You are expected to form yourselves into a group to complete this assignment. As a group, you have been tasked to critically evaluate the impact of globalisation

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Student Assignment Brief

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Assignment Information

Module Name: Global Operations

Module Code: 7044SSL

Assignment Title: Group Presentation with an individual 300-word report

Assignment Due: 30^th Oct 2025 at 18:00 UK time

Assignment Credit: 5

Word Count (or equivalent): Video (15 minutes), with an individual 300-word report

Assignment Type: Group Presentation

Percentage Grade (Applied Core Assessment). You will be provided with an overall grade between 0% and 100%. You have one opportunity to pass the assignment at or above 40%.

Assignment Task

You are expected to form yourselves into a group to complete this assignment. As a group, you have been tasked to critically evaluate the impact of globalisation on the adoption of Lean Production in global service organisation (non-manufacturing company).

•Critically review Lean Production. Take a historical perspective of how and why Lean was born and why it has developed.

•Choose a service sector-based organisation of your choice and critically evaluate the impact of Lean adoption on environment.

•Discuss the best strategy for Lean implementation in the organisation

•Present mitigation strategies for possible issues that may arise in your organisation due to Lean implementation and how best these issues can be mitigated

•Present your findings as a 15-minute video recording of the organisation’s analysis using a video recording tool or software of your choice. See your VLE module page for details of existing video recording tools and resources.

•Each group member is required to submit a 300-word individual reflection: Write in no more than 300 words your experience in working as a team to complete the group presentation timely. Consider questions such as “What have I learned?”, “What difficulties did I and we as a team experience?” “How did we manage them?”

This assessment is categorised as AMBER for the use of AI.

You may use AI for the following only:

Inspiration: using AI tools to generate research questions or topic.
Planning and management: using AI tools to suggest a title, structure, subheadings, or themes, to generate templates, to suggest processes for task management, or to generate prompts to assist thinking through assessment structure or task management.
Sources and data collection: using AI tools to suggest sources.
Summarising and consolidating notes: using AI tools to summarise notes or to consolidate notes.
Translation: using AI tools to translate small sections of your written or recorded work into the language(s) used in an assignment
Presentation: using AI tools to present data in an accessible format such as by generating, graphs, charts, tables, slides, images, word-clouds, animations, or captions.
Checking: using AI tools to proofread work.

Where permitted, any assistance/content generated by AI is not your own work and must be acknowledged within your work (see submission instructions below). Failure to do so is academic misconduct.

Submission Instructions

Aula (Turnitin). Approved file formats: Word, Open/LibreOffice.

You need to acknowledge how you have used any AI tool by inserting a table as per the example below before your list of references:

Tool	How used in this assignment
e.g. ChatGPT-3.5	Suggestions of topics
e.g. Microsoft Copilot	Consolidating notes
Etc.

Marking and Feedback

How will my assignment be marked?

Your assignment will be marked by module team.

How will I receive my grades and feedback?

Provisional marks will be released once moderated internally.

Feedback will be provided by using Turnitin feedback function.

Your provisional marks and feedback should be available within 2 weeks (10 working days) after submission date.

What will I be marked against?

Details of the marking criteria for this task can be found at the bottom of this assignment brief.

Assessed Module Learning Outcomes

The Learning Outcomes for this module align to the marking criteria which can be found at the end of this brief. Ensure you understand the marking criteria to ensure successful achievement of the assessment task. The following module learning outcome 4 are assessed in this task:

LO4: Evaluate the impact of globalisation on logistics, supply chain management and the environment.

Assignment Support and Academic Integrity

If you have any questions about this assignment please see the Student Guidance on Coursework for more information.

Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar:

You are expected to use effective, accurate, and appropriate language within this assessment task.

Academic Integrity:

The work you submit must be your own, or in the case of groupwork, that of your group. All sources of information need to be acknowledged and attributed; therefore, you must provide references for all sources of information and acknowledge any tools used in the production of your work, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). We use detection software and make routine checks for evidence of academic misconduct.

