Answer the following TWO QUESTIONS by referring to course material and examples from your professional or personal experience.
All successful collaborations aim to achieve collaborative advantage. This, however, is not easily realised. Based on the course material, and using examples from your professional or personal life:
Positive outcomes are not always an end result for collaborations. Collaborations might be set on two-legged outcomes from the start. Accordingly, setting aims is not enough by itself. Managing aims is regarded as essential for better collaborative results. In the context of a local organizational collaboration of your choice, discuss the importance of managing aims and how the presence of some elements might generate negative episodes that a collaboration can face. Support your discussion with examples. 600 words.
Hint: you need to provide your discussion in an essay format. Make sure NOT TO PROVIDE A DESCRIPTIVE ANSWER; take an analytical approach to the discussion and support your answer with examples from your professional and/or personal experience.
1. Cut-off date:May 5, 2020.
2. Course material:
3. Format/presentation(including PT3 form): You are expected to write your answers in essay format. You may, however, use bullet points, diagrams, tables, or any graphs to support your arguments. Failing to do so could result in grade deduction from presentation marks up to 5 marks.
4. Plagiarism: Your submitted STMA will be uploaded on Turn-It-In.It’s imperative that you write your answers using your own words. Plagiarism will be penalized depending on its severity and according to AOU plagiarism policy (Enclosed after these instructions you will find the Arab Open University rules of cheating and plagiarism).
5. Word count:Your answers are expected to be within the specified word count. A 10% deviation from word count limit is acceptable. Not adhering to specified word count could result in grade deduction from word count marks up to 5 marks.
6. Referencing:You are expected to use the Harvard referencing style for in-text referencing and list of reference at the end. In addition, although text books assigned in the course may be used freely as references. It is recommended that you use a minimum of 1 external source. It is also recommended that you use scholarly studies found in the E-library link at the LMS.