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MANAGEMENT SKILLS ASSIGNMENT -

Learning Outcomes - On successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

• Examine and evaluate key management concepts and principles.
• Examine different frameworks to analyze organizational systems.
• Evaluate and contrast the factors and forces managers must confront both internally and externally in the organization.
• Examine the purpose of an organization, the importance of management, the management functions, and the notion of an organization as a network of systems.
• Review and compare the components of the organization's environment, their effect, significance, purpose, and impact on an organization.
• Relate and differentiate the areas of decision-making, the various types of decisions made in the organization, the concept of problem definition, and the various approaches to decision-making.
• Critically assess management literature and terminology.

Assessment - Answer questions in an essay format. Clearly detail his/her analysis using the appropriate theories, concepts and examples to support his/her position and motivation of their proposed argument. A clear transition of ideas and coherence of the argumentation are important to structure the work and must structure his/her work using an introduction, a body of analysis section/main discussion section, and a conclusion.

Choose one of the following topics - Choose topic number 3

1. Assume you are an IT project manager at a consumer electronics company and currently cooperating with other project managers from research, production, and marketing departments on a major product to launch into a new market. You notice that the marketing manager is not attending all your reunions but rather attends meetings with the senior management. Every time the marketing manager attends the manager's meeting, he sends the minutes of the meeting to all project managers with the senior management in cc. You are also aware that sometimes when you and the other project managers are working on the project, the marketing manager is attending private events with senior managers. What is your evaluation of this behavior? As project manager, what do you recommend as appropriate action?

2. Russia and Brazil are re-emerging economic powerhouses with many business opportunities. Explain the challenges that your company may face when entering these two national economies. Your answer should reflect on: (i) how would your approach to doing business with the Russian authorities be (ii) different from your approach to doing business with Brazil?

3. A company operating in the beer industry has experienced falling sales during the last 4 years. The market features have drastically changed, and the sales and marketing teams are unable to clearly position their product line. The Human Resource Department launched a diversity policy to acquire new talents in sales and marketing. Explain the important components that the HR department must manage to attain successful goals on a short and medium term.

4. A company operating in real-estate in Dubai has been acquired by Norwegian shareholders. A new CEO and staff have been appointed with new visions and missions for the organization that are to be immediately implemented. After thoroughly presenting the Path-Goal Theory, analyze which leadership style that should be carried out during this transition period.

5. Peter studied mechanical engineering and did his Master's recently. Together with some colleagues he developed a battery that can be charged within 8 minutes and that can produce enough energy to move a car. The development and the production of the battery are supposed to cost millions, but the forecasted demand is tremendous. Peter and his colleagues are working part time for a production company to finance their living. What kind of financing would you suggest for these entrepreneurs to get their business running, and why would you suggest that? What are the drawbacks of other financing strategies?

6. Barbara is the new head of the R&D of a software company. The started 12 years ago as an intern in the company. After being employed, she soon became senior manager and a few years later she became responsible for the development of one of the major products. Now that the old R&D head left the company, the board selected her because of the focus on results and her huge technical experience. During the last years the company showed a tremendous growth and hired a lot of new people of different abilities, personalities, and cultures. Conflicts have been managed by the former boss with ease because he spends hours walking around and talking to his employees. Please explain the challenges of Barbara by drawing on situational leadership and behavioral theories. Your answer should also focus on the advantages and disadvantages, including an explanation on how Barbara can use this in real life.

Structure of the Presentation

• Cover page
• The Table of Contents
• Introduction: Background, Scope, Method of Investigation, Research Question, Research Objectives
• Discussion/Body of Analysis: Analysis using theories and models studied in class; use of facts, figures, graphs and visual material
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Appendix

Note - Please provide solutions for my part of questions no 3. In That my part is "Present this analysis to the HR management. The explain the approach HR will implement to hire and improve existing the culture and human capital. Explain the important components that the HR department must manage to attain successful goals on a short and medium term."

Attachment:- Assignment File.rar