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Management Leadership
Explain why decision making is an important component of good management.
Describe the ideal, rational model of decision making and the political model of decision making.
Explain the process by which managers actually make decisions in the real world.
Identify the six steps used in managerial decision making.
Describe four personal decision styles used by managers, and explain the biases that frequently cause managers to make bad decisions.
Identify and explain techniques for innovative group decision making.
Discuss the fundamental characteristics of organizing, including such concepts as work specialization, chain of command, span of management, and centralization versus decentralization.
Describe functional and divisional approaches to structure.
Explain the matrix approach to structure and its application to both domestic and international organizations.
Describe the contemporary team and virtual network structures and why they are being adopted by organizations.
Explain why organizations need coordination across departments and hierarchical levels, and describe mechanisms for achieving coordination.
Identify how structure can be used to achieve an organization's strategic goals.
Define production technology (manufacturing, service, and digital) and explain how it influences organization structure.
Define organizational change and explain the forces driving innovation and change in today's organizations.
Identify the three innovation strategies managers implement for changing products and technologies.
Explain the value of creativity, idea incubators, horizontal linkages, open innovation, idea champions, and new-venture teams for innovation.
Discuss why changes in people and culture are critical to any change process.
Define organization development (OD) and large-group interventions.
Explain the OD stages of unfreezing, changing, and refreezing.
Identify sources of resistance to change.
Explain force-field analysis and other implementation tactics that can be used to overcome resistance.
Explain the strategic role of human resource management.
Describe federal legislation and societal trends that influence human resource management.
Explain what the changing social contract between organizations and employees means for workers and human resource managers.
Show how organizations determine their future staffing needs through human resource planning.
Describe the tools managers use to recruit and select employees.
Describe how organizations develop an effective workforce through training and performance appraisal.
Explain how organizations maintain a workforce through the administration of wages and salaries, benefits, and terminations.
1. How would a cultural audit help Draper Manufacturing assess its diversity issues? What questions do you suggest be included in the audit? 2. If you were the shipping and receiving or human
1. Why does Walmart prefer to recruit new store managers from its large pool of hourly associates? 2. Explain how Walmart's employee diversity benefits the organization. What are some challenges of
Explain how a manager's personal biases and stereotypes may affect an organization's success in creating a workplace that is culturally competent.
As a manager, how would you accommodate the special needs of different groups (e.g., single parents, older workers, or employees with poor English language skills or religious restrictions) without
Shelley Willingham-Hinton, president of the National Organization for Diversity in Sales and Marketing, was quoted in the chapters as saying, "Our country's consumer base is so varied. I can't think
What is the difference between the traditional definition of diversity and the more inclusive view of diversity?
How might employee network groups contribute to the advancement of women and minorities to higher-level positions in an organization?
What is the first step in creating a culturally competent culture? What does this first step reveal?
Understand the pervasive demographic changes occurring in the domestic and global marketplace and how corporations are responding.
Understand how the definition of diversity has grown to recognize a broad spectrum of differences among employees, and appreciate the dividends of a diverse workforce.
Recognize the complex attitudes, opinions, and issues that employees bring to the workplace, including prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes, and ethnocentrism.
Recognize the factors that affect women's opportunities, including the glass ceiling, the opt-out trend, and the female advantage.
Explain the five steps in developing cultural competence in the workplace.
Describe how diversity initiatives and training programs help create a climate that values diversity.
Understand how multicultural teams and employee network groups help organizations respond to the rapidly changing and complex workplace.
Review Exhibit 14.12. Which learning style best characterizes you? How can you use this understanding to improve your learning ability? To improve your management skills?
How might a manager might be able to use an understanding of perceptual selectivity and perceptual organization to communicate more effectively with subordinates?
Define attitudes and explain their relationship to personality, perception, and behavior.
Discuss the importance of work-related attitudes.
Define major personality traits and describe how personality can influence workplace attitudes and behaviors.
