foundations of business

BCO111 Foundation Business Management Summative task brief & rubrics Final

Task

• Individual paper 1. Choose two questions from the following:

I. Explain in detail how external factors affect the company’s structure. (25%) II. Explain in detail how HRM could support managers’ activities via an operational, a tactical

and a strategic perspective in the company. (25%) III. Explain in detail how leadership style can vary from one situation to another. (25%) IV. Explain in detail the role of team culture in the development of corporate social responsibility

policies. (25%) 2. Select a local or a global business in your country that has failed in continuing its business due to the

pandemic. Start by exploring the global economic and political environment and changing trends in which the business was supposed to operate. Continue your analysis by discussing the main reasons that led to the failure and bankruptcy/closing of the business. Use organisational setting, management, and strategic plans, HRM, motivation and leadership as frameworks. And finally discuss whether the failure was primarily due to the pandemic or more of a management/organisational related issue. (50%)

Formalities:

• Each paper will be 2000-2200 max words, • Harvard referencing method should be used and quotations shall not make more than 5% of the total

paper. • Each paper shall have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion followed by a list of references

Submission: all papers shall be submitted using the Turnitin link provided on the Moodle page of the course before the deadline.

Weight: This task is worth 60% of your overall grade for this subject.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the interdependence between the Organization, its environment and the choice of organizational structures.

• Describe the importance of HRM and its consequences for an organization’s performance.

• Determine the impact of leadership styles on an organization effectiveness and efficiency.

• Illustrate the importance of Organizational culture, team management, motivation and leadership.

Rubric

Excellent Good Fair Marginal fail Fail

90-100% 80-89% 70-79% 60-69% <60%

Knowledge (30%)

Demonstrates exceptional knowledge and understanding of management concepts.

Demonstrate good knowledge and understanding of key concepts-

The report demonstrates a satisfactory level of knowledge and understanding of management concepts at this basic level.

Demonstrates limited knowledge and understanding of the key management concepts.

Demonstrates extremely poor knowledge and lack of understanding of the key management concepts.

Application (30%)

All analytical tools are applied very well and highly relevant insight is drawn from them.

Most analytical tools are applied well and relevant insight is drawn from them.

Some analytical tools are applied well although there may be some minor misunderstandings. Some relevant insight may be drawn.

Some misunderstandings may be in evidence for one or two tools. Limited insight drawn from analysis.

There is almost no attempt to apply tools

Evaluation (30%)

There is exceptional evidence of evaluation and justification of recommendations

There is some good evidence of evaluations of concepts and justification of recommendations

There is some evidence of evaluation of the concepts and justification of recommendations

There is little evidence of evaluation of concepts and justification of recommendations

There is no virtually no evidence of evaluation of concepts and justification of recommendations

Communication (10%)

The management report is communicated extremely coherently, and referencing is accurate throughout the whole document.

The management report is communicated quite clearly, and referencing is fairly accurate but there are some issues in terms of spelling and structure

The management report communicates the ideas in a mostly coherent way but there are some errors and some errors in referencing which are not accurate

The management report is understandable but is communicated poorly and referencing is inaccurate

The management report is extremely poor in terms of referencing (inaccurate or absent) and tends to be incoherent or insufficient (length) in terms of conveying ideas