Essay Omani Business Environment Studies – Business Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Task:

Choose a business organization based in Oman, do SWOT & PESTLE analysis and present a report about your findings. Below list includes the main areas that should be covered in the report: 

1. General description of the chosen company (history, nature of the business etc.). 

2. Explain the form of business ownership of the selected company and discuss 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of this type of business. 

3. Do a SWOT analysis for the chosen company.

4. Explain in detail any four factors of PESTLE analysis that affect the organization selected. 

5. Transcript of interview questions should also be submitted as part of the appendices. 

Important instructions:

1. The choice of an organization 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 report should contain a title, table of contents, introduction (goal and objectives of report, main sources used, the structure of the report/body (answers to all questions of the assignment), conclusion (revealing all findings, directly related to objectives, highlighting challenges), list of references, appendixes. 

4. Adequate referencing (use Harvard style of referencing) should be done in the report. 

5. The computer-generated report should be in 12, Times New Roman and black and white. Colored exhibits should be avoided in the report. 

6. Plagiarised documents (see the updated document at the end of this assignment) 

7. 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 penalties. 

Plagiarised documents, in part or in whole, submitted by the students will be subject to this policy. 

A. The 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 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 working 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 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 per cent. However, cases having a similarity of less than 7 per cent in such cases may still be investigated by the faculty depending on the seriousness of the case. 

d. If faculty member finds enough merit in the case of student work with a similarity (with a single source) of more than 7 per cent as not a case of plagiarism, the faculty member should provide detailed comments/remarks to justify the case.