Identify positive and negative emotions and describe how emotions affect behavior.
Explain how people learn in general and in terms of individual learning styles.
Discuss the effects of stress and identify ways individuals and organizations can manage stress to improve employee health, satisfaction, and productivity.
Define leadership and explain its importance for organizations.
Identify sources of leader power and the tactics leaders use to influence others.
Describe how leadership is changing in today's organizations, including Level 5 leadership, servant leadership, and authentic leadership.
Discuss how women's style of leading is typically different from men's.
Identify personal characteristics associated with effective leaders.
Define task-oriented behavior and people-oriented behavior and explain how these categories are used to evaluate and adapt leadership style.
Describe Hersey and Blanchard's situational theory and its application to subordinate participation.
Discuss how leadership fits the organizational situation and how organizational characteristics can substitute for leadership behaviors.
Describe transformational leadership and when it should be used.
Explain how followership is related to effective leadership.
To keep people motivated in a tough economic environment, some companies have shifted from annual to semiannual bonuses. Do you think offering semiannual bonuses is a good way to motivate the kind of
According to surveys, Gen-Y employees are the most disengaged of all workers, and 62 percent of employees under the age of 25 say they are unhappy with their jobs. What might be some reasons for this
Define motivation and explain the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards.
Identify and describe content theories of motivation based on employee needs.
Identify and explain process theories of motivation.
Describe the reinforcement perspective and how it can be used to motivate employees.
Explain social learning theory, including the concepts of vicarious learning, self-reinforcement, and self-efficacy.
Discuss major approaches to job design and how job design influences motivation.
Explain how empowerment heightens employee motivation.
Identify three elements of employee engagement and describe some ways managers can create a work environment that promotes engagement.
What communication channel would you select if you had to give an employee feedback about the way he mismanaged a call with a key customer? What channel would you use to announce to all employees the
What are the characteristics of an effective listener? How would you rate yourself on those characteristics?
A survey conducted in 2008 by the Society for Human Resources Management found that 54 percent of human resources professionals had documented an uptick in gossip or rumors about recession-related
Describe the concept of channel richness, and explain how communication channels influence the quality of communication.
Understand how gender differences, nonverbal communication, and listening affect communication.
Appreciate the role of personal communication channels in enhancing organizational communication.
Recognize the manager's role in managing crisis communication, using new communication technology, and creating a climate of trust.
Do you believe that admitting ignorance is a good way for a team leader to earn respect? Would this cause some people to disrespect the leader and question his or her suitability for team leadership?
Identify the types of teams in organizations.
Discuss some of the problems and challenges of teamwork.
Identify roles within teams and the type of role you could play to help a team be effective.
Explain the general stages of team development.
Identify ways in which team size and diversity of membership affect team performance.
Explain the concepts of team cohesiveness and team norms and their relationship to team performance.
Understand the causes of conflict within and among teams and how to reduce conflict.
Describe the different characteristics and consequences of task conflict versus relationship conflict.
Define the outcomes of effective teams and how managers can enhance team effectiveness.
In bottom-up budgeting, lower-level managers anticipate their departments' resource needs and pass them up to top management for approval. Identify the advantages of bottom-up budgeting.
How might activity-based costing provide better financial control tools for managers of a company such as Kellogg that produces numerous food products?
Define organizational control and explain why it is a key management function.
Explain the benefits of using the balanced scorecard to track performance and control of the organization.
Explain the four steps in the control process.
Discuss the use of financial statements, financial analysis, and budgeting as management controls.
Contrast the hierarchical and decentralized methods of control.
Identify the benefits of open-book management.
Identify current trends in quality and financial control, including ISO certification, economic-value-added and market-value-added systems, activity-based costing, and corporate governance, and
Identify and define the managerial leadership skills.
List the ten managerial roles based on their three categories.
Explain the interrelationships among the levels of leadership analysis.
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