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Term Assignment for Principles of Management

Instructions for Students: Your team of “consultants” is required to write a


business report of at least 4000 words on the following topic: “Management
Practices” in a company of your choice.

Objective: The objective of this business report is to examine and document in


some detail how the theory taught in the course is being applied in practice in a
real-life business organization.

Procedure: Choose any reasonably sized company/institution (except educational


institutions) operating in Pakistan making any product or service, profit or non-
profit, national or multinational, public or privately owned. Choose a company
employing at least 100 employees. The target organization must have proper and
formalized operating policies and practices.
You are required to conduct an in-depth managerial analysis of the selected
organization. Suggested issues and questions to be addressed include, but are not
limited to, the following:

Company Description: A short description about the company, its businesses, the
markets in which it operates, the products it offers, its business partners, its
geographic location, its branches, its owners, its industry, its competitors etc.

1. Planning
 Vision
 Mission
 Goals ( strategic goals vs. financial goals)
 Plans – strategic vs. operational, long term vs. short term,

2. Organizing
 Define the hierarchy from top to bottom in the form of structure –
organogram
 Indicate number of employees and departments
 Which of the five forms of departmentalization they have implemented in
the company?
 Discuss about the organizational structure – use the six elements to define
the structure in the organization
 What type of organizational structure they are following in order to meet
organizational goals – mechanistic vs. organic?
 How the structure has been aligned with the external environment? Is it
really being responsive to the changing needs of the external market? Justify
your answer according to the current situation

3. Leading
 What is the role of the leader(s) in order to retain motivated employees to
achieve organizational goals?
 What motivational practices are applied within the organization in order to
keep the employees’ energetic and dedicated at all times?
 What kinds of incentives/ bonus/ benefits they are giving to their employees
on yearly/semiannual basis.
 Diversity – male/female ratio; cultures, religions and ethnicities they belong
to?
 What kind of leadership style they are using – democratic, autocratic, laissez
faire, etc.

4. Controlling
 What controlling processes are in place to ensure that goals are achieved
consistently?
 How employees’ progress is monitored?
 What types of controls are in place – including financial and information
controls?
 What benchmarking practices are being implemented?
 Other controlling procedures or mechanisms, if any?

For this report, please form teams of 5-10 students. Smaller teams may be
allowed only if some students are left out/withdraw from the course. Such teams
must obtain prior approval from the faculty/Course Instructor; otherwise their
report will earn an ‘F’ grade.

Team members are required to prepare a list of questions and obtain prior
appointment with a responsible person(s) (preferably manager/senior
manager/director level) in the target company in order to arrange an interview or
interviews. You will most likely have to meet more than one person in the target
company in order to collect data. Important instruction: please mention the
name(s) of the person(s) interviewed and/or append their visiting cards, on the
top sheet of your report. Visiting card is preferred, but not mandatory. Name(s)
and contact details of the person(s) interviewed must be provided on the top
sheet otherwise the report will NOT be graded. These person(s) may be contacted
for verification of your visit!

Use only the personal interviewing technique for gathering data; avoid using
other tools such as survey questionnaires incorporating a Likert scale, observation
studies of the employees at work, etc.

Your report should contain information collected from one company only. The
report should consist entirely of data collected by your team and must be
couched in your own words. Keep secondary data about the target company to a
minimum such as company’s history, vision, mission, organogram, main
products/services offered, main departments/divisions, main competitors,
business strategies, etc. Secondary data should not exceed 20 percent of the
entire report. Handouts provided by the company should be included as
appendices. Warning: Plagiarism in any manner, shape or form will result in an
‘F’ grade!

Report Presentation Format: The final report should be in printed form, double
spaced, on A-4 sized paper, Ariel or Times New Roman, font size 12. Pages should
be properly numbered. Line space 1.5 and should be justify. ‘Table of Contents’
must be included in the beginning. Copy of list of questions asked in the
interview(s) must be included as an appendix. Check your report for grammar,
spelling, punctuation and capitalization errors. Report should be spiral binding.
Please remember that you are expected to write a business report. For tips on
writing a business report please consult:
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/report-writing-format.html

Submission Deadline: The deadline for submitting the report in “hard” and
“soft” copy format in 12th teaching session of the semester. The marks will be
posted before the commencement of the final examination. Late reports will NOT
be accepted under any circumstances.

and capitalization. Students are advised to use active voice throughout.

Presentations: Team presentations on term reports will be held during the l13th
teaching session(s). Marks will be awarded on the bases of group performance
and presentation.

Grading Criteria: Your report will be graded on the following criteria:


comprehensive investigation of the topic(s), originality of information, clear and
logical presentation of ideas, worded in simple English (no jargon or company-
specific terminology, please), use of correct grammar, spelling, punctuation.

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