Management Essentials CW3 Summative Assessment Brief BPP University

Task 1 - Management Practices (20 Marks; LO1)  

o Identify Mars’s mission, values and management practices and critically assess whether all of these are aligned.  

Support your arguments concerning appropriate academic literature, case study materials and your independent research. 

• Task 2 - Analysis of Business Challenges (20 Marks; LO2)  

o Identify and critically discuss 2 key challenges Mars is encountering in the current environment.  

o Critically discuss how Mars’s current Creativity and Innovation management competency can enable Mars’s management to resolve the identified challenges.  

o Critically evaluate what improvements are needed by Mars’s management to implement in their management competency of Decision-making to mitigate the challenges identified.  

Support your arguments concerning appropriate academic literature, case study materials and your independent research. 

• Task 3 – Critical evaluation of the impact of Management Behaviours on Employee  Engagement and Organisational Performance (20 Marks; LO3)  

Critically evaluate the potential impact of the emotional intelligence of Mars’s managers in promoting high levels of employee engagement and organisation performance.  

Your analysis needs to include the following: 

• Identification of the key management’s behaviours of emotional intelligence that have impacted Mars’s success.

. Analysis of the positive and negative effects of these behaviours on Mars’s performance. 

• Recommendations for cultivating or modifying these management behaviours to enhance  Mars’s success. 

Support your arguments concerning appropriate academic literature, case study materials and your independent research. 

• Task 4 - Management competencies development (30 marks; LO4) 

Critically assess any 2 of the following management competencies using relevant models /  frameworks to propose recommendations for developing and nurturing these skills among current and future managers at Mars to improve its success in the food and veterinary services industry. 

i. Managing Resilience 

ii. Managing Stakeholder Relationships  

iii. Managing Conflict and Negotiation 

iv. Managing Teams