foundations of business management

COURSE CODE BCO111 COURSE NAME Foundations of Business Management Mid-Term Task brief & rubrics

Task

• This is an individual task, requiring you to address all questions in a clear manner (numbered), giving supporting, relevant examples wherever possible.

• The task focuses on areas studied to date, requiring you to show knowledge and application in the parts stated.

• You should upload a single, correctly formatted document which may also include any relevant tables and diagrams

Questions: 1. Describe the skills and abilities required for performing a manager’s job. Explain the main managerial functions in the management process and

what roles managers need to effectively perform them

2. An organization’s external environment is composed of 2 distinct layers. Identify the dimensions of those environments and how they can impact an organization.

Formalities:

• Wordcount: 500-700 (250-350 per question)

• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded from the total wordcount.

• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

• Text alignment: Justified.

• Harvard style in-text citations and bibliography

Submission: Week 2 – Via Moodle (Turnitin) by December 13th 23.59 CEST

Weight: This task is a 40% of your total grade for this subject.

It assesses the following learning outcomes:

• Demonstrate understanding of the principles of management and their applicability

• Identify and classify management functions and activities

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

• The interdependence between the Organisation, its environment and the choice of organisational structure.

Rubrics: It is understood that the rubrics apply to Management knowledge, application and evaluation at this level of study

Excellent 90-100%

Good 80-89%

Fair 70-79%

Marginal fail 60-69%

Fail <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

studied are

applied very well

and highly

relevant insight is

drawn from

them.

Most analytical

studied tools are

applied well and

relevant insight is

drawn from

them.

Some analytical

tools studied 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 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