MGT101- Fundamentals of Management Assignment - Management Assignment

Internal Code: MAS5452

Management Assignment:

Scenario : Assume you are a manager working in a large Australian pharmaceutical corporation. Your team has just developed a completely new experimental vaccine that you believe can treat a virus rapidly spreading in West Africa. So far tests using your experimental vaccine on chimpanzees infected with this virus have yielded positive results. Your experimental vaccine has not been tested on humans and the Australian health authorities say it will take 10 years of human trials before your new vaccine can be approved for human use as the side-effects of this new vaccine on humans are currently unknown. You have just received a request from a health worker in Africa who wants to use your experimental vaccine to treat tens of thousands of West Africans infected with the virus. Questions:

1. Make a general statement about the topics
2. Provide background information
3.  State the position you will argue for—your thesis statement
4.  Mention the points you will cover in your essay Body – developing your argument
5.  Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence
6.  Develop each main idea by making e.g. comparisons and contrasts, using referenced explanations, examples, definitions etc.
7.  Apply relevant theories/frameworks from the course
8.  Discuss the roles and functions of management
9. Conclude by summarizing or linking to ideas being discussed in the next paragraph Conclusion
10. Restate your position/thesis statement
11.  Sum up the main points made in each paragraph
12.  Finish with a strong statement about the wider context