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 2 MGT101 (1st Term 2021-2022)
Case Study
Deadline: 20/11/2021 @ 23:59
Course Name: Principles of
Management
Course Code: MGT101
Student’s Name:
Semester: 1st
CRN:
Student’s ID Number:
Academic Year: 1442/1443 H, 1st Term
For Instructor’s Use only
Instructor’s Name: Abdulrahman I. Almanie
Students’ Grade: /5
Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low
Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
•
This assignment is an individual assignment.
• Due date for Assignment 2 is by the end of Week 11.(20/11/2020)
• The Assignment must be submitted only in WORD format via allocated folder.
• Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
• Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be
reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover
page.
• Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
• Late submission will NOT be accepted.
• Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students
or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No
exceptions.
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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
• All answeres must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced)
font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered
plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Assignment Purposes/Learning Outcomes:
After completion of Assignment-2 students will able to understand the
1. Examine management issues and practices in motivation; organizational culture, structure, and
behavior; team dynamics; and communication.
2. Relate motivational theories to motivating and demotivating factors.
3. Know and discuss manager's role in motivating employees.
Assignment-2
Case Study
In September 2018, Mohammed Salim joined KAAF Software Solutions (KAFF) as a Senior
Programmer, with a handsome pay. Prior to this job, he worked successfully as an Assistant
Programmer in Gant Computers (Gant). Salim felt that working for KAFF, there are better career
prospects, as it was growing much faster than Gant, which was a relatively small company.
Although Salim had enjoyed working there (at Gant), 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 KAFF, just as he had done in his old job at Gant.
KAFF 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, Salim was quite excited about his new job.
Salim joined Mrs. Zeenat’s five-member team at KAFF. He had met Mrs. Zeenat 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
Zeenat. He was told that Mrs. Zeenat does not interfere with our work. Salim was surprised to
know this and thought that probably Mrs. Zeenat was leaving them alone to do their work
without any guidance, in order to allow them to realize their full potential.
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
At Gant, Salim had worked under Abdulrahman and had looked up to him as a guide and mentor
– always guiding, but never interfering. Abdulrahman had let Salim 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. Salim remembered telling his colleagues at Gant that the ideal boss would be
someone who did not interfere with his/her subordinate’s work. Salim wanted to believe that
Mrs. Zeenat 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, Salim 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. Zeenat. He
smiled to himself when he thought of how Mrs. Zeenat 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. Zeenat walked into
the office. Salim 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 tem minutes. When he went in, she looked at him
blankly and asked, “Yes?” Not sure whether she had recognized him, Salim 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. Salim was
somewhat taken aback. However, ever the optimist, he thought that she had perhaps already
discussed the matter with the team.
Salim came out of Mrs. Zeenat’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.
Faisal, one of the team members, said, “What is the point in our discussing these things? Mrs.
Zeenat is not going to have time to listen to us on discuss anything. She will just give us the
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
solution she thinks is best, and we will just do what she tells us to do; why waste everyone’s
time?”
Salim 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, Salim
realized that Mrs. Zeenat 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, Salim found himself thinking of Abdulrahman his old boss, and of how he had
been such a positive influence. Mrs. Zeenat, on the other hand, even without actively doing
anything, had managed to significantly lower his motivation levels.
Salim 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 Salim was now in danger of
becoming just another mediocre techie.
Questions:
Q1. What, according to you, were the reasons for Salim’s disillusionment? Answer the question
using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. (2.5 marks)
Q2. What should Salim do to resolve his situation? (1.25 marks)
Q3. What should a team leader do, to ensure high levels of motivation among his/her team
members? (1.25 Marks)
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