Assessment Details:

Research: Working with your group, you will conduct research (primary or secondary) about the management of your selected organisation and detail the strategies that they advocated to help grow the company. Your group need to select an organisation based in Australia and will interview the top manager/s (one or more) to collect the required information to meet the objectives of this assessment.

• Examine the critical issues that the organization faced regarding management, and detail the strategies employed to mitigate them.
• You will be required to examine an organisation from a variety of points of view with a focus on its leadership, management style, ethics commitment, strategies and strategy execution.
• You should discuss and identify as many management concepts as possible. A minimum of 4 concepts is required.
• Conclusions should be drawn regarding the effectiveness of the use of the broad range of management tools and their impact on the success of the company.
• You will need to utilize resources available through the library and other sources (including the internet) to obtain information to support this report.

Given the fact that all top managers are not always successful, if the company you choose employed strategies that failed, detail the failure and add analysis as to why it failed and what may have been done to foster success.

Your written report must address the following questions:

Question 1: Who is the top leader(s) of the company? Explain briefly the background of the company and top leader/s. Also discuss the key factors that played a role in their pathways to leadership in the company?

Question 2: What was their strategies to mitigate the challenges, in particular

• leadership strategies
• management style
• ethics commitment
• strategy execution

Question 3: How effective was their strategies? In the case of success of strategies, how did planning, organizing, leading and controlling contribute to the company`s success? In the case of failure of strategies, what were the factors causing failure?

Question 4: What are the major strengths and weaknesses of the company?

Question 5: As a company`s top leader/manager, what are the major challenges that your organisation can face in the next five years?

Question 6: Based on your research and in the light of course related theories:

• What do you conclude from the case?
• What are your recommendations?