Principles of Management 101

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‫وزارة التعليم‬
‫الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية‬

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

Assignment 3 MGT101 (1st Term 2025-2026)
Duedate: 06/12/2025 @ 23:59
(To be released to students on BB in Week 10)
Course Name: Principles of
Management
Course Code: MGT101

Student’s Name:

Semester: 1st

CRN:

Student’s ID Number:

Academic Year: 1447H, 1st Term
For Instructor’s Use only
Instructor’s Name: Lujain Miralam
Students’ Grade: /10

Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low

Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
• This assignment is an individual assignment.
• The due date for Assignment 3 is 06/12/2025.
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folder. PDF is not acceptable, and it will lead to zero grade.
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for poor presentation. This includes filling in your information on the cover page.
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‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬
‫وزارة التعليم‬
‫الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية‬

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Assignment Purposes/Learning Outcomes:
After completion of Assignment-3, students will be able to understand the
CLO1: State the concept of management functions, roles, skills of a manager, and the
different theories of management.
CLO 2: Describe the current trends and challenges in global business management.
CLO 5: Use management function effectively on teamwork activities, and skills to create a
developmental plan.

Applied/Critical Thinking/Problem Solving skill Questions
Part A- Case Study
In September 2023, Abdulaziz Aljehani joined QAF Software (QAF) as a Senior Programmer,
with a handsome pay. Prior to this job, he worked successfully as an Assistant Programmer in
Invertis Computers (Invertis). Salim felt that working for QAF, there are better career prospects,
as it was growing much faster than Invertis, which was a relatively small company.
Although Aljehani had enjoyed working there (at Invertis), he realized that to grow further in his
field, he would have to join a bigger company, and preferable one that handled international
projects. He was sure he would excel in his position at QAF, just as he had done in his old job at
Invertis.
QAF had international operations and there was more than a slim chance that he would be sent to
USA or the UK on a project. Knowing that this would give him a lot of exposure, besides
looking good on his resume, Aljehani was quite excited about his new job.
Aljehani joined Mrs. Amani’s five-member team at QAF. He had met Mrs. Amani during the
orientation sessions, and was looking forward to working under her. His team members seemed
warm and friendly, and comfortable with their work. He introduced himself to the team members
and got to know more about each of them.
Wanting to know more about his boss, he casually asked one of the team members, about Mrs.
Amani. He was told that Mrs. Amani does not interfere with our work. Aljehani was surprised to
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Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University

‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬
‫وزارة التعليم‬
‫الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية‬

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
know this and thought that probably Mrs. Amani was leaving them alone to do their work
without any guidance, in order to allow them to realize their full potential.
At Invertis, Aljehani had worked under AbdulQadeer and had looked up to him as a guide and
mentor – always guiding, but never interfering. AbdulQadeer had let Aljehani make his own
mistakes and learn from them. He had always encouraged individual ideas, and let the team
discover the flaws, if any, through discussion and experience. He rarely held an individual
member of his team responsible if the team as a whole failed to deliver – for him the
responsibility for any failure was collective. Aljehani remembered telling his colleagues at
Invertis that the ideal boss would be someone who did not interfere with his/her subordinate’s
work. Aljehani wanted to believe that Mrs. Amani too was the non-interfering type. If that was
the case, surely her non-interference would only help him to grow.
In his first week at work, Aljehani found the atmosphere at the office a bit dull. However, he
was quite excited. His team had been assigned a new project and was facing a few glitches with
the new software. He had thought about the problem till late in the night and had come up with
several possible solutions. He could not wait to discuss them with his team and Mrs. Amani. He
smiled to himself when he thought of how Mrs. Amani would react when he will tell her that he
had come up with several possible solutions to the problem. He was sure she would be happy
with his having put in so much effort into the project, right from day one.
He was daydreaming about all the praise that he was going to get when Mrs. Amani walked into
the office. Aljehani waited for her to go into her cabin, and after five minutes, called her up,
asking to see her. She asked him to come in after ten minutes. When he went in, she looked at
him blankly and asked, “Yes?” Not sure whether she had recognized him, Aljehani introduced
himself. She said, “Ok, but why did you want to meet me?” He started to tell her about the
problems they were having with the software. But before he could even finish, she told him that
she was busy with other things, and that she would send an email with the solution to all the
members of the team by the end of the day, and that they could then implement it immediately.
Aljehani was somewhat taken aback. However, ever the optimist, he thought that she had
perhaps already discussed the matter with the team.
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College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Aljehani came out of Mrs. Amani’s cabin and went straight to where his team members sat. He
thought it would still be nice to bounce ideas off them and also to see what solutions others
might come up with. He told them of all the solutions he had in mind. He waited for the others to
come up with their suggestions but not one of them spoke up. He was surprised, and asked them
point-blank why they were so disinterested.
Adel, one of the team members, said, “What is the point in our discussing these things? Mrs.
Amani is not going to have time to listen to us on discuss anything. She will just give us the
solution she thinks is best, and we will just do what she tells us to do; why waste everyone’s
time?”
Aljehai felt his heart sink. Was this the way things worked over here? However, he refused to
lose heart and thought that maybe, he could change things a little. But as the days went by,
Aljehani realized that Mrs. Amani was the complete opposite of his old boss.
While she was efficient at what she did and extremely intelligent, she had neither the time nor
the inclination to groom her subordinates. Her solutions to problem were always correct, but she
was not willing to discuss or debate the merits of any other ideas that her team might have. She
did not hold the team down to their deadlines not did she ever interfere. In fact, she rarely said
anything at all. If work did not get finished on time, she would just blame her team, and totally
disassociate herself from them.
Time and again, Aljehani found himself thinking of AbdulQadeer his old boss, and of how he
had been such a positive influence. Mrs. Amani, on the other hand, even without actively doing
anything, had managed to significantly lower his motivation levels.
Aljehani gradually began to lose interest in his work – it had become too mechanical for his
taste. He didn’t really need to think; his boss had all the answers. He was learning nothing new,
and he felt his career was going nowhere. As he became more and more discouraged, his
performance suffered. From being someone with immense promise and potential Aljeni was now
in danger of becoming just another mediocre techie.

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‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬
‫وزارة التعليم‬
‫الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية‬

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Questions:
Q1. What, according to you, were the reasons for Aljehan’s disillusionment? Answer the
question using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. (250-300 words approx.) (2.5 marks)
ANSWER1:

Q2. What should Aljehani do to resolve his situation? (200-250 words approx.) (2 marks)
ANSWER2:

Q3. What should a team leader do, to ensure high levels of motivation among his/her team
members? (250-300 words approx.) (2.5 marks)
ANSWER3:

Part-B
Q4. In the global business management “Employee training and development are essential for
short term as well as long term success of an organization” In the light of this statement,
critically analyse the role of training in Human Resource Development with the help of
examples. (300-350 words approx.) (3 marks)
ANSWER4:

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