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The document outlines various management report topics, each focusing on different aspects of corporate management and decision-making. Topics include corporate social responsibility, employee participation, hiring disabled workers, preparing managers for international assignments, leadership training, wellness plans, personalized customer service, customer service training, the future of smartphones, corporate takeover preparations, teamwork skills, IT consulting proposals, and inventory management strategies. Each topic requires analysis, recommendations, and evaluations based on specific criteria or case studies.

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management_report_topics

The document outlines various management report topics, each focusing on different aspects of corporate management and decision-making. Topics include corporate social responsibility, employee participation, hiring disabled workers, preparing managers for international assignments, leadership training, wellness plans, personalized customer service, customer service training, the future of smartphones, corporate takeover preparations, teamwork skills, IT consulting proposals, and inventory management strategies. Each topic requires analysis, recommendations, and evaluations based on specific criteria or case studies.

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Management Report Topics

1. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a form of corporate self-management in which


companies monitor their actions to make sure they follow the spirit of the law, behave
ethically, and have a positive effect on consumers, employees, communities and the
environment. Pick a company (your choice) and offer recommendations on how it can
improve its CSR.

2. Many companies are touting the benefits of various forms of employee participation in
management decisions. An example of this is self-managed project teams. You have been
asked to investigate the most popular methods. What criteria should be established to
evaluate these methods? After you have evaluated each method, provide your
recommendation for the best one.

3. Hiring disabled workers has been described as a practice that employers should consider
more often, given the need for skilled knowledge workers. Examine the advantages and
disadvantages of hiring disabled employees. Offer recommendations.

4. Your company is opening a branch in another country (your choice) and will ask some of its
managers to move there to run the branch. You have been asked to review and analyze what
other companies have done to prepare their managers for such a move. In addition, you must
come up with a detailed plan for selecting and preparing these managers.

5. You are part of a corporate management team that is discussing Joe’s promotion to the head
of a new division. Joe has been a loyal employee, working his way up through the corporate
ranks. The team feels strongly about this candidate, but it realizes that he needs to improve
his leadership skills. Because the team wants Joe to succeed, it asks you to investigate firms
that offer such training. Evaluate their services to determine the one that is best for Joe. Offer
recommendations.

6. Numerous articles suggest that company wellness plans cut firms’ healthcare costs. You are
intrigued, but not totally sold. Surely these plans must also have disadvantages. You decide to
investigate the advantages and disadvantages of wellness plans. It might help to get a sense of
how rank-and-file employees feel about these plans and reviewing the published materials.
Do the advantages really outweigh the disadvantages?

7. You run a small business, and you've been hearing a lot about the importance of
“personalized customer service.” You are not sure what this means, or whether it will
increase your profits, but you want to find out more. First, what is personalized customer
service? How do other businesses provide this? How have other businesses profited from
this? Do hidden costs exist? Overall, is personalized customer service worth providing?

8. Managers and supervisors for your company (your choice) expressed concerns about
employees' customer service skills. In addition, they wonder whether the company should
establish specific customer service training, especially for new employees. They want you to
investigate the customer service practices at companies like yours to determine what skills
your company should emphasize and what training, if any, company should offer its
employees.

9. Discuss and analyze the future of the smartphone. What significant changes are ahead, and
what will businesses need to do to prepare for them?

10. You work for a corporation whose industry is in the midst of a massive consolidation.
Industry analysts have recently named your corporation as a probable target for a takeover.
How should management prepare for this possibility? Should it bide its time and wait for a
potential buyer? Or, should it become more aggressive by making additional acquisitions?

11. Many organizations use teams to accomplish their objectives. Therefore, students need to
understand and master the skills and behaviors necessary to work in teams effectively. Write
a report in which you identify what those skills and behaviors are, evaluate how well your
skills and behaviors compare to those standards, identify the areas in which you need to
improve and specify how you plan to make those improvements. Use professional journals,
your experience working in teams and observations of others’ experience in your research.

12. You work for a firm that provides information technology and management consulting
services to major health insurance companies. One of your clients wants to reengineer its
claims processes. To receive a “go-ahead” for this project, your firm will have to develop a
winning proposal, and it wants you to work on a team to write that proposal. In the proposal
(a) develop a high-level project schedule, (b) identify the deliverables of the project, (c)
describe the general approach your firm will take for reengineering business processes, (d)
describe in general a plan for evaluating software and software vendors and (e) describe a
training plan for users of the new system.

13. “You should visualize inventory as stacks of money sitting on forklifts, on shelves, and in
trucks and planes while in transit. That’s what inventory is – money” (Chase, Jacobs, and
Aquilano). Pick a company you’re familiar with that has an inventory of products, parts, etc.
that it sells. What are some ways to ensure that this company doesn’t have its money invested
in too much inventory, or wrong kind of inventory? Similarly, what are some ways to ensure
that this company doesn’t have so little inventory that it loses sales? What recommendations
do you have for this company to prevent or fix such problems? What role does the accuracy
of inventory records play in this issue? Specifically, what are the consequences of inaccurate
inventory records (the actual inventory is more or less than what this company’s records says
it has) in terms of profits, cost of sales, customer satisfaction, etc.? What strategies do you
recommend to this company to prevent or fix such problems?

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