| Course Syllabus School of Business MGT/230 Version 1 Management Theory and Practice | Copyright © 2011 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description
This course explores the rich field of management in theory and practice, and as both a science and an art. Students learn to apply management concepts to current workplace issues. Other topics include increasing competitive forces, expectations for successful performance of employees and organizations, and achieving desired business goals. Policies
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Discuss what you learned, what could be applicable to your workplace or personal life, and how your knowledge has increased as a result of what you experienced through the learning activities in the previous week.Submit your team summary of the discussion in a 1-2 page Microsoft® Word document. | Week 2 | 2 | Learning Team Internal and External Factors Paper | Select an organization with which everyone in your Learning Team is familiar. Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you explain how internal and external factors affect the four functions of management. In your paper, explain how the following internal and external factors affect the four functions of management. Include specific examples for each.GlobalizationTechnology InnovationDiversity EthicsInclude 1-2 peer-reviewed sources to support your ideas.Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. | Week 2 | 10 |
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Week Three: Organizing as a Management Function | | Details | Due | Points | Objectives | 2 3.7 Describe the organizing function of management. 3.8 Identify various types of organizational structures. 3.9 Explain the relationship between organizational functions and organizational structure. | | | Readings | Read Ch. 8–10 of Management: Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World.Read this week’s Electronic
According to Chester Barnard, “Organizing is a function by which the concern is able to define the role positions, the jobs related and the co- ordination between authority and responsibility. Hence, a manager always has to organize in order to get results. A manager performs organizing function with the help of following steps:-
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Based on your Week 3 collaborative learning team discussion, submit, individually, a 350- to 700-word summary of the
Bateman, T. S., & Snell, S. A. (2009). Management: Leading & collaborating in acompetitive world (8th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. Available from theUniversity of Phoenix eBook Collection databaseDisney, March 2009. Corporate Responsibility Report, Retrieved from on 5/28/09http://corp
This is an electronics company that has been in play since 1976. The name for the company was changed two times from Apple Computer, Inc. in 1976 to Apple, Inc. in 2009. This company knew that they were not the only ones in the industry, therefore they needed bright minds to work for them. The founders of this company were Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. As sellers of consumer electronics they innovated the way to look at technology. They created computers, laptops, cellular phones, I-pads and I-pods. What made this company unique is that their teamwork had in a sense a well knowledge of paradoxical thinking. What do I mean by saying this? As the technologies advance their way of doing things must change as well. This is when paradoxical thinking comes in to action. As competitors they must use different ways of manufacturing their products, they must know what the competency is up to so they can come up with something different and unique. As the author K. R. Ravi states, “write that companies that survive are those, among other things ,that do not oppress themselves with the ‘tyranny of the OR’—the rational view that cannot easily accept paradox, that cannot live with two seemingly contradictory forces at the same time” (p.3). This is when they start thinking out of their box and not only go and with what competitors are creating, but instead use their minds to create a new device that has
Ivancevich, J. M., & Duening, T. M. (2006). Management: skills, application, practice, and development. Cincinnati, OH: Atomic Dog Publishing.
Throughout this course you will assume the role of a management consultant hired by a variety of clients. Each individual or group project you undertake will present a different management or leadership challenge. These projects will give you an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of modern leadership issues and apply ethical theories and reasoning skills to business situations.
Locate four articles or books on your philosophy written by different management theorists and published in the past 5 years in academic literature. At least two must be from peer-reviewed journals. The articles or books may be theory articles, research articles, or a combination.
M2: Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of the interrelationships between organizational functions and its impact that can have upon organizational structure.
One concept in this course I have learned and it has stuck with me is focusing on employees. Without good relationships with employees and making sure they are happy and acknowledged the work within the company will not get done effectively and efficiently. As a manager, I will make sure that all employees are managed, able to express their
This management course class is for assisting students to understand advanced topics in management and for students to prepare for multiple upcoming problems over managerial roles. From attending this class I get more experience and knowledge about management and how to assist others. I learn how to discuss decisions with other employees and get results as a good leader. Also, the reading that I have done in this course helps me understand how working with other employees is good or bad. Also, I learn how leadership is important and how technology is taking over the jobs of humans. We discuss the causes of today’s economic problem, how to resolve it, how people get manipulated, and how this all affects our decision-making. I learn how leaders challenge their employees and how to be a better leader. Also, I learn about poverty and how people describe poverty in difference continents. We discuss how digital data sources have increased and now control underwriting in personal auto insurance. I also learn how our economic ties to the market’s rises and falls. I will focus on mindfulness and millennials relation to economic behavior, education, employment, and decision making. Also, this topic affects me personally because of how I make economic decisions and how I can direct my teenagers in economic decisions.
1. From a business perspective why is management discipline important? Compare and contrast the management discipline to medicine and law (how are these similar and how are they different - be specific in your explanations and provide examples to support your response).