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Learning
Journal Schedule
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Week
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Journal
Entry Directions
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1
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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
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2
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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.
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3
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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?
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4
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Discuss what being an ethical manager
means to you. How will you as a manager ensure the organization you
manage maintains social responsibility?
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5
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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.
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6
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Compare and contrast different types
of corporate strategies.
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7
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Discuss the impact on global business
of the trade rules and agreements that govern how companies operate
globally.
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8
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Describe the methods that companies
are using to redesign internal organizational processes.
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9
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Explain the advantages and
disadvantages of working in teams. Also, describe how to determine
training needs and how to select the appropriate training methodology.
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10
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Explain the basic principles and
practices that can be used to manage diversity in the workplace.
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11
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Use equity theory to explain how
employees' perceptions of fairness affects motivation.
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12
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Describe how managers can manage
effective one on one and organization wide communications.
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13
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Describe the various methods that
manager can use to maintain organizational control. Submit your Learning
Journal at the end of Week 13
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14
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No Journal Entry Required
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