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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

SMP801 · Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Potential — Week 14 of 16

CourseSMP801
Week14 of 16
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This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

  1. Drafting against the criteria
  2. Tutor and peer feedback
  3. Improving the final submission
  4. Feedback and peer review
  5. #OXFORD tutor breaks down what makes a GREAT essay!!

What you will be able to do

  • 1.1 Critically evaluate the external business environment of an organisation.
  • 1.2 Identify key drivers and industry critical success factors.
  • 2.1 Critically analyse the resources and capabilities of an organisation .
  • 2.2 Distinguish between their threshold and distinctive resources and capabilities.
  • 2.3 Evaluate their value chain and identify their core competence as a source of sustainable competitive advantage.
  • 3.1 Critically explore the relationship between, corporate, business and operational strategies.
  • 3.2 Apply strategic models and tools to develop strategic options for an organisation.
  • 3.3 Evaluate strategic options for an organisation.
  • 4.1 Critically evaluate internationalisation drivers and strategies.
  • 4.2 Critically analyse corporate social responsibility strategies emphasizing the stakeholder theory.
  • 4.3 Demonstrate the nexus between strategy and corporate social responsibility/sustainability and evaluate the concept of shared value.
  • 5.1 Identify and assess different leadership styles as related to strategy change.
  • 5.2 Evaluate how organisational context affects strategic change.
  • 5.3 Evaluate how leadership influences strategic change.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Draft the assignment, get feedback and improve it before submission.

Study materials

Videos

  • Feedback and peer review · YouTube · Akademiskt skrivande/Academic Writing · 6 min · for registered students
  • #OXFORD tutor breaks down what makes a GREAT essay!! · YouTube · Jesus College Oxford · 12 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Writing Guide, 3.5: Peer review and using feedback · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 92–94 · for registered students
  • Supporting learners' agentic engagement with feedback: a systematic review · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Macro-Environmental Analysis
  • Week 2: Industry Structure and Competitive Dynamics
  • Week 3: Internal Strategic Architecture and Capabilities
  • Week 4: Value Chain Architecture and Core Competencies
  • Week 5: Multi-Level Strategy and Strategic Alignment
  • Week 6: Formulating Strategic Options
  • Week 7: Strategic Evaluation and Selection
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Globalisation and International Strategic Positioning
  • Week 10: Corporate Responsibility and Shared Value
  • Week 11: Strategic Leadership and Transformational Change
  • Week 12: Applying Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Pot…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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