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Assignment Information

Module Name: The Business Environment

Module Code: 401MAN

Assignment Title: The Sports Industry: Organisational Types, Environmental Forces, and Stakeholder Requirements

Assignment Due Before: Friday 12th June 2026

Assignment Credit: 30 Credits

Word Count (or equivalent): PowerPoint presentation with a 10-minute voiceover presentation (+/10%).

Assignment Type: Presentation

Percentage Grade (Applied Core Assessment). You will be provided with an overall grade between 0% and 100%. To pass the assignment you must achieve a grade of 40% or above.

Assignment Scenario and Task

You are part of an independent global sports insight and futures collective commissioned by a major international sports think tank.

The organisation is developing a “Future of Sport Report 2035”, which explores how elite global sporting organisations must adapt to survive and thrive in an increasingly complex and fast- changing business environment.

Your manager has asked you to produce and deliver a 10-minute recorded presentation that critically analyses how organisations adapt to their business environments, and manage stakeholder expectations.

Assignment Task:

You are required to develop a PowerPoint presentation with a 10-minute recorded voiceover (+/-10%).

Your presentation should provide a clear, structured, and critical analysis of how your chosen sports organisation operates within its business environment and responds to external pressures.

Your presentation should analyse your chosen organisation as a business entity operating within a complex sports environment, focusing on:

• Its organisational purpose and structure
• The environment it operates in (micro and macro)
• The impact of environmental forces
• The significance of these forces at industry level
• The needs and expectations of stakeholders

The Consultancy group has provided you with the below case studies to choose from,

CHOSE ONE of the following sector organisations for your assignment:

1) FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup is the world’s largest and most influential international football tournament, organised by FIFA and held every four years in different host countries. It brings together national teams from across the globe and attracts billions of viewers worldwide.

2) Wimbledon Tennis Championship

The Wimbledon Championships is the oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament in the world, held annually in London. It is a major tournaments and is globally recognised for its tradition, exclusivity, and brand value.

3) International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the global governing body responsible for the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement. It oversees the selection of host cities, Olympic regulations, and global sport development initiatives

Use of AI: This is an Amber-rated assessment, which means you are allowed to use AI to support your work. You can use AI to help you structure your presentation, start or develop paragraphs if you`re struggling, and check spelling, grammar, and clarity. However, you must write the content yourself. Do not use AI to generate full sections of your submission. Turnitin can detect work that is not your own and may flag it for review. Use AI only as a tool to support your thinking and writing.

Important: You must clearly state whether or not you have used AI to support your work. To do this, you must complete the table provided and include it in your submission, placed after the title page and before the main content begins. This is a formal requirement and is not optional.

Further guidance on how AI can be used within the context of a university submission can be found at: https://student.ai.coventry.domains/

Please note: AI cannot be used in the generation of your voiceover. It must be an authentic voice and representation of the student. Voiceover AI tools are not permitted; the use of voiceover AI tools would be regarded as academic misconduct.

Student Artificial Intelligence Acknowledgement	Have you used AI Yes/No	What tool have you used?	How have you used this in the Assessment
Examples	Yes	ChatGPT-4.5	Key word search on topics related to learning outcomes
Examples	Yes	Microsoft Copilot	Summarising documents as part of background research
Inspiring to generate research questions, prompts or search terms.	Yes/No
Planning and management to suggest a title, structure, subheadings, or themes.	Yes/No
Sources and data collection to search, generate, generate quizzes or questionnaires.	Yes/No
Summarising and consolidating notes and sources.	Yes/No
Analysing to find themes, patterns, or motifs in data sets.	Yes/No
Composing to generate images, text, music, programme code, or other materials. Only under strict negotiation	Yes/No
Translating small sections of your written or recorded work into another language	Yes/No
Presenting data in formats such as graphs, charts, tables or slides.	Yes/No
Checking and proofreading work or check work and suggesting improvements.	Yes/No

Submission Instructions:

The individual PowerPoint should be loaded into the PowerPoint template which has been supplied. The cover page should be used, and all references should be correctly referenced.

The voiceover presentation should be recorded using ClipChamp within your University Microsoft 365 account, and the recording link must be added to the template which has been provided, with access to the recording link set to ‘Anyone in Coventry University’. Failure to follow the support guidelines and these steps, will result in your assignment being marked as a Fail.

Additional documents and step-by-step video instructions for the above submission instructions have been provided on your Aula module page.

