organising and controling

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MGF1010: Introduction to Management
Week 9:
Organising and Controlling

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Last Week
• Why do we need to plan and what are the elements?
• Describe the four elements in management by objectives.
• Explain the 8 steps of problem solving.
• What errors might occur in the decision making process?

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Last Week

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Assignment Reminder
• Due Week 10
• Case Study Style
• On Weeks 6 – 10 material
• 2,500 words (+/- 10%)
• Worth 25%
• Minimum 5 Journal Articles
• Moodle is the place for lots of information goodies

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Creating a Business
• You are starting a business in Nathaniskoolistan
– What is the business
– Organisational structure and design (p.372)
– Work specialisation (p. 361)
– Departmentalisation (p. 361)
– Chain of command (p. 363)
– Span of control (p. 364)
– Centralisation (p. 366)
– Formalisation (p. 367)

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Creating a Business
• You are starting a business in Nathaniskoolistan
– How are you going to control using the control process
(p. 652)
– Which control process will you use (pp. 710-717)
– What motivation and rewards will you use (Chapter 16)
– Which leadership style will you use (Chapter 17)
– What will the organisation culture will be (pp. 83-89)

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Auspol
• Groups of 2 – 4
• Identify the problems
• Classify the problems (theory)
> Culture (week 5)
> Leadership (week 6)
> Motivation (week 7)
• What are potential solutions
• Recommendations

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Assignment Two
• Executive Summary (10%)
– Separate Page
– What you found
– Recommendations
– 150-250 words

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Assignment Two
• Problem Identification and Analysis (25%)
– Analysing the case
– Identify the theories that are relevant
– i.e. Motivation
> e.g Maslow (Hierarchy of Needs)
> e.g McClelland (Three Needs)
– I want to see the theorists and I was you to reference
them (not the textbook)
– Don’t tell me the theory, tell me the case and explain
the theory through the case.

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Assignment Two
• Statement of Key Problem (5%)
– Clearly what are the major problems
1. Leadership
a) Lack of transformational leadership
b) Too focus on process and not on people
2. Motivation
a) Employees feel a lack of equity
b) Employees need to be intrinsically motivated

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Assignment Two
• Generation and Evaluation of a Range of Alternate
Solutions (20%)
– Under each of the problem headings speak about 2 to 3
recommendations for each problem
– Advantages and disadvantages of each
– Be able to link them to the relevant theory
– Make it clear and creative
– Ensure that they are practical solutions
– You must reference

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Assignment Two
• Recommendations (15%)
– Choose one recommendation for each problem
– So for the sake of this example 4 recommendations
– Justify why using theory
– You must reference
– Make sure you are suggesting things that would actually
work

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Assignment Two
• Implementation (10%)
– What are the steps for implementing this change
– What will happen
– Who should be responsible for each step
– How will it be implemented
– What are the costs
– This can be in a table if it is nicely presented

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Assignment Two
• Presentation (10%)
– The paragraphs are correct
– Spelling and grammar
– Consistency of wording
– Double spaced
– Page numbers at the bottom right hand corner
– Sub-headings (report)
– Size 11/12 font Times / Calibri
– Justify the paragraphs

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Assignment Two
• Referencing (5%)
– 5 Journal Articles APA Style
> Peer-reviewed journals
> Business Week / New York Times is not a journal
> A book is not a journal
> Big Dog Little Dog Blog is not a journal
> Wikipedia is not a journal
> Sparknotes is not a journal
> Lecture Slides are not a journal
> Websites are not a journal
> Mickey Mouse is not a journal

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This Week
• Explain how the force field analysis can be used to implement
change.
• Examine how change can occur in structure, technology and
people.
• Examine the two views of the change process.