FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

OUMM2103
ENTREPRENEURSHIP

ASSIGNMENT
MAY 2014 Trimester

Date Assigned: 25th May 2014

Due Date:
Lecturer:

Weighting:

25th June 2014

ALI RASHEED
40%

ANSWER GUIDE
1.

This assignment consists of ONE (1) question.

3.

The assignment will be evaluated based on accurate

2.

This is an individual assignment.

explanations which fulfilled the requirements of the questions

and supported by credible points.

4.

The assignment should be 8-10 pages long excluding references

5.

The assignment should have by minimum the following

and appendix (if any).

contents:

Introduction: Overview of existing company structure and design

Analysis: Factors influencing Organizational structure and types of

authority

Evaluation: Span of Control and Centralization /Decentralization

Conclusion and Recommendation in context to comparison of two

6.
7.

projects

You are required to undertake some degree of research through

scholarly articles and other materials such as newspaper

articles available to support your analysis and evaluation.

References in APA style must be included and taken from

reliable sources such as books and journals.

Refer to: http://www.emich.edu/halle/style_guides.html to

8.
9.

view the details and samples of APA style.

Plagiarism, copying and cheating will NOT be awarded any

mark, and disciplinary actions will be taken instead.

Completed assignment must be placed on the Assignment

Drop

Box located

in

reception before 6:00pm of

Wednesday, 25th June 2014 and upload a softcopy to Rose

Student Portal by 11:59pm of due date.
10.

This assignment contributes 40% of the total marks for the

course.

COURSE CODE AND NAME: OUMM2103 ENTREPRENUERSHIP

SME: ALI RASHEED
INTERNAL MODERATOR: ABD KADIR
REVIEWER: PROF GHAZALI

ASSIGNMENT QUESTION

PURPOSE
This assignment is designed to enable students to gain insights into the characteristics of
entrepreneurs and to compare their own entrepreneurial characteristics with an identified
entrepreneur.
REQUIREMENT
Access http://get2test.net and complete the online General Enterprising Tendency (GET) test. Next,
identify a person you feel is an entrepreneur and have him/her complete the GET test as well. The
entrepreneur may be a small or large business owner. Analyse both GET results based on
entrepreneurial GET result dimension i.e. need for achievement, need for autonomy, creative
tendency, calculated risk-taking and locus of control. Finally, make a comparison between your GET
result and the identified entrepreneur GET result.

[40 MARKS]

ATTACHMENT
ASSIGNMENT RUBRICS

OUMM2103 ENTREPRENUERSHIP / MAY 2014

Criteria

Marks
Weight

0
No description
was given.

Description of
entrepreneurship
1

Analysis of your own GET

result: need for
achievement, need for
autonomy, creative
tendency, calculated risk
taking and locus of control
Analysis of the
entrepreneurs GET result:
need for achievement,
need for autonomy,
creative tendency,
calculated risk taking and
locus of control
Comparison between your
own and the
entrepreneurs GET result

Summary of GET test result

and analysis

Total points

10

Low

Fair

Above average

Excellent

Brief and unclear

description of
entrepreneurship,
covering some elements
but in general many of
the important aspects of
entrepreneurship were
missing.
Brief and clear analysis of
your own GET result

Adequate and clear

description, covering
most aspects of
entrepreneurship, but
it was not thoroughly
presented. Some facts
were missing.

Detailed and very

clear description of
entrepreneurship,
drawing on theory,
frameworks and
personal experiences.

Adequate and clear

analysis of your own
GET result.

Detailed and very

clear analysis of your
own GET result.

Brief and unclear

description of
entrepreneurship,
Unable to give any
details on
entrepreneurship.

No analysis of
your own GET
result was given

Brief and unclear

analysis of your own
GET result

No analysis of the
entrepreneurs
GET result was
provided

Brief and unclear

analysis of the
entrepreneurs GET
result.

Brief and clear analysis of

the entrepreneurs GET
result.

Adequate and clear

analysis of the
entrepreneurs GET
result.

Detailed and very

clear analysis of the
entrepreneurs GET
result.

No comparison
was given

Brief and poor

comparison of the
GET result analysis
with many superficial
explanation
Unclear summary
and did not highlight
any of the key points
of the analysis.

Brief and unclear

comparison of the GET
result analysis.

Clear comparison of
the GET result analysis
but with insufficient
explanation

Very clear
comparison of the
GET result with
sufficient explanation

Clear summary that

highlighted only one of
the key points of the
analysis.

Clear summary that

highlighted two of the
key points of the
analysis.

Clear summary that

highlighted all the
key points of the
analysis.

No summary was
given.

Max
Marks

12

8
40