COURSE: ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY (OSY911S)

DUE DATE: 24 APRIL 2024 TOTAL MARKS: 100

LECTURER: DR. M. Ochurub

GROUP ASSIGNMENT FOR: GROUP 1 and 2

Do a critical analysis of how the corporate responsibility and personal ethics relates to the purpose and strategy of
your organization. For this assignment, please VISIT an organization (any organization in Namibia) that has
developed a business strategy recently. You must interview some key people and obtain some data on whether the
business strategy of this organization correspond to corporate social responsibility in the organisation selected,
which would serve as findings of your data collection process.

Please follow the following guidelines for the assignment:

1. Introduction – (1 page – provide a brief context of your assignment, in other words briefly outlines how the
assignment will develop).

2. Literature review should focus on the topic and used to support the primary data collected. Highlight some
challenges and problems normally experienced in implementation and managing of corporate responsibility
and personal ethics. (6 pages).

3. Background of the organization. This must focus on the organisation selected and all aspects of discussing
be based solely on the topic. It is ideal to focus on historical aspects and diagnosis of the problem. (1 page)

4. Findings (5 pages). Provide findings from the data collected/obtained from the interviews. Relevant
questions relating to the topic should be asked and findings provided. Concentrate mostly on presentation of
the data as received or collected.

5. Brief discussion of findings and recommendations for the organization based on your analysis of corporate
responsibility and personal ethics. Findings must be based on company specific information and your
observations. Recommendations must emanate from the best practices, responses from people and
literature reviewed (3 – 4 pages).

6. Conclusion
7. References

FORMAT:
1. Your project should have a title page and students particulars including signature.
2. Table of content
3. Body of project
4. Personal findings and recommendations – company specific information and your observations
5. Conclusion – summary of overall findings
6. Bibliography – books, Journals, Articles, and other material used in the project.
7. Appendix – Articles, Questionnaires and other company material that may be used.

This is a group assignment and individual assignments will not be accepted for this topic. A group will consist of five
(5) individuals. Each group member must participate, and no individual should appear in two groups.

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GROUP ASSIGNMENT FOR: GROUPS 3, 4 & 5

Identify an organization of your choice in Namibia and investigate the following: different styles of leading strategic
change, how does organizational context affect the design of strategic change, how can forcefield analysis be used in
this regard? Assess the value of different levers for strategic change and identify approaches, pitfalls, and problems
of leading different types of strategic change. For this assignment, please VISIT an organization (any organization in
Namibia) that has a business strategy or strategies in place. You must interview some key people who were
responsible for strategy implementation and obtain necessary and relevant data based on the topic, which would
serve as findings of your data collection process.

Please follow the following guidelines for the assignment:

1. Introduction – (1 page – provide a brief context of your assignment, in other words briefly outlines how the
assignment will develop)

2. Literature review should focus on the topic and used to support the primary data collected. (6 pages). Read
more and highlight key/main aspects of the different styles of leading strategic change, how the
organizational context affects the design of strategic change, how forcefield analysis could be used in this
regard. Cover secondary data on the assessment of the value of different levers for strategic change and
identify approaches, pitfalls, and problems of leading different types of strategic change. Highlight some
challenges and problems normally experienced in this regard.

3. Background of the organization. This must focus on the organisation selected and all aspects of discussing
be based solely on the topic. It is ideal to focus on historical aspects and diagnosis of the problem. (1 page)

4. Findings (5 pages). Provide findings from the data collected/obtained from the interviews. Relevant
questions relating to the topic should be asked and findings provided. Concentrate mostly on presentation of
the data as received or collected. The questions would be based on the different styles of leading strategic
change, how does organizational context affect the design of strategic change, how forcefield analysis could
be used in this regard? Collect data on the assessment of the value of different levers for strategic change
and identify approaches, pitfalls, and problems of leading different types of strategic change.

5. Brief discussion of findings and recommendations for the organization based on your analysis of corporate
responsibility and personal ethics. Findings must be based on company specific information and your
observations. Recommendations must emanate from the best practices, responses from people and
literature reviewed (3 – 4 pages).

6. Conclusion

7. References

FORMAT:

1. Your project should have a title page and students particulars including signature.
2. Table of content
3. Body of project
4. Personal findings and recommendations – company specific information and your observations
5. Conclusion – summary of overall findings
6. Bibliography – books, Journals, Articles, and other material used in the project.
7. Appendix – Articles, Questionnaires and other company material that may be used.

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This is a group assignment and individual assignments will not be accepted for this topic. A group will consist of five
(5) individuals. Each group member must participate, and no individual should appear in two groups.

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A GREAT SUCCESS WITH THIS ASSIGNMENT, PLEASE USE THE MARKING CRITERIA ON THE
NEXT PAGE AS A CHECKLIST

MARKING CRITERIA: THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES WOULD BE APPLIED IN MARKING THE ASSIGNMENT:

NR LAYOUT OF THE ASSIGNMENT TOTAL ACTUAL

MARKS MARK
1. Table of contents/cover page
 Do topics/page numbers corresponds with content. 2%
 Is the cover page signed by all the students
2. Introduction
 All contextual factors based on the assignment topic. 6%
 Core ideas have been identified and description of how assignment
will have developed is provided
3. Literature Review
 Relevant literature used. 10%
 Does the literature address the assignment topic?
 Recent sources used (not elder than five years)
 Views of the Though Leaders (authors) quoted/addressed. 20%
 Analysis and synthesis of ideas of different authors
 Own conclusions made on views of Thought Leaders
4. Findings
 Discussion of findings as required in the assignment. 30%
 presentation of thoughts, and logical sequence of ideas
5. Background information to the organization
 Presentation of relevant ideas based on the organisation 6%
 Diagnosis of the problem and impact prompted intervention
6. Technical quality
 Good languages use 10%
 Any errors (grammar, spelling, punctuation etc.)
 Headings/sub-headings and numbering of headings
 Good layout (neatness/overall impression) 5%
 Paragraphing
 Spacing, justifying, and consistency e.g., bold, italic etc.
7. Brief discussion of findings, recommendations, and conclusion 6%
 Based on the topic/main areas of the assignment
 Realistic and applicable recommendations
8. Referencing 5%
 Use of accepted referencing method (in text/list of references)
 Matching of references in text and on the list of references
9. TOTAL 100%

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