3. Case Analysis Here you should explain how the case relates to “Management” and/or any of the topics in Management You should discuss the way in which the case help understand the above topic and/or issues.

II – THE STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS OF YOUR ESSAY

Your essay must contain the following

 

1. A Brief Introduction

Here you outline the relevance/importance of the case and give some idea of what you are going to do in the essay (ie how you are going to structure the essay.

2. Background

Here you provide clear explanations about the organization

What the main issue of the case is

Any other information about the organization/the case that will help understand the issue

 

You must use your own words Do not copy information from the case and simply type it. You MUST follow the referencing guidelines provided and you MUST not plagiarise.

 

3. Case Analysis

Here you should explain how the case relates to “Management” and/or any of the topics in Management

You should discuss the way in which the case help understand the above topic and/or issues.

 

Here is an example of what you should be doing here

 

: “ This case relates to the issues of planning and control ……It highlights some of the problems that arise when managers try to plan and control. According to the theory about planning \, planning is ….”  (Reference textbook). According to top

 

You should be very clear about how what we learned in management applies to this particular case.

 

4. Conclusion

 

What have you learned from this case?  What can you conclude generally about this case and how it relates to management?

 

5. Answer TWO Questions from the case (Found at bottom of Page 2)

 

 

Suggest how each of these may be answered.

 

6. REFERENCES

 

You must reference any material you obtained from any book, website or journals. You must list the reference sources in the way shown in the referencing guide below. You must show that you have searched, accessed and used at least TWO references (journal articles). If you borrow phrases, graphs, table… from the textbook, you must reference these.

 

POOR REFERENCING WILL LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT LOSSES IN MARKS

 

See BELOW

 

HOW TO REFERENCE?

In-text citation

When you summarise the main ideas from someone else in your own words, you are also expected to clearly acknowledge that someone else first wrote about the ideas you have summarised. Giving proper references shows that you have read the appropriate literature and are well informed (Devlin 2004, p. 23).

“A recommended solution to the problems that students experience is for THEM TO CHECK on how referencing is done in Books, Journal Articles …etc”   (Landau, Druen & Arcuri 2002, p. 113).

 

 

The reference list is designed to provide information to enable each source that you have cited in the text to be identified. The list should appear at the end of a work, under the heading ‘References’. The references should be listed alphabetically by the surname of the first author/editor or by the title if no author/editor is given.

 

Use the APA style as follows:

 

Examples

 

Denison, D. R. (1990). Corporate culture and organizational effectiveness. John Wiley & Sons.

 

McCormick, M. J. (2001). Self-efficacy and leadership effectiveness: Applying social cognitive theory to leadership. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 8(1), 22-33.

 

Prati, L., Douglas, C., Ferris, G. R., Ammeter, A. P., & Buckley, M. R. (2003). Emotional intelligence, leadership effectiveness, and team outcomes. The International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 11(1), 21-40.

 

Zhao, F. (2005). Exploring the synergy between entrepreneurship and innovation. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 11(1), 25-41.