Faculty of Business Studies

Tutor Marked Assignment

B301 B: Making Sense of Strategy II
SPRING Semester 2017– 2018
Cut-off date 25/4/2018

This tutor marked-assignment is meant to assess the student’s ability in understanding, and application of the
course materials provided in the class room and ideas from external sources, as well as to test his/her
reflection and critical thinking. Among other ILOs, it is also intended to test the student’s ability to argue
relevantly and to justify a point of view besides, constructing, defending and evaluating an argument, using
relevant evidence and giving reasons for conclusions. It consists of two questions and accounts for 20% of the
total grade assigned to the course

INSTRUCTIONS
The TMA must be done with strict compliance to the guidelines and instructions stated, otherwise there will
be penalties in form of marks deduction as per the university’s policy.
You are encouraged to collaborate with others in studying, but submitted work copied from or written jointly with
others is not acceptable. Submitting work that has been done by someone else and persistent borrowing of other
people’s work without citation are obvious instances of plagiarism and are regarded as cheating. Paying for work
from other sources and submitting it as your own is also cheating. It is intellectually dishonest to cheat. If a case
of plagiarism is proven, this is a serious offence and the disciplinary procedures will be followed, as described under the
Examination Policy of the AOU. Cases of plagiarism will receive a mark of “ Zero” on the assignment. Please
refer to AOU plagiarism policy.

1. TMA must be written in ESSAY format, BULLETS and NUMBERING to be avoided. Avoid writing TMA in first
person tense. E.g. “I suggest that …” or “In this TMA I am going to discuss…”etc.

2. Word count should be exact with 10% (More/less) tolerance.

3. You must acknowledge all sources of information using full Harvard Style Referencing (In-text referencing
plus list of references at the end) Minimum of 5 references are required. MUST include E-library and
course materials.

4. Wikipedia is not recommended as a reference.

5. Copy and paste-plagiarized work will be detected by TURNITIN and heavily penalized.

6. TMAs to tutors through emails and late submission not permitted.

7. Strictly use the PT3 form with green color mark for your TMA.

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Any other non- compliance to guidelines and requirements will be penalized

WARNING: THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSION OF CUT-OFF DATE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.

Please Note that this particular TMA is meant to respond to recommendations

given by EE to encourage and develop greater critical analytical skills especially at level 6, by
encouraging the students to read more widely; the greater use of comparative case studies; and
encouraging part-time students to reflect on the application of the theories discussed to their own
workplace.

The TMA is based on the concepts from Readings for Block 3-Readings 12 &13

Question

Determinants of national competitive advantage create the national environment in which

companies are born and learn how to compete.

Assuming that you are strategy and policy expert for your own country :( Bahrain, Lebanon,
Oman, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan) you are:

Required:
1. To critically analyze and discuss FOUR different policies with each of the four determinants
of national competitive advantage that will attract Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and
protect domestic firms in your country. (1000 words)

2. To suggest and critically discuss FOUR strategies that can enhance the capacity of firms in
your country to create more employment (500 words)

***************** Good Luck *********************

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