The PowerPoint and Voiceover presentation should be submitted to the relevant module submission link on Aula, on or before the 6pm due date deadline.

If using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in the development of your assignment, you must reference which tools you have used and for what purposes you have used them. This information must be acknowledged in your final submission.

Marking and Feedback

How will my assignment be marked?

Your assignment will be marked the module team

How will I receive my grades and feedback?

Provisional marks will be released once internally moderated.

Feedback will be provided by the module team alongside grades release.

Feedback will be released via Aula at 6pm, 10 working days after the submission date. Feedback can be found alongside the overall grade for submission attempt.

What will I be marked against?

Details of the marking criteria for this task can be found at the bottom of this assignment brief.

Assessed Module Learning Outcomes

The Learning Outcomes for this module align to the marking criteria which can be found at the end of this brief. Ensure you understand the marking criteria to ensure successful achievement of the assessment task. The following module learning outcomes are assessed in this task:

1. Learning Outcome 1: Explore the organisational types and purposes of businesses from a range of sectors.
2. Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of the environment that organisations operate in.
3. Learning Outcome 3: Illustrate and explain the impact of environmental forces on organisations at a micro and macro level.
4. Learning Outcome 4: Assess the significance of the impact of environmental forces at an organisation, market, sector, or industry level.
5. Learning outcome 5: Demonstrate an understanding of the requirements of a variety of stakeholders to a chosen organisation.

Assignment Scenario and Task

You are part of an independent global sports insight and futures collective commissioned by a major international sports think tank.

The organisation is developing a “Future of Sport Report 2035”, which explores how elite global sporting organisations must adapt to survive and thrive in an increasingly complex and fast- changing business environment.

Your manager has asked you to produce and deliver a 10-minute recorded presentation that critically analyses how organisations adapt to their business environments, and manage stakeholder expectations.

Assignment Task:

You are required to develop a PowerPoint presentation with a 10-minute recorded voiceover (+/-10%).

Your presentation should provide a clear, structured, and critical analysis of how your chosen sports organisation operates within its business environment and responds to external pressures.

Your presentation should analyse your chosen organisation as a business entity operating within a complex sports environment, focusing on:

• Its organisational purpose and structure
• The environment it operates in (micro and macro)
• The impact of environmental forces
• The significance of these forces at industry level
• The needs and expectations of stakeholders

The Consultancy group has provided you with the below case studies to choose from,

CHOSE ONE of the following sector organisations for your assignment:

1) FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup is the world’s largest and most influential international football tournament, organised by FIFA and held every four years in different host countries. It brings together national teams from across the globe and attracts billions of viewers worldwide.

2) Wimbledon Tennis Championship

The Wimbledon Championships is the oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament in the world, held annually in London. It is a major tournaments and is globally recognised for its tradition, exclusivity, and brand value.

3) International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the global governing body responsible for the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement. It oversees the selection of host cities, Olympic regulations, and global sport development initiatives

Use of AI: This is an Amber-rated assessment, which means you are allowed to use AI to support your work. You can use AI to help you structure your presentation, start or develop paragraphs if you`re struggling, and check spelling, grammar, and clarity. However, you must write the content yourself. Do not use AI to generate full sections of your submission. Turnitin can detect work that is not your own and may flag it for review. Use AI only as a tool to support your thinking and writing.

Important: You must clearly state whether or not you have used AI to support your work. To do this, you must complete the table provided and include it in your submission, placed after the title page and before the main content begins. This is a formal requirement and is not optional.

Further guidance on how AI can be used within the context of a university submission can be found at: https://student.ai.coventry.domains/

Please note: AI cannot be used in the generation of your voiceover. It must be an authentic voice and representation of the student. Voiceover AI tools are not permitted; the use of voiceover AI tools would be regarded as academic misconduct.

Student Artificial Intelligence Acknowledgement	Have you used AI Yes/No	What tool have you used?	How have you used this in the Assessment
Examples	Yes	ChatGPT-4.5	Key word search on topics related to learning outcomes
Examples	Yes	Microsoft Copilot	Summarising documents as part of background research
Inspiring to generate research questions, prompts or search terms.	Yes/No
Planning and management to suggest a title, structure, subheadings, or themes.	Yes/No
Sources and data collection to search, generate, generate quizzes or questionnaires.	Yes/No
Summarising and consolidating notes and sources.	Yes/No
Analysing to find themes, patterns, or motifs in data sets.	Yes/No
Composing to generate images, text, music, programme code, or other materials. Only under strict negotiation	Yes/No
Translating small sections of your written or recorded work into another language	Yes/No
Presenting data in formats such as graphs, charts, tables or slides.	Yes/No
Checking and proofreading work or check work and suggesting improvements.	Yes/No

Submission Instructions:

The individual PowerPoint should be loaded into the PowerPoint template which has been supplied. The cover page should be used, and all references should be correctly referenced.

