A.
Management Yesterday and Today
General
Framework
Outline
a framework (a map) describing the developments in Western Management Theory
over the
last
hundred years or more.
Individual
Components
Shifts
in any theory occur when a researcher identifies a question troubling him or
her. Subsequent
research
is then directed at finding answers to the research question(s) and ultimately
old theory is
discarded
and new theory adopted. For example: The Egyptians had a theory that the sun
revolved
around
the earth. Modern theory is that the earth revolves around the sun. At some
stage in between a
question
– a research question – arose which we would now describe as challenging
whether observed
motion
is not absolute but relative to the position of the observer. Such questions
trigger research
effort
to find evidence so that the questions can be resolved and ultimately old
theories are discarded
and
new theories established.
1.
Scientific Management School has given way to
Quantitative Management (Management
Science)
2.
Scientific Management School has given way to
the Human Relations School of Management
3.
Human Relations School of Management has
given way to Behavioural Science School of
Management
Each
member of the team must choose one of these and identify the research questions
and the reasons
why
and the evidence on which the shift in theory (the paradigm shift) occurred.
Suggested
limits are as follows:
_Executive Summary: ideally one page but no more than two.
_Sections 1: Introduction 400-600 words,
_Section 2: Main body of the essay consisting of each of the
individual components limit each
component
toapproximately 1,000 words each,
_Sections 3: Conclusions 100-300 words,
_Summary and Complete List of References (5-15
Assessment
Criteria:
There
are two components of assessment adding to a total possible mark of 25% of the
subject:
_The Presentation which is worth 10 marks.Here
we assess the quality of the presentation
NOT
the academic quality of the work. Opening Impact, Presentation Technique (incl.
Quality
of the Slides) and Adherence to the time limit are the key criteria.
_The Opening Impact 3 marks
_Overall Presentation Technique 5 marks
_Adherence to Time Limit 2 marks
_The Report which is worth 15 marks.It
is here that we assess the academic quality of your
work
(including referencing) as well as your ability to correctly structure a
business report.
_The Management Summary 4 marks
_Report Structure (TOC, Paragraphs, Sections
and
use of Diagrams) 3 marks
_Academic Quality (incl. Referencing) 8 marks
Prescribed Textbook
Mullins L.J. (2007),Management
and Organisational Behaviour, 8thed, Prentice
Hall Financial Times, Essex U.K.
References
1. Anthony Giddens’ BBC lecture on globalization
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_99/week1/week1.htm.
2. Baum, J. (2005)The Blackwell
Companion to Organizations, Blackwell,
Oxford.
3. Child, J. (2004)Organization:
Principles and Practice, Blackwell,
Oxford.
4. Drucker, P. (2003)Managing
in the Next Society, Butterworth-Heinemann,
Oxford.
5. Hill, C. (2001)Global Business
Today, 3rded., McGraw Hill, New York.
6. Jones, G. (2004)Organizational
Theory, Design and Change, 4thed., Pearson, U
7.
Journal of Management Studies
8.
Limerick, D. et al. (1998)Managing the New
Organization, 2nded., Business and Professional
Publishing,
Sydney.
9.
Luthens, F. (2004)Organizational Behaviour, 11thed., McGraw Hill,
New York.
10.
Parker, B. (2005) Introduction to Globalization and
Business, 2nd ed., Sage, London.
11.
Wren, D. (2005)The History of Management Thought, 5thed., John Wiley
& Sons Inc, Hoboken, NJ
Holmes Institute MBA Program
HI 5005: Management and Organisations in a Global
Environment
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•Achieve•Engage•
TRIMESTER3, 2013
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your readers. Organisation is the procedure of constructing an
outline that acts as a plan for your
writing task. An outline forces you to think before you write.
Your essay is to be structured and written as a business report. It, therefore, must begin with a
Management (or Executive) Summary within which you state in stark
form (i.e. unsupported by
argument) what you are asserting in this report and you must do
that in less than two pages.
As already stated above, you begin the main body of the report
with some general background on the
broad research topic. This introduction should end with a brief
paragraph outlining the plan of the
rest of the essay.
What follows is the specific issues of each individual component
which were considered. As for any
good business report these components should be structured into
sections and sub-sections and the
heading for these should be in the Table of Contents. In these
individual components the in-depth
discussion of the relevant issues is elaborated based on the
existing literature and/or data.
You
must
provide
in-text referencesto
your sources.
The
last section of the report contains a brief summary folloare cited in the text
of the essay. Follow a standard referencing method consistently.