Definitions of academic misconduct, including plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and collusion can be found on the Student Portal. All cases of suspected academic misconduct are referred for investigation, the outcomes of which can have profound consequences to your studies. For more information on academic integrity please visit the Academic and Research Integrity section of the Student Portal.

Support for Students with Disabilities or Additional Needs:

If you have a disability, long-term health condition, specific learning difference, mental health diagnosis or symptoms and have discussed your support needs with health and wellbeing you may be able to access support that will help with your studies.

If you feel you may benefit from additional support, but have not disclosed a disability to the University, or have disclosed but are yet to discuss your support needs it is important to let us know so we can provide the right support for your circumstances. Visit the Student Portal to find out more.

Unable to Submit on Time?

The University wants you to do your best. However, we know that sometimes events happen which mean that you cannot submit your assessment by the deadline or sit a scheduled exam. If you think this might be the case, guidance on understanding what counts as an extenuating circumstance, and how to apply is available on the Student Portal.

Administration of Assessment

Module Leader Name:

Module Leader Email:

Assignment Category: Presentation

Attempt Type: Standard

Component Code: Prs

Assessment Marking Criteria

	Theory, concepts and models	Analysis, evaluation and application	Critique, conclusions and recommendations
80 to 100%	An exceptional and convincing application of theories and concepts, with evidential support of wider reading. Applied theories go beyond those presented in the lectures.	The work clearly demonstrates research beyond what has been presented in class. This has been well extremely well integrated and includes peer-reviewed journal articles.	The entire work is clearly structured, it addresses the topic with confidence and it is succinct. The work demonstrates original and creative thinking. The ideas and recommendations are innovative and bring new insights into the field of integrated business management.
70 to 79%	There is excellent application of integrated business management theories and concepts, supported by the use of relevant academic sources.	An excellent amount of research has gone into the development of ideas. Further research (beyond sources provided in class) may have strengthened the report in several areas although there is excellent evaluation and analysis of all the relevant module materials.	The relationships between statements and sections are clear and easy to follow and there is an extremely sound structure. The work demonstrates an excellent level of critical thinking. The recommendations are well thought-out and tailored to the assignment question and learning outcomes.
60 to 69%	There is a very good application of integrated business management theories and concepts covering the key concepts from the module.	A very good range of sources have been used to support your recommendations with a very good analysis and evaluation of academic and non-academic content.	The relationships between statements and sections of the work are very coherent and the work demonstrates very good critical thinking skills and robust recommendations.
50 to 59%	There is a good application of integrated business management theories and concepts, however some aspects are incomplete or missing.	A good number of sources have been used to support the recommendations. However, there is a tendency to over- rely on websites and the work would have benefited from further research into textbooks and journal articles recommended in class.	The relationships between the statements and the sections of the work are reasonably coherent. The work demonstrates good critical thinking and strong recommendations.
40 to 49%	There is only superficial or implicit application of integrated business management theories and concepts. The work is primarily based on common sense but sufficient to meet the learning outcomes.	There is adequate evidence of research to support the development of the assignment although the style of writing is descriptive and lacking critical analysis.	There are some links between the statements and sections of the work. However, there is a lack of evidence of critical thinking and there are not many suggested actions or recommendations or they lack relevance.
Fail 30, 35%	There is very little evidence of any understanding of integrated business management theories and concepts. Some irrelevant material has been presented, and/or fails to demonstrate logic.	There is inadequate evidence of research to support the development of the report and an absence of appropriate analysis and evaluation.	There are few clear links between the statements and sections of the work. There is no evidence of critical thinking. There are no clearly suggested actions or recommendations and/or they are irrelevant.
Fail 0 to 29%	The work does not address the assignment question and/or learning outcomes and does not demonstrate any knowledge of module theories or concepts.	There is no evidence of research to support the development of the report and a complete absence of any relevant analysis and evaluation.	There are no links between the statements and sections of the work. There is no evidence of any critical thinking. There are no suggested actions or recommendations.

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