1. Read chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4.
2. While you are reading the chapters, please consider the following questions:
? What is management?
? How do a manager�s attitudes, values, ethics and culture affect his behavior?
? What are the issues in managing diverse employee in a diverse environment?
3. Review power point material for chapters 1-4 (to be sent by e-mail at your request).
4. Using this weeks readings , write a five-page paper ( For this paper choose topic/s covered in chapters assigned � to be discussed).
5. Complete Week One questions:
(Please put a cover page with your answers. On the cover page, please include your name, date submitted, and the session number.)
1. Describe what management is, why management is important, what managers do, and how managers utilize organizational resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organizational goals.
2. Discuss the principal challenges managers face in today�s increasingly competitive global environment.
3. Describe how the need to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness has guided the evolution of management theory.
4. Trace the changes in theories about how managers should behave to motivate and control employees.
5. Describe the various personality traits that affect how managers think, feel, and behave.
6. Define organizational culture and explain the role manager�s play in creating it.
7. Grasp the central role that managers play in the effective management of diversity.
8. Understand why the effective management of diversity is both an ethical and a business imperative.
FOR WEEK TWO
1. Read chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
2. While you are reading the chapters, please consider the following question:
? What is the organizational environment?
? How is the global environment affecting managers?
? How should a manager approach decision-making?
? Why plan?
? Why organize?
3. Review power point material for chapters 5-9 (to be sent by e-mail at your request).
4. Using this weeks readings, write a five-page paper
5. Complete Week Two questions:
(Please put a cover page with your answers. On the cover page, please include your name, date submitted, and the session number.)
1) Explain why the ability to perceive, interpret, and respond appropriately to the organizational environment is crucial for managerial success.
2) Explain why boundary-spanning activities are important.
3) Explain why the global environment is becoming more open and competitive and why barriers to the global transfer of goods and services are falling, increasing the opportunities, complexities, and challenges that managers face.
4) Describe the way in which political and legal, economic, and sociocultural forces in the general environment can affect managers and the way in which global organizations operate.
5) Explain how cognitive biases can affect decision-making and lead managers to make poor decisions.
6) Explain the role that organizational learning and creativity play in helping managers to improve their decisions.
7) Explain the relationship between planning and strategy.
8) Describe the vital role played by strategy implementation in determining managers' ability to achieve an organization's mission and goals.
9) Identify the factors that influence managers' choice of an organizational structure.
10) Explain why managers who seek new ways to increase efficiency and effectiveness are using strategic alliances and network structures.
FOR WEEK THREE
1. Read chapters 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14.
2. While you are reading the chapters, please consider the following question:
? What is organizational control?
? What is the role of performance appraisal?
? How does a manager use pay to motivate?
? How does emotional intelligence impact leadership?
? What is a leaders role in team management?
3. Review power point material for chapters 10-14 (to be sent by e-mail at your request)
4. Using this weeks readings, write a five-page paper
5. Complete Week Three questions:
(Please put a cover page with your answers. On the cover page, please include your name, date submitted, and the session number.
1) Define organizational control, and describe the four steps of the control process.
2) Explain the role of organizational culture in creating an effective organizational architecture.
3) Explain why strategic human resource management can help an organization gain a competitive advantage.
4) Explain why performance appraisal and feedback is such a crucial activity, and list the choices managers must make in designing effective performance appraisal and feedback procedures.
5) Explain what motivation is and why managers need to be concerned about it.
6) Explain why and how managers can use pay as a major motivation tool.
7) Describe what leadership is, when leaders are effective and ineffective, and the sources of power that enable managers to be effective leaders.
8) Explain how contingency models of leadership enhance our understanding of effective leadership and management in organizations.
9) Explain why groups and teams are key contributors to organizational effectiveness.
10) Describe how managers can motivate group members to achieve organizational goals and reduce social loafing in groups and teams.
FOR WEEK FOUR
1. Read chapters 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19.
2. While you are reading the chapters, please consider the following question:
? How is technology affecting organizational communication?
? How would you propose to change an organization?
? What is the meaning of the saying �information controls�?
? Does a high quality mean higher cost?
? What are the keys to developing a learning organization?
3. Review power point material for chapters 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 (to be sent by e- mail at your request)
4. Using this weeks readings, write a five-page paper
5. Complete Week Four questions:
(Please put a cover page with your answers. On the cover page, please include your name, date submitted, and the session number.)
1) Explain why effective communication helps an organization gain a competitive advantage.
2) Explain how advances in technology have given managers new options for managing communication.
3) Explain why conflict arises, and identify the types and sources of conflict in organizations.
4) Describe conflict management strategies that managers can use to resolve conflict effectively.
5) Describe three reasons why managers must have access to information to perform their tasks and roles effectively.
6) Explain how advances in information systems can give an organization a competitive advantage.
7) Explain the role of operations management in achieving superior quality, efficiency, and responsiveness to customers.
8) Explain why achieving superior efficiency is so important.
9) Explain managers' role in facilitating product development.
10) Describe how managers can encourage and promote entrepreneurship to help create a learning organization.
FOR WEEK FIVE
1. Review chapters.
2. Complete Final paper
3. Complete Power Point or/and Presentation
4. Complete Final Questions (these will be given to you at the end of class four)