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A150: Voices and Texts
TMA: Spring 2017– 2018


Identity and Expression
This assignment relates to Book 1 , Voices and Texts of Authority Chapter. 2 ‘Canons and Classics in Literature and Music’ and write your essay in about 1200 words.
Question
John Donne has been called ‘the most electrifying poet in the English language’ by the popular modern historian Simon Schama (2009). How far this comment supports Donne’s canonical status?





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Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
BE322/4 -- Second Semester 2017-2018
Tutor Marked Assessment

I. TMA Topic overview: Business Plan


One vehicle for acquiring an understanding of the entrepreneurial process is through the preparation of a start-up business plan. The focus of this TMA is to select a business idea and create a complete and persuasive mini- business plan. Writing a business plan requires you to ask tough questions about the nature of the business.
• What are the benefits of your product or service?
• What is the target market and how will you penetrate it?
• How will you develop and produce the product or service?
• What is required from the management team?
• What are the risks of the venture and what can you do to reduce them?
• What are the financial implications of the plan?
• What resources, including funding, are required to successfully create the business plan?

II. TMA components (for essay paper and PowerPoint presentation)

A. The Written Plan: The body of the written business plan should be no more than 10 pages including the executive summary and all financial statements. Plans must include an explanation of the offering to investors that indicate the investment required, expected ROI, marketing plan, operations plan, and management team description.

Introduction

Executive summary: Major Objectives, Description of Product(s), Financial Projection, Marketing Strategy.

Description of the business

Description of the market: Target Market: Who? How Many?
Analysis of Competition: How Many? Strengths and Weakness?
Market Penetration Projections and Strategies

Description of the products: What Is to Be Developed or Sold?

Management structure: Owners and Their Experience

Goals/Objectives/Strategy: Revenue Forecasts
Marketing Plans
How Sales Are To Be Made
Advertising and Sales Promotion
Manufacturing Plans
Financial Plans

Financial Analysis


B. Business Plan Presentation: Strong written and oral skills greatly facilitate success in the business world. Those individuals that can effectively communicate their ideas will have an advantage over those that cannot. Your team will present your business plan to the class and, if applicable, participate in a business plan competition.



III. TMA Requirements


This TMA consists of 15% of your total course grade. It is a team project. Each team will consist of 4-5 students. The project is divided into two parts:
1. TMA essay paper (50 marks out of 100)
2. PowerPoint presentation (50 marks out of 100)

• The initial task of your team is to select and propose a business idea to the instructor for approval.
• Students should arrange with their tutors in order to verify that no other team had selected the same idea for the project.

1. TMA Essay Paper (50 marks out of 100) (maximum 10 pages)

• Each team will work on the TMA paper as they would normally do with other courses, but this time in group. This is a good opportunity for students to learn a set of skills that are very important in the professional business world, such as time management, planning, communicating with others, etc.
• Each team is required to select a team leader. The TMA paper should be uploaded to the LMS by the team leader only. This is a very important requirement in order to avoid Turnitin similarities.
• The names of all the team members should be written on the pt3 form, including the name of the team leader. All team members will receive the same mark on the TMA essay paper. Students are required to use the pt3 form provided on the LMS for this specific TMA.
• Students are expected to make sure the written TMA meets the following criteria:

2. PowerPoint Presentation (50 marks out of 100)

• Each team will prepare a PowerPoint presentation that reflects on the most important points discussed in the paper.
• Each team will be allowed a total of 15 minutes. 10 minutes for the presentation plus 5 minutes for Q&A and discussion.
• All team members should contribute equally. Each member should speak for approximately 2 minutes. The last team member to speak should lead a class discussion.
• Team members will be marked based on the “Team presentation evaluation form”. Team members are advised to use this form as a baseline for preparing the presentation.
• Team members will receive the same mark on the PowerPoint presentation, given they have shown up and participated in the presentation. Team members who don’t show up or participate in the presentation will receive a zero on the presentation part.
• Balanced participation in the presentation is one of the requirements mentioned in the presentation marking rubric.





