Management A Practical Introduction 9th Edition Angelo Kinicki, Brian Williams - Solutions

Describe the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit.
Identify important stakeholders inside the organization.
Identify important stakeholders outside the organization.
Explain the importance of ethics and values in effective management.
Describe the concept of social responsibility and its role in today’s organizations.
Discuss the role of corporate governance in assessing management performance.
Describe how to develop the career readiness competency of professionalism/work ethic.
Of the 11 groups in the task environment, which five do you consider most important, and why?
Distinguish among the four approaches to deciding ethical dilemmas.
What’s the difference between insider trading and a Ponzi scheme?
What are four ways that organizations can promote ethics?
How would you explain the concept of corporate governance?
What is the underlying problem in this case from the federal government’s perspective?
Why do you think assistant coaches play such a significant role in these scandals?
How do you think the NCAA and the Commission on College basketball should move forward to prevent illegal behavior from occurring in the future?
How do you think the basketball teams’ task environment, particularly competitors, allies, customers, regulators, and media, played into the corruption in the NCAA?
Are the high school recruits who accepted bribes from apparel companies and coaches purely victims in this situation, or should their behavior also be considered unethical? Explain your answer using one of the four approaches to deciding ethical dilemmas.
What might the NCAA do to promote higher ethical standards among its schools, coaches, players, and allies?
How do you think the scandal has and will continue to affect customers, players’ attitudes on the court, and NCAA sales?
Identify the three principles underlying strategic positioning.
Outline the five steps in the strategicmanagement process.
Explain how an organization assesses the competitive landscape.
Explain the three methods of corporate-level strategy.
Discuss Porter’s five competitive forces and the four techniques for formulating strategy.
Describe the role of effective execution in strategic management.
Describe how to enhance your strategic thinking.
Discuss