ethical research practice, critical synthesis and professional visual communication.
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Consultancy Project
1,500 words
Consultancy Project Proposal
This assessment requires students to develop a professional Consultancy Project Proposal addressing a current organisational issue or business challenge. The assessment consists of a 1,500-word individual project proposal worth 80% of the module grade and an A4 Consultancy Project Proposal Digital Poster worth 20%. The proposal should provide an in-depth analysis of a selected business or management issue and establish a comprehensive research methodology for investigating the identified challenge. The assignment requires students to select an existing organisation and critically examine between one and three current and ongoing organisational challenges. The discussion should be evidence-based and supported by relevant, recent and credible sources, such as academic journals, company reports and other appropriate research. Students are encouraged to establish links between the selected challenges, current affairs, news events and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals where relevant. The proposal must establish a clear research aim and three research objectives connected to the selected organisational challenges. Students must demonstrate awareness and application of appropriate research methodologies, including consideration of qualitative and quantitative approaches. The assessment also encourages the development of one or two concise research questions and requires students to demonstrate how the selected research methods can be applied to investigate the identified challenges. Students must also develop a feasible research plan and discuss ethical considerations, particularly those relating to secondary data collection. The digital poster should communicate the research plan clearly and demonstrate data analysis and data presentation skills through appropriate graphs, charts and tables. The final proposal should critically organise and synthesise information, provide a clear conclusion, and maintain professional academic standards. The recommended structure consists of a cover page, table of contents, list of abbreviations where appropriate, introduction, critical discussion of challenges, research aim and objectives, application of research methodologies, ethical considerations, research plan, critical organisation and synthesis of information, conclusion, references, the Consultancy Project Proposal Digital Poster and appendices where required. The main proposal has a 1,500-word limit, while the digital poster should not exceed one A4 page. The assignment requires Harvard referencing and the report should be written in the third person.
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Business Management / Strategic Management
50,000 words
Starbucks Labour Relations and Unionisation: Strategic Business Consultancy Analysis
his Masters-level Business Project presents a strategic consultancy analysis of Starbucks, focusing on the company's ongoing labour-relations challenges, unionisation disputes and associated legal, operational and reputational implications. The project examines how employee relations and organised labour can develop from a human-resource concern into a wider strategic management issue affecting corporate governance, organisational performance, stakeholder trust and long-term brand value. The report follows the consultancy structure required by the Business Project assessment, beginning with identification of a current organisational challenge and the resulting issues affecting the client organisation. The official brief requires the selected challenge to be connected with current affairs, emerging industry trends and the organisation's wider business strategy. It also requires evaluation of both internal and external stakeholders and analysis using conceptual and numerical secondary data. In the completed project, Starbucks' labour dispute and unionisation environment are examined through several strategic-management frameworks. PESTLE analysis is used to assess political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental influences surrounding labour relations. SWOT analysis evaluates Starbucks' organisational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, while Porter's Generic Strategies considers the relationship between differentiation, competitive positioning and labour-management practices. The project also applies stakeholder analysis to groups including senior leadership, employees, unions, regulators, customers, investors and other external stakeholders. A major part of the analysis considers stakeholder power, interest, legitimacy and urgency. The assessment brief specifically requires students to identify internal and external stakeholders, assess their power and interests, and evaluate how the investigated business challenge affects each stakeholder group. The project concludes with evidence-based strategic recommendations designed to improve labour relations, governance and organisational resilience. Recommendations include strengthening good-faith bargaining, developing more consistent labour-governance practices, improving workforce systems and employee participation, incorporating labour-relations indicators into ESG and corporate reporting, and adopting a coordinated legal and reputation-management strategy. Overall, the work demonstrates the application of strategic management, stakeholder analysis, corporate governance, HRM and secondary-data evaluation to a contemporary organisational challenge. The official assessment requires recommendations to arise directly from the critical analysis and to explain how they create strategic value for the client organisation and its wider industry. The completed submission itself is titled Business Project and focuses on Starbucks; its contents include the organisational challenge, purpose of the report, stakeholder impact, secondary-data evaluation, and recommendations and conclusion.
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