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T306B TMA- SPRING 2017-2018


This item does not have a word limit specified but as a rough guide to upper limits:

(a) The weekly summaries should be no more than 200 words each.
(b) The overall summary should be no more than 1000 words. (20 marks)


Your report should be based around an explanatory commentary in course terms that guides your tutor through your analysis and includes:

1. Your description of the problem situation using appropriate systems language where possible. This should be as presented to, and seen by you. Your data collection should have been completed.

2. An analysis method diagram illustrating the procedural steps through the analysis method you have adopted or developed together with a rationale for its use in this context.

3. Your Ethicality Statement.

4. A Stakeholder Analysis that identifies all the stakeholder individuals and/or groups who should be considered in some way in your study.

5. Explanation of any problems you encountered in this project and how you dealt with them.

6. A reflection on how your understanding of complexity has developed so far while engaging in this project.


T306B TMA- SPRING 2017-2018


What to do and what to submit to your course tutor.

You are asked to discuss with your tutor the topic/situation that you will investigates, once you got the approval from your tutor then you need to submit 3 new pieces of work to your tutor for this assignment. You should produce:

Q1. A Tutor Report of about 2000 words that describes the situation you are addressing in course terms drawing freely on the concepts taught in T306. The discussion and argument should guide your tutor through your chosen method and demonstrate the progression and interconnectedness within your method from one stage’s outcome to the next. Your Tutor Report should include a range of diagrams to help your tutor make sense of the situation and subsequent analysis. It should also include the analysis method diagram and your Ethicality Statement. (60 marks)

Q2. A Client Report of about 500 words. This should be a briefing document aimed at your Client and in plain English that justifies and ‘sells’ the options for change and/or recommendations coming out of your study. (20 marks)


Q3. Project Log. The whole of this document can be seen as ‘the story of your Project’ and is in two sections. The first part – the summaries – can be an extract from your Learning Album if appropriate. These should consist of weekly or period summaries, whichever is appropriate to you and your style of working, detailing your progress through the Project production period. The second part is an overall summary where you are expected to reflect, in course terms, on your experience of putting your project together. This is very much an opportunity to communicate to your tutor how you have reflected on your learning and applied your systems thinking in practice (see Block 5).
This item does not have a word limit specified but as a rough guide to upper limits:

The weekly summaries should be no more than 200 words each.
The overall summary should be no more than 1000 words. (20 marks)


Your report should be based around an explanatory commentary in course terms that guides your tutor through your analysis and includes:

Your description of the problem situation using appropriate systems language where possible. This should be as presented to, and seen by you. Your data collection should have been completed.

An analysis method diagram illustrating the procedural steps through the analysis method you have adopted or developed together with a rationale for its use in this context.

Your Ethicality Statement.

A Stakeholder Analysis that identifies all the stakeholder individuals and/or groups who should be considered in some way in your study.

Explanation of any problems you encountered in this project and how you dealt with them.

A reflection on how your understanding of complexity has developed so far while engaging in this project.


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ARAB OPEN UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF BUSINESS STUDIES T205B – SYSTEMS’ THINKING THEORY & PRACTICE
2017/2018 SEMESTER II

T205 B - TMA- Semester II - 2017– 2018
_____________________________________


Question 01 (100 % marks)

Read through the attached Case study “Toshiba’s Accounting Scandal”. As you read through the article create one spray diagram to summarize the case content respecting the conventions, and techniques. It is advised that students submit hand drawn diagrams as opposed to computer generated ones. Photocopies of diagrams should not be accepted. Reflect on your diagram in no more than 200 words. (15% marks).
Based on what you learned in T205B concept file 04 section II “Control”, and based on the content of the article, and taking “Fixing corporate culture” as your goal draw one closed loop control model diagram to show the various inputs, and the transformation process, that can lead to reaching this goal. You need to show all the components of the control model diagram, the inputs’, processes, control (actuator, comparator, sensor), that can lead to goal achievement . Reflect on your diagram (15% marks)

Using an essay format of no more than 2500 words, and based on what you learned in T205B concept file 04 section I “Organizations are They Rational”, readings 01 and 07, section III “Structure”, section IV development, section V culture and climate, and section VI “Decision Making” and based on the ideas put forth in the attached case study:

