Assignment

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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?

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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 9 10 marks

Part 2 Week 13 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.