BBS6MLS Managing and Leading SMEs
Task
The assessment consists of a formative and a summative element.
1. Formative Assessment
- The formative task is there to help you complete the summative assessment task successfully.
- The formative process is important because it will help you address the task more fully and therefore contributes to your learning and understanding of the challenges facing SMEs and help you to consider how government policy might be designed to support SMEs to grow.
2. Summative Assessment
Topic: Achieving growth in British SMEs
- This task is an individual piece of work to be written in the style of an academic report.
- Support for SMEs, particularly those with growth ambitions is a key priority for government. This assignment is designed to give students the opportunity to consider some of the issues which face small business owners who wish to grow their business and to further consider how government policy might be designed to support SMEs to grow.
- You will be required to undertake a detailed evaluation of an small or medium sized enterprise (SME) sector/industry of your choice.
- You will be required to conduct a critical evaluation of:
1) The issues facing small business owners in the pursuit of business growth Some of the issues you may consider are:
Note: (Please refer to only 1 theme/issue)
- Access to finance and appropriate government support measures
- Access to international markets
- Availability of skilled labour
- Management skills
- Acquisition and implementation of technology
- Marketing strategies using social media
2) Any government support measures that may be available to help the business overcome the challenges faced
- Then you should provide a set of recommendations as to how government policy might be informed to support SMEs to achieve their growth objectives.
- The end result should be a clear, reasoned argument for recommendations as to how government policy can best support SME owners to achieve growth.
- Students are encouraged to focus their reading on academic journals and to a lesser extent key text in the area. The use of internet sources should be minimal, and Students are also expected to consistently support their work with reference to appropriate sources.
- Your research should draw on secondary data collection and be thoroughly supported by and grounded in the academic literature on SMEs.
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