Provide a 1,000 word individual essay critically evaluating the strategy statement you developed in the first report assessment.

Strategy as Practice Perspective Essay

Learning Outcomes Covered

At the end of this assessment students should be able to:

Critically evaluate strategy statements in terms of their ability to incorporate internationalization, ethics, sustainability, or inclusivity

Tasks

You are required to provide a 1,000 word individual essay critically evaluating the strategy statement you developed in the first report assessment. The evaluation itself involves critiquing it from either the perspective of internationalization, ethics, sustainability, and inclusivity.

In order to decide which aspect to focus on have a look at your strategy statement and see what is missing:

If internationalization, ethics, sustainability and inclusivity are missing then you can choose to focus on any ONE of those four topics

If your strategy statement already covers one topic (e.g. internationalization) then you can choose from any ONE of the other three (e.g. ethics, sustainability or inclusivity)

If your strategy statement already covers two (e.g. internationalization and ethics) then you and choose ONE from the remaining two topics (e.g. sustainability or inclusivity)

If your strategy statement already covers three topics (e.g. ethics, internationalization and sustainability) then you must focus on the ONE remaining area (e.g. inclusivity)

In the unlikely event that your strategy statement covers all four areas then you simply pick the topic that has the least emphasis on it.

Once the topic has been chosen, you then critically evaluate the limits of your own strategy statement in that area using the literature to help you.

When writing the essay you may to structure it in the following way:

Introduction A clear and concise section that reintroduces the original strategy statement, introduces the topic that is the focus of the essay, and outlines the structure of the essay.

Main Body A section that critically examines the strategy statement in terms of the topic being explored. This section will highlight the limits of the strategy statement in addressing the chosen topic. For example, if looking at inclusivity this section will highlight the implications for the organization’s strategy resulting from not having inclusivity in the strategy statement and what might the benefits be of including it. Throughout the literature will be used to develop depth in the critical evaluation.

Revised Strategy In this section the student will revise the strategy statement in light of Statement the evaluation made in the main body demonstrating the links to the main body and showing the differences from the original strategy statement.

Formatting Guidelines

Submission must be 1.5 spaced (this includes references) in a suitable font (Times New Roma, Calibri, Arial) with generous margins.

Submissions should not exceed 1,500 word in length. The word count does not include tables, figures and references.

To permit anonymity, the students’ name should not appear on the submission.
Footnotes and endnotes should not be used.

When including diagrams students should ensure that it is of the highest quality. Poor definition reproductions will not be suitable.

Tables and figures should be numbered separately. Each table and figure should be given a title.
References should be listed alphabetically by author surname at the end of the essay.

In the essay, where the author’s name appears, the date should follow in parentheses, e.g. Mintzberg (1985). If the author’s name is not present in the text, insert it with the author’s name and date in parentheses, e.g. (Mintzberg, 1985). Multiple references should be listed alphabetically in parentheses, separated by semicolons e.g., (Jackson, 1996; Watson, 1986).

Page numbers, to indicate a passage of special relevance or to give the source of a quotation, should appear in parentheses as (Wilmott, 1992, p.12). If there is more than one reference to the same author in the same year, postscript the date with a, b, c, etc. e.g., (Sparrow, 1998a)

Referencing should follow Harvard APA 7th Edition
Students should follow submission guidelines on Moodle when submitting their essay

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