BUSM 4547: How to Design Both Soft and Hard Processes (e.g., Leadership/Culture, Ethics/CSR, and/or HRM): Management in Practice Assignment, RMIT, Singapore

Purpose of the assignment:

This assignment is designed to get you to think more deeply about how you might solve the management challenge and why your chosen approach could be the “best way.” The main focus is on you discovering the best possible organizational process in realizing the proposed direction of the company. That is, the question is more about how to design both soft and hard processes (e.g., leadership/culture, ethics/CSR, and/or HRM) to help implement the proposed strategic goal of the company.

For managers to ensure the macro level of their strategic goal to be successful, they have to examine the realization of it within the organization by looking at meso and micro level of the organizational process.

You should do some research on ‘how best to formulate a research question.’ Undertake a literature review of management literature that will help you to better understand the nature of the management challenge, how theory can inform a solution and what (if anything) has been tried before to solve this kind of problem (e.g. Has this challenge occurred before? Maybe in another industry? Has it been solved?)

Identify and select appropriate tools, models, and theories that will help you to understand the problem through the lens you have chosen. These should be from scholarly sources.

Write a report justifying why your research approach to solving the management challenge should be adopted.