Business Research Assessment There are two components to the assessment for the module: a Learning Log and an Assignment Essay. The overall mark for the module will comprise 50% from each of these components. The Learning Log is an individual contribution and is a write-up of directed activities and tasks that you will be set in units 3 and 8. Marks will be awarded for correctness and completeness. It is particularly important that you provide, where appropriate, references and citations to sources that may have been used to inform you or to reinforce your arguments. All direct quotes or materials imported from elsewhere are required to be suitably acknowledged. The written document should NOT exceed 1000 words in length. The Assignment Essay will be a critique of a paper published in a quality journal that reports research that has been undertaken. You are given a choice of the paper to critique from a list of five, taken from the main subject areas in management that you will be studying on the MBA programme. In this, you will be required to describe the approach and rationale in general, and to explain why this is appropriate. You will further need to describe the background and context of the identified study and, where appropriate, comment on the data collection method or methods used and provide a justification of the findings. The critique should be no longer than 1000 words in length, excluding any Reference section you may wish to include for cited articles used to justify your comments and conclusions, or any Appendices present, should these prove necessary. Wu, Z. and Pagell, M. (2011) Balancing priorities: Decision-making in sustainable supply chain management, Journal of Operations Management, 29, pp. 577-590 Unit 3: Summative Learning Log Activity 1 In the 1980s, Freeman introduced stakeholder theory, which led to the development of the notion of the response organization and, it is argued, ultimately, the introduction of the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR). You are to conduct a literature search for suitable papers on stakeholder theory. You are advised to use Google Scholar, or a search engine of your choice, to initially locate papers in this research area. You should then download the papers from the Bradford Library catalogue or from the Internet (if available), “skim-read� these articles and narrow your search based on any theme or aspect of the research on stakeholder theory that you find interesting. You should rank the importance of the best three papers that you end up with based on the rating of the journals they are published in from the Association of Business Schools Journal Quality Guide (ABS list). (You can download this list by searching for the “ABS list� using Google). Ideally you will have selected papers from 3 or 4 rated journals on the ABS list. For the learning log, you are required to provide a report of this investigation. In this you must explain what steps you took to locate your final selection of papers. This should include the keywords you employed to narrow the list down and your objectives at each stage. You are then to provide a very brief, high level, summary of what you discovered from your search. It is recommended that you consider what the literature search revealed about stakeholder theory and what you learnt from the process of the search. Unit 8: Summative Learning Log Activity 2 For the Learning Log, you are to answer the following questions for the set scenario: The annual profit for your organisation last year was £1203, per employee. The average for the sector was £1228 per employee. You need to know if there is evidence that your organisation is not as profitable, on average, as your competitors. The standard deviation for the sector is £104 per employee. Question 1. State H0 and H1 for the test to check this? Assuming that annual per employee profit follows a Normal distribution, the resulting P-value for the test is, P= 0.405 (3 d.p.): Question 2. Based entirely on this P-value, what would you conclude from the test? Question 3. What is the probability of getting a profit per employee of £1203, or less, when there is no statistically significant difference between that for your company and the industry average? Question 4. If your annual per employee profit was such that the test had resulted in a P-value given by P=0.032 and you were testing at the a=0.01 significance level, what would you conclude and why? Question 5. If you chose to reject H0 but H0 was actually true, would you be making a Type I or Type II error? Question 6. What assumptions have you made about the annual per employee profit in this test?