Essay on Contemporary Business Issues in a Globalized Environment

Assignment 1 – Essay (100 % weighting)

Write an essay of not more than 2,500 words analyzing how globalization has influenced you as an individual and a firm or an organization in either (a) The Telecommunication or (b) the transport industry.

In your work, you should:

1. Discuss globalization and
2. Put forward arguments to include at least three (3) of the external environmental factors from the list of factors identified below.

External Factors to select from 

1. Socio-cultural
2. Political
3. Legal
4. Ecological
5. Financial
6. Technological

Note: The word limit does not include the table of content, the industry/sector profile, tables, diagrams, appendices or references.

You will normally be allowed +/- 10% of your word count limit. Make sure you follow this and state it on your title page. (Include a word count on your title page.).

Guidance notes for Essay:

• Your essay must clearly demonstrate knowledge and understanding from research and read wider than was covered in your lecture, seminars, and the core textbook.
• This is an academic piece of work. Therefore, you are expected to link theory and practice.
• You should take care to ensure that the work you submit has a high standard of presentation.
• This is an individual assignment.
• You must acknowledge your sources of information and evidence using the Harvard referencing system.

Summarising and compressing the information in your assignment into the word limit is one of the skills that students are expected to acquire, and demonstrate as part of the assignment process?

• The word limit is set as 2,500 words.

If this is exceeded then the following penalty will have to be applied:

Exceeds limit by up to 10%	No penalty – tolerance band (see
Exceeds limit by 10.1-20%	-5 percentage points
Exceeds limit by 20.1-30%	-10 percentage points
Exceeds limit by 30.1-40%	-15 percentage points
Exceeds limit by 40.1-50%	-20 percentage points
Exceeds limit by more than 50%	Mark of zero

• All assignments are subject to the University’s regulations on collusion and plagiarism.
• Assignments must be submitted online to the designated Turnitin folder on Canvas and to JIRA for marking. 

Assessment Criteria   -     Categories
	Relevance	Knowledge	Analysis	Argument and Structure	Critical Evaluation	Presentation	Reference to Literature
86 – 100%	The work examined is exemplary and provides clear evidence of a complete grasp of the knowledge, understanding and skills appropriate to the Level of the qualification. There is also unequivocal evidence showing that all the learning outcomes and responsibilities appropriate to that Level are fully satisfied. At this level it is expected that the work will be exemplary in all categories cited above. It will demonstrate a particularly compelling evaluation, originality, and elegance of argument, interpretation or discourse.
76 - 85%	The work examined is excellent and demonstrates comprehensive knowledge, understanding and skills appropriate to the Level of the qualification. There is also excellent evidence showing that all the learning outcomes and responsibilities appropriate to that level are fully satisfied. At this level it is expected that the work will be excellent in the majority of the categories cited above or by demonstrating particularly compelling evaluation and elegance of argument, interpretation ordiscourse
70 - 75%	The work examined is of a high standard and there is evidence of comprehensive knowledge, understanding and skills appropriate to the Level of the qualification. There is clearly articulated evidence showing that all the learning outcomes and responsibilities appropriate to that level are fully satisfied. At this level it is expected that the standard of the work will be high in the majority of the categories cited above or by demonstrating particularly compelling evaluation and elegance of argument, interpretation or discourse
60 – 69%	Directly relevant to the requirements of the assessment	Accurate knowledge and sound understanding of key concepts and principles relevant to the discipline/ topic area.	Good analysis with clear and orderly development of arguments. Links between analysis and solutions to problems is demonstrated.	Argument presented clearly supported by reference to theory appropriate to the context	Confident description of relevant ideas with highly appropriate application	Well written with standard spelling and grammar, in a readable style with acceptable format	Appropriate use of relevant literature. Acknowledgement of different perspectives. Good use of source material. Use of a range of sources including a substantive amount from beyond the library

 

50 – 59%	Some attempt to address the requirements of the assessment: may drift away from this in less focused passages	Adequate knowledge and understanding demonstrated through the identification and use of key concepts and principles relevant to the discipline/ topic	Some analysis present based on simple logic, demonstrating improved understanding, but with some reliance on descriptive or	Some coherence of argument evident but may suffer from some lack of consistency and focus. There will be limited	Adequate description of relevant ideas with mostly appropriate application	Competently written with only minor lapses from standard grammar, with acceptable format	Use of literature which includes and relevant though not necessarily including a substantive amount beyond library texts. Adequate use of source material
40 – 49%	Some correlation with the requirements of the assessment but there are instances of irrelevance	There is limited though sufficient evidence of knowledge and understanding demonstrated through the identification of and	Largely descriptive or narrative based with limited evidence or analysis, or links to solutions of problems.	Argument largely supported by assertion with only some reference to relevant theory. Logic and coherence of	Basic description of some relevant ideas but with minimal application and little	A simple, basic style but with significant deficiencies in expression or format that may pose obstacles for the reader	Some appropriate literature used to support the text. Does not necessarily go beyond material tutor has provided. Limited use of sources to support a point
35 – 39%	Relevance to the requirements of the assessment may be very intermittent and may be reduced to its vaguest and least	The work examined provides insufficient evidence of knowledge and skills required at this level. The work is weak in terms of demonstrating	Heavy reliance on descriptive content and/or paraphrasing. Findings may be irrelevant, contradictory, or not based on	Basic argument which may be inconsistent with little reference to theory. Lack of coherence and clarity in the structure.	Incomplete description of relevant ideas with no application or analysis	Numerous deficiencies in expression and presentation; the writer may achieve clarity (if at all) only by using a simplistic	Very limited use of literature. Over reliance on some of material provided by the tutor
	The evidence provided shows that the majority of the learning outcomes and responsibilities appropriate to that Level are satisfied - For Compensation consideration.
30 – 34%	The work examined provides insufficient evidence of the knowledge, understanding and skills appropriate to the Level of the qualification. The evidence provided shows that some of the learning outcomes and responsibilities appropriate to the level are satisfied. The work is weak in some of the indicators
15 –	The work examined is unacceptable and provides little evidence of the knowledge, understanding and skills appropriate to the Level of the
29%	qualification. The evidence provided shows that few of the learning outcomes and responsibilities appropriate to the level are satisfied. The work will
0 –	The work examined is unacceptable and provides almost no evidence of the knowledge, understanding and skills appropriate to the Level of the