Corporate Responsibility and Ethical Decision-Making Assessment Brief

Evidence-based analysis: This means you should support and critically analyse arguments made within your work by providing proper justifications from academic articles and academic books (sourced via UoN library and NELSON) and/or from other creditable sources.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes that are being assessed in this assessment are:

A Explain the key underlying concepts of corporate responsibilities which underpin and contextualise legal and/or ethical obligation.

C Use ethical classifications/principles/theories to analyse and evaluate the role of media in the relationship between business and society.

D Explore the actual influence and impact of ethical/legal decision-making in an industry with global supplychains.

Your grade will depend on the extent to which you meet these learning outcomes in the way relevant for this assessment. Please see the grading rubric at the end of this assessment brief for further details of the criteria against which you will be assessed.

In accordance with the Assessment and Feedback Policy, as stated in section 4.40 where a submission exceeds the stipulated word limit by more than 10%, the submission will only be marked up to and including the additional 10%. Anything over this will not be included in the final grade for the assessment item.

Abstracts, bibliographies, reference lists, appendices and footnotes are excluded from any word limit requirements.

In line with section 4.41 of the same Policy, where a submission is notably under the word limit, the full submission will be marked on the extent to which the learning objectives have been met.

Face-2-Face support will be provided by your specific module tutor. Please arrange with your tutor to agree a time that is mutually convenient. An assignment support session will In addition, one assignment drop-in session and one assignment draft checking session will beprovided (see NILE).

You will find the generic grading criteria for achievement at University Grading Criteria. Also explained here are the meanings of the various G grades at the bottom of the grading scale.

To submit your work, please go to the ‘Submit your work’ area on the NILE site and use the relevant submission point to upload your report.

Written work submitted to TURNITIN will be subject to anti-plagiarism detection software. Turnitin checks student work for possible textual matches against internet available resources and its own proprietary database.

When you upload your work correctly to TURNITIN you will receive a receipt which is your record and proof of submission.

If your assessment is not submitted to TURNITIN rather than a receipt you will see a green banner at the top of the screen that denotes successful submission.

N.B Work emailed directly to your tutor will not be marked. The only exception to this is when you are instructed to do so because TURNITIN is down.

Late submission of work

For first sits, if an item of assessment is submitted late and an extension has not been granted, the following will apply:

• Within one week of the original deadline – work will be marked and returned with full feedback, and  awarded a maximum bare pass grade.

• More than one week from original deadline – maximum grade achievable LG (L indicating late).

Extensions

The University of Northampton’s general policy with regard to extensions is to be supportive of students who have genuine difficulties, but not against pressures of work that could have reasonably been anticipated.

For full details please refer to the Extensions Policy. The module leader can, where appropriate, authorise a short extension of up to two weeks from the original submission date for first sits only.

Mitigating Circumstances

For guidance on Mitigating circumstances please go to Mitigating Circumstances where you will find detailed guidance on the policy as well as guidance and the form for making an application. Please note, however, that an application to defer an assessment on the grounds of mitigating circumstances should normally be made in advance of the submission deadline or examination date.