Assessment Requirement:
- Submit a report of 2000 words excluding cover page, content page, and references.
- Make sure that you have carefully read and fully understood the tasks before answering
them. Complete the tasks fully but concisely and as directly as possible. Follow all
specific instructions for individual questions.
- Answer all tasks in your own words. Do not copy any text from the notes, readings or
other sources. The assignment must be your own work only.
- Select and analyze the organization of your choice.
Tasks
- Conduct an in-depth study of the organization for operations management issues or
the problem from any of the options: inventory management, supply chain management,
ERP systems, MRP systems, Project Management, Quality Management, Process Design,
Risk Management, CSR in Operations Management, and Lean Operations (CLO4)
- Identify your standpoint and research literature to support your view. (CLO5)
- Evaluate relevant operation management approaches to devise a solution for the issues
faced by the organization. (CLO3)
- Evaluate the solution in relevance to the best practices of operations management and
make specific recommendations, resulting from the use of the theory. Not a simple description
of what you have seen without thinking about it. (CLO5
As a GUIDE ONLY, this section outlines some of the aspects you may consider significant given the
brief shown above. Your report should include:
- Cover Page: showing ADSM logo, program details (Program title, course code, course title,
and intake), assessment type, assessment title (different from the research question), student
name, student id, and submission date. The page number must start at the first page of your
report (and not your cover page or contents).
- Please use the cover page that you can access from your ADSM account made now available
under the course on LMS and attached in this file.
- Table of Contents.
- Title: Your title has to be different from your research question.
- Abstract: This section must include the idea, question, aims, method, and brief about results.
- Keywords: Please do not confuse between subject areas and keywords that have to be
aligned with the UAE context.
- Introduction: Initial introduction about the topic and demonstrate that the topic is feasible
and worthwhile.
- Literature review: The depth of knowledge, terminology, concepts, and theoretical debate
are key elements in this section. You will have to use ranked academic journals, textbooks
, and resources specific to the UAE when available to show your rational thinking. Do not
forget to include in the appendix section screenshots about results from the ADSM e-library.
- Research Methodology: This section includes methodological choice. You will justify how the
selected method, type of collected data (secondary vs. primary), calculation of sample size,
and analysis tool (to be linked with the excel file) are suitable to the topic.
- Data analysis and results: This section must include main tables, figures, and results from
your data analysis tool (for example regression, K.S. Test, etc.) and how you link results to
accept or reject hypotheses.
- Discussion: This section must explicitly give evidence on how you are relating results to
the initial idea and research question.
- Recommendation: Your recommendations to organizations, institutions, and industries in the
UAE context are essential.
- Conclusion: You have to give clear answer(s) to your research question(s) and open your
topic to further research efforts in the future.
- Appendices: It is recommended to include research onion, research process, Gantt chart,
results from excel or data analysis software, screenshots from EBSCO, etc.
- References: Please write few words on the style that you have decided when writing your
references (e.g. APA style)