‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ‫وزارة التعليم‬

Ministry of Education ‫الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية‬
Saudi Electronic University

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

Assignment 1
Principles of Management (MGT 490)
Due Date: 21/07/2022 @ 23:59

Course Name: Principles of Management Student’s Name:

Course Code: MGT490 Student’s ID Number:
Semester: Summer Semester CRN:
Academic Year:2021-22

For Instructor’s Use only

Instructor’s Name: Dr XXXXXXXXXXX
Students’ Grade: 00 /30 Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low

General Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY

 The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via
allocated folder.
 Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
 Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be
reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover
page.
 Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
 Late submission will NOT be accepted.
 Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students
or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No
exceptions.
 All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced)
font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered
plagiarism).
 Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
 An overview about Assignment submission Time & grades:

Type of Assignment Posting date Due date Grades Grace

period*
Critical thinking Start of week 2 End of Week 4 30 3 days

* Grace Period: with accepted excuse (accepted by instructor) with deduction of 10% for late
submission.

Learning Outcomes:

CLO-Covered
1 State the concept of management functions, roles, skills of a manager and the
different theories of management. (CLO1)

Assignment 1
Reference Source:

Textbook:-

Management: A Practical Introduction (10th edition), by Angelo Kinicki & Denise

Breaux Soignet ,Published by McGraw-Hill Education, 2 Penn Plaza, New York, NY
10121.

Critical thinking 1:

Principles of Management

Reference: MGT490-Book-Chapter No-01 (The Exceptional Manager)

This chapter has introduced you to how Henry Mintzberg changed the perception of a
manger's role by studying how they spent their working day and classifying managerial
activities into decisional, interpersonal and informational roles. This gave a new insight
into the activities involved in being a manager but did not distinguish between the things
that people called ‘manager’ do that contribute to the management of the organisation
(such as coordination and control) from the things they do that everyone in an
organisation does (such as talking to other people). In this context, the earlier
contribution of Fayol in outlining the main purposes of management is considered to still
be of relevance, although it provides limited understanding of how managerial jobs are
affected by the environment in which managers work.

you will need to do further research beyond reading the chapter.

Assignment Question(s):

1. To understand what managers do, explain how it is necessary to study both the
activities performed by managers and the purposes of their activity. (05 Marks) (Min
words 150-200)

2. As well as variation across the levels of management (first-tier, middle and top),
how would you expect the manager's role to vary with the extent to which the
organisational environment is changing, such as through new technology, changes in
market demand or new forms of competition? (05 Marks) (Min words 200)

3. Mintzberg’s study in the 1960s came up with three important findings about a
manager’s routine. What are they, and are they probably still the same today? (05
Marks) (Min words 150-200)

4. What is the potential importance of studying how managers like to spend their
work time as well as how they actually allocate their work time between different
activities? (05 Marks) (Min words 200)

5. Explain how it is possible that there might be a difference between successful and
effective managers in terms of how each type of manager tends to spend their time. (05
Marks) (Min words 150-200)

6. What are the seven challenges of being a manager, and which one is the one I will
probably most have to worry about during my lifetime?. (05 Marks) (Min words 150-
200)

Important Note: -

1. Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from
the textbook and at least FOUR scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
2. References required in the assignment. Use APA style for writing references.
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