Students are required to select an organisation (you wish to research, preferably one that produces an Annual Report. Also an organisation, which is large enough to facilitate analyse its internal structure and design choices. Please note — there are some organisations that are not allowed. Please discuss with the lecturer before starting your research.
Students are then required to research secondary sources for example, from any of the following journals (The Economist, Far Eastern Economic Review, Business Review Weekly, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, HR Monthly, or journals of similar nature) to critically analyse their selected organization. These sources generally provide externally debated issues facing the organisation, from there you can proceed to conduct a wider literature review on the company. Students are also required to gather an annual report or similar document on the company and read the major business sections of newspapers such as the Financial Review. However, we do not want a financial or market analysis of the organization.
Please note: due to the scope of the report, we definitely do not permit students undertaking any primary research investigation, such as interviews, questionnaires and so on. All materials sourced are to be of a secondary nature, such as annual reports, journal articles, press releases and so on.
Any articles sourced should be recent and preferably not more than five years old. The articles should be on an organisation rather than on an individual of the organisation. Please note that the articles will not directly reflect the principles of organisation design, therefore, you need to look into the implicit theories, models and themes that are in the articles for you to analyse. You can make realistic assumptions to some extent about the organisation.
Students are to chose one key determinant ONLY and analyse its impact on the organisation. For example chose one of the following: Culture, Change, Environment, Strategy, Technology, Size.
Students are also required to apply one of the Organisation Effectiveness models as part of their critical analysis, this allows recommendations and solutions to be posed for the organisation.
Ask the question: What current issues are facing the organisation from an internal and external perspective, how can the organisation re-align any identified gaps?
The presentation of the findings of the study in the research paper will include a description of the process and research method used to gather the information, and its limitations; identification and explanation of the activities undertaken by the organisation and some comment on the activities as they relate to the theories and practices presented in the course- that is, drawing links or identifying differences between theory and practice.
The author’s viewpoints in this paper should be related to the appropriate literature. The paper should be up to 3000 words in length and include a reference list.
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