You are a Management Consultant hired by BPP Consultants, who has been commissioned to provide information to a large investment firm, which is considering the following three payment processing companies for investment. For this asses

Assessment Brief

You are a Management Consultant hired by BPP Consultants, who has been commissioned to provide information to a large investment firm, which is considering the following three payment processing companies for investment. For this assessment, you are to select one company from the three listed below to focus on.

• Master card Incorporated.
• Paytm (One97CommunicationLimited).
• Adyen N.V.

The scope of your work is to complete four sections of a report covering Executive Leadership and Corporate Governance.

Please note, you are NOT required to make recommendations or give advice in your report about whether to invest. This will be solely the investor’s decision after evaluating all the information obtained from your report.

Please select only one company from the above three when attempting the tasks below.

You should use the following link to obtain company presentations and reports, but you are encouraged to do your own further research into your chosen company:

• Master card Incorporated:https://investor.mastercard.com/overview/default.aspx
• Paytm :https://ir.paytm.com/
• Adyen N.V.: https://investors.adyen.com/

The four tasks you should include in your report are:

 

Task1–Leadership and Management

• Critically evaluate the leadership and management styles at the company using relevant academic models.
• Conduct independent research into your chosen company and support your arguments with academic literature and the appropriate application of relevant leadership and management models.

 

Task2– Corporate Governance and Regulation

Discuss the different governance rules, practices, and processes (collectively known as the Corporate Governance Framework) at the company that ensure it meets the interests of its shareholders.

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Conduct independent research and refer to relevant academic literature.

Ensure that you identify the internal governance mechanisms and the external governance rules and regulations, and demonstrate how the company applies and complies with them to meet shareholder interests. Depending on your company of choice, these might include some of the following:

• The SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Act, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
• AFM (Dutch Authority for Financial Markets), the 2022 Dutch Corporate Governance Code, and Book 2 of the Dutch Civil Code.
• SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) and the Listing Agreement of the Indian Stock Exchange.

Please only discuss the governance rules and regulations that are relevant to your organisation of choice.

 

Task3 –Risk Management

 

• Analyse three significant risks that the company faces and recommend appropriate responses to each of these risks.Conduct independent research into your company of choice and ensure that your analysis and recommendations are specific to the company.For higher marks, use and apply one or more relevant risk management models and frameworks, such as the Three Horizons Model, Risk Heat Maps, or the 4T’s Process. Explain how you used the models to identify and analyse the risks and to offer your recommendations.As part of your recommendations, explain what role the board of directors plays in the risk management process at the organisation.

 

 

Task4 –Ethical Leadership

• Discuss at least one significant ethical business challenge that the company faces and provide ethical leadership recommendations on how the company can address and manage this ethical challenge.

Conduct independent research and explain why the challenge(s) you discuss is considered ethical, and analyse its impact on the company and its stakeholders. Ensure that your recommendations are targeted at the company’s top management and leadership.

For higher marks, use and apply a relevant ethical leadership model or framework, such as the Triple Bottom Line.

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Presentation and Structure

· Clear structure and layout

· Writing style: professional and concise

· Appropriate Harvard referencing: range and credibility of the sources used and correct application of Harvard referencing style throughout the report and appendices

 

Do NOT include an executive summary, introduction, or conclusion.

 

Your report structure should include the following sections:

• Cover page (University cover sheet)
• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations (if appropriate)

 

· Task 1 – Leadership and Management (LO1)

· Task 2 – Corporate Governance and Regulation (LO4)

· Task 3 – Risk Management (LO3)

· Task 4 – Ethical Leadership (LO2)

References Appendix (if appropriate)

 

 

Suggested Word Count Guide

 

Task1-Leadershipand Management	1,250 Words
Task2–Corporate Governance and Regulation	1,250 Words
Task3–Risk Management	1,250 Words
Task4 –Ethical Leadership	1,250 Words
Total	5,000 Words

 

The word count applies to the main body of the report only, i.e., the cover page, table of contents, list of abbreviations, references, and appendices are NOT part of the 5,000-word count.

 

1. Marking Guide

 

Learning Outcome	Fail	Marginal Fail	Pass	Merit	Distinction	High Distinction
	0% –39%	40%–49%	50%–59%	60%–69%	70%–79%	80%- 100%
LO1:Develop your	Weak or	Limited knowledge of	Satisfactory	Good level of	Excellent knowledge	Outstanding
Knowledge of	inadequate	Critical leadership	Knowledge and	Knowledge and	And understanding of	Knowledge and
Critical leadership	Knowledge of	Capability in leading	Understanding of	Understanding of	Critical leadership	Understanding of
Capability in	critical	organizations. Limited	Critical leadership	Critical leadership	Capability in leading	Critical leadership
leading	leadership	Evaluation of the	Capability in	Capability in leading	organisations. An	Capability in leading
organizations	Capability in	company’s leadership	leading	organisations. A good	Excellent critical	organizations. An
	leading	And management	organisations.	Critical evaluation of	Evaluation of the	Outstanding critical
	organizations.	style. Limited research	Satisfactory	the company’s	company’s leadership	Evaluation of the
	Weak or no	And analysis of the	Evaluation of the	Leadership and	And management	company’s leadership
	Evaluation of	company’s leadership	company’s	Management style,	style, that objectively	And management
	the company’s	And management.	Leadership and	With some discussion	Weighs the strengths	style, that objectively
	Leadership and		management	Of the strengths and	And weakness of the	Weighs all the
	management		style. Some	Weakness of the	company’s	Strengths and
	style. Weak or		Research and	company’s	Leadership and	Weakness of the
	inadequate		analysis, of the	Leadership and	management. An	company’s
	Research and		company’s	management. Good	Excellent and	Leadership and
	Analysis of the		Leadership and	Application of	Detailed application	management. An
	company’s		Management.	Relevant leadership	Of relevant	Outstanding and
	Leadership and			And management	Leadership and	Extensive application
	Management.			Models to the	Management models	Of relevant
				company. Evidence-	To the company.	Leadership and
				Backed analysis of	Excellent evidence-	Management models
				the company’s	Backed analysis of	To the company.
					the company’s	Outstanding and
						Extensive evidence-

