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MCD2040: Managing People and Organisations
Assessment 2: Report
Status: Individual
Hurdle: none
Weighting: 25% (Part A: 5% / Part B: 20%)
Word limit: Part A: 250 words (approx) / Part B: 2250 words
Due date: Part A: Week 9 (In class) / Part B: Week 10 – Monday 2 May 2011
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Assignment Information
Instructions:
Your main aim in this report is to show your reader that you can apply some of the management theories and concepts you are studying to address real-life problems faced by managers in organisations and that you can present these ideas. This time, you will be presenting your discussion in the form of a report. Chapter 7 of the Student Q Manual provides an outline of report writing.
This assignment is in two parts and includes:
Part A:
a one page (approximately 250 word) plan of the report is due in Week 9 and is worth 5%. The purpose of this draft is to ensure students have an early start on planning, researching and drafting their final report. It is not designed to give feedback on your plans. See marker’s assessment of Assignment 2a – at end of this Unit Outline. This assessment will be marked in the tutorial. Plans submitted late will receive 0%.
Part B:
A 2,250 word final report (including a 250-word executive summary), due Monday Week 10, worth 20%. See marker’s assessment and feedback sheet for Assignment 2b – at end of this Unit Outline.
Report Subject
Beginning your research with the Case Study of Qantas on pages 462-63 of the text book, prepare a report that identifies, discusses and evaluates how the ideas from any two functions of management (i.e. from planning, organising, leading or controlling) can be used by managers to manage in a changing environment.
In your report you must include the:
Preliminaries (10%): These are the title page, table of contents and full executive summary.
Introduction (20%): This:
*indicates the purpose of your report
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