Robert Gordon University

Aberdeen Business School

Module Title:   Strategic Risk Management 

Module Number:            BSM741

Coursework No:                  1 – Diet 1

Weighting:               100%

Module Learning Outcomes Assessed:  1, 2, 3, 4

Coursework Title: Strategic Risk Management

Coursework Brief:

The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) is Scotland’s largest offshore wind test and demonstration facility which is being developed by Vattenfall-owned Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Limited. The EOWDC will be located 2.4km offshore in Aberdeen Bay, and once operational will provide 70% of Aberdeen’s domestic energy. The construction site is located at Blackdog, a small village adjacent to a nature reserve, just north of Aberdeen.

Systems Science and Engineering

You have been appointed as a Risk Management Consultant to advise on this project. Your report should cover the following:

• The risk management systems applicable in the U.K. to this project, with respect to the three risk areas; health and safety, environmental, and socio-political.
• Independent and integrated methods of managing these three risk areas.
• Identification and assessment of the main hazards facing the project with respect to these three risk areas.
• Consideration of business impact analysis, corporate social responsibility and ethics.
• The relationship between business continuity and risk management in terms of overall strategic risk management.
• Recommendations to be made to the company regarding the best risk management approach for this project

Essay on HRM

PLEASE NOTE:

• Students should not, under any circumstances, contact the organisation. All materials used must be public documents.
• BSM521 will also use Vattenfall for its assessment. If you take both of these modules, you must not reuse work submitted in one module, for the other, as this risks self-plagiarism.

Coursework Aim:

To demonstrate an understanding of the challenges of risk management, in particular the integration of risk management systems. Further, to critically analyse the role of corporate social responsibility, ethics and business continuity with regards to corporate strategy. 

Coursework Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically evaluate the integration of risk management systems in a strategic context.
2. Critically analyse the challenges of risk management.
3. Critically analyse the role of Corporate Social Responsibility and ethics in risk management systems.
4. Critically appraise the development, implementation and role of Business Continuity Planning with regard to corporate strategy.

Presentation Format/Instructions: (word count/report/essay/etc)

All work should be academically underpinned and referenced appropriately.

Academic report – for the purposes of this assessment should include the following and be written in the 3rd person:

• An Executive Summary
• Table of Contents
• Introduction with aim and objectives of the report
• Critical discussion using the literature
• Conclusions
• Recommendations
• References
• Bibliography
• Appendices

Note

A cover page is required with the word count displayed. 10% over or under this limit is acceptable. Failure to keep within 10% of the designated word count will result in a penalty of a reduction of one grade. Any appendices you may attach are not included in the word count. You must include a statement on the front cover of your work that gives the word count. You must comply with staff requests to submit to Turnitin and provide a receipt where asked to do so.

Harvard referencing should be used throughout.

Criteria for Assessment: Please also see attached grading grid

(To include how marks can be lost, e.g. word counts, timings etc

Marks can be lost for the following:

• Inadequate overview of risk management systems.
• Failure to sufficiently discuss health and safety, environmental and socio-political risks.
• Providing a descriptive, rather than critical, discussion.
• Failure to include business impact analysis, corporate social responsibility, ethics and business continuity in sufficient detail and critical depth.
• Insufficient academic justification for the argument made.
• Failure to provide appropriate and justified recommendations.

Instructions for submission:

(hard copy/online/turnitin/number of copies where appropriate)

Please upload your work into the Turnitin Dropbox provided on Moodle.

We encourage you to use Turnitin for formative feedback, to this end the Turnitin dropbox is set to allow multiple submissions.

Nursing Practice

Feedback on your assessment will be available 4 working weeks after the submission deadline.   

Word count for the essay is 4,000 + or – 10%.

Academic Honesty:       

It is your responsibility to ensure that your work conforms to the requirements for academic honesty.  The details below are a brief reminder of what constitutes academic dishonesty/cheating.

Plagiarism

You may lose marks if you do not cite sources accurately. If you fail to reference sources properly, the effect is to misrepresent the amount of work done. Passing someone else’s work off as your own is plagiarism.

Plagiarism (i.e. presenting the thoughts or writings of others as your original work, without properly identifying and referencing the source), is unacceptable behaviour and will be regarded as a serious breach of Regulations by the School and the University. This includes copying part or all of a dissertation, copying from another student’s work, or the un-attributed quotation of even a single sentence written by another author. Remember you are required to sign a declaration that you have acknowledged all quotations and all sources of information.

Falsification or fabrication of data

This is another form of cheating. If there are doubts about the authenticity of your work, for example the results of a questionnaire, you may be required to provide documentary evidence as proof. Any materials which have been used in the production of your work such as completed questionnaires, letters, computer files, etc., should be retained by you (the student) as evidence until you have received your final award. Staff may wish to review and consider your data set in the light of the work submitted.

Collusion

If two or more students work together, without prior approval, to produce the same piece of work, and then attempt to present this as entirely their own work, or if one student permits another to copy his/her work, it will be considered that an offence has been committed by all concerned.

Please visit the University Website for more details on Academic Regulations

http://libguides.rgu.ac.uk/c.php?g=260908&p=1742961

Note

A cover page is required with the word count displayed. 10% over or under this limit is acceptable. Failure to keep within 10% of the designated word count will result in a penalty of a reduction of one grade. Any appendices you may attach are not included in the word count. You must include a statement on the front cover of your work that gives the word count. You must comply with staff requests to submit to Turnitin and provide a receipt where asked to do so.

Fit to sit policy:                                

Please note the University operates a fit-to-sit policy.  Full details of this can be found in the Fit-to-sit learning experience tab at the top of the module page, or on the following link: https://www.rgu.ac.uk/file/fit-to-sit-policy-2016-17-pdf-445kb

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Please make sure you are familiar with this policy and if, for any reason, you are unable to submit your assessment on time, you should refer to this policy and seek guidance from the module co-ordinator/Programme Lead.