 

 

				Leadership and management.	Leadership and management.	Backed analysis of the company’s leadership and management.
LO4: Critically	Weak or	Limited evaluation of	Satisfactory	Good evaluation of	Excellent evaluation	Outstanding
Evaluate the	inadequate	Theimpact of the	Evaluation of the	The impact of the	Of the impact of the	Evaluation of the
Impact of the	Evaluation of	governance and	Impact of the	governance and	governance and	Impact of the
Governance and	The impact of	Regulatory context on	governance and	Regulatory context on	Regulatory context on	governance and
Regulatory context	the governance	The success of an	Regulatory context	The success of an	The success of an	Regulatory context on
On the success of	And regulatory	organization. Limited	On the success of	organisation. Good	organisation.	The success of an
An organization	Context on the	Knowledge of the	an organisation.	And clear	Thorough and deep	organisation.
	Success of an	Corporate Governance	Satisfactory	Understanding of the	Knowledge and	Thorough, balanced,
	organisation.	Frame work at the	Appreciation of	Corporate	Understanding of the	And deep knowledge
	Weak or	company. Limited	the Corporate	Governance	Corporate	And understanding of
	inadequate	Explanation of internal	Governance	Frame work at the	Governance	the Corporate
	Knowledge of	Governance in the	Frame work at the	company. Good	Frame work at the	Governance
	the Corporate	Company and external	company.	Explanation of	company. Excellent	Frame work at the
	Governance	Governance rules and	Satisfactory	Internal governance	And detailed	company.
	Frame work at	Regulations.	Explanation of	In the company and	Discussion of internal	Outstanding and
	the company.		internal and	External governance	Governance in the	Extensive discussion
	Weak or		external	Rules and regulations.	company and	Of internal
	inadequate		Governance rules	A good discussion on	Relevant external	Governance in the
	Explanation of		And regulations.	How the company	Governance rules and	company and
	internal		Some discussion	Complies with these	Regulations that	Relevant external
	Governance in		On how the	Rules and regulations.	Apply to the	Governance rules and
	the company		Company complies		company. An	Regulations that
	And external				Excellent discussion	Apply to the
	governance				On  how the company	company. An

 

 

	rules and regulations.		With these rules and regulations.		Complies with these rules and regulations.	outstanding and extensive discussion on how the company complies with these rules and regulations.
LO3: Critically	Weak or	Limited appreciation	Satisfactory	Good critical	Excellent critical	Outstanding critical
Evaluate risk	inadequate	Of critical evaluation of	Appreciation of	Evaluation of risk	Evaluation o frisk	Evaluation of risk
Management tax	Appreciation of	Risk management ate	Critical evaluation	Management tax	Management tax	Management a tax
Corporate level	critical	Corporate level,	Of risk	Corporate level. A	Corporate level.	Corporate level.
	Evaluation of	Limited analysis, and	Management ate	Good and clear	Thorough and deep	Thorough, balanced,
	risk	Evaluation of three	Corporate level.	Analysis and	Knowledge and	And deep knowledge
	Management at	Risks faced by the	Satisfactory	Evaluation of three	Understanding of risk	And understanding of
	a corporate	company. Limited	Analysis and	Significant risks faced	management. A	Risk management. An
	level. Weak or	Recommendations for	Evaluation of	By the company.	Thorough an	Outstanding analysis
	inadequate	The management of	Three risks faced	Good and	Excellent analysis and	And evaluation of
	Analysis and	The risk sidentified.	By the company.	appropriate	Evaluation of three	Three significant risks
	Evaluation of	Limited discussion on	Satisfactory	recommendations	Significant risks faced	Faced by the
	Three risks faced	The board’s role in	recommendations	For the management	By the company.	company.
	By the	Managing these risks.	For the	Of the risks identified.	Excellent, realistic,	Outstanding,
	company. Weak		Management of	A good discussion on	And appropriate	realistic, and
	or inadequate		the risks	The board’s role in	recommendations	insightful
	recommendation		identified. A	Managing these risks.	For the management	recommendations
	Ns for the		Satisfactory	Some application of a	Of the risks identified.	For the management
	Management of		Discussion on the	risk management	An excellent	Of the risk identified.
	the risks		board’s role in	Model or framework	Discussion on the	An outstanding
	identified. Weak		Managing these	Such as the Three	board’s role in	Discussion on the
	Orin adequate		risks.	Horizon Model or	Managing these risks.	board’s role i n
	Discussion on			Risk Heat Maps.	Excellent and