The voiceover presentation should be recorded using ClipChamp within your University Microsoft 365 account, and the recording link must be added to the template which has been provided, with access to the recording link set to ‘Anyone in Coventry University’. Failure to follow the support guidelines and these steps, will result in your assignment being marked as a Fail.

Additional documents and step-by-step video instructions for the above submission instructions have been provided on your Aula module page.

The PowerPoint and Voiceover presentation should be submitted to the relevant module submission link on Aula, on or before the 6pm due date deadline.

If using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in the development of your assignment, you must reference which tools you have used and for what purposes you have used them. This information must be acknowledged in your final submission.

Law and Ethics in Healthcare

Week 3 Discussion

Criminal Behavior by Healthcare Providers or Organization

The United States federal government has created numerous programs to combat fraud and abuse in the healthcare industry. The government now encourages healthcare facilities to have a corporate compliance program, a plan that reduces the chances that the facility will violate laws or regulations. A corporate compliance program is an organization-wide program comprising a code of conduct and written policies, internal monitoring and auditing standards, employee training, feedback mechanisms, and other features, all designed to prevent and detect violations of governmental laws, regulations, and policies. It is a system or method ensuring that employees understand and comply with laws that apply to what they do every day. The way a corporate compliance program is promoted within an organization can profoundly influence organizational culture.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Conduct an online search to find a legal case, journal article, or detailed news article that describes a recent criminal case involving the kind of healthcare facility in which you are interested in working. The case you select should focus on fraud or abuse (such as defrauding the Medicare or Medicaid programs, the Stark self-referral law, anti-kickback statute, or price-fixing) or other criminal act, such as patient abuse, murder, or theft. Evaluate the laws that are involved in your case and consider the ramifications of this criminal or civil action on the individuals and organizations involved.
• A good source for cases is the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Consider looking through one or two state websites, which can be accessed at the About the Medicaid Fraud Control UnitsLinks to an external site. webpage and search for the area that provides more information about and links to each state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
• As you analyze your case and prepare for the Discussion, consider possible motivations behind this criminal act. What could an administrator do to prevent this from happening or to address it effectively once it is detected? Would a compliance program (refer to “Compliance 101” in the Learning Resources) be of value in preventing or detecting and then correcting this criminal issue?

Post your Discussion, to include the following:

• Briefly describe the case you selected and briefly describe the state and/or federal laws that are involved in your case. (If you are an international student, briefly describe the regional laws that are involved in your case.)
• Explain the ramifications of this criminal action or other action for the individuals and organizations involved (e.g., states working with the federal government in capturing fraud). Specifically, identify the penalties that resulted for individuals and organizations.
• Analyze the possible motivations behind the criminal act committed in the case you selected and how it relates to health care.
• Describe at least two basic ethical principles that may apply to this case.
• Finally, identify actions healthcare leaders can take to mitigate or prevent this type of issue.

Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.

titled “Forecasting, Extrapolation, and Trends in Managerial Decision-Making”

Explain a demand function. Describe how managers use historical data to estimate it, highlighting the roles of regression, trend identification, and extrapolation beyond the observed sample. Describe at least two specific forecasting techniques from the chapter (e.g., linear trend extrapolation or multivariate regression-based forecasts), noting their assumptions, strengths, and limitations for predicting future sales or revenues. Apply one or more of these techniques to a concrete forecasting problem of your choice (such as projecting demand for a new pricing strategy, a product line extension, or an international market expansion), clearly stating your variables, data needs, and the steps you would follow. Evaluate the reliability and ethical use of your forecast. Discuss issues such as model misspecification, overreliance on trends, structural breaks, and the risk of drawing causal conclusions from purely correlational patterns. Your discussion should consistently connect back to the terminology and logic of Chapter 3 (e.g., demand estimation, regression, trends, extrapolation). Show how sound forecasting can inform responsible managerial decisions under uncertainty. Note: Avoid overdependence on direct quotes. Direct quotes are a great way to strengthen our assertions and provide support. However, be sure to avoid using excessive direct quotes in lieu of original thought.

