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High profile organisation seeks HR advisors
2nd July 2010
The Board of Management of the FA have decided to announce now that they will keep Fabio Capello in his job as England manager, in spite of their announcement on Monday that they would spend the next two weeks deciding whether or not England’s sorry showing in the World Cup was down to Fabio Capello, and whether or not to sack him. Students who have completed the first year of a Business Studies A level should be quite capable of identifying the People Management issues involved! As we enter the last few weeks of term, I suggest this (rather tongue-in-cheek) as a Business Studies exercise for your students. You may wish to shorten the suggested list of terms or to add to it as you see fit.
You are a Human Relations consultant and have been approached by Club England chairman Sir David Richards and managing director Adrian Bevington to advise the FA Board of Management about how to move forward in the wake of the England football team’s disappointing performance in the 2010 World Cup. Please produce either a 5 to 10-minute presentation or a two-page written report for them, identifying the causes and recommending solutions, which should include all the following terms, in any order that you choose:
1. Leadership styles
2. Financial motivation
3. Intrinsic (non-financial) motivation
4. Management styles
5. Productivity
6. Herzberg
7. Mayo
8. McGregor theory X and Y
9. Autocratic
10. Laissez-faire
11. Management by objectives
12. Workforce planning
13. Teamwork
14. On-the-job training
15. Job rotation
16. Piece-rate pay
17. Hierarchy
18. Matrix
19. Money
20. Blame
21. Contract
22. Break-clause
23. FA Board of Management
24. Objectives
25. Strategy
26. Recruitment and selection
27. Delegation of authority
28. Delegation of responsibility
29. The buck stops here
30. Job description
31. Organisation culture
32. Prima donnas
33. Inept