Foundations of Business management assignment
Questions:
1. Explain the inter-relationship of decision making at different management levels.
2. Identify and describe the major functions of HRM
3. Explain why different leadership styles impact an organization’s productivity, especially its effectiveness and efficiency
4. Explain why effective leadership styles and reward systems need to align with organizational culture
Formalities:
• Wordcount: 800-900 (200-225 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
COURSECODE BCO111 COURSE NAME Foundations of Business Management Final 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. Explain the inter-relationship of decision making at different management levels.
2. Identify and describe the major functions of HRM
3. Explain why different leadership styles impact an organization’s productivity, especially its effectiveness and efficiency
4. Explain why effective leadership styles and reward systems need to align with organizational culture
Formalities:
• Wordcount: 800-900 (200-225 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 4 – Via Moodle (Turnitin). November 1st by 22.59 CEST
Weight: This task is a 60% of your total grade for this subject.
It assesses the following learning outcomes:
• Describe the decision-making process and its implications
• 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.
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