Assignment Schedule
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Date due:
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Reading
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Activities
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Written Assignment or Discussion
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June 28
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Read Chapter 1
Management and its Evolution
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Individual/Collaborative Learning
Manager’s Check-up 1.2 pg. 46
Are you a Theory X or Theory Y Manager?
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Defend your perspective
Send a two paragraph defense of your managerial perspective to the class via CC Portal
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July 12
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Read Chapter 4
Organizational Culture & Change
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Individual/Collaborative Learning
Send response to all members of the class via CC Portal
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Case 4.1: pg. 177
ERP: Select a model of organizational change and describe how you would apply it to the ERP system
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July 19
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Read Chapter 5
Managing the Planning Process
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On-Line discussion
Respond to discussion question on MY CC Portal
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Management Mini-Case 5.1 page 218.
Read the Case and respond to discussion question #3 on-line
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July 26
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Chapter 7: Strategic Planning
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On-line discussion
Respond to discussion question on CC Portal
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Discussion Question #7 on pg. 303
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Prepare for intensive week-end
August 8 & 9
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Read Chapters 10 & 11 in text:
HR Management
Managing Diversity
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Individual learning
Go to the text website self-assessment site. Take the Keirsey Temperament Sorter.
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007302743x/student_view0/career_corner.html
Self-assessments: Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Bring results to class
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Skills for Managing 10.1 page 408: Read and prepare for mock interviews
Read Case 10.1 on pg. 425 and prepare the questions for class discussion
Discussion question #7, pg. 458: List in writing the most important initiatives in diversity and why.
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Aug. 16
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Read Chapter 12: Motivation
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On-line discussion
Respond to discussion question on CC Portal
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On-line discussion:
Case 12.1: Motivating Low-Wage Workers. Critical Question: #3
Page 496-7.
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Aug. 30
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Read Chapter 14 :Managing Teams
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Individual learning
One page written essay emailed to instructor
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Respond to discussion questions 1, 2 and 5 on page 566
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Sept 6
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Read Chapter 15: Managing Communication
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On-line discussion
Respond to discussion question on CC Portal
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Discussion question #2 on page 604
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Prepare for Intensive week-end
Sept 12 & 13
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Read Chapter 13:
Leadership
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Individual learning
Read and think about discussion questions on page 526 for class discussions
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Complete final project for oral presentation to class on Sept. 13th
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Final project due in writing via email by 9/15/ 2009
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MM511 Final Project
Guidelines for Final Project:
Your assignment is to focus on an aspect of management that interests you and one in which you can build on your existing knowledge, understanding and application of management/leadership skills. This assignment was designed with a great deal of latitude to allow you to choose a topic that interests you and will enrich your learning. You will write a 3-5 page paper that draws from the topics in Foundations of Management, i.e., theories of management/leadership, situational leadership, transformational leadership, global leadership, management and power issues, diversity and inclusion, human resource management, etc.
Criteria for written work:
- Organize your paper. What is the main point?
- Link your ideas to the class concepts. Integrate with other readings, research, etc.
- Model independent thinking~~graduate level thinking.
- Present your ideas clearly, concisely and logically
Suggestions:
Apply a management theory to a current situation and analyze and make recommendations based on the theory.
- Write a case study that outlines a dilemma and how it was or could be resolved through application of the theories studied.
- Choose a film that represents a management/leadership dilemma. Provide examples/applications of theory. What lessons, insights can you draw from the film using theories learned in class? (Top Gun, Twelve Angry Men, Twelve O’Clock High, To Kill a Mockingbird, Braveheart, Elizabeth I, Michael Collins)
In Class Agenda:
August 8: Discussion topics and activities
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Values clarification
- Keirsey Temperament Theory
August 9: Discussion topics and activities
- Human Resource Management
- Competency models
- Interviewing techniques
September 12: Discussion topics and activities
- History of management theory
- Situational leadership theory
- Management/Leadership defined
September 13: Discussion topics and activities
- Personal leadership vision and mission
- Presentation and discussion of final projects