Principles of Management Essay

Aims and Objectives

This assessment encourages students to:

·    Understand the challenges facing organisations in the contemporary business environment. 


·    Provide a critical perspective of the academic literature on a topic. 


·    Construct a sustained argument in response to the question. 


·    Utilise and conform to the principles of academic rigour in the production of an acceptable, formal response to the question. 


Guidelines for the essay: 


·     Your essay should be no more than 1500 words (excluding in-text references and reference list). 


·     All essays must cite at least five (5) academic sources. 


·    You must distinguish clearly between your own words and analysis and those of your sources. You must do this by providing appropriate citations using the Harvard method. 


·    Failure to provide appropriate citations is plagiarism. Your list of references should include only material cited in the essay. 


·    Use 1.5 line spacing and Arial or Times New Roman font size 12.