Author: chris

Part 1 : OPERATIONS STRATEGY
Type: Individual Assignment – 1500 words.
Format: Business Report (Case study)

A Business report has to start with a good executive summary, then main body in ‘lay terms’ with lots of graphs, the text should flow and all technical reports should be kept in the appendix; It should be well printed, formatted and with a nice cover and binding. The main body should be about 1500 words while the executive summary should be no more than one page and preferable about 10 lines. 50% of the assignment mark will be based on the overall format and 50% for the actual content.

WORD COUNT: 1500
DUE DATE: 2 JUL

Part 2 : DEMAND FORECASTING
Type: Individual Assignment – 1500 words.
Format: ACADEMIC Report

Real Case study
Scenario:
Write an essay of 1500 words on how you can: “Forecast the worldwide sales of iphone 7 within the first three months of its launch”. Do provide a quantitative forecast for this and also provide a series of arguments (or numerical calculations) that support your prediction

SELECT ONE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY CASE (with operations in its home country and at least one other foreign host country) with which you are familiar – one that you can access relevant HRM information about (for example, one you have worked for, had an internship in, an organisation familiar to family/friends, or that you have been able to find detailed information about in journal articles, books, newspapers, internet). Or you can make up a fictitious multinational company case!

a. In an economic boom (with strong economic growth), as a HR manager what HR strategy and practices would you pursue if demand for workers in your company greatly exceeded supply of workers?
b. Conversely, in an economic crisis (e.g. deep recession like in 2008), as a HR manager what HR strategy and practices would you pursue if supply of workers in your company greatly exceeded demand for workers?

• Write a reflective summary which includes information about
 How you prepared for your interview
 Your performance during the interview (an analysis, strengths and weaknesses)
 Identify areas for improvement.

The coursework consists of a group assignment (project, report and presentation). The group presentation and one 3000 individual report, based on an export project, will assess the following intended learning outcomes:
• Critically analyse and evaluate the trade exchanges at both quantitative and qualitative levels.
• Show knowledge of the main trade, investment and promotion tools.
• Demonstrate understanding and capability to elaborate an articulated export strategy for an international company, comprehensive of all the main phases and with discussion of its critical issues.

Individual Assignment:

“Critically assess the role that methodologies can play in the delivery of benefit to organisations from the projects they run.”

Depending on what will be of most value to you, you can choose to take a narrower focus on one of three areas:
• How organisations approach and manage aligning projects with their organisational strategy
• How organisations approach and manage the delivery of projects in a structured manner
• How organisations approach and manage the identification and evaluation of benefits from projects at the organisational level

Assessment for this module is in the form of one written assignment of 2500 words. The assignment should identify and critically analyze some aspect of HR strategy and/or practice in place in a specific organisation. The analysis should be well supported by theory and evidence and should lead to clearly stated conclusions or recommendations for change.

Using the literature and drawing upon your own experience, critically reflect on how you make sense of organisations, yours/others leadership approach and the nature of organisational change. Suggest how you might be more effective.

(i) Identify and describe a change (current or past) in an organisation in which you have been employed or actively participated. Ideally this should be a change that you have initiated or have been an active participant.
(ii) Critically evaluate the change event drawing upon organisational, leadership and change literature.
(iii) Reflect on it at a personal level – feelings engendered in response to any aspect of the experience.
(iv) Suggest how it might have been improved in practice.

1. Identify the vision and strategy of either
• the entire organisation or
• one unit of the organisation, or
• one major long-term financial and strategic investment that the company is involved with.
2. Using published information and material from Coursework 1, prepare a Balanced Scorecard suitable for use by the directors and managers of your organisation to align business activities to the identified vision and strategy, and to monitor performance against strategic goals.
3. Build a strategy map to describe and explain how each aspect of the scorecard can assist your company in achieving its goals and targets.
4. Summarise your recommendations to the Board.
5. Critically discuss and evaluate, with reference to your particular case, the use of Balanced Scorecards for performance management and monitoring.
6. Provide a meaningful Executive Summary of approximately 200 words at the beginning of your report.
7. Format your report professionally and acknowledge all sources according to CULC

Aim

This coursework assignment for this module assesses all of the Learning Outcomes for the module. These are to be able to ;

1. Evaluate International Operations Management real world scenarios.
2. Demonstrate critical awareness of the issues, problems and practices that characterise International Operations Management.
3. Critically evaluate and apply International Operations Management techniques in different national and cultural settings
4. Apply the issues that are associated with FDI, outsourcing, CSR to the sustainability of International Operations Management