Achievement of Module Learning Outcomes and Analysis of Business Environment

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 1 Obtain and interpret information relevant to an analysis of a firm's business environment.

LO 2 Assess the impact of government on the structure and operation of a business organisation.

LO 3 Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of changes in the business environment on business organisation and activity.

Using CW1 and feedback received from the lecturer you are to complete the following paper for your portfolio:

Paper 2 (CW2): Based on the key drivers identified in CW1 and its PESTLE analysis. This paper should consider a SWOT analysis, as well as examine the ways in which these key drivers can impact upon TWO of the firms functional areas such; Marketing, HRM, Operations, Finance and R&D.

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria as defined by your programme team.

This assignment should be submitted electronically. Please use the relevant Turnitin submission point in the

Submit your work area in your VLE module shell.Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the following file types: Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, or plain text. Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size.

·You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be viewed on the University In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations

·Please also note that work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be considered a late submission. Late submissions will be marked and the actual mark recorded, but will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard. Work submitted after this period will not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission.

This assignment should be submitted before 1400hrs 27th May 2020.

Feedback and marks for this assignment will be available 3 weeks after the submission deadline.

Demonstrates excellent understanding of the topic, objectivity and reference to theory. Provides appropriate level of additional research including use of benchmarks.

Demonstrates clear understanding of the topic, objectivity and reference to theory. Provides some research including benchmarks.

Demonstrates excellent level of creativity and industry examples in addressing the assignment tasks

Demonstrates weak levels of creativity and industry examples in addressing the assignment tasks

Demonstrates adequate level of creativity and industry examples in addressing the assignment tasks