Students need to answer two of the three questions. Each mini-essay should be 1,000 words long and students should write a total of 2,000 words.
The student can answer:
1. Critically evaluate whether the quality of work and employment is better under human relations management than scientific management. Justify your answer with references to the academic literature and business practice.
2. Analyse the mechanisms and the dynamics that determine forms of disciplinary power within organisations. Your answer should focus on a real-life organisation of your choice.
3. Discuss the career aspirations and trajectories of young women and men in a sector of your own choice. Your answer should describe how intersectionality helps to articulate both experiences of oppressions and privileges in relation to your chosen context.
The marking criteria for the essay is as follow:
• Comprehensiveness and accuracy of presenting the CMS literature and the organisation and the structure in presenting the key arguments and findings in answering the question
• Critical analysis of the CMS literature based on own ideas and practical examples in answering the question
• The relevance of the real-life example or examples chosen in answering the question
• Presentational qualities of the Paper – citations, bibliography, paragraphing, spacing, spelling, Quotations etc.
All criteria are equally weighted.
Extra help:
• Content
– Acknowledgement of critical/mainstream theories and frameworks about business and management
– In text citations to illustrate reading (Name, Year) is great
– Extra reading beyond the compulsory articles and recommend readings.
– Application
– Understanding the implication of critical/mainstream theories and frameworks in relation to society, businesses and individuals
– Practical examples taken from the slides, wider reading or background knowledge
• Analysis
– Knowledge of the advantages or disadvantages of the critical/mainstream theories and frameworks
– Compare and contrast in order to set-up a debate
– Identify areas of conflict or contradiction
– Evaluation
– Formulate a judgement based upon your analysis
– Do not leave evaluation until your conclusion and have it throughout your essay
– Set up a debate which may involve: 1) Critiquing the question; 2) Establishing some sort of hierarchy (most important); 3) Specifying a quantity of importance
List of journals that publish critically included articles:
• Organization studies
• Organization
• Human relations
• Work, employment & society
• Journal of management studies
• Scandinavian journal of management
• Economy & society
• Capital and class
NOTE: Please show a bit of novelty by going beyond the listed journal reference
Write an essay with an introduction, main and conclusion
Include in-text citations but no bibloghrapy
Structure your answers using sub headings
Ensure you answer needs to have quality and in-depth discussions
Evaluation is very important and do not leave it until the conclusion
Have a overall argument which is coherent
Those seeking the top mark need a bit of novelty and references beyond the compulsory reading
