1. Movement restrictions imposed by various governments to mitigate the spreadofCOVID-19 pandemic in the form of social distancing and closure of national and international borders and airports has brought a number of business organizations to a standstill, leading to the decline in growth and market share,especially the hard hit tourism and hospitality industries. Assume that you are the manager of IDISAM Hotel LTD, which holds the largest market share in the hospitality industry, but now on the verge of collapsing due to COVID-19 pandemic.Required: Supporting your answers with specific examples and justifications, propose corporate or grand strategies that the company can use to deal with the situation at hand.

2. The corporate failures and scandals over the last two to

three decades worldwide including Ghana have highlighted the need

for guidance to tackle the various risks and problems that can

arise in the systems of governance in many organizations. As a

result, the implementation of good corporate governance at every

firm has been a necessity. This paper investigates the influence of

quality corporate governance practices on firm performance in

Ghana. A sample size of 22 firms listed on the Ghana stock exchange

and their 5-year data set within 2010 to 2014 were collected for

the study. Regression analysis was conducted to determine the

association between corporate governance mechanisms (board

composition, board gender diversity, audit committee effectiveness,

board size and CEO-duality) and firm performance (return on asset

and return on equity). The result of the study indicates that at

the 5% level of significance; board composition, board gender

diversity and audit committee presence have insignificant negative

relationship with the performance of firms listed on the Ghana

stock exchange. Meanwhile board size and CEO-duality was found to

relate negatively significant with firm performance. The result

again showed that as leverage relate negatively significant with

firm performance, firm size relate positively significant with the

performance of firms listed on the Ghana stock exchange. This study

therefore makes an important contribution to the global discourse

on corporate governance mechanisms prediction on firm performance

in an increasingly globalized world. The study was organized into

five chapters. Chapter one consists of the introduction to the

study; the background to the study, problem statement, purpose of

the study, objectives of the study, research hypothesis,

significance of the study, limitations of the study, scope of the

study,

definition of terms and organization of the study. Chapter two,

deals with the review of existing literature that is related to the

concepts of the research topic under consideration (corporate

governance and firm‟s performance). This chapter also presents the

theoretical and conceptual frameworks of the study. Chapter three

explores the methodology used for the study. It covers issues such

as data sets for the study, time horizons for the study, sampling

design for the study, the variables for the study, statistical

techniques, and data analyses. The chapter concludes with a summary

of the chapter. Chapter four comprises the compilation, analysis

and discussion of data collected from the annual reports. It covers

the descriptive statistics, bivariate correlation, and finally,

presents the results of the regression model. Chapter five

deliberates on summary of findings, conclusion recommendations, and

limitations of the study.

Required: With specific examples from the information above,

critique the abstract highlighting on the major elements of an

abstract.

3. Coronavirus pandemic has affected businesses and all aspects of

our lives globally. As a recent occurrence, it has created the

opportunity to study a “once-in-life-time” moment of how companies

function during an unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic period. Assume

that your supervisor has approved for you to work on the on the

topic “the mitigating strategies and policies used by high hit

business organisation during COVID-19” for your Long Essay/Project

Work. A quick glance through the literature demonstrates that, this

topic has received little or perhaps no attention in academic

literature. As a student of Research Methods, examine clearly the

appropriate methodology to use for the topic during this pandemic

stating clearly the design or approach, sampling technique,

instrument for data collection and analysis giving appropriate

justifications for your choices.