Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Assignment Brief
Assignment title:
Cross-Cultural Report
Weighting:
50%
Deadline:
Please see in “announcements”
Feedback and First draft deadline 10th March 2017
Grades due:
Submission deadline 27th March 2017
Assessment Task
You have been tasked with producing an internal report to the Senior
Management Team, in which they have asked that you to discuss an
“employee engagement” strategy.
The Management Team wants to make sure that teamwork, motivation,
engagement and work performance is effective and functioning to a high level
across all of these locations.
In your report you need to clearly identify the opportunities such a strategy
offers the company but (more importantly) you also need to identify and
evaluate the different issues, problems and challenges which you would
associate with implementing this type of working across these different
cultures and also within these different countries. Please provide related
context information as you see fit.
You should examine and address any relevant issues around leading and
managing people in these countries. If you can see clear preferences for
certain communication styles, are those associated with cultural patterns (of all
underlying cultures) and if so, do those advance or hinder the development of
good co-operation within these dispersed cross-cultural teams? How do you
envision communication taking place and what issues might you associate with
these communication processes?
You need to make practical, specific and relevant recommendations that you
consider would help future co-operation and employee-engagement.
Your work will be assessed against the generic Level 7 criteria and on the
following assessment criteria:
1 The extent of wider reading on the topic, with relevant and contemporary
references, research, examples and discussion.
2 The depth and breadth of critical evaluation and critical thinking and
reflection
Assessment Submission
To submit your work, please go to the ‘Submit your work’ area of the Module
NILE site. It is important that you submit your work to the correct module NILE
site, and that your work is submitted on time.
Assessment Guidance
Guidance on how to complete the task:
Your Report should be 2,500 words (+10%)
Academic Practice
This is an individual assignment. The University of Northampton policy will
apply in all cases of copying, plagiarism or any other methods by which
students have obtained (or attempted to obtain) an unfair advantage.
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Learning outcomes
The learning outcomes being addressed through this assignment are: