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ASB 4426 Contemporary Issues in Management Assignment, Bangor Business School - Bangor University, UK

The individual assignment is an individual written 2,000 word report, in which students are expected to apply theoretical and analytical frameworks as a basis for critical reflection on personal experiences of, and dilemmas faced in, contemporary management and organizations. Students may choose their own topic, in order that they are able to reflect on their own experience. Typical topics might be in one of the following areas: technology and environment, strategy, change, working with diversity and across cultures, leadership, organizational structure, learning, innovation e.g. open innovation, social innovation, team working, gender and management, social media and networking.

A couple of things to bear in mind:

1. This module is called 'Contemporary Issues in Management'. Your focus must then be on 'Issues' that are 'Contemporary' and have to do with 'Management' and/or 'Leadership'.

2. You are supposed to reflect on your own experience:

a. If you have been a manager, this should present no problems.

b. If you have not been a manager, but do have work experience, you should be able to find a topic that you can discuss from the perspective of an employee.

c. If you have neither been a manager nor an employee in an organization, then you need to take a more theoretical approach.

Choose, an interesting new theory in an area, discuss and evaluate the theory, and make sure that you discuss in general terms how this new theory might impact on organizations, their managers, and their employees.

3. Don't forget to apply theoretical frameworks. Try to avoid going back to literature prior to 2017, unless you are examining old theories (about, for example, team roles) in a new context (e.g. virtual teams, or customer communities.