Strategic Management Assessment Briefing and Guidelines

Assessment Details for Strategic Management

The purpose of assessment (assignments, examinations, debates, reports and other methods) is to assess your level of knowledge and understanding of a particular subject area. Additionally, it assesses, amongst others things, your cognitive skill sets.

This briefing document provides:
1. The details of the assessment for Strategic Management.

2 Advice and guidance for undertaking this assessment. This advice and guidance is the culmination of many years’ experience of teaching and assessing at postgraduate level. As stated, both here and in other documents (indicated within this document) it is in your best interest to actively engage with your studies and prepare for the assessment.You will receive marks and written feedback on both submissions. However, it is your responsibility to engage with the feedback and seek to enhance your CW2 submission.

Please Note: You must achieve a minimum of 40% to pass this module. Work submitted late will not be marked and you will be required to resit the assessment next term where your mark will be capped at a maximum of 40%. Unless appropriate evidence is provided a non-submission will mean that you have failed the module. Please refer to the module and course handbook for the specific details.

Creating a Planning Schedule
It is vital that you plan your time in order to conduct the research and prepare drafts prior to your submissions. It is suggested that you create a plan with specific dates, for example a Gantt chart. Do not leave the research and writing until just before submission as this is a high-risk strategy and can significantly reduce your potential for success. Our advice is to start planning both elements of CW1 as soon as you finish reading this briefing document. [A useful resource is Stella Cottrell’s book The Study Skills Handbook, published by Palgrave Macmillan. There are copies in the Library.]

Assessment Learning Outcomes

A sub-set of these is a set of Assessment Outcomes which link to the Rubric as stated below:

Critical analyse of the organisation’s strategic direction, determining which theoretical models have valid applications in different environmental contexts and making practical use of mainstream strategy concepts to assess the organisation strategic direction.

Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Learning Outcomes

The following learning outcomes need to be clearly met in your coursework to ensure that you meet the criteria for the double accreditation which includes a Level 7 certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership.

Reviewing organizational strategy and plans and performance

1. Be able to review the organizational strategic aims and objectives.
2. Be able to analyse progress towards organizational strategic aims and objectives
3. Be able to evaluate strategic options to support a revised strategic position