OBES-BUSS 10001- Spring-17-CW2-QP Individual Assignment Spring 2017 Module: Omani Business Environment Studies (BUSS 10001) Level: 1 Max. Marks: 100 ID NUMBER Duration: 5 weeks *: will be scaled down to 40 Instructions to Student:  Answer all questions  Marks awarded in the assessment are provisional till it is approved by the Exam Board  Submit GR through Moodle, and do a presentation as per the date specified in the MIG  Plagiarism policy is as per the MEC guidelines updated, uploaded on Moodle and presented in class Task (100 marks) Choose an Omani well-established company, answer all questions and write a report about your findings. Below are the main areas that should be covered in the report: 1. Write an introduction in which you will briefly highlight the portfolio of the chosen Omani organization (5 marks) 2. Do a SWOT’s analysis for the same company in Oman. (40 marks) 3. Based on the results of your analysis in question number 2, suggest an explained action plan to overcome weaknesses (W) and threats (T) of the company. (20 marks). 4. After explaining the benefit of Oman Vision 2020 to SMEs (10 marks), show its implications on the chosen company or at least highlight the expectations of the company’s management? (20 marks) 5. Write a conclusion in which you will make sure to incorporate your findings (5 marks) BUSS 10001 (QP) Page 1 of 4 OBES-BUSS 10001- Spring-17-CW2-QP NB: Up to 5 marks could be lost in case the report is not well presented, does not contain a title, table of contents etc. + a List of references, appendixes etc. Important instructions: 1. The choice of organisation should be approved by the professor. 2. For the assignment, you are expected to use different sources of information – primary and secondary data. 3. The total word count is approximately 1000- maximum 1500 words. 4. The report should contain a title, table of contents, introduction (goal and objectives of report, main sources used, structure…), body (answers to all questions of the assignment), conclusion (revealing all findings, directly related to objectives, highlighting challenges), list of references, appendixes. 5. Adequate referencing (use Harvard style of referencing) should be done in the report. 6. The computer generated report should be in 12, Times New Roman and black and white. Coloured exhibits should be avoided in the report. 7. Plagiarised documents (see updated document at the end of this assignment) 8. Late submissions: Penalty for late submission: 5% of the maximum mark specified for the assessment will be deducted for each working day. Plagiarism Policy As per MEC policy, any form of violation of academic integrity will invite severe penalty. Plagiarised documents, in part or in whole, submitted by the students will be subject to this policy. A. First offence of plagiarism a. A student will be allowed to re-submit the assignment once, within a maximum period of one week. However, a penalty of deduction of 25% of the marks obtained for the resubmitted work will be imposed. b. Mark deduction: When the work is resubmitted, the marking will be undertaken according to the marking criteria. In compliance with this policy, the 25% deduction is then made on the marks obtained. For example, in an assessment that carries a maximum of 50 marks, suppose a BUSS 10001 (QP) Page 2 of 4 OBES-BUSS 10001- Spring-17-CW2-QP student were to obtain 30 marks for the resubmitted work, the final marks for that assessment will be 22.5 (after deducting 25% of the marks actually obtained for the resubmitted work). c. Period of resubmission: The student will have to resubmit the work one week from the date he or she is advised to resubmit. For example, if the formal advice to resubmit was communicated to the student on a Sunday (latest by 5 pm), the student will have to resubmit the work latest by next Sunday 5 pm. d. If the re-submitted work is also detected to be plagiarized, then the work will be awarded a zero. e. Resubmission of the work beyond the maximum period of one week will not be accepted and the work will be awarded a zero. B. Any further offence of plagiarism a. If any student is again caught in an act of plagiarism during his/her course of study (either in the same module, same semester or in any other semester), the student will directly be awarded zero for the work in which plagiarism is detected. In such cases, the student will not be allowed to re-submit the work. C. Guidelines a. Type 1: In case plagiarism is detected in any component or part submission (submitted at different times) of one assessment (assignment), the deduction in marks will be applicable for the whole assessment (assignment), even if only the component or part submission alone needs to be resubmitted. b. Type 2: In case plagiarism is detected in a group assessment, all students of the group will be considered as having committed an act of plagiarism irrespective of whether plagiarism is on account of the act of all or a few or only one member. The policy will then be applied to all students. c. Type 3: Combination of Type 1 and Type 2: In case plagiarism is detected in any component or part submission (submitted at different times) of a group assessment (assignment), the deduction in marks will be applicable for the whole assessment (assignment), even if only the component or part submission alone needs to be resubmitted. All students of the group would BUSS 10001 (QP) Page 3 of 4 OBES-BUSS 10001- Spring-17-CW2-QP be considered as having committed an act of plagiarism irrespective of whether plagiarism is on account of the act of all or a few or only one member. The policy will then be applied to all the students of the group. d. Type 4: Variation of Type 1 and Type 2: In cases where the assessment consists of components or part submissions that could be a group assessment component (e.g. group assignment) and an individual assessment component (e.g. individual reflection), the following will be applicable: 1. If plagiarism is detected in the group assessment component, all students of the group will be considered as having committed an act of plagiarism, irrespective of whether plagiarism is on account of the act of all or a few or only one member. The policy will then be applied to all students of the group. In such cases the group assessment component will be resubmitted as per the policy. 2. If plagiarism is detected in the individual assessment component, the individual assessment component will be resubmitted as per the policy. The policy will then be applied to that student alone. 3. In both cases (a) and/or (b), the deduction in marks will be applicable for the whole assessment (assignment). D. Amount of similar material a. The total amount of similar material in any form of student work from all sources put together should not exceed 30% (including direct quotations). b. The total amount of quoted material (direct quotations) in any form of student work from all sources put together should not exceed 10%. c. The total amount of similar material in any form of student work from a single source should not exceed 7 percent. However, cases having a similarity of less than 7 percent in such cases may still be investigated by the faculty depending on the seriousness of the case. d. If faculty member find enough merit in the case of a student work with a similarity (with a single source) of more than 7 percent as not a case of plagiarism, the faculty member should provide detailed comments/remarks to justify the case. (Updated on March 13, 2016) BUSS 10001 (QP) Page 4 of 4
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