Component 1 (100% of Module Grade)
Context
“In today’s continually changing economic and environmental climate, organisations are facing extreme pressures to control and combat a multitude of problems and difficulties in order to achieve – and maintain – success. Effective managers must either adapt their style to fit the organisational and cultural context in which they operate, or find contexts which fit their personal style.” (adapted from Huczynski and Buchanan 2007)
This assignment will allow you to undertake RESEARCH on an Organisation that interests you – possibly with relevance to your own discipline.
Choose ONE ORGANISATION from the Following List and use this as the focus for your assignment.
Third Sector: Action Aid
Finance: Halifax
Commercial: Nike
Oil – Energy: Maersk
Software: Apple
Public: Armed Forces (e.g Army, Navy, Air)
Total Coursework will be 4000 words
INSTRUCTIONS:
For this Assignment, you will firstly choose which Company you wish to focus on.
You will then base your further research on this Company, applying and evaluating the People Management issues (as detailed below) specifically to the context of that Organisation and Discipline. Please DO NOT contact the Organisation direct. Your research should be based on information available on the internet, in publications etc.
Your Coursework will be structured as a REPORT and you must follow the formal conventions of Academic Report Writing and Reference in accordance with Harvard Referencing Guidelines.
For your REPORT, consider how a MANAGER SHOULD OPERATE EFFECTIVELY WITHIN THE PARTICULAR ORGANISATION OF YOUR CHOICE to help control and combat TWO key issues which are prevalent within the context of today’s changing economic and environmental climate:-
CONFLICT and STRESS
These issues are widely reported on with academic literature and within the public domain, and are often connected and correlated.
The structure of your Report should be divided into three key sections covering the following contexts:-
1) The Individual: are they all alike or different, what type of people do they have there
2) Groups and Teams: what types of teams do they have? frontline, raising funds etc
3) the Organisation :the culture, mission statement, logos, what makes the organisation.
Where you consider appropriate within the sections, you should incorporate relevant elements such as:-
Personal attributes, including self, perception, personality styles, motivation etc. and management processes and characteristics including a range of leadership styles, culture, diversity, group dynamics, team-working, communication, organisational stress, occupational stress and conflict.
Ensure that you source additional academic literature to aid your analysis further. This will demonstrate evidence of wider reading.
Within your Report, critically analyse relevant concepts and theories relating to each of the individual, group and organisational contexts. This will demonstrate understanding of Theory and Practice and analytical skills.
Then evaluate your findings and apply the various implications to the appropriate issues, within the particular organisation. This will demonstrate evaluative skills and evidence of coherent arguments.
You should then identify and develop proposals which may help to continue and improve best practice or resolve any people management problems identified – that is, detail how a Manager should operate effectively within the particular organisation
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