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• MGT 521 Entire Course

• MGT 521 Final Exam Guide (New)

• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1 MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 2 MGT 521
  Week 1 DQ 3 MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 4 MGT 521 Week 2
  Individual Assignment Functional Areas of
  Business Paper MGT 521 Week 2 Knowledge Check MGT
  521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter MGT 521 Week 2
  Learning Team Weekly Reflection MGT 521 Week 2 DQ
  1 MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 2 MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 3 MGT 521
  Week 2 DQ 4

• 1. ________ is defined as a business firms
  intention, beyond its legal and economic
  obligations, to do the right things and act in
  ways that are good for society.
• Social screening
• Social responsibility
• Social obligation
• Values-based management

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• MGT 521 Final Exam Guide

• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1

• 1) John writes a memo to his employees. Putting
  his thoughts onto paper is an example of 2)
  Chantel received an invitation to a web meeting
  that will take place at 300 p.m. She accepted
  the invitation. This is an example of

• Select a channel used for business communication.
  What are the advantages and challenges of that
  form of communication? Provide an example when
  you have used that form of communication or when
  someone else has used that form of communication
  with you. Did it work well for that situation?
  Why or why not?

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• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 2

• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 3

• How would you use credentials, impartiality,
  style and tone, and currency criteria in
  evaluating the credibility and validity of your
  sources of information? Be sure to provide
  specific examples

• What mistakes should be avoided when presenting
  an argument and why are these important in
  developing effective arguments? Be sure to
  provide specific examples.

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• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 4

• MGT 521 Week 1 Individual Assignment
  Communication Channel Scenarios

• How might presenting effective arguments differ
  in the classroom, daily life, and your job? Would
  you use different types of supporting evidence to
  make your argument? Explain

• Resources Communication Channel Scenarios
  located on the student website.
• Read the scenarios located on the student
  website.
• Answer the questions after each scenario. Be sure
  to select the communication channel appropriate
  for each scenario.

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• MGT 521 Week 1 Individual Assignment Viewpoints
  Paper

• MGT 521 Week 2 Assignment Norwegian Air Worksheet

• Viewpoints Paper Select one of the viewpoints
  mentioned in Chapter 2 of the text. Write a 350-
  to 700-word paper summarizing the basics of that
  viewpoint including highlighting at least one of
  the key figures related to that viewpoint.

• Norwegian Air Worksheet Read "Management in
  Action Norwegian Air Shuttle Aspires to Become
  the Cheapest Global Airline." Complete the
  Norwegian Air Worksheet.

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• MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 1

• MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 2

• What strategies have been used to promote
  collaboration at your place of employment or a
  company you are familiar with? Have these
  strategies been successful or unsuccessful?
  Explain. Would you recommend implementing other
  strategies to promote collaboration? If so, what
  would those be?

• What are some real world examples of ethical and
  unethical practices you have read about, seen in
  the news, or encountered at your place of
  employment? What were the outcomes of those
  practices?

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• MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 3

• MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 4

• How can values and communication styles impact
  intercultural collaboration in a diversified
  organization?

• How would protected values, preferences, and laws
  affect consistency in making ethical decisions?
  What strategies would you develop and implement
  to attain consistent ethical decision making?

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• MGT 521 Week 2 Individual Assignment Functional
  Areas of Business Paper

• MGT 521 Week 2 Individual Assignment Writing an
  Argument

• You have decided to pursue an MBA degree either
  to further your career, start a new career, or
  achieve a personal goal. In this program, you
  will study the functional areas of business.

• Resource Learning team debate and Ch. 9 Writing
  from Sources
• Option I
• Develop your own argument based on the debate
  outcomes.
• Use the four steps for fairly presenting
  arguments indentified in Ch. 9 of Writing from
  Sources to guide your writing.

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• MGT 521 Week 2 Knowledge Check

• MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team assignment Credible
  Information Debate

• 1.As a process of self-examination during her
  senior year of college, Casey decides to develop
  a SWOT analysis of her prospects relative to
  getting a job. Casey realizes that she has a
  personal characteristic that suggests she is not
  comfortable interacting with strangers. She
  interprets this as a(n) ________ if she is to get
  a job as a salesperson

• Begin a debate with your learning team.
• Divide your learning team evenly with one side
  for and one side against.
• Debate with your learning team whether Wikipedia
  is a credible and valid source of information.
• Refer to the debate to complete your individual
  assignment due this week.

