Kobe Steel LTD Analysis
Task 1: Identify and explain corporate governance failures within the case, scenario or organisation. Marking Criteria: Marks will be awarded appropriately to students who: Identify corporate governance failures within the case (3 marks for each failure identified). Explain the corporate governance failures that have been identified (4 marks for each well-supported explanation linked to the case). (i.e. 7 marks for each identified and fully explained failure Maximum 35 marks) Task 2: Make recommendations for ways in which governance might be improved in the case company. Marks will be awarded appropriately to students who: make relevant and reasoned recommendations as to address each of the corporate governance failure identified within the case. (7 marks for each relevant and reasoned recommendation) Task 3: Identify and briefly discuss three main mechanisms of corporate governance that could be used to increase governance in the case company. Marking Criteria: Marks will be awarded appropriately to students who: Identify three relevant mechanisms that can be used to increase corporate governance in the case company (4 marks for each factor identified). Explain the mechanisms that have been identified, relating them to the case company (6 marks for each well-supported explanation). (10 marks for each identified and fully explained mechanism Maximum 30 marks)
