UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS STUDIES

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS STUDIES HONOURS

DEGREE IN MANAGEMENT (HBBSMGTC)

NAME: YVATTE GATSI K K

REG: R183109L

QUESTION: Write a detailed report of the challenges being

experience by a company of your choice by operating during
COVID-19

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Preface 5

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Foreword

This research report serves to highlight the trainees findings about this company (Elephant
Hills Resort ). The bulk of the information in this report is based on research knowledge and
experience the author gathered over the industrial attachment period. This report is a
requirement of the University of Zimbabwe business studies honors degree. University of
Zimbabwe has been designed to incorporate work experience through work related learning as
an integral part of the curriculum. The education of the University of Zimbabwe is therefore
through a partnership between the university and industry the third year of theUniversity of
Zimbabwe program is an integral period of industrial attachment programme which prepares
the student for the dynamic, real life employment situation. Students are placed in real life
work situations, working alongside highly experienced and qualified professionals in industry
and commerce.

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Preface
The business studies department at UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE introduced the attachment

knowledge with practical skills in the real working environment. The student is required to go

for industrial attachment in his\her chosen field of profession for a period of one year. During

the attachment program the student is expected to compile a report that incorporates work

experience gained linking it to the theoretical knowledge. The following are the objectives of

industrial attachment.

● To enable students to marry theory to practice in real world business situations that
often involves real decision making, functional management, the finance or accounting
function, marketing and management
● To make student develop realistic expectations in respect to the real world of work,
playing the role of being an employee and experience what it takes to work within a
generally structured environment in authority and being held responsible for duties
performed
● To afford students to test the theoretical tools learned in the first two years of the
program with the realities of the operations of the financial systems and running of
organizations in the economy.
● To expose the student to the behaviour of organization both in the internal and external
environments and encourage them to be productive whilst developing future managers.
● To afford the student the
Opportunity to develop hands on experience in the world of work and its intricacies,
hence making the student employable and become fully productive immediately after
arriving in the workplace
● To expose the students to the structures, operations and integration of different
functional areas such as finance, marketing, research and development
● To seek industry evaluation of our degree programs in terms of relevance to industry

and commerce.

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