E-com P

Saudi Electronic University

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

Introduction to E-Management

ECOM 201 Project Assignment September 2019

Consider yourself as Global Manager for one of the following Saudi companies: Jarir Bookstore, Baja, Al-Baik, Herfy or Coffee Day. At present the company you’ll choose is planning to do business in the USA and UK. You are required to develop a detail strategy on the following:

Part 1:

· Give a brief introduction about the chosen company (history, products, etc)

· Explain what type of virtual management characteristics will be implemented and why?

· How the virtual teams will work together?

· What tools are they using for communications and task management?

· How you will manage the teams in both locations in terms of language, cultural, time, political, and economical differences?

Part 2:

· What are techniques that you will be using in order to create a strong team with a high level of teamwork?

· What are the advantages and disadvantages of managing a virtual team?

· What type of conflicts might occur between members? When it’s happened how will you solve it?

· As a manager how you will manage the outsourced projects?

· What techniques that you will apply to encourage and motivate your team for improvement?

Project report structure:

· Title Page: the name of the institution, the title of the report, the name of the author and then add the date.

· Abstract: Brief summary of your work.

· Table of contents:

1.Introduction: Background or introduction to state what the report is about. You must give the reader an overview of the whole report.

2.Main Body of the report: Include your main work.

3.Conclusion.

4.References: Use APA style.

Project Parts	Due date	Marks
Part 1	End of week 12	10 marks
Part 2	Week 15	10 marks

Useful links:

· http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/planning-and-preparing-to-write-assignments.pdf

· APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa

· About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

· About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

Guidelines for the project assignment:

· This is an individual project, which is part from your course score. It requires effort and critical thinking.

· Use font Times New Roman, Calibri or Arial.

· Use 1.5 or double line spacing.

· Use the footer function to insert page number.

· Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project.

· Your project report length should be between 1600 to 2000 words.

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