Case Study Of Fresh Mart

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INTRODUCTION The project that I chosen for this assignment is Fresh Mart project. Fresh Mart is carried out by tutorial section. In my tutorial section, we divided our group into 2 sub-group and each group would be in charge of a specific stall which is vegetables stall and fruits stall. This project is giving a chance for student to have an actual business experience in their undergraduate studies by selling vegetables and fruits. This Fresh Mart project held on 8th October 2015 which located in front of the Student Life Centre, Taylor’s University. The operational hours of stall was between 9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.. In this project, I act as a first-line manager that lead my classmates such as Jenny, Geraldine, Isaac Chew and so forth. LEVEL OF MANAGERS, MANAGERIAL ROLES AND MANAGERIAL SKILLS a. In this chosen project, First-line managers are responsible to support their staff and have a key role in ensuring the standard of care delivered is always high (Skillsforcare.org.uk, 2015). As a first-line manager, I should know the strengths and weaknesses of my group mates when I delegated work tasks among them. For example, Jenny is good in accounting and she would in charge of the finance or account part in the team. …show more content…

Goal is an observable and measurable end result having one or more objectives to be achieved within a more or less fixed time frame ((BusinessDictionary.com, 2015). In this Fresh Mart project, there were 2 goals which were stated goal and real goal. The stated goal of this project was to gain profit for raising funds to help out someone who is in need. However, for real goal, it was a part of assignment for Accounting which every first-year’s degree students must be completed. Besides, financial goal is a goal that set to revolve around finance or money (Study.com, 2015). It was also considered as a financial goal that we needed to earn RM 2,500 profits by selling the vegetables and fruits within 5 hours and donated the 60% of profits for

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