The Institute of Administrative Management Level 4 Diploma in Business and Administrative Management Assignment B Group 1: Administrative management and systems Marking guide IMPORTANT NOTE: When answering the assignment candidates must: answer only one assignment per unit show knowledge and understanding of the subject area use analysis and evaluation in their answers apply concepts and working practice through the use of relevant contemporary organisational examples.
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8/11/2019 IAM Diploma L4 Group 1 Assignment B Marking Guide
Your assignment must be based on your own working practice or on examples drawn fromone or several organisations with which you are familiar.
You must show knowledge and understanding of the syllabus for this unit, including themandatory and recommended reading list as well as the IAM study materials.
Your assignment must address the learning outcomes, and include analysis and evaluation
of the issues and topics you discuss.
Task
Often, due to many different circumstances, organisations have to look across the
organisation to identify ways of either reducing costs and/or refining procedures
that eliminate any potential for duplication of effort.
The not-for-profit sector is not an exception to this requirement, with manyvoluntary organisations reviewing costs and procedures across their operations. Alocal children’s cancer charity in Northern Ireland is one such example. It employs100 employees based in three offices in three separate towns dispersed across the
province; the staff members are a combination of social workers, nurses andadministrative staff.
Charitable funds have been declining over the past three years, and theorganisation is considering ways of reducing costs to make the organisation run asefficiently and economically as possible. One measure that the management are
considering is to cut costs in the function of administration. They (like manypeople) consider the function of administration could, in a large part, become partof the duties of other professional staff such as social workers, and want to protectthe jobs of these “front line” staff.
As the organisation’s Administrative Manager (a function which spans the entire
organisation across each of the sites), and having responsibility for all of theadministrative staff (30 in total), you must put a case to the management andboard which explains the concept of administrative management and how this roleunderpins all other functions.Your report must include:
the role and skills required of an administrative manager
how the role relates to the other management and professional functions
8/11/2019 IAM Diploma L4 Group 1 Assignment B Marking Guide
Taking a holistic approach and positive marking: Guidance to Assessors
This document provides you with guidance on marking assignments. Assignments must
be assessed against the candidate’s level of knowledge and understanding,
analysis, evaluation and application.
To begin marking, you must initially assess a candidate’s work purely based on the
IAM marking criteria, which you can find at the end of this document. This document
provides you with a holistic performance profile for each level of achievement. At this
point, you need to make a preliminary judgement on the candidates work and decide
whether they fit in the pass, merit or distinction category.
The next step is to consider whether the candidate has addressed the assessmentcriteria. This is done by using the marking guide to confirm and provide an overall
mark. A reminder of the marking criteria is incorporated within each assessed area in
the marking guide.
Please be mindful of the fact that specific requirements may earn marks under several
or all of the cognitive categories (knowledge and understanding, analysis, evaluation,
and/or application).
For example, an explanation of the role of a facilities manager is required; therefore
knowledge and understanding marks should be allocated for stating elements of this
role. However analysis and evaluation marks maybe added for analytical and evaluative
explanations. If the candidate supports this explanation by referring to practical
examples from organisations, application marks should also be allocated. The marking
guide for this assignment reflects this approach.
After using the marking guide, you may find the candidate’s actual mark does not fit
within the category you initially selected. In this case you need to decide if, as a result,
you want to place the mark into another category or, despite the details, you are
8/11/2019 IAM Diploma L4 Group 1 Assignment B Marking Guide