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This assessment will measure your ability to:

Reflect upon and analyse personal growth experiences: has each member (in part 2) has reflected on their experience in the course and discussed how it has influenced their perspective?

Grasp of scholarly concepts: has your group shown an understanding of the key scholarly concepts and terms used in the course, and used these appropriately to support your report's findings?

Interpret the alignment of direct actions with specified SDGs: has your group shown a comprehension of the SDGs and how they can be applied to business practice? Hire best assignment help and experienced tutors now!

Academic writing: have you constructed your report, paragraphs, and sentences in a clear way that follows the guidelines provided by the course?

Referencing: have you used the RMIT Harvard referencing style in-text and provided a complete reference section of all cited sources?

Learning Outcomes

The targeted Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) for this assessment are:

CLO1: Analyse and question major global or national social, political, economic or environmental issues facing the world today in the context of business citizenship
CLO2: Understand how businesses can develop solutions to respond to increasing demand for sustainability, transparency and good governance
CLO4: Self-reflect and begin to identify personal strengths, cultivate ethical behaviours, and a develop an emerging global mindset so as to develop a professional identity
CLO5: Examine diverse world views, histories and experiences, to elicit insights for professional practice and reflect on the relationships between business, society and the environment

Program Learning Outcomes

PLO1: Explain their role as a local, national and global citizen and be able to apply these perspectives in business contexts.
PLO4: Reflect on and continuously progress their own professional development, enhancing their intellectual agility and adaptability as tools for success in ever-changing business contexts.

Overview

In this final assessment, you will be working in groups to focus on two areas that feature towards the end of the course syllabus: social enterprises and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The assignment follows a different format than assignments 1 and 2, which were essays. In this assignment your group will write in a report style, responding to a series of questions relating to the case study, the content or relevant modules, and your individual reflections on the course.

Unlike the previous assignments, this one is not written and submitted via Cadmus. Instead, your group should produce the report as a document to be uploaded directly to the submission point on Canvas.

Case Study Organisation

For this assignment you will be writing about the social enterprise Who Gives A Crap. Please see the week 10 case study page for more details on the organisation. We will be discussing the organisation in week 10 tutorials.

Structure

Your group report and reflection should consist of two parts, with sections addressing the following questions:

Part 1: case study report (~1,200 total)

What is a "social enterprise"? Is Who Gives a Crap a "social enterprise"?
How can (all kinds of) businesses integrate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their business objectives and which SDGs does Who Gives a Crap focus on?
Can social goals like SDGs be more effectively pursued by social enterprises or as corporate social responsibility (CSR) components of for-profit businesses? How does its status as a social enterprise allow Who Gives a Crap to pursue its goals differently to a for-profit business?

Part 2: individual course reflections (~800 words total)

Each member of the group should do the following under their own name:

Reflect on the whole course, Business in Society. In what ways has the course altered or challenged your view of business' role in society? In doing so, highlight at least one specific module that stands out in this regard. You may also want to mention specific tutorial activities, concepts discussed in lectures, readings, or other specific moments in the course. It is not necessary for each member to cover different areas of the course in their reflections.

Make sure that you write reflectively by discussing the way that your worldview and perspectives changed in the course, and how these relate to your perceived strengths and values as a professional. These responses should not just summarise what was covered in the course. You should also use references to any material (concepts, cases, etc.) that you are reflecting on.

While these are individual components of the assignment, your group will receive one combined mark for this section (in the first rubric item). Therefore we encourage you to discuss your reflections together and work on your drafts as a team.