Your work should address the following:
This assessment involves that you show an understanding of your own (or another) organization.

1. With reference to the academic literature on Management and with particular reference to the characteristics that contribute to managerial effectiveness, critically assess current management practices in your organisation.
2. In your chosen organization you should also discuss and analyse the primary activities of management: planning, organising, leading, controlling.
3. A bibliography with 8 academic sources cited: Peer reviewed academic papers, Journals, Texts – Referencing Harvard style. Also 3 – 5 independent sources e.g. relevant company websites.

This study tests managerial effectiveness of top and lower level managers in production and marketing departments in relation to their personality type in private sector organisations. A 2x2x2 factorial design was employed, in which there are three independent variables with two levels each: departments (production and marketing), managerial positions (top level and lower level), and personality type (Type A and Type B). Managerial effectiveness is a dependent variable. The main effects of management positions and personality types have been found significant and interaction effects between managerial positions x personality type and among departments x managerial position x personality types have been found significant. The major findings are that in production department, both top and lower level managers having Type B personality are found more effective and in marketing department top-level managers having Type A personality and lower level managers having Type B personality have been found more effective in comparison to their counterparts.