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SUMMATIVE ASSIGNMENT
Organisational Behaviour and Leadership Project

You are required to design, conduct, and report upon a research project of your choice within the area of organisational behaviour and leadership. The assessment will allow you to bring together skills developed throughout your programme to carry out an investigation into an organisational behaviour and leadership theory topic.
Students may undertake a self-sourced organisational behaviour and leadership project with a real-world commercial or non-commercial organisation with the written permission of the Module Leader. You will be required to work in pairs (or group of 3 if odd numbers) to undertake research into the chosen project of your choosing. The pairs will be assigned an academic supervisor to support them throughout the project. Please note that although data can be collected whilst working in your pairs/ small groups, you must write up the final project report individually.
The content of your report should clearly articulate the rationale for your research focus. There should be engagement with relevant literature and identification of an appropriate methodology to research the topic. It is anticipated that most projects will take the form of an empirical investigation, though it is possible to pursue relevant non-empirical projects (e.g. using secondary data sources) with permission of the Module Leader.
Your data analysis must be clear and justified through reference to appropriate literature, with results presented and explained in a suitable format. Findings should be clearly related back to both the literature consulted and the project’s initial objectives. Finally, your report should reflect on the relative strengths and weaknesses of your work, any theoretical or practical implications, and potential directions for future research.
Clear presentation of results and appropriate analyses are very important, and critical evaluation relating findings to existing literature must be included. The individual assessment is written up as a project consultancy report. Further guidance and advice on the production of this document will be provided in your workshop session and supervisory meetings.

Overall word limit: 4,500

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Your completed assignment must be uploaded to Blackboard
no later than 12:00 midday on 29th April 2025.

The assignment should be submitting using one of the following file types: .doc, docx or .pdf

A penalty will be applied for work uploaded after 12:00 midday as detailed in the Student Information Hub. You must leave sufficient time to fully complete the upload process before the deadline and check that you have received a receipt. At peak periods, it can take up to 30 minutes for a receipt to be generated.

Assignments should be typed, using 1.5 spacing and an easy-to-read 12-point font. Assignments and dissertations/business projects must not exceed the word count indicated in the module handbook/assessment brief.

The word count should:
Include all the text, including title, preface, introduction, in-text citations, quotations, footnotes and any other items not specifically excluded below.
Exclude diagrams, tables (including tables/lists of contents and figures), equations, executive summary/abstract, acknowledgements, declaration, bibliography/list of references and appendices. However, it is not appropriate to use diagrams or tables merely as a way of circumventing the word limit. If a student uses a table or figure as a means of presenting his/her own words, then this is included in the word count.

Examiners will stop reading once the word limit has been reached, and work beyond this point will not be assessed. Checks of word counts will be carried out on submitted work, including any assignments or dissertations/business projects that appear to be clearly over-length. Checks may take place manually and/or with the aid of the word count provided via an electronic submission. Where a student has intentionally misrepresented their word count, the School may treat this as an offence under Section IV of the General Regulations of the University. Extreme cases may be viewed as dishonest practice under Section IV, 5 (a) (x) of the General Regulations.
Very occasionally it may be appropriate to present, in an appendix, material which does not properly belong in the main body of the assessment but which some students wish to provide for the sake of completeness. Any appendices will not have a role in the assessment – examiners are under no obligation to read appendices and they do not form part of the word count. Material that students wish to be assessed should always be included in the main body of the text.
Guidance on referencing can be found on Durham University website and in the Student Information Hub.

MARKING GUIDELINES
Performance in the summative assessment for this module is judged against the following criteria:
Relevance to question(s)
Organisation, structure and presentation
Depth of understanding
Analysis and discussion
Use of sources and referencing
Overall conclusions

PLAGIARISM AND COLLUSION
Students suspected of plagiarism, either of published work or the work of other students, or of collusion will be dealt with according to School and University guidelines.
END OF ASSESSMENT