4 pages use book as reference

Exhibits 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22 and 1.23 of Integrative Case 1.1 (Chapter 1) present the financial statements for Walmart for 2017 to 2020. In addition, the website for this text (www.cengagebrain.com) contains Walmart’s January 31, 2021, Form 10-K. You should read the management discussion and analysis (MD&A), financial statements, and notes to the financial statements, especially Note 2, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.”

Required

a.        Given your knowledge of Walmart’s key success and risk factors, use the note information described previously to evaluate Walmart’s accounting quality.

b.       If you believe that Walmart’s accounting policy does not yield measurements of assets and liabilities that reflect economic reality and a measurement of net income that is predictive of future earnings, suggest any changes that you would make to assets, liabilities, and earnings to improve accounting quality. (At this point in your learning process, if you do not have specific numerical adjustments to propose, at least describe potential journal entries you would make to change the financial statements, if any, and what information you might need to make those entries.)

c.        Evaluate whether your proposed adjustments are necessary for (1) credit analysis and (2) equity valuation.

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Using the following link:

U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. (1979). The Belmont report. Office for Human Research Protections. https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-report/read-the-belmont-report/index.htmlLinks to an external site.

Read the Belmont’s Report: Using the topic selected for your practice change project, create a case study that describes how the ethical principles of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice will be protected during your project.

Contribute a minimum of 4 pages. It should include at least 3 academic sources, formatted and cited in APA.

CANT HAVE MORE THAN 10% PLAGIARISM PLEASE

DUE DATE JUNE 4, 2026

Discussion Assignment Instructions

You will complete 4 Discussions in this course. You will post one thread of 750 words by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday of the assigned Module: Week. References must be in current APA format.

Based on your required Learn items for this week and your own scholarly research, summarize why a professional code of ethics is necessary in the urban planning profession while engaged in a national, state, and/or local governmental planning organization. Apply one code of ethics violation from the textbook readings or your own research in the literature on planning ethics. Please use scripture(s) to support the position and integrate within your post and not at the end of the post. Determine a biblical viewpoint concerning the planning issue. Please use scripture to support the position. Integrate Biblical verses rather than at the end of the post.

ou will choose one of the surveys and analyze the construction and validity of one of the survey items/questions and its associated answer options. Do not answer the survey questions; rather you will analyze one item/question on one of the surveys.  For your initial post, review the following two surveys covering social justice and career considerations:

Survey: Social Justice in the United States Survey: Careers Choose one of the surveys to analyze in the discussion. Include the title of the survey you select in the title of your post. Answer the following questions about the survey you chose. Note: Unlike for the other discussions in this course, you must start a thread or complete your initial post to read and reply to your peers’ posts.

What one item/question you would change to improve the survey? Describe how the item/question is currently written and how it would be written if you changed it. Explain why you would change this item/question based on what you have learned in the course about creating a good survey. Use key terminology and concepts from your reading to explain your rationale for the improvements. Cite and reference your sources. Think about the one item/question you selected to revise. What is the scale of measurement for this item/question (categorical, ordinal, interval, ratio) as it was originally written? What do you notice about the item/question that leads you to believe it is categorical, ordinal, interval, or ratio? Use sources to support your reasoning. Will your revision to the item/question change the level of measurement? Explain how the level of measurement would be the same or different with your revision. Use sources to support your reasoning. How does appropriate survey construction relate to the programmatic theme of ethics?

DISCUSSION 2 NEED 2 PARAGRAPH

Given the fact that Medicare and Medicaid cover the elderly and the indigent and CHIP covers children, explain why is there such pushback to compulsory (universal) health coverage in the United States.

Discussion Assignment Instructions

 You will complete 4 Discussions in this course. You will post one thread of 750 words by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday of the assigned Module: Week. References must be in current APA format.

Based on your required Learn items for this week and your own scholarly research, summarize why a professional code of ethics is necessary in the urban planning profession while engaged in a national, state, and/or local governmental planning organization. Apply one code of ethics violation from the textbook readings or your own research in the literature on planning ethics. Please use scripture(s) to support the position and integrate within your post and not at the end of the post. Determine a biblical viewpoint concerning the planning issue. Please use scripture to support the position. Integrate Biblical verses rather than at the end of the post.

ou started your capstone phase by posting a first draft of your problem statement. While there will be many more drafts and revisions, having started the process of finding a topic is catapulting yourself forward in the doctoral program. It is of utmost importance that you consider the feedback from your instructor carefully. Every word matters!

