Assignment 1: Individual Report – Diagnosing the causes of the organisational challenge.
Length: Maximum of 3000 words
Requirements for the assignment:
- Examine the data provided by the partner organisation (Aurecon – engineering consultant in Singapore) and undertake your own research to find more relevant data.
- Have you got all the data you need? What other data would be helpful?
- Analyse the data you have collected using appropriate management tools and theories
- External organisational analysis
- Internal organisational analysis
- Explain how the nature of the challenge is a result of the combination of external and internal factors that you have discovered through your research and subsequently re-define the management challenge as a problem that can be solved through the combination of management theory and practice. (Note: we are not expecting you to provide the solution at this stage – just re-define the problem through a management theory lens)
- Write a business report describing the nature of the challenge through the particular management lens that you are viewing the problem (we will provide you with a list from which you can choose, or you can choose your own.)
- Include reference in Harvard format.