MGT302 Contemporary Issues

LO1: Examine and critique contemporary issues relating to organisations and demonstrate familiarity with relevant published works.

LO2: Critically reflect on identified contemporary issues facing a specific organisation, including assessing the relevance and potential impacts.

This is a compulsory assignment. It must be submitted and it makes up 42% total of your final result for this paper.

Submission is required by the due date as prescribed.

Due Date: midnight Sunday, of week given in Study Guide, via Blackboard

Style: Annotated Bibliography

Contribution: 42%

Word count: approx. 3600 (600 words per assignment)

Referencing: Ensure all referencing uses APA 6th edition guidelines.

Presentation guidelines: Work is expected to be word-processed and submitted as a Word document or PDF, use a clear, readable font and be within 10% of the given word count (excluding any referencing). Include your name, student number and the paper code and assignment number as a header or footer. Spellchecking and proofreading of work prior to submission is strongly encouraged.

In order to arrive at a topic for research, it’s important you have the opportunity to explore some contemporary issues first.

You are required to submit six (6) annotated bibliography assignments worth 7% each (one for each issue covered in the list below).

Each assignment should list three (3) key authoritative readings on the given topic (a total of 18 over the six assignments). You are expected to engage in personal research to complete this task and the readings you chose have to be different from the sources presented in the course materials.

Assignment 1: Work-life balance.

Assignment 2: Engagement.

Assignment 3: Knowledge management.

Assignment 4: Corporate Social Responsibility.

Assignment 5: Contemporary issues in demographic change.

Assignment 6: Own choice.

• Refer to a specific context or an organisation as an example

• Identify the relevance and potential impacts for the specified organisation

• Evaluate the relevance of the source in relation to your major and the contemporary issue it covers.

Include full reference details for each reading using APA 6th edition guidelines.

Also submit the sources to the Bibliography Discussion Board thread on Blackboard as part of a collective research effort. You should find this wide list an advantage when trying to identify an area of interest to you and when sourcing readings for your personal research topic.