BB4

Doing Business in Global Markets (DBGM)

Assignment Rules and Best

Practice.

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 Group Assignment – Rules.

• 2 to 4 students.
• Submission date Monday 2 December 2019
• Must be Irish company.
• Must be member of the EU.
• Must be physical product.

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 Group Assignment – Rules.

• 6,000 words.
• Report format.
• Secondary research only, no primary
research is required.
• Minimum 25 references.
• College guidelines for Harvard referencing to be
followed.

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 Secondary Research

• Secondary research is the summary,

collation and synthesis of existing research
• Often takes the form of ‘desk research’
• Research reports, journals, statistics from
organisations and governments are all
secondary research
 Group Assignment – Rules.

• Only One report per group must be uploaded to

Moodle and Turnitin.

• The report must be structured correctly and

written in a formal style of English.

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 Group Assignment – Rules.
Plagiarism

• One of the greatest academic crimes,

plagiarism.
• Plagiarism is considered an act of fraud
• Any plagiarised text will invoke immediate
implementation of college policy.
• Reference often and properly.
 Assignment - Marking Scheme.

Task % Mark
• 1 • 15%
• 2 • 20%
• 3 • 20%
• 4 • 20%
• 5 • 15%
• 6 • 10%
• TOTAL 100.
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 Group Assignment – Rules.

• Include a cover sheet with all students names and

numbers.

• The Report must include a signed statement

detailing what part each Team Member
contributed to the report and project.

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 Assignment structure

• Report format

• Use Table of Contents (TOC) for the core

structure.

• Use the structure to allocate tasks to team

members.
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 Group Assignment – Rules.
Content.
Company information:
• In the report put Name of company, Product
chosen, Country and city chosen.

• Put the company’s history, profits and

strategy, it’s products and markets in the
relevant appendix.

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 Assignment Content: Focus on:

• The 6 core tasks

• The country/market selected.
• The industry.
• The organisation.

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 Group assignment –
Principles and Practices.

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This assignment is a Project.

And must be managed like a

Project.

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 Assignment practices: M.O.S.T.

Establish
Mission.
Objectives.
Strategy.
Tactics.

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 Make sure your objectives are SMART

• Specific (simple, sensible, significant).

• Measurable (meaningful, motivating).
• Achievable (agreed, attainable).
• Relevant (reasonable, realistic and
resourced, results-based).
• Time bound (time-based, time limited,
time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive).
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 Core objectives.

• Achieve mark greater than %????

• Submit report on or before submission date.
• Work and communicate as a team.
• Enhance project management skills and
Research knowledge and skills.

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 Assignment Strategy

• Appoint Project facilitator

• Decide on task sequence and timeline.
• Allocate tasks.
• Regular team communication.
• Identify problems early & resolve

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 Assignment Tactics

• Tactics are the things you do as part of the

Project plan, e.g. doing research, writing
your part of the report, etc

• Each individual should plan how they will

complete the task allocated to them .

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Research sources

Using the web

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 Search engines

• https://duckduckgo.com/

• Use Meta search engines

• http://www.dogpile.com/

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 Search engines

• https://duckduckgo.com/

• Use Meta search engines

• http://www.dogpile.com/

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 Search engines

• http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/
• http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebs
earchtips/qt/search-engine.htm
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s
earch_engines#People
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_sea
rch_engine

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 Web directories

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_
web_directories

• http://www.dmoz.org/

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 Media Portal sites

• http://www.yahoo.com/

• http://www.world-
newspapers.com/index.html

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 Finance portals

• Bloomberg.com

• Reuters.com

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 Website Resources

www.guardian.co.uk
www.economist.com
www.mckinseyquarterly.com
www.ey.com

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