Reflecting on your weekly learning by recording your thoughts on what you have read and learned is a perfect way to solidify your learning.

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Learning Journal

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Introduction

Reflecting on your weekly learning by recording your thoughts on what you have read and learned is a perfect way to solidify your learning.  The purpose of the learning journal is to provide you that means of reflection.

Task

You are to make weekly entries into your Learning Journal that will address the items found in the following table and any additional thoughts about your learning experience for that week.  The entire journal is to be saved as a single MS Word document to which you add each weekly entry as the course progresses.  The Journal is to be submitted at the end of Week 13.

Learning Journal Schedule

Week

Journal Entry Directions

1

Create a title page for your journal that includes your name and any other relevant information that you would like to include. At the top of the next page enter the title "Week 1". In the journal body, state your personal learning goals for this course and indicate why each of these goals is important to you. As well, explain how and why companies create competitive advantage through people

2

Enter "Week 2" at the top of this page.  This week you examined the history of management.  Describe, using reference to your textbook, how management has evolved through the ages.

3

Title this page "Week 3" (repeat for the following weeks). Discuss how organizations process and adapt based on environmental change.  How does culture affect the business environment?

4

Discuss what being an ethical manager means to you.  How will you as a manager ensure the organization you manage maintains social responsibility?

5

Explain the steps and limits to rational decision making.  Briefly describe a time when you had to make a rational decision and the success or failure of that decision.

6

Compare and contrast different types of corporate strategies.  

7

Discuss the impact on global business of the trade rules and agreements that govern how companies operate globally.

8

Describe the methods that companies are using to redesign internal organizational processes.

9

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of working in teams.  Also, describe how to determine training needs and how to select the appropriate training methodology.

10

Explain the basic principles and practices that can be used to manage diversity in the workplace.

11

Use equity theory to explain how employees' perceptions of fairness affects motivation. 

12

Describe how managers can manage effective one on one and organization wide communications.

13

Describe the various methods that manager can use to maintain organizational control. Submit your Learning Journal at the end of Week 13

14

No Journal Entry Required

Conduct

The following details how the journal is to be structured:

 

  1. You must provide at least one cited source for each week's entry from either the textbook, the course lessons, or another source consulted to support your weekly entry.  The cited source is to be formatted in APA citation format and be included in an APA formatted reference list at the end of the journal. See How to Write an Essay in this Assignment file if you are unfamiliar with APA citation format.
  2. The content of the Journal is to be thought provoking, coherent, and illustrative of an active study effort. In other words, not just personal reflection on the week's studies.  Ensure you comment on elements of the course content and readings in your entries.  
  3. The entry for each week is not to exceed two (2) pages and not be less than one and one half pages, double spaced, in Times Roman 12 pt font.
  4. The journal must be grammatically sound

Marks

Your Learning Journal is worth 30% of your final grade.

 

Marking Rubric

  • The marking rubric for this assignment follows:

 

Failed

Beginning

Accomplished

Exemplary

Completeness of the Journal

The assignment failed to meet the Beginning Level (0)

The journal did not completely meet the requirements of two or more of the entries in the Weekly Task Instructions (12)

The journal did not completely meet the requirements of one of the entries in the Weekly Task Instructions (15)

The journal completely met the requirements of the entries in the Weekly Task Instructions (18)

Scholarly Content

The assignment failed to meet the Beginning Level (0)

The journal did not completely meet the requirements of bullets 1 and 2 in the conduct instructions (4)

The journal did not completely meet the requirements of bullets 1 or 2 in the conduct instructions (6)

The journal completely met the requirements of bullets 1 and 2 in the conduct instructions (8)

Grammar and Structure

The assignment failed to meet the Beginning Level (0)

The journal did not completely satisfy the requirements of bullets 3 and 4 in the Conduct instructions (2)

The journal did not completely satisfy the requirements of bullets 3 or 4 in the Conduct instructions (3)

The journal completely satisfied the requirements of bullets 3 and 4 in the Conduct instructions (4)

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