Assignment 1: | Administrative Details | | Submission Date: 9th January 2013 (midnight): online submission | | Work will be marked out of | 100 | | Absolute value of work | 50% | | Submission Details | | The assignment should be word processed and/or in an electronic format which can be accessed through the technology available on campus. Make sure that you enter your student enrolment number at the top of the document.
By submitting your work in this fashion you are agreeing to abide by the University’s regulations on plagiarism. Plagiarism is defined as presenting the work of someone else as your own. This includes statistical data, graphs, charts and any other graphically represented material. It also includes copying of another student’s work for submission as your own. For more information on this, read the University's Student Regulations. | | | | Outline Description | | You should submit a management report analysing the issues affecting the global business environment from the point of view of the case study SME (Elecdyne). The report must also utilise information from a range of sources, including on-line sources such as newspapers, websites etc. which should be located in appendices.
The report should be no longer than 2,500 words in length. It is important that you complete all the supplementary tasks for this module and participate in the discussion forums as they will help you complete this piece of assessment, which is based on the first two topics. | | Learning Outcomes | | This piece of assessed work contributes to the following learning outcome for this module: * Demonstrate an understanding and ability to critically analyse, evaluate and appraise the key internal and external contexts in which global business operates, and the ways in global business reacts to those contexts and changes in them in terms of comparison, evaluation, and subsequent