ecom 201

ECOM 201: Introduction to e-Management

Project Assignment

1441 H

1st Semester

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? (Explain how you will implement the virtual management?)

▪ How the virtual teams will work together?

▪ What tools are they using for communications and task management? (Give a real example)

▪ 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, you have to give the reader an overview of the

whole report.

▪ Table of contents:

͋ All points covered.

͋ Conclusion.

͋ References: Use APA style

Project Parts Due date Marks

Part 1

+ References

End of week 9

2/Nov/2019

@11:59 P.M.

10 marks

Part 2

+ Abstract, Conclusion &

References

Week 13

30/Nov/2019

@11:59 P.M.

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 assignment, 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