MGT 105: Principles of Management

Students will pick a company (from the list provided below) to research, study, and describe basic management concepts and organizational components. Students will develop a presentation (PowerPoint) detailing the concepts and actions listed below.

The presentation should be well organized and fulfill all requirements of the assignment including topic selection, research sources, materials, and presentation design and format. This is assignment is based on your analysis and interpretation of your research. A rubric is provided.

Students should complete the following using background information as necessary from one of the companies listed below to develop the presentation.

Company Research Options – (Other companies can be added based on instructor preference)

Maryland Based

1. Discovery Communications

2. McCormick

3. Marriott Hotels International, Inc.

U.S. Based

1. Apple

2. McDonald’s Corp.

3. Walt Disney Corp.

Global

1. Pfizer (Pharmaceuticals)

2. The Lego Group (Private Company—Annual Report available online)

3. Samsung

Your project will need to identity the following concepts based on the Learning Objectives provided for MNGT 105.

1. What does this company do to meet its ethical or social responsibility?

2. What is this company’s mission statement? What impact does this have on the company?

3. What is this company’s strategy?

4. Has this company had to change any of its operations in the last few years? Was this a planned or reactive change?

5. How has the pandemic affected this company? How have they addressed this

challenge?

6. How does company meet its human resources challenges? How do they train their staff? How do they recruit? What kind of employees do they recruit?

7. How does this company implement diversity?

8. Using the company’s human resources website, identify benefits that would motivate employees at various levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

9. Based on the textbook, compare and contrast leadership styles.

10. Based on the textbook, Explain the value of communication and information management in the work environment.

Project, Research and Citation Guidelines, and Suggestions

· For best results, a minimum of five research sources.

· Limit two corporate controlled—corporate website, fb, twitter, etc.

· Two independent sources—mainstream news outlets

· One academic or trade journal

· In addition, students should get an Annual Report for the company they are studying.

· Sources must be cited in text of written summary and listed in bibliography/reference page.