COURSE SCID 276 Introduction to Management – ICT International Program

Course Assignment 1 – Due September 1, 2008

Do the following exercises and submit your answers to your instructor no later than
September 1, 2008. Please write your answers by computer, remembering to use spell
and grammar check.

1. Prepare a SWOT analysis on one of the following organizations:

Mahidol University
Your family’s business
The ICT Program
A company located at the Software Development Park of Thailand

Suggest 2-3 long term strategies that best take advantage of the strengths and
opportunities, while overcoming the weaknesses and threats. Why did you choose
these strategies? (Individual)

LIMIT: NO MORE THAN ONE PAGE

2. Exercise 10, Personal Career Planning, page 500 (Individual)

LIMIT: NO MORE THAN ONE PAGE

3. Ethics: Choose one:

A. Personal Management on page 56 (Individual)

Answer the questions:
1. How strong is your personal character? How well prepared are you
to deal with the inevitable ethical dilemmas and challenges in work
and in life?
2. Give specific examples of how your behavior lives up to the Six
Pillars listed.
3. Make a list of at least 3 incidents that you have been involved in
that pose ethical dilemmas.
Write the letter described in the book.

LIMIT: 2 PAGES, ONE PAGE TO ANSWER THE 3 QUESTIONS AND ONE

PAGE FOR THE LETTER.

OR

B. Exercise 6, Confronting Ethical Dilemmas, page 498 (Individual, Group)

1. Individually, answer each of the three ethical dilemmas.
2. Meet in a group of 3-4 students. Compare your answers. Come up
with a group consensus, along with your justifications. Report your
group consensus along with any dissenting viewpoints. Don’t forget to
names and ID numbers of the students in your group.

LIMIT: NO MORE THAN ONE PAGE EACH FOR 1 AND FOR 2

Management Assignment 1
Prepared by Stephen Smith
August 11, 2008