Discuss the concept of organizational goals and the three categories of goals, and assess the existence of goal displacement and pluralism at Toshiba. (Word Count 500; 15 Marks)
Discuss the management approach at Toshiba, and the extent of employees’ empowerment and teamwork. (Word Count 250, 05 Marks)
Discuss the concepts of organizational culture and climate and assess Toyota’s culture and climate. (Word count 400; 10 Marks)
Assess the extent to which Toyotas culture and climate and the unwritten rule of behaviors lead to the accounting scandal, (Word count 400; 15 Marks).
Discuss the different perspectives on decision making and assess how the decision-making process at Toshiba has affected the managers ability to resist pressures to inflate profits from top management (Word count 400; 15 Marks).
The investigation report mentioned that the interference of old generation of managers and their refusal to fully retire affected organizational culture and performance. Discuss the concept of organizational learning, and assess how the older managers’ attitude and power, can affect Toshibas ability to be a learning organization; justify your answers with evidence from the case (300 words; 10 Marks).

General Mark’s deductions of 20% as follows

PT3 Form (failure to use the PT3 completely filled) (deduct up to 5% marks)
TMA Presentation and Structure, and word count (untidy, work way below or above the word count, no display of word count) (deduct up to 5% marks)
Referencing and in-text citation (poor referencing and in-text citation, without plagiarism, (deduct up to 10% marks).

Guidance

Guidance to Question 01

For this question you need to read the assigned article carefully and to reflect back on concept file 04 for the theoretical assessment.

At this stage of the course you are expected to have developed good understanding of the purpose of drawing spray diagrams as part of applying the SUDA process for solving a messy situation. A spray diagram is the first type of diagrams drawn in the sensing phase of the SUDA process of mess analysis, in order to summarize the main ideas of a case, or the main components/elements of a situation. Please pay attention to the conventions and make sure that the central topic and other subtopics are relevant, and do make sense to the reader. Go back to T552 (Diagramming) the appendix to your memory about the conventions.
This is your first attempt at drawing control model diagram. The task should not be challenging though. Refer to Concept file 04 section II “Control”. You need to draw a control model diagram to show how the selected inputs can reach the stated goal. You also need to illustrate clear, relevant, and non-overlapping inputs, clear and accurate transformation process and an output which is consistent with the goal. You also need to specify which organizational entity is in charge of assuming the role of each of the elements/components of the control model (i.e. actuator, sensor, and comparator). The parties in charge of performing each task within the control mechanism should be clearly identified. It is very important that your diagram is specific rather than generic.

Here you need to practice your analytical skills to assess what is required. Remember to start with a good introduction in which you define the assessed topic before moving on to explaining your plan for working on the TMA. In the body you should move on to assess the causes of the problems faced by Toyota and the impact of the organization’s structure, climate and decision making on its reaction to the problem. You also need to evaluate whether Toyota is a learning organization by relying on both theoretical principles and practical examples, and on the ideas presented in the assigned article.

ARAB OPEN UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF BUSINESS STUDIES T205B – SYSTEMS’ THINKING THEORY & PRACTICE
2017/2018 SEMESTER II

T205 B - TMA- Semester II - 2017– 2018
_____________________________________


Question 01 (100 % marks)

(a) Read through the attached Case study “Toshiba’s Accounting Scandal”. As you read through the article create one spray diagram to summarize the case content respecting the conventions, and techniques. It is advised that students submit hand drawn diagrams as opposed to computer generated ones. Photocopies of diagrams should not be accepted. Reflect on your diagram in no more than 200 words. (15% marks).
(b) Based on what you learned in T205B concept file 04 section II “Control”, and based on the content of the article, and taking “Fixing corporate culture” as your goal draw one closed loop control model diagram to show the various inputs, and the transformation process, that can lead to reaching this goal. You need to show all the components of the control model diagram, the inputs’, processes, control (actuator, comparator, sensor), that can lead to goal achievement . Reflect on your diagram (15% marks)

