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COURSEWORK BRIEF:
Module Code: MANG6311 Assessment: Supplementary Coursework Weighting: 100%
Module Title: Project Management – People and Organisations
Module Leader: Dr Ramesh Vahidi
Submission Due Date: @ 16:00 Friday 19 August 2022 Word Count: 3,000
Method of
Submission:
Electronic via Blackboard Turnitin ONLY (You are not required to submit a hard copy)
(Please ensure that your name does not appear on any part of your work)
Any work submitted after 16:00 on the deadline date will be subject to the standard University late penalties (see
below), unless an extension has been granted, in writing by the Senior Tutor, in advance of the deadline.
University Working Days Late: Mark:
1 (final agreed mark) * 0.9
2 (final agreed mark) * 0.8
3 (final agreed mark) * 0.7
4 (final agreed mark) * 0.6
5 (final agreed mark) * 0.5
More than 5 0
Coursework Brief:
1. Introduction to the Coursework
This coursework (cw) is an individual essay of 3,000 words, worth 100% of the total mark of the module.
The coursework intends to assess the depth and breadth of your reflection and critical analysis on people
and organisational aspects of project management.
The essay is an academic piece of work and is evaluated as such. Hence, by no means your descriptions
should be presented as pure descriptions. Your analysis and reflection should be informed by the lecture
contents, discussions on case studies and your comprehensive background studies (textbooks and journal
papers).
2. Essay Content
This Essay aims at evaluating your capability in: describing organisational and people aspects of a given
project; identifying weaknesses and strengths of the project from these aspects; critically analysing the
project performance, success or failure in relation to these aspects; and reflecting on whether and how
taking different approaches could have led to different outcomes.
Throughout this essay you should clearly demonstrate that you have used formal and academic project
management knowledge in developing any of the above items.
2.2.2 Essay Contents
The essay is a 3,000-word analytical and critical review of a ‘project’ based on the knowledge learned
throughout MANG6311. For the essay, you need to select and review a national ‘project’ from your own
country (e.g. restructuring a major bank or an education system, mechanising agricultural system, or
digitizing the health system). The project should have been completed within the last 3 years.
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Please note: this project should be DIFFERENT from the project you selected and reviewed for the previous
main coursework.
There is no restriction in the industry or discipline of the project. Hence, you can select a project in line
with your personal or career interests or in line with your previous educational backgrounds, and so on.
Please consult Ramesh if you are in doubt about the appropriateness of your project.
Important point: Case studies used in MANG6311 and MANG6310 are not acceptable for this essay.
Also, very well-known and/or old projects, which their analysis have become extensively published in
books, papers or websites in form of case studies are not acceptable. These will not let you demonstrate
your own capabilities and at the best, your essay will end up being a description and collection of others’
analysis and insights. One way to test this is Googling the name of the project and if there are many results
for the project stakeholder analysis in journals and various websites, the project is not appropriate.
Examples of projects not to choose are as below. Note that the list is not exhaustive, so check your project
with Ramesh if you are in doubt:
– Projects on Airports, Airplanes, Olympics, World Cups, NHS-related, O2, Scottish Parliament,
Channel Tunnel, NASA, Three Gorges Dam, Grenfell Tower, Bicycle sharing projects in China, Uber,
Disney, Tesco in China, M&S and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, One Tablet Per Child project in
Thailand; Demonetization in India; Garden Bridge London; HS2; London transport (Metro, tube,
underground, …); Millennium Dome.
– Projects, which were completed before 2018 (contact me if you are interested in a unique project that
has finished before 2018 or has not been finished but meets other criteria).
Examples of sources for finding appropriate projects are websites of: public or large private organizations;
PM professional bodies or similar institutes (such as construction or financial institutes) active in your
country; and major and formal news agencies to name a few. Please consult lecturers if such sources are
not available.
In any case, you should make sure that for your analysis you would be able to access enough valid data and
information in the public domain.
Here are the main and general topics to be covered in your essay (see marking scheme for further
details):
a. Introduction to the essay (15%)
b. Body of the essay: Project analysis (60%)
c. Conclusions (25%)
3. Instructions
3.1 Essay Format
Margin: Normal
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Structure: Make sure to structure your essay with sections separated with appropriate and relevant titles.
Use subtitles as required. Essays without titles and subtitle are hard to read and mark.
Paragraph: Should be ‘justified’. Avoid using very long paragraphs. Break very long paragraphs into
manageable small ones with a clear central idea and a few relevant sentences focused on
one or two clear themes.
Line Space: 1.5
Titles Font: Larger than 12, bold, and should be easily distinguishable from the body text.
Font: 12, Times New Roman or Arial.
Cover page: Should include module code and name, title of the assignment, your student ID.
Table of Contents: provide the list of the titles and subtitles used in your text with their page numbers
on the first page after the covering. At the bottom of the page provide the essays ‘word
count’.
3.2 Further Notes on Resources and Referencing
– Essential resources: It is absolutely necessary that you initially study the main references given for
each topic in the lectures and then move on to further background studies using other resources. This
will ensure you have appreciated the fundamentals as expected by the lecturers. It will also help you to
select better and more relevant resources for your further studies, rather than a random selection of
numerous PM resources, which might not be of a high quality or academically valid.
– Further resources: You are strongly advised to use a good range of relevant textbooks and papers
from academic journals. See above point for more details.
– Correct citation: It is necessary to follow the Harvard referencing system as suggested by the
University/School guidelines.
– Citing lecture slides: Lecture slides cannot be referenced unless absolutely necessary. All the slides
which you might need to refer to have citation(s) or the related references are given at the end of lecture
hand-outs. It is expected that you study and refer to the original references rather than the lecture slides.
Word Count
– Word count for the essay is 3,000.
– For the details on what is included in the word count and what is not, please refer to the Business School
word count (limit) policy.
– For this essay, cover page, table of contents, references list and the attachment(s) are not counted
towards your word limit.
5. Further Guidance and Tips
– Balance your theoretical and actual data and discussions: High quality essays provide a reasonable
balance of literature/theoretical discussions and the actual data. Such essays, carefully select the main
incidents from the project, which are worth to discuss and analyse. They focus on the most relevant
theories and provide discussions, which add value in line with the essay aims. You need to be selective
and precise to make the best out of your word permit.
– Depth of your Essays: To add academic value to your essays, try to be as analytical, reflective and
critical as you can throughout the essays.
– Follow the Coursework Instructions: Before you start working on the actual assignment, read these
instructions carefully once more and review as many times as required while you are in the process of
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preparing the assignment. This will ensure you do not unintentionally deviate from the cw instructions
and that your essay will cover all the tasks set here. Ask the lecturer if you need further clarification on
the instructions.
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Nature of Assessment: This is a SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT. See ‘Weighting’ section above for the percentage that this
assignment counts towards your final module mark.
Word Limit: +/-10% either side of the word count (see above) is deemed to be acceptable. Any text that exceeds an
additional 10% will not attract any marks. The relevant word count includes items such as cover page, executive
summary, title page, table of contents, tables, figures, in-text citations and section headings, if used. The relevant word
count excludes your list of references and any appendices at the end of your coursework submission.
You should always include the word count (from Microsoft Word, not Turnitin), at the end of your coursework
submission, before your list of references.
Title/Cover Page: You must include a title/ cover page that includes: your Student ID, Module Code, Assignment Title,
Word Count. This assignment will be marked anonymously, please ensure that your name does not appear on any part
of your assignment.
References: You should use the Harvard style to reference your assignment. The library provide guidance on how to
reference in the Harvard style and this is available from: http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing
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