management and org in a global environment

1. Research Paper 1: Assessment criteria

	ASSESSMENT
Weighting: Length/Limit:	Maximum of 1,200 words	1
This is an individual assignment. Each week, based on the hour of e-learning activity that has been prescribed, you are required actively to engage with the material by writing a short discussion of how the material that was prescribed relates to the topic(s) of this subject and how it relates to your own personal experience. You create a blog each week where you provide evidence that you have engaged in this way with the prescribed e-learning activity. In the blog, you mention any extra material relevant to the activity that you have researched on the net. These blogs are assessed in the following way: 1. Blogs are spot checked by your lecturer. 1. A record is kept each week of whether you created a blog or not (1 or 0) 1. By the end of Week 6, students choose their best two blogs and submit them as an assignment (due Friday Week 6). 1. At the end of the semester, the total number of blogs you have created determines the mark you receive out of 10 (10 for ten blogs or more, 9 for 9 blogs, 8 for 8 blogs) Each blog should be in two sections: Section 1 lists the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity. In Section 2 you apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject. The written report of your two best blogs needs to be 1½spaced and has a 1,200 word limit.
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Activity 2 - The Nature of Globalisation

Please watch the following clips and answer the questions:

1. Thomas Friedman on Globalisation (2:23)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4znWHvsjU

2. 3 Eras of Globalisation; World is flat (1:57)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM2BguxRSyY

Questions:

1. What would be some of the key drawbacks or risks of living in the flat world of Globalisation 3.0 as Friedman describes it?

2. Do you agree with Friedman’s iron rule of the flat world? Explain

3. Is the level of globalisation uniform across the world? Explain

Activity 4 - Organizational Structure & Design

In your blog, you should address the following two sections: 

1)        Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity. 

2)        Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.  

Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking.

Activity 1: Structure and strategy

URL: BCG’s Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw

Questions to consider:

1. Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?

Activity 2: Holacracy

URL: Zappos just abolished bosses. Inside tech's latest management craze. http://www.vox.com/2014/7/11/5876235/silicon-valleys-latest-management-craze-holacracy-explained

Questions to consider:

1. What’s your understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-based structure?

1. Discuss how Contingency Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?

1. In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?

NOTE

These are the two activities I have seleted activity 2 and activity 4 both have their link and some ques according to the topic I need 500-600 words report in each activity i.e two report of 500- 600 words each. Each report must have min 5 references in Harvard style not less than 5. Report should be in related topic and cover everything.