(c) Using an essay format of no more than 2500 words, and based on what you learned in T205B concept file 04 section I “Organizations are They Rational”, readings 01 and 07, section III “Structure”, section IV development, section V culture and climate, and section VI “Decision Making” and based on the ideas put forth in the attached case study:

1- Discuss the concept of organizational goals and the three categories of goals, and assess the existence of goal displacement and pluralism at Toshiba. (Word Count 500; 15 Marks)
2- Discuss the management approach at Toshiba, and the extent of employees’ empowerment and teamwork. (Word Count 250, 05 Marks)
3- Discuss the concepts of organizational culture and climate and assess Toyota’s culture and climate. (Word count 400; 10 Marks)
4- Assess the extent to which Toyotas culture and climate and the unwritten rule of behaviors lead to the accounting scandal, (Word count 400; 15 Marks).
5- Discuss the different perspectives on decision making and assess how the decision-making process at Toshiba has affected the managers ability to resist pressures to inflate profits from top management (Word count 400; 15 Marks).
6- The investigation report mentioned that the interference of old generation of managers and their refusal to fully retire affected organizational culture and performance. Discuss the concept of organizational learning, and assess how the older managers’ attitude and power, can affect Toshibas ability to be a learning organization; justify your answers with evidence from the case (300 words; 10 Marks).

General Mark’s deductions of 20% as follows

• PT3 Form (failure to use the PT3 completely filled) (deduct up to 5% marks)
• TMA Presentation and Structure, and word count (untidy, work way below or above the word count, no display of word count) (deduct up to 5% marks)
• Referencing and in-text citation (poor referencing and in-text citation, without plagiarism, (deduct up to 10% marks).

Guidance

Guidance to Question 01

For this question you need to read the assigned article carefully and to reflect back on concept file 04 for the theoretical assessment.

(a) At this stage of the course you are expected to have developed good understanding of the purpose of drawing spray diagrams as part of applying the SUDA process for solving a messy situation. A spray diagram is the first type of diagrams drawn in the sensing phase of the SUDA process of mess analysis, in order to summarize the main ideas of a case, or the main components/elements of a situation. Please pay attention to the conventions and make sure that the central topic and other subtopics are relevant, and do make sense to the reader. Go back to T552 (Diagramming) the appendix to your memory about the conventions.
(b) This is your first attempt at drawing control model diagram. The task should not be challenging though. Refer to Concept file 04 section II “Control”. You need to draw a control model diagram to show how the selected inputs can reach the stated goal. You also need to illustrate clear, relevant, and non-overlapping inputs, clear and accurate transformation process and an output which is consistent with the goal. You also need to specify which organizational entity is in charge of assuming the role of each of the elements/components of the control model (i.e. actuator, sensor, and comparator). The parties in charge of performing each task within the control mechanism should be clearly identified. It is very important that your diagram is specific rather than generic.

(c) Here you need to practice your analytical skills to assess what is required. Remember to start with a good introduction in which you define the assessed topic before moving on to explaining your plan for working on the TMA. In the body you should move on to assess the causes of the problems faced by Toyota and the impact of the organization’s structure, climate and decision making on its reaction to the problem. You also need to evaluate whether Toyota is a learning organization by relying on both theoretical principles and practical examples, and on the ideas presented in the assigned article.












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Faculty of Business Studies
Tutor Marked Assignment
B301 B: Making Sense of Strategy II
SPRING Semester 2017– 2018

The TMA is based on the concepts from Readings for Block 3-Readings 12 &13
Question
Determinants of national competitive advantage create the national environment in which companies are born and learn how to compete.
Assuming that you are strategy and policy expert for your own country Bahrain, Lebanon, Oman, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan) you are:

Required:
1. To critically analyze and discuss FOUR different policies with each of the four determinants of national competitive advantage that will attract Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and protect domestic firms in your country. (1000 words)

2. To suggest and critically discuss FOUR strategies that can enhance the capacity of firms in your country to create more employment (500 words)
To critically analyze and discuss FOUR different policies with each of the four determinants of national competitive advantage that will attract Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and protect domestic firms in your country. (1000 words)

To suggest and critically discuss FOUR strategies that can enhance the capacity of firms in your country to create more employment (500 words)






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