COURSE CODE BCO111 COURSE NAME Foundations of Business Management Mid-Term Task brief & rubrics
Task
• This is an individual task, requiring you to address all questions in a clear manner (numbered), giving supporting, relevant examples wherever possible.
• The task focuses on areas studied to date, requiring you to show knowledge and application in the parts stated.
• You should upload a single, correctly formatted document which may also include any relevant tables and diagrams
Questions:
1. Describe the skills and abilities required for performing a manager’s job. Explain the main managerial functions in the management process and
what roles managers need to effectively perform them
2. An organization’s external environment is composed of 2 distinct layers. Identify the dimensions of those environments and how they can impact an
organization.
3. Discuss the relationship between different management levels and management decision-making. How does this impact planning?
4. Identify and explain the basic elements of organizing
Formalities:
• Wordcount: 1000-1400 (250-350 per question)
• Note that Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded from the total wordcount.
• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
• Harvard style in-text citations and bibliography
Submission: Week 4 – Via Moodle (Turnitin) by Sunday June 20th 23.59 CEST
Weight: This task is a 40% of your total grade for this subject.
It assesses the following learning outcomes:
• Demonstrate understanding of the principles of management and their applicability
• Identify and classify management functions and activities
• Understand the interdependence between the organization, its environment and the choice of organizational structures
• The interdependence between the Organisation, its environment and the choice of organisational structure.
Rubrics: It is understood that the rubrics apply to Management knowledge, application and evaluation of content covered in this course and at
this level of study
Excellent
90-100%
Good
80-89%
Fair
70-79%
Marginal fail
60-69%
Fail
<60%
Knowledge
(30%)
Demonstrates
excellent
knowledge and
understanding of
management
concepts
introduced.
Demonstrates
good knowledge
and
understanding of
management key
concepts
introduced.
Demonstrates a
satisfactory level of
knowledge and
understanding of
management
concepts
introduced.
Demonstrates
limited knowledge
and understanding
of management
concepts
introduced.
Demonstrates
extremely poor
knowledge and
understanding of
the key
management
concepts
introduced
Application
(30%)
Analytical tools
studied are
applied very well
and relevant
insight is drawn
from them.
Analytical tools
studied are
applied well and
some relevant
insight is drawn
from them.
Analytical tools
studied are applied
quite well although
there may be some
minor
misunderstandings.
Fairly relevant
insight is drawn.
Some
misunderstandings
are be in evidence
for one or two
tools. Limited
insight drawn
from analysis.
There is almost
no attempt to
apply tools
Evaluation
(30%)
There is excellent
evidence of
evaluation and
justification of
concepts and
tools
There is good
evidence of
evaluations of
and justification
of concepts and
tools.
There is some
evidence of
evaluation and
justification of
concepts and tools.
There is little
evidence of
evaluation and
justification of
concepts and
tools.
There is virtually
no evidence of
evaluation and
justification of
concepts and
tools.
Communication
(10%)
The management
report is
communicated
extremely
coherently, and
referencing is
accurate
throughout
The management
report is
communicated
clearly, and
referencing is
accurate but
there are some
issues in terms of
spelling and
structure
The management
report
communicates the
ideas in a mostly
coherent way but
there are some
errors and some
errors in
referencing which
are not accurate
The management
report is
understandable
but is
communicated
poorly and
referencing is
inaccurate
The management
report is
extremely poor in
terms of
referencing
(inaccurate or
absent) and tends
to be incoherent
or insufficient
(length) in terms
of conveying
ideas
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