Assignment title: Management


Consider a publicly listed company whose business performance has been criticised publicly and, using its annual report, reference documents about the company (e.g. analysts' reports, in-depth interviews and articles, documents on company's website) write a report about its governance protocols and practices. (This could include independence of directors, length of tenure of directors, other responsibilities of directors, etc.). Whichever option you choose your report should include: • A brief description of the organisation and its background/industry. This description should be a short section only.©Australian Institute of Business. V10Nov14 – T:2012:2ed 11 722CGOV Corporate Governance Subject Overview • An outline of the bases or criteria for the review of the organisation's governance. For example, mention which standards or guiding principles are relevant for the review, discuss their importance and why it is appropriate for you to use them. • A critical review of the organisation's governance applying the relevant concepts, principles, standards or other tools and techniques learnt during this subject, in accordance with your discussion above. • A list of recommendations for suggested improvement based on your review. The recommendations should only be a short section in the overall report. Important assignment instructions  The required word length for this assignment is 2500 words.  In terms of structure, presentation and style you are normally required to use: - AIB standard report format; and - AIB preferred Microsoft Word settings; and - Harvard style referencing (which includes in-text citations plus a reference list). These requirements are detailed in the AIB Style Guide.  Reference lists for AIB assignments / projects normally contain the following number of relevant references from different sources: 6-12 (for MBA assignments).  All references must be from credible sources such as books, industry related journals, magazines, company documents and recent academic articles.  Your grade will be adversely affected if your assignment contains no/poor citations and/or reference list and also if your assignment word length is beyond the allowed tolerance level (see Assessment Policy available on AIB website).  Useful resources when working on your assignments include: - AIB Online Library - AIB Assignment Guide - AIB Style GuideThe characteristics of a typical entrepreneur are irreconcilable with a corporate career. Large organisations are by their nature bureaucratic and as such promote an environment in which the entrepreneur cannot survive. Prepare a discussion paper in essay style in which you survey the arguments for and against the above quotation, and then justify your own position. In your answer, provide very many examples of entrepreneurs and corporate managers, from your reading and your own experience, to illustrate the points you are making. When you refer to an example, provide enough details about the person so that a reader who does not know about the person, can understand the points about that person that you are trying to make. You will have to provide a definition of entrepreneurship in the introduction to your paper.