Final assessment: controlled exam
Undergraduate Major Project (UMP) Part-two
Chosen Organisation: OakNorth Bank PLC
In 2000 words, answer one of these tasks:
1. Devise, explain and assess an appropriate implementation plan for one solution to resolve the challenges confronting your organisation.
2. Describe and critically assess some challenges facing your organisation and consider the extent and possibility of solving them.
3. Consider how stakeholders may benefit from different solutions to the challenges confronting your organisation.
4. Examine how the sector’s strategic environment sets up the challenges facing your organisation.
Format of submission
• You should include the name of your chosen organisation and the task you have chosen to answer, as the main heading of your submission, before writing your answer.
• You should structure your answer as an essay, with an introduction, main body and conclusion.
• You should include a minimum of 20 academic sources within your work to support your answer.
• You should include a Harvard-formatted reference list at the end of the submission, that includes all cited sources.
• You should proofread your work prior to submission to reduce likelihood of errors.
Assessment criteria: Task 1
1. Devise, explain and assess an appropriate implementation plan for one solution to resolve the challenges confronting your organisation.
• Coherent and logically structured explanation of the implementation plan for one specific solution
• An appropriate input-output model should be used to structure explanation of the implementation plan
• Clear, appropriate and well supported assessment of how the plan addresses the organisation’s challenge.
• All discussions should be supported by current and relevant evidence and data, that is accurately cited using Harvard Referencing
Assessment criteria: Task 2
2. Describe and critically assess some challenges facing your organisation and consider the extent and possibility of solving them (2 challenges and two solutions).
• Coherent and logically structured examination of the challenges facing the organisation
• Clear indication of the influencing factors that have led to the challenges that the organisation is facing
• Propose relevant and appropriate solutions to justify how the identified challenges can be solved.
• Use of appropriate theories and/or models to support your explanations
• All discussions should be supported by current and relevant evidence and data, that is accurately cited using Harvard Referencing
Assessment criteria: Task 3
3. Consider how stakeholders may benefit from different solutions to the challenges confronting your organisation.
• Clear indication of one challenge facing the organisation, with appropriate solutions proposed to address this challenge.
• Critical evaluation of the solutions and their impacts upon the organisation’s stakeholders
• Both positive and negative impacts should be included within your evaluation
• Use of appropriate theories and/or models to support your explanations
• All discussions should be supported by current and relevant evidence and data, that is accurately cited using Harvard Referencing
Assessment criteria: Task 4
4. Examine how the sector’s strategic environment sets up the challenges facing your organisation.
• Clear identification of the sector relevant to your organisation and the strategic issues it faces
• Coherent and logically structured examination of the relationship between the sector’s environment and the challenges facing the organisation
• Clear judgement evidenced of the extent of the influence the sector’s environment has upon the challenges facing the organisation
• Use of appropriate theories and/or models to support your explanations
• All discussions should be supported by current and relevant evidence and data, that is accurately cited using Harvard Referencing
UMP Style Sheet
• UMP has a style sheet which is a set of minimum requirements designed to guide your project
• Your written answers must adhere to the requirements of the style sheet
• It covers referencing, quoting and summarising, formatting and other points.
UMP Style Sheet points 1-10
1. Always reference statistics in the body of the text including a page number where there is one e.g. (IMF, 2018: 321).
2. Always reference qualitative evidence, interviews etc. in the body of the text including page number where there is one e.g. (Smith, 2019: 36).
3. Any text copied from another source must be referenced as a quote. It is a serious matter of academic malpractice not to do so.
4. Always reference “quotes” in the body of the text including page number where there is one e.g. (Jones, 2017: 32).
5. Quotes should be limited to 30 < words max, and preferably less, in a short assignment like this. 6. Very short quotes i.e. 5