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• MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter

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• MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Weekly Reflection

• MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter

• Discuss last weeks objectives with your team.
  Include both the topics you feel comfortable
  with, topics you struggled with, and how the
  weekly topics relate to application in your
  field.
• Prepare a 1- to 3-page paper detailing the
  findings of your discussion
• MGT521 Week 2 Weekly Reflection

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• MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 1

• MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 2

• From the results of your Ethics Awareness
  Inventory, do your personal values align with
  your organizational values? Explain. If there is
  a misalignment between your personal values and
  your organizational values, what would be an
  appropriate response to this misalignment?

• What attributes do successful entrepreneurs
  possess? Which attribute do you feel is the most
  important and why?

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• MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 3

• MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 4

• Who are the stakeholders in your place of
  employment or in a company with which you are
  familiar? What are their wants and needs? How
  does management meet their needs? What
  difficulties arise in balancing the needs of the
  various stakeholders?

• What are some potential strengths, weaknesses,
  opportunities, and threats that a business should
  consider in a SWOT analysis? How can a business
  benefit from gathering this information?

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• MGT 521 Week 3 Individual Assignment
  Organizational Planning

• MGT 521 Week 3 Individual Assignment Strategy and
  Planning Paper

• Review the example SWOT Analyses located in this
  week's Electronic Reserve Readings to see the
  types of information companies include.Complete
  the following tasks in the Material
  Organizational Planning Worksheet. Cite your
  resources

• Strategy and Planning Paper Review Figure 5.3 in
  the textbook. Write a 950- to 1,100-word paper in
  which you address the following Explain why the
  3 types of goals are important to the strategy of
  an organization. Explain why the different types
  of planning are important to the strategy of an
  organization. Examine the elements or factors
  involved in creating an effective strategy for an
  organization.

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• MGT 521 Week 3 Knowledge Check

• MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Values
  and Ethical Decision Making

• 1.The process of dividing work activities into
  separate job tasks is known as ________. 2.The
  process of grouping jobs together is known as
  ________. 3.The line of authority that extends
  from upper organizational levels to lower levels,
  clarifying who reports to whom, is known as the
  ________. 4.Which of the following is a
  characteristic of a mechanistic organization?
  5.Which of the following structures is highly
  adaptive, loose, and flexible?

• Resources Williams Institute Ethics Awareness
  Inventory
• Perform the Williams Institute Ethics Awareness
  Inventory Assessment.
• Select an organization to research or use your
  own organization.
• Write a paper no more than 1,500 words evaluating
  personal values, organizational values, and
  ethical decision making.

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• MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection

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• MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Weekly Reflection

• Read the Developing Your Empowering People
  (Delegating) Skill Skills Exercise at the end of
  Ch. 10 of Management. Discuss the scenario with
  your Learning Team. Consider the five behaviors
  described for delegating to determine how to
  handle the scenario. Prepare a 350- to
  1,050-word paper detailing how your team would
  handle the situation described in the scenario.
  Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your
  assignment

• Resources Conflict Scenario
• Read the scenario and discuss with your team
  strategies to resolve the conflict in the
  scenario to achieve the desired goal or
  objective.
• Look at it from the perspective of the manager.
• Prepare a 1- to 3-page paper detailing the
  findings of your discussion
• Format your summary consistent with APA
  guidelines.

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• MGT 521 Week 4 Assignment Organizational
  Structure Presentation

• MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 1

• Organizational Structure Presentation The
  organization you work for currently has a
  traditional structure - divisional structure.
  However, the organization has gone through some
  big changes including a merger with another
  organization. The organization is now global and
  produces products and services clients in a
  number of different areas.

• How could benchmarking be effectively used to
  achieve competitive advantage? Provide an example.

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• MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 2

• MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 3

• What information is gained through managerial
  accounting? How can a business use this
  information? As an investor in a small business,
  what sorts of things may concern you regarding a
  firms financial statements?

• What are some of the benefits of using technology
  in managing information and human resources in
  business? What technology is used at your place
  of employment to manage information and human
  resources?

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• MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 4

• MGT 521 Week 4 Individual Assignment Business
  Analysis Part I

• How has outsourcing to other countries affected
  U.S. businesses? Have the results been mostly
  positive, or mostly negative? If you had the
  authority to stop U.S. businesses from
  outsourcing, would you do that? Why or why not?

• Write a paper no more than 2,200 words in which
  you assume the role of a mutual fund manager
  deciding whether to invest in a specific company.
  You will conduct a business analysis in the
  remaining weeks based on the company you select.
• Select one company from the list below
• Motorola Mobility
• Apple

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• MGT 521 Week 4 Knowledge Check

• MGT 521 Week 4 Learning Team Weekly Reflection

• 1.Which of the following describes the leadership
  style in which a leader tends to centralize
  authority, dictate work methods, make unilateral
  decisions, and limit employee participation?
• 2.The ________ style of leadership describes a
  leader who tends to value employee participation

• Resources Video Case College Entrepreneurs Do
  Good and Make Money from Ch. 1 of Understanding
  Business.
• Discuss the case with your team and the Thinking
  it Over Questions with your team.
• Prepare a 1- to 3-page paper detailing the
  findings of your discussion and answers to the
  questions at the end of the video case.

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• MGT 521 Week 4 Team Assignment Organizing Work

• MGT 521 Week 5 Individual Assignment Business
  Analysis Part II

• You are a team of managers at a company. Upper
  management is concerned that the structure of the
  division your team manages is not accomplishing
  goals as efficiently as it could. As a result,
  upper management has tasked you to review the
  current organizational structure for efficiency
  and recommend needed changes.

• Continue your business analysis using the company
  you selected in Week Four.
• Write a paper no more than 2,400 words in which
  you research the companys business environment.
• Review the companys income statement, balance
  sheet, and cash flow to determine the financial
  health of the company.

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• MGT 521 Week 5 Individual Assignment Leadership
  and Your Career Paper

• MGT 521 Week 5 Individual Assignment Team
  Leadership

• CAREER CONNECTION Leadership and Your Career
  Paper Write a 950- to 1,100 word paper in which
  you address the following From the leadership
  theories discussed in Chapter 14 of your text,
  identify one theory that appeals to you the most

• Your manager tells you about a new department the
  company will be adding that is part of the
  companys strategic plan to enter a particular
  market segment. Your manager would like you to
  manage one of the teams in this new department.
  Your manager has put together the team you will
  be managing.

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• MGT 521 Week 5 Knowledge Check

• MGT 521 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection

• 1.The control process assumes that ________.
• 2.An example of control criteria that can be used
  in any situation is ________.
• 3.In reviewing the result of the control process,
  managers could choose to avoid taking action when
  ________.

• Your Learning Team is a team of managers of a
  customer call center for timeshare vacations.
  Discuss, with your team, the types of control
  measures you would use to see how efficient and
  effective an employee is. Discuss, with your
  team, the measures you would use to evaluate the
  entire call center. Prepare a 350- to 1,050-word
  paper detailing the findings of your discussion.

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• MGT 521 Week 5 Team Assignment What Makes a
  Leader? Presentation

• MGT 521 Week 5 Learning Team Weekly Reflection

• Discuss last weeks objectives with your team.
  Include the topics you feel comfortable with, you
  struggle with, and how the weekly topics relate
  to application in your field.
• Prepare a 1- to 3-page paper detailing the
  findings of your discussion
• MGT521 Week 5 Weekly Reflection

• What Makes a Leader? Presentation Create a 12- to
  15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with
  detailed speaker notes in which you address the
  following question Are leaders born or can they
  be made? Why or why not? The team should take a
  position on this question and include the team's
  rationale as well as supporting this with
  research.

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• MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Personal Professional
  Development Plan

• MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Assignment Planning and
  Measuring Performance

• Review the Example and Practice sections of the
  Balanced Scorecard Module to practice reading and
  evaluating the information it presents. Complete
  the Assignment section of the Balanced Scorecard
  Module to evaluate the performance of the
  organization against established standards

• Resources Personal Professional Development Plan
  Activity, Parts 1-4 from Weeks 1-3. Complete the
  Personal Professional Development Plan. Click the
  Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

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• MGT 521 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection

• MGT 521 Week 6 Knowledge Check

• 1.As a university student, your institutions
  social principles and practices reflect on you,
  as a stakeholder, in the organization. Therefore,
  it is your right to question how these practices
  should be evaluated in relation to the social
  issues that your school is addressing.

• Read Case Application 1, "Lessons from Lehman
  Brothers Will We Ever Learn?" at the end of Ch.
  5 of Management. Discuss the scenario with your
  team. Discuss the second, third, and fifth
  discussion questions at the end of the case with
  your team. Answer each question based on your
  team's discussion in no more than 350 words per
  question. Click the Assignment Files tab to
  submit your assignment.

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