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GUIDELINES FOR GROUP CASE STUDY ANALYSIS & PRESENTATION

 
I – GENERAL INFORMATION
o Number of words: 1500 – 2000 words
o Must be typed 
o Due on 1st March 2023
o LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE PENALIZED
o YOU MUST FILL IN AND ATTACH AN FRONT PAGE/COVER SHEET SHOWING:
6. Course Title and course code
7. Title of the Case
8. Course Section 
9. Names and ID of ALL group members
10. Date of Submission
11. Name of your Lecturer
 
 II – THE STRUCTURE & CONTENTS OF YOUR CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
 
Your report must contain the following 
 
12. A brief Introduction
Here you outline the relevance/importance of the case and give some idea of what you are going
to do in the essay (ie how you are going to structure the essay).
 
13. Background
Here you provide clear explanations about the organization under examination.
What the main issue of the case is
Any other information about the organization/the case that will help understand the issue
Add any information about the organization you obtain yourselves from website searches. Do not
Insert too much information (Summaries only). If there is something you wish to attach, put it in
Appendix of the Essay. (Word counts DO NOT INCLUDE APPENDICES)
You must use your own words Do not copy information from the case and simply type it. You
MUST follow the referencing guidelines provided and you MUST not plagiarize.  
 
14. Case Analysis
Here you should explain how the case relate to Leadership. You should discuss the way in which
the case help understands the above topic and/or issues.
Here is an example of what you should be doing here.
: “this case relates to the issues of servant leadership……It highlights some of the attributes that
servant leader need to exhibit at work. According to the leadership literature theory about servant
leadership, the leaders should ……….” (Reference textbook). You should reflect what you learnt
in leadership that applies to this particular case.
15. Conclusion
What have you learnt from this case? What can you conclude generally about this case and how it
relates to HR management?
 
16. Three Questions about the case (and Answers)
Choose 3 of the questions appearing at the end of the case
Suggest how each of these may be answered.
 
 17. REFERENCES
You must reference any material you obtained from any book, website or journals. You must list
the reference sources in the way shown in the referencing guide below. You must show that you
have searched, accessed and used at least TWO references (journal articles). If you borrow
phrases, graphs, table… from the textbook, you must reference these.
 
POOR REFERENCING WILL LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT LOSSES IN MARKS - See BELOW 
 
HOW TO REFERENCE?
In-text citation 
When you summarize the main ideas from someone else in your own words, you are also expected
to clearly acknowledge that someone else first wrote about the ideas you have summarized.
Giving proper references shows that you have read the appropriate literature and are well informed
(Devlin 2004, p. 23). 
“A recommended solution to the problems that students experience is for THEM TO CHECK on
how referencing is done in Books, Journal Articles …etc.” (Landau, Druen & Arcuri 2002, p.
113).
 
The reference list is designed to provide information to enable each source that you have cited in
text to be identified. The list should appear at the end of a work, under the heading 'References'.
The references should be listed alphabetically by the surname of the first author/editor or by the
title if no author/editor is given.
Use the APA style as follows:
E.g. 
Denison, D. R. (1990). Corporate culture and organizational effectiveness. John Wiley & Sons.
 
McCormick, M. J. (2001). Self-efficacy and leadership effectiveness: Applying social cognitive
theory to leadership. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 8(1), 22-33.
 
Prati, L., Douglas, C., Ferris, G. R., Ammeter, A. P., & Buckley, M. R. (2003). Emotional
intelligence, leadership effectiveness, and team outcomes. The International Journal of
Organizational Analysis, 11(1), 21-40.
 
Zhao, F. (2005). Exploring the synergy between entrepreneurship and innovation. International
Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, 11(1), 25-41.
 
POWER POINTS PRESENTATION INSTRUCTORS:
The following are general guidelines.
•Keep your visuals clear and simple.
•Use simple graphs, charts, and diagrams wherever possible.
•Avoid using too many colors, patterns and graphics in one frame.
•Use a minimum of words for text and title frames. 
•Upper and lower case lettering is more legible than all capital letters. 
•Vary the size of lettering to emphasize headings and subheadings.
•Avoid using more than three font sizes per frame. 
•Sans serif fonts project better and are easier to read. (Example: Arial.) 
•Try to maintain the same or similar font size from frame to frame.
•Try to keep all type horizontal.
•Contrasting colors work best.
•Highlight your main point or heading with a dominant color.
•Avoid intensely bright or saturated colors that compete with the text.
•Keep color schemes consistent throughout the presentation.
•During your talk, make specific reference to each of your slides.
•Avoid a series of slides that merely repeat what you are saying.
Once you have completed your slides, practice your presentation repeatedly. If possible, test your
slides on screen to make sure that your presentation works and your color scheme is not
problematic. Make sure that each slide is essential to your message and non-redundant. Carefully
 review the content of each slide so that you know which points you want to emphasize and why. A
general rule of thumb is that you should never have more than one slide/minute, including the title,
transitional slides, and the acknowledgments. Be brutal when editing your slides and pay careful
attention to those on which you tend to become bogged down in explanations. We will cut you off
at 10 minutes, whether you are done or not.
ORAL PRESENTATION GUIDELINES:

o Maintain eye contact. Only look at notes or slides very briefly. Sweep the room with your
gaze, pausing briefly on various people.
o Be aware of your body language
o Be enthusiastic about your topic.  
o Calibrate the volume of your voice so that people in the back of the room can hear you.
o Smile

Rubric for Group Project 1 Case Study Analysis

Semester: Spring 2022-2023      Course: Leadership &
Management                           Section: 12
 

  Student Name  Student ID#

     
     
     
     
     

   

  Criteria/Section  Does Not Meet Expectation  Meets Expectation  Exceeds E

  Introduction  0  0.5  1
    Inadequate Introduction  Recognizable introduction  Well-const
  Background & Case Analysis  2  3  4
    Inadequate Case Analysis  Recognizable Case Analysis  Well-const
  Answers for case questions  1  1.5  2
    Inadequate Answers  Recognizable Answers  Well-const
  Conclusion & lessons learned  0  0.5  1
    Inadequate Conclusion  Recognizable Conclusion  Well-const
  Referencing  0  0.5  1
    Inadequate Referencing  Adequate Referencing  Well-Cons
  Format & Final Appearance  10  0.5  1
    Inadequate format  Adequate format  Well-Cons
  Total :  /10
  PPTs
 / 5
Presentation
  Total  /15