Assessment Information and Marking Criteria
You are to produce a 3,000­word submission to critically evaluate an organisation of your choice from the perspectives covered in the module. Evaluate how your company is a responsible business following the instructions below. You are to critically analyse and evaluate an organisation of your choice using ONE of the following perspectives:
• Business Ethics;
• Corporate Social Responsibility;
• Sustainability.

You are then invited to choose TWO issues for your perspective in order to critically analyse and evaluate your organisation’s practices ­ this is to enable your analysis and critical evaluation to be of sufficient depth for Level 5 work. In your analysis and critical evaluation you are required to consider to what extent or not the organisation is meeting its claims concerning the TWO issues you have chosen. The range of material you could include can be information provided by the organisation, for example, sustainability/CSR policies and reports, as well as information about the organisation e.g. stories in the media, including specific incidents the organisation has been involved in. However, you must conduct your own analysis of the material.

Outline for the Report
Title page (not part of the word count)
• The title of the report – give it a meaningful title that conveys to the reader what the report is about
• Your personal identification (SID)
• The date
• Word count (not including the excluded sections)

Contents page (not part of the word count).
Include a full list of sections within the report with page numbers. Please note that the following are excluded from the word count:

? title page
? contents page;
? abstracts;
? indented quotations (of more than 50 words);
? tables;
? figures;
? diagrams;
? footnotes/endnotes used for reference purposes and kept within reasonable limits;
? list of references and/or bibliography;
? appendices

Introduction (300 words)
• Brief introduction of the assignment to include the aims and/or purpose of your report.

Main body: Stakeholder analysis, Critical and Analysis and Evaluation (2250 words)

• Stakeholder analysis of the company (250 words): Brief description of the company highlighting its major features in relation to responsibility and sustainability. Use the framework for stakeholder analysis and comment on its usefulness in the application. [See uploaded stakeholder mapping illustration for framework example.]
• Critical Analysis and Evaluation (2000 words): Use appropriate evidence to show to what extent or not it upholds any claims it makes concerning the TWO issues you have chosen from your perspective. This is to enable your evaluation to be of sufficient depth for Level 5 work. Organise this section of your report into two sub­sections with appropriate headings i.e. ethics, sustainability, gender diversity and equality issues, or Corporate Social Responsibility (one for each of your issues; approximately 1000 words each). Each sub­section may include further sub­sections with headings. For each sub­section you should use theoretical or conceptual approaches that you are going to use to critically analyse and evaluate your organisation. You should address to what extent the organisation claims what it is or is not doing in doing in practice. For example, what are the main criticisms to the company’s approach to ethics, social responsibility, or sustainability?
Conclusions and Recommendations (450 words)
• Conclusions (250 words): Summarise your evaluation and analysis; do not present any new material here.
• Recommendations (200 Words): Provide THREE recommendations for the organisation where they could improve their practice.

References (not part of the word count)
• This is the list of sources (including web sources of company information) referred to directly in your report. It must include academic sources such as academic books and articles.
• Use the Harvard referencing system.

Appendices (not part of the word count)
This is where you can include relevant material about the company that you refer to in the main body of your report.
When writing your report it is very important that you pay very close attention to the information above and to the marking scheme below. For an in depth overview of the marking criteria, see the Marking Criteria table at the end of this section of the module guide.

MARKING CRITERIA

SUB-SECTIONS Mark Learning Objectives
INTRODUCTION Introduction 10% LO3
ANALYSIS & EVALUATION Stakeholder analysis of the company 75% LO2, LO1, LO3
Analysis of the Company using TWO perspectives.
Critical assessment
CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDTIONS Conclusions 15% LO2, LO3
Recommendations LO4

Assessment Information and Marking Criteria
You are to produce a 3,000­word submission to critically evaluate an organisation of your choice from the perspectives covered in the module. Evaluate how your company is a responsible business following the instructions below. You are to critically analyse and evaluate an organisation of your choice using ONE of the following perspectives:
• Business Ethics;
• Corporate Social Responsibility;
• Sustainability.

You are then invited to choose TWO issues for your perspective in order to critically analyse and evaluate your organisation’s practices ­ this is to enable your analysis and critical evaluation to be of sufficient depth for Level 5 work. In your analysis and critical evaluation you are required to consider to what extent or not the organisation is meeting its claims concerning the TWO issues you have chosen. The range of material you could include can be information provided by the organisation, for example, sustainability/CSR policies and reports, as well as information about the organisation e.g. stories in the media, including specific incidents the organisation has been involved in. However, you must conduct your own analysis of the material.

Outline for the Report
Title page (not part of the word count)
• The title of the report – give it a meaningful title that conveys to the reader what the report is about
• Your personal identification (SID)
• The date
• Word count (not including the excluded sections)

Contents page (not part of the word count).
Include a full list of sections within the report with page numbers. Please note that the following are excluded from the word count:

? title page
? contents page;
? abstracts;
? indented quotations (of more than 50 words);
? tables;
? figures;
? diagrams;
? footnotes/endnotes used for reference purposes and kept within reasonable limits;
? list of references and/or bibliography;
? appendices

Introduction (300 words)
• Brief introduction of the assignment to include the aims and/or purpose of your report.

Main body: Stakeholder analysis, Critical and Analysis and Evaluation (2250 words)

• Stakeholder analysis of the company (250 words): Brief description of the company highlighting its major features in relation to responsibility and sustainability. Use the framework for stakeholder analysis and comment on its usefulness in the application. [See uploaded stakeholder mapping illustration for framework example.]
• Critical Analysis and Evaluation (2000 words): Use appropriate evidence to show to what extent or not it upholds any claims it makes concerning the TWO issues you have chosen from your perspective. This is to enable your evaluation to be of sufficient depth for Level 5 work. Organise this section of your report into two sub­sections with appropriate headings i.e. ethics, sustainability, gender diversity and equality issues, or Corporate Social Responsibility (one for each of your issues; approximately 1000 words each). Each sub­section may include further sub­sections with headings. For each sub­section you should use theoretical or conceptual approaches that you are going to use to critically analyse and evaluate your organisation. You should address to what extent the organisation claims what it is or is not doing in doing in practice. For example, what are the main criticisms to the company’s approach to ethics, social responsibility, or sustainability?
Conclusions and Recommendations (450 words)
• Conclusions (250 words): Summarise your evaluation and analysis; do not present any new material here.
• Recommendations (200 Words): Provide THREE recommendations for the organisation where they could improve their practice.

References (not part of the word count)
• This is the list of sources (including web sources of company information) referred to directly in your report. It must include academic sources such as academic books and articles.
• Use the Harvard referencing system.

Appendices (not part of the word count)
This is where you can include relevant material about the company that you refer to in the main body of your report.
When writing your report it is very important that you pay very close attention to the information above and to the marking scheme below. For an in depth overview of the marking criteria, see the Marking Criteria table at the end of this section of the module guide.

MARKING CRITERIA

SUB-SECTIONS Mark Learning Objectives
INTRODUCTION Introduction 10% LO3
ANALYSIS & EVALUATION Stakeholder analysis of the company 75% LO2, LO1, LO3
Analysis of the Company using TWO perspectives.
Critical assessment
CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDTIONS Conclusions 15% LO2, LO3
Recommendations LO4