Management Report 1 – Environmental Audit
For the Formative Assignment you are required to critically examine both the micro and macro environments of your chosen company.
This means:
Examining and evaluating the macro environment, stating specific examples of how these factors influence/impact upon the business operations of your chosen organization.
Examining and evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation.
Examining and evaluating the opportunities and threats within the market place (this links directly to the macro environmental factors).
Examining and evaluating the industry through Porter’s Five Forces model.
Structure of the Management Report
• Title page: This should contain the module title and code, assignment title, your name and ID number, name of your seminar tutor, submission date and word count (see later notes on word limits).
• Executive summary: This should be no more than one page in length and should present a ‘snapshot’ of the report including a brief outline of your conclusions.
• Introduction: A brief introduction to the company’s operations.
M002 Assessment 5
M002/JG/Oct2014
• An analysis of the industry through Porter’s Five Forces model.
• An analysis of the organisation’s internal business environment.
• An analysis of the organisation’s external business environment.
• A critical evaluation of the chosen company’s strategic position, based on an assessment of the organisation’s internal and external business environment using the appropriate frameworks.
• Conclusions – [What conclusions do you draw from undertaking the various examinations of the above?]
• References: These must be in the CULC Harvard Format. Additionally there must be appropriate in-text citations. [NOTE: You must seek out reliable and validated sources of information for your assignments – Please refer to comments elsewhere in this document and other guides on the M002 Moodle pages.]
• Appendices: No more than four pages in total.