Please keep revising your problem statement based on your instructor’s feedback. There will be many more revisions.

A problem can only be investigated in a capstone study if you have solid evidence that it exists.

In addition to you identifying the problem (for example, through personal communication at your local site), the problem must be considered a problem in the educational discipline by published research. Your work builds on, and adds to, the work other scholars have done. To determine if your research problem is current, you need to search the most recent peer-reviewed literature. At this point in your study, seek reference literature that has been published within the last 3 years.

The university library provides information on how to use Boolean terms to narrow your searches of recent peer-reviewed literature: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/keyword/booleanLinks to an external site..

Your topic must be aligned to the specialization you enrolled in for your degree program.  For example, if your specialization is Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment then your topic must focus on either Curriculum, Instruction, or Assessment. You would not be able to study “retention of biology professors at research universities” as a topic. A list of topics appropriate for your specialization is located on our website at: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/research-center/program-documents/eddLinks to an external site.. Click on “Students Working on Prospectus Form”.

If in doubt, please reach out to your specialization coordinator. Their names and email addresses are also available on our website.

Before you search the literature, you should complete the lesson on “Critical Reading” which you can find at:

https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/academic-skills-center/success-strategies/critical-readingLinks to an external site.  

Please review the “Critical Reading for Evaluation” slide presentations which is located toward the middle of the page.

To prepare:

• Bookmark our website: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/research-center/program-documents/eddLinks to an external site.
• Review the resources.
• Review the feedback from your instructor on your first-week discussion posting.
• Review the feedback from your instructor to your fellow students – most doctoral students go through the same thinking process and therefore, you will learn from feedback others received as well.

Instructions for Prospectus Form

1. Download the prospectus form from the EdD website:
   https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/research-center/program-documents/eddLinks to an external site.
   Click on “Students Working on Prospectus Form”
2. Name your file “Lastname, Firstname DQ Prospectus Draft 1 on (insert date).”
3. Print the appendix of the Prospectus Form and review the examples.
4. Read the instructions at the top and complete your name, student ID, and program/specialization. Ignore the other boxes for now.
5. Insert a working title even though you will change it at least a dozen times.
6. Start inserting the peer-reviewed, recent literature you have already read. Make sure to cite in APA7 (see Week 1 tutorial). Note that dissertations in ProQuest are not peer-reviewed. Try to have two or three articles for now.
7. Write your one-sentence problem statement without changing the sentence prompt in the form.
8. Insert the evidence of the problem. Any evidence needs to be publicly available (average test scores on district websites, college dropout rates on the Department of Education website, personal communication, etc.).
9. If you have solid evidence in form of data, insert a table with the data for the last 3 years (years are the rows of the table). The table needs to be in APA7. See the following website for more guidance: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/formandstyle/apa/tablesfiguresLinks to an external site.
10. Understand our Academic Integrity Guidelines, including the appropriate and inappropriate use of AI Tools

 

 

 

• Walden University Library. (n.d.-b). Keyword searching: Finding articles on your topic: Connect keywordsLinks to an external site.. Walden Academic Guides. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/keyword/boolean
• Walden University Capstone Form and Style. (n.d.). Tables and figures: HomeLinks to an external site.. Walden University Academic Guides. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/formandstyle/apa/tablesfigures
• Walden University Office of Research and Doctoral Services. (n.d.-b). Doctoral prospectus resourcesLinks to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/research-center/program-documents/prospectus-resources
  • Note: Please refer to the EDD Prospectus Form link on this web page.

 

• OASIS: Academic Skill Center. (n.d.-a). Critical Reading Links to an external site. [Multimedia]. Walden University. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/academic-skills-center/success-strategies/critical-reading
  • Note: Please review the “Critical Reading for Evaluation” slides which is located toward the middle of the page.
• Walden University Center for Social Change. (n.d.). Scholars of changeLinks to an external site. [Video].  https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/social-change/scholars-of-change
  • Go to the Walden Center for Social Changed and view videos about Walden’s Scholars of Change.
• Walden University, LLC. (2016e). Dr. Research: Review of literature [Multimedia]. Walden University Canvas. https://waldenu.instructure.com.
  Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 2 minutes

 

Problem statement

The problem that will be addressed through this study is that, despite implementing a comprehensive first-year seminar and peer mentoring program, approximately 40% of first-year students at a midsize public university drop out before reaching their sophomore year of college.