Project : Global Managers
Saudi Electronic University College of Administrative and Financial Sciences Introduction to E-Management ECOM 201 Project Assignment January 2020 As a group of managers consider yourself as Global Manager for one of the following Saudi companies: Jarir Bookstore, Baja, Al-Baik, Herfy or Coffee Day. At present the company you’ll choose is planning to do business in the USA and UK. You are required to develop a detail strategy on the following: ✓ Give a brief summary of the current status of Virtual Teams. ✓ Give a brief introduction about the chosen company (history, products, etc) ✓ Explain what type of virtual management characteristics will be implemented and why? ✓ How the virtual teams will work together? ✓ What tools are they using for communications and task management? ✓ How you will manage the teams in both locations in terms of language, cultural, time, political, and economical differences? ✓ What are techniques that you will be using in order to create a strong team with a high level of teamwork? ✓ What are the advantages and disadvantages of managing a virtual team? ✓ What type of conflicts might occur between members? When it’s happened how will you solve it? ✓ As a manager how you will manage the outsourced projects? ✓ What techniques that you will apply to encourage and motivate your team for improvement? ✓ Conclusion. Project report structure: ➢ Title Page: the name of the institution, the title of the report, the name of the author and then add the date. ➢ Abstract: Brief summary of your work. ➢ Table of contents: 1.Introduction: Background or introduction to state what the report is about. You must give the reader an overview of the whole report. 2.Main Body of the report: Include your main work. 3.Conclusion. 4.References: Use APA style. Due date Week 13 Marks 15 marks Useful links: ➢ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/planning-andpreparing-to-write-assignments.pdf ➢ APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa ➢ About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml ➢ About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism Guidelines for the project assignment: ✓ This is a group project, which 3 members is the minimum and 5 members is the maximum. It requires effort and critical thinking. ✓ Your answer must be supported by different resources. ✓ At least 10 references sources. ✓ Any proof of copying will result to 0 mark. ✓ Each team member must individually sign a declaration form that outline the group work was divided equally. ✓ Use font Times New Roman, Calibri or Arial. ✓ Use 1.5 or double line spacing with left Justify all paragraphs. ✓ Use the footer function to insert page number. ✓ Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project. ✓ Your project report length should be between 3000 to 3500 words. 1 Group name Project title Instructor name CRN: Student name Submission date: Mark: 2 …