foundations of business

BCO111 Foundation Business Management Summative task brief & rubrics Final

Task

• Individual paper
1. Choose two questions from the following:

I. Explain in detail how external factors affect the company’s structure. (25%)
II. Explain in detail how HRM could support managers’ activities via an operational, a tactical

and a strategic perspective in the company. (25%)
III. Explain in detail how leadership style can vary from one situation to another. (25%)
IV. Explain in detail the role of team culture in the development of corporate social responsibility

policies. (25%)

2. Select a local or a global business in your country that has failed in continuing its business due to the

pandemic. Start by exploring the global economic and political environment and changing trends in
which the business was supposed to operate. Continue your analysis by discussing the main reasons
that led to the failure and bankruptcy/closing of the business. Use organisational setting,
management, and strategic plans, HRM, motivation and leadership as frameworks. And finally
discuss whether the failure was primarily due to the pandemic or more of a
management/organisational related issue. (50%)

Formalities:

• Each paper will be 2000-2200 max words,
• Harvard referencing method should be used and quotations shall not make more than 5% of the total

paper.
• Each paper shall have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion followed by a list of references

Submission: all papers shall be submitted using the Turnitin link provided on the Moodle page of the course
before the deadline.

Weight: This task is worth 60% of your overall grade for this subject.

Learning Outcomes

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

• Describe the importance of HRM and its consequences for an organization’s performance.

• Determine the impact of leadership styles on an organization effectiveness and efficiency.

• Illustrate the importance of Organizational culture, team management, motivation and leadership.

Rubric

Excellent Good Fair Marginal fail Fail

90-100% 80-89% 70-79% 60-69% <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
are applied very
well and highly
relevant insight is
drawn from
them.

Most analytical
tools are applied
well and relevant
insight is drawn
from them.

Some analytical
tools 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
whole document.

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