Topic:
Describe what is meant by ‘Business Process Management’ in relation to contemporary organisations. Discuss your findings and support with evidence stating your own opinions with regards to the importance of the process view.
“What is the assessment design?”
You must select one of the essay questions on the previous page (or propose your own – see your tutor) and produce a 3,000 word (+/- 10%) answer to the question set. This should be structured as with any other academic report you have done or are currently doing by following the marking criteria which is also given in the module guide.
“Now what should I do?”
You have access to the module materials, recommended core text for the module, computing facilities, library books, journals and ‘Library Search’ databases, as well as to the module teaching team. You will need access to information within the chosen organisation most of which may publicly be available. This task will draw on the Managing Business Processes and Information module; however, other modules or sources may have some relevance. You are always encouraged to explore further.
“What is meant by ‘References & Plagiarism’?”
This work will require you to conduct an extensive literature review. You must correctly cite and list all the references that you used to produce your paper. Please ensure that you exhaustively search reference sources in pursuit of the work you present in this assignment.
Assignment submissions that rely upon undependable sources like Wikipedia or anecdotal web pages may not receive a pass mark! Focus instead on making good use of the SHU Learning Centre’s online Information Databases
http://library.shu.ac.uk/ – . Such resources will point you to peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and book chapters.
You must cite every source of information (even images, web pages, interviews and media broadcasts) that you use throughout all the sections of your work. If you do not fully cite your references you are, in effect, stealing intellectual property – and the evidence will be there for all to see in your work. Plagiarism can be more extensive than you may realise (e.g. failing to reference your own previous assignments can sometimes be taken as plagiarising your own work! Ask your tutor if you are not sure about this).
Please also note that the university employs TurnitinUK, an electronic plagiarism detection technology as part of its anti-plagiarism responsibility and your submitted work will be subjected to this process. You may submit earlier versions of your paper to receive formative feedback on the extent of any plagiarism in your paper. Later submissions overwrite earlier ones. Therefore the version that will be assessed is the version that is on the submission site at the point the deadline passes.
Please do not copy material into your paper. Even if you cite the original authors you are not adding any of your own interpretation, thus you are still plagiarising.
Read http://students.shu.ac.uk/rightsrules/ (which includes the university’s cheating regulations and sanctions,
http://students.shu.ac.uk/rightsrules/3ga.html). Read the leaflet “I didn’t know it was cheating!” provided on the Blackboard site or available from the Learning
Centre.
“What is a ‘Marking Scheme’?”
Your work will be assessed using the marking scheme at the end of this section (also available on Blackboard). Please check the relevant document.
Originality, quality of argument and good structure are required. We want to see that you can take a body of theory, understand it, choose what you want from it, apply it in a reasonable fashion and hence evaluate it.
Your submissions will be expected to demonstrate the following qualities:
1. Answering the central focus of the assignment questions25
2. A critical appreciation of relevant literature and its use to support argument, substantiate model(s) and other aspects of the assignment
3. Ability to analyse relevant theoretical concepts in a critical manner, evaluation of material, indication of gaps in the literature
4. Logical flow of ideas and treatment; imaginative approaches; appropriate selection of real world factors related to the model(s) or specific assignment Topic
5. Evidence of additional personal research, and the ability to analyse material from a variety of appropriate relevant perspectives
6. Presentation, structure, appropriateness of methodology, breaking into section headings/subheadings, tidiness
7. A strong and well considered conclusion
In addition to the marking matrix, in grading your papers we look for value-adding qualities. They help differentiate your performance beyond a basic 40% pass. You can see these characteristics for each of the components in the marking scheme.
