Your Management Practices project (25%) is a written report on the management practices of an organization with the main emphasis on highlighting exceptional or excellent management practices and techniques.
Your organization does not have to be a health sciences organization, but that is preferred. The organization selected should be one that is unique and has achieved distinction in some way or has been recognized for their managerial practices. The organization may be large or small; for profit, not-for-profit, or public. It could be a fairly new startup or a long-established company, but there must be enough information available about the organization to provide data for a thorough report.
The project should be thought of as a case study of the organizations management plans, strategies, accomplishments, etc., and how and why they have succeeded as a result of management. This is not a comprehensive report about the entire workings of the organization (e.g., marketing, finance, production), nor a report on its products. The emphasis is to be on the organizations management. Be sure to tie your paper to management theory through the use of scholarly resources.
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dy of the report must be a minimum of eight pages (double-spaced). Please use at least five scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles, dated 2010 or newer, to support your paper. Your paper should be a Word document in full APA format.
The report must include these elements:
A short introduction and background information on the organization and its management; a description of the management practices and attributes that make the company unique or excellent (this should be the bulk of the report); and a concise summary of findings and conclusions reached based on your research.
A discussion of how the information for the project was gathered, organized, and analyzed to come to the conclusions (i.e., research methods).
A reference list that includes the sources used to gather the data to write the report in APA form (i.e., reference list). Be sure to also include in-text parenthetical citation for your sources in the body of the paper.
Attach, as appendices, materials you find particularly helpful in explaining the companys management practices and outcomes as appendices, but do not attach materials merely to pad the report.
I will attach a sample paper provided by the professor.