Purpose of the Assignment This assignment is designed to enable you to demonstrate an understanding of the potential for automation to change existing operations processes. Assignment Task – This assignment is designed to enable you to demonstrate an understanding of the potential for automation to change existing operations processes. - You will conduct a review of the literature in the subject area of Automation. Specifically, you are to identify the origins of the concept of the Technological Unemployment and to chart its development up to the present day. - Following your review, you are to critically evaluate the impact of Technological Unemployment on a company of your choice. - You will be expected to illustrate your discussion with examples from the trade press and other authoritative sources. Report Content The assignment must be word processed and presented in a report format with simple sub-headings. The word count should be 2000 words±10% (tables, diagrams and appendices are excluded from the count).MAX WORD COUNT 2000 +/- 10% FRONT SHEET The Assignment report should have a Front Sheet showing your name, your student number, the module name, the module number, the assignment title, the module tutor's name, the date and the word count. DESCRIPTION OF THE CHOSEN COMPANY (10%) Customers, Products and Services Establish the scenario for your report by selecting an organization of any type, sector and size to focus your reporto focus your report on. Describe: a) Which organization is it? (type, sector and size) b) What are the main products and/or services provided by the organization? c) Who are the main customers? LITERATURE SEARCH (45%) – research the development of the concept of Technological Unemployment from its inception to the present day - Prepare a literature review, charting the development of the concept of Technological Unemployment from its inception until the present day. - Ensure that you include references to at least 10 peer-reviewed articles, including the 2016 paper by Frey and Osborne that has been supplied. - You may also find relevant reviews in the trade press and from other authoritative sources. SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT (45%)– consider a low impact scenario (only jobs above 70% risk are replaced). - How will the company change? - Apply Frey and Osborne’s findings (Appendix A) in the context of your chosen company. - Consider a low impact scenario, when only jobs at high risk (> 70%) are replaced by technology. - How will the company change? Assessment Guidance – The quality of your presentation and academic referencing is very important. Please, use the Harvard Referencing System. - Within your assignment your tutor will be looking for content that addresses the key elements of the assignment brief. - Try not to overcomplicate your answers by choosing a company that you know little about. Keep to simple processes that you know well. - Look at the Check list at the end of this brief. It shows the subheadings to use and offers a guide as to how Look at the Check list at the end of this brief. It shows the subheadings to use and Knowledge and Understanding: a. Investigate and critically evaluate the range of concepts and techniques available to operations managers so as to enable effective business decision making. b. Demonstrate conceptual and practical understanding of the opportunities and constraints that organizational characteristics place on operations managers and on operational decision making in the supply chain context. c. Critically discuss and evaluate the theoretical and real life applications of topics in the indicative content, analyzing and evaluating the benefits they offer to an organization and the challenges to be overcome in implementing them. Subject- Specific Skills d. Critically evaluate the business relevance of the concept/topic studied, with a view to understanding the value of its adoption to an organization. e. Design evidence-based and contextually relevant solutions to a range of case study scenarios to illustrate the applicability of the Operations Concepts, Tools and Techniques studied. offers a guide as Key Skills: a. Make discriminating use of a range of learning resources in order to solve problems within the domain of International Supply Chain and Operations Management. b. Communicate the solutions arrived at, and the critical evaluation underlying them.