PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

FINAL PROJECT

(BBA - 1H)

Think about some company that you’ve heard about that interests you, or some company that has
products you like. If you are considering starting your own business, choose a company that you
particularly admire, and that you might use as a model for your own business.

Consider this selected company for your analysis for this final Management project.

The submitted report should have the following sections;

(Note: It is not necessary to make sub-points for each question mentioned under each section.
The given questions are just for your guidance and should be used as a reference only to guide
your report.)

1. Company Introduction
- Describe the firm.
- How old is it?
- In what industry (or industries) is the firm active?
- What products or services does it sell?
- Who are its principal competitors?
2. The External and Internal Environments
- How well is the company performing in the industry?
- Conduct a SWOT analysis for your company.
3. Organization Structure
- Describe the basic structure and hierarchy of your company.
- Does the structure of the company make sense?
- Do you think the structure is effective?
4. Human Resource Management
- What is your company’s overall strategy for human resource management?
- What is your company’s main approach for staffing the organization?
- To what extent does this organization emphasize development and motivation of
its workforce?
 - What training methods seem to be most widely used in this organization? Do its
training programs seem to be above or below average for this industry?
5. Leadership
- What can you find out about the CEO of the company?
- How would you characterize his or her way of leading and managing?
- Describe his or her leadership approach the leadership models from your text?
- Would you characterize the CEO as an effective leader?
6. Managerial Decision Making
- Research and find an example of a significant strategic error or a significant
strategic success that managers at the organization have made over the last
decade?
- What concepts discussed in the text contributed to the failure or success?
- What barriers to effective decision making did the organization face?
7. Conclusion and reflection
- What are your concluding remarks about the overall performance of the company,
its leadership, management approaches and decision making process?
- If you are given a chance to become the company’s CEO, what would you do
differently?

Evaluation criteria for this project include:

- Effective and accurate use of management .terminology and principles.

- Appropriate application of management principles and theories.
- Quality and sophistication of writing and expression.
- Reflective skills assessment and critical analysis.
- Overall quality and originality of the work.
- Proper formatting and presentation of the report.

Formatting and other guidelines:

- Maximum word count 1600 (+ / - 10 %)

- Font style: Times New Roman
- Font size:12
- Line spacing : 1.5
- Page numbers (except on the cover page).
- Table of contents
- All section headings should be bolded and underlined.

- There should be a proper cover page with the following details;

 Title / topic of assignment
 Group leader and member names
 Date of submission
- Plagiarism is an academic offense and should be avoided. If any student’s work is found
to be plagiarized, they will lose a major chunk of their marks.
- The assignment should be submitted in a proper file.
- Late submissions will not be marked, resulting in a zero.
- Date of submission: 12 December, 2018 (8:40 am max).