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• This report is based on the following requirement -
• Q1
• Select and describe a recent major decision / problem / issue tackled by your organisation or one with which you are familiar (module tutor will advise on this where necessary), including a description of the approach the organisation took to tackle it. (Learning Outcome 2)
• (20 marks)
• Guidance: Students should be justifying their choice of problem, not just describing the problem, supported with justification from organisational data. The justification should include introductory theory on problem solving to support why the student selected this decision. The student should describe the approach to decision making and problem solving taking by the organisation, not just the solution reached.
• Q2
• Critically appraise the approaches used by the organisation, suggesting how they could have been improved, or other approaches that could have been used, and what decision making and problem solving techniques would have been most appropriate for this decision or problem. (Learning Outcomes 1-4)
• (60 marks)

• Guidance: Good answers here will be supporting their evaluation with theory, and providing other options and arguing the optimal way of tackling this problem or decision. Students should support their proposed options with evidence from theory, and potentially other contemporary companies’ successes and failures.
• Q3
• Discuss the way in which solutions and decisions generated for question two would best be implemented for the organisation to achieve maximum success. (Learning Outcomes 1 and 3)
• (20 marks)
• Guidance: Implementation theory to be discussed here, in context of the particular organisation and problem. Students should demonstrate a clear knowledge of available implementation methods and how they relate specifically to this particular decision or problem.

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