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MGMT 530 Entire Course , Midterm and Final Exam
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   MGMT
530 Week 1 Case Analysis (Conference
Decision) MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 1 Defining the
Problem MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 2 Enabling
Conditions MGMT 530 Week 2 Case Analysis
(Conference Decision) MGMT 530 Week 2 DQ 1
Defining Objectives and Alternatives MGMT 530
Week 2 DQ 2 Intuition MGMT 530 Week 3 Case
Analysis Conference Decision Case, Part 2 MGMT
530 Week 3 DQ 1 Understanding Consequences and
Tradeoffs MGMT 530 Week 3 DQ 2 Decision Making in
Your Organization
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MGMT 530 Entire Course   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   MGMT 530 Week 1 Case
Analysis (Conference Decision) MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ
1 Defining the Problem MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 2
Enabling Conditions MGMT 530 Week 2 Case Analysis
(Conference Decision)   MGMT 530 Week 2 DQ 1
Defining Objectives and Alternatives MGMT 530
Week 2 DQ 2 Intuition MGMT 530 Week 3 Case
Analysis Conference Decision Case, Part 2 MGMT
530 Week 3 DQ 1 Understanding Consequences and
Tradeoffs MGMT 530 Week 3 DQ 2 Decision Making in
Your Organization
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MGMT 530 Final Exam   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   (TCOs A, B, C, D, E,
F, G and H) Tidewater Services recently
celebrated its 10th anniversary as a professional
services firm that handles investigations for law
firms offering amenities, such as background
checks, surveillance, interviewing of witnesses,
crash scene investigation, and other related
services.The company was founded by Lee Herbert
who had extensive experience working for
companies that handle investigative work. Herbert
is more of a people person and is always looking
for the next new client to take on. Admittedly,
Herbert had no experience in running a business
when he decided to go out on his own and enlisted
the help of his long time friend, Bradley
Simmons.
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MGMT 530 Week 1 Case Analysis (Conference
Decision) For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com   Week 1 Case Analysis Conference Decision
Case Date September 2, 2005 In less than two
weeks, an accounting system users conference is
scheduled to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana on
September 1316, 2005. Unfortunately, Hurricane
Katrina has struck the city leaving a wake of
destruction. Based on what you see on television,
the hotel and the city cannot possibly
accommodate this or any conference for the
foreseeable future.  Approximately 200 attendees
are scheduled to attend, flying in from all over
the country. All attendees prepaid their
registration fee for the conference. 
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MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 1 Defining the Problem   For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   What is
the difference between problem solving and
decision making? What are the key aspects to
defining the problem for a decision situation?
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MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 2 Enabling Conditions For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   What role
does ability, willingness, insight, and
commitment play in the decision-making process?
How can constraints and other underlying elements
complicate the decision-making process?Relate
an experience from your work with.
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MGMT 530 Week 2 Case Analysis (Conference
Decision)   For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com   Week 2 Case Analysis Conference Decision
Case Date September 2, 2005 In less than two
weeks, an accounting system users conference is
scheduled to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana on
September 1316, 2005. Unfortunately, Hurricane
Katrina has struck the city leaving a wake of
destruction. Based on what you see on television,
the hotel and the city cannot possibly
accommodate this or any conference for the
foreseeable future. 
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MGMT 530 Week 2 DQ 1 Defining Objectives and
Alternatives For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com   Why is it important to define clear
objectives for the decision situation? How can
you ensure that you have identified all the
appropriate alternatives? Give an example of a
problem that you are in the process of deciding
or have decided on in the pastidentify the
objectives and alternatives.   We will be looking
at two key decision-making elements, which are
objectives and alternatives. The objectives will
determine the criteria for evaluating solutions
to the defined problem. The alternatives for a
decision situation are the options that need to
be considered.
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MGMT 530 Week 2 DQ 2 Intuition For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   What role does
intuition play in decision making? What role does
quantitative data play in decision making?
Identify a decision situation in which you used
both intuition and data for your analysis of the
situation.   For the second discussion, we will
analyze the role that intuition plays in the
decision-making process.  OK, I would like to get
this politically incorrect idea out of the way
from the start ... As you begin to participate in
this topic, please consider and share your
position on whether you believe intuition is more
of a female skill and data analysis more of a
male skill? 
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MGMT 530 Week 3 Case Analysis Conference Decision
Case, Part 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Date September 15,
2005 Two weeks after New Orleans was devastated
by Hurricane Katrina, you made the decision to
postpone the conference and select a different
city to hold the conference. Based on your
initial objectives and a survey you took of the
registered attendees, you created the following
consequence table based on the information
available.
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MGMT 530 Week 3 DQ 1 Understanding Consequences
and Tradeoffs For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com   Why can it be difficult to identify
consequences for each alternative and objective?
What techniques can be used to simplify the
process? Describe a decision situation in which
you made tradeoffs to simplify the alternatives.
Did you use the even-swap method, weighted
scoring model, or another approach?   Our
objectives this week are toBuild a consequence
table with accuracy and completeness.Compare
alternatives using a consequence table.Evaluate
alternatives by examining tradeoffs.Evaluate
alternatives by using a weighted scoring model.
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MGMT 530 Week 3 DQ 2 Decision Making in Your
Organization For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com   What process does your organization use
to make decisions? Do you clearly identify the
problem, objectives, alternatives, consequences,
and tradeoffs? What special techniques or tools
do you use in your process?   In your
organizations, what is the general balance of
quantitative and qualitative information used  to
make decisions? Too much of one or the other
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MGMT 530 Week 4 DQ 1 Defining Uncertainties For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   How
does your organization assess uncertainties in
your decision-making process? What are the
benefits to using decision trees to assess
uncertainties?   Provide an example where
uncertainties played a major role in a decision
situation. In the context of uncertainty, is
there a difference between 'possibility' and
'probability'? 
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MGMT 530 Week 4 DQ 2 Decision Making Styles For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   What is
your primary decision-making style? What is your
managers primary decision-making style? What
approaches and tricks have you learned to
persuade your manager?
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MGMT 530 Week 4 Midterm Exam For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1. (TCO A) Your
small services company has outgrown the current
facility after the first two years of a
three-year lease. As the operations manager, you
are being held accountable for cancelling orders,
and you are beginning to lose market share due to
late deliveries. The goal is to determine what
action to take in the future to improve the
situation and restore sales.i. What criteria
should have been used in the decision-making
process that could have avoided the current
situation?
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MGMT 530 Week 5 Case Analysis Labadee Decision
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   In
January 2010, the island nation of Haiti was
devastated by an earthquake. Royal Caribbean
International, a major cruise line, owns a
private beach in Haiti, which is typically a port
of call on several of their Caribbean cruise
itineraries. The private port, known as Labadee,
is about 80 miles away from Port au Prince. The
beach was unaffected by the quake. In the days
following the earthquake, the company wrestled
with several issues as they determined whether to
continue to stop in Labadee or temporarily
abandon the port of call.
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MGMT 530 Week 5 DQ 1 Risk Tolerance For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Describe
your risk profilerisk seeking, risk neutral, or
risk averse. What are the pitfalls of your risk
attitude? How can knowing your managers
desirability curve come in handy during the
decision-making process?
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MGMT 530 Week 5 DQ 2 Sharing Risk with
Partners For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om   Describe a decision situation in which you
have shared risk with an internal or external
business partner. What were the conditions of the
shared risk? Explain why the arrangement was
successful or not. Is blame a risk-mitigator or
risk-enhancer? 
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MGMT 530 Week 6 DQ 1 Linked Decisions For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Describe a
decision situation that involved linked
decisions. What flexible plans did you use for
the subsequent decision?
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MGMT 530 Week 6 DQ 2 Course Project
Presentations   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Briefly describe
your problem and post a brief PowerPoint
presentation that summarizes your Course Project
no later than Tuesday.Give feedback to (at
least) two other students presentations for your
remaining posts. Be sure to post on a total
of three different days  
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MGMT 530 Week 7 Course Project (US Foods)   For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   The
objective of the Course Project is to provide you
with practice in creating, justifying, and
explaining a decision-making proposal. All
elements involved in the creation of this
proposal, from problem definition through action
plan, must be covered. Further, the proposal, as
constructed, must meet the tests of any sound
business plan, namely that it has specific and
measurable goals and objectives, clearly defined
activities, stipulated time frames during which
those activities will take place, and clearly
defined measurable outcomes.
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MGMT 530 Week 7 DQ 1 Psychological Traps   For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Provide
a real-life example of one of the traps discussed
in the text or the lecture. What can be done to
avoid that trap in the future?   An interesting
human phenomenon is becoming trapped in one's own
imagination of self. It is, of course, very
important to manage one's reputation by comparing
and reconciling how others see you with how you
see yourself and want others to see you.
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MGMT 530 Week 7 DQ 2 Estate Case Analysis   For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   This
week, we move from the theoretical to the real
world.The following group decision problem
scenario is outside of the formal organizational
structure but highlights the difficulty in making
decisions in group settings and the need to
collectively arrive at a group decision-making
process.Estate Case Decision Problem
ScenarioThe matriarch of a family passes away
after a long illness, leaving a house that needs
major repair work, a few antiques, and a small
insurance policy.
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