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MNGT 2515 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Group Project Specification


Fieldwork

1. The purpose of the project is to give you an opportunity to develop a set of important skills,
including team-working skills, critical thinking, and academic writing skills.
2. As a part of the project, you will develop a profile of an Omani company that has international
business operations. To do this, you can choose to collect primary data or secondary data.
3. The profile should contain, among others:
a. History of the company
b. Products or services offered
c. Organizational chart or structure
d. International business operations
e. Financial performance or business growth
f. Conclusion: Lessons learnt from the exercise (individual contribution)
4. Because of the nature of the project, there is a possibility that students will resort to copying and
pasting. To ensure that such practice is not committed,
a. The assignment will be checked for its originality
b. Students are encouraged to collect data/information not only from the companys website,
Google but also from other secondary sources such as the companys annual report,
newspaper reports, business reports, academic articles, etc.

Requirements of Written Report (15%)

1. The report should use Times New Roman 12, double spacing, fully justified.
2. Length of report: between 2000 and 2500 (excluding references).
3. Referencing style: APA (please visit www.apa.org for more details).
4. Cover page should include:
a. Student name and ID (in ascending order)
b. Course code and name
c. Title of assignment
d. Date of submission
e. Word count
5. Staple once on the top left-hand corner of the report.
6. Submit soft copy documents (in Word and PDF) and hard copy document on or before 14 May
2014, in class.
7. Send soft-copy documents to: faridah@squ.edu.om and faridah@uum.edu.my.
8. Save your soft-copy documents as: groupleadersname_MNGT2515_Section30. For example:
Maha_MNGT3513_Section30.pdf and Maha_MNGT3513_Section30.docx
9. Marks will be deducted if any of the requirements is not met.

Requirements of Presentation (5%)
1. Presentation will take approximately 15 minutes per group.
2. The number of slides is between 8 and 10.
3. Slides should be attractive and informative (try to avoid too many texts in a slide).
4. All group members should present as marks will be given to individual members and to the group
as a whole.

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MNGT2515 INTERNATIONA BUSINESS
SECTION 30 - SPRING 2014

WRITTEN REPORT RUBRIC

Name/Student ID:

Course:

Topic:


1 = Poor 2 = Fair 3 = Good 4 = Excellent Marks
Organization
(30%)
Not organized,
discussion makes no
sense.
Some organization,
discussion jumps
around, start and end
are unclear.
Organized, discussions
are somewhat jumpy
Good organization and
discussions are logically
ordered.

The content is not
interesting.
Content is rather
difficult to read and
fairly interesting.
Content is easy and
interesting to read.
Content is very
interesting to read.

Content
(40%)
Provide little or no
information on
background and
significance.
Information is
inaccurate or with
many errors. Reader
learns little.
Insufficient information
on background and
significance. Some
information is accurate,
but enough errors are
made to be distracting.
Gives general
information about the
topic, but some
relevant information
may be missing, or
significance is not
clearly explained. No
significant errors made.
Discusses pertinent
background
information. Clearly
explains significance of
topic. Information is
consistently accurate.

Mechanics
(10%)
Errors are frequent and
distracting; therefore it
is hard to determine
meaning.
Enough errors in style
or grammar occur that
they become
distracting.
Writing is generally
error free, but some
errors in language or
grammar may occur.
Writing is free of errors
in grammar,
punctuation, sentence
structure, capitalization
and spelling.

Aesthetics
(8%)
Unacceptable
appearance. Does not
use appropriate font,
font size, line spacing
and border areas.
Appearance is
acceptable but a lot
could be improve
Appearance is generally
good; only some
elements need to be
improved
Excellent formatting
and appearance. Use
appropriate font, font
size, line spacing and
border areas.

References
(10%)
References are not
cited in text, and no
references list is
provided.
Few references are
cited in text and
incomplete references
Most references are
cited in text and
appropriately provided
in references list.
Complete references in
text and references list.

Style/format is
incorrect.
Many references use
incorrect style/format.
Most references use
correct style/format.
References are in the
correct style/format.

Timeliness
(2%)
Report handed in more
than 1 week late.
Up to 1 week late. Up to two days late.
Report handed in on
time.

Total Points:


Scoring Key

Undergraduate Postgraduate
Poor 0-10 0-17
Fair 11-20 18-24
Good 21-30 25-34
Excellent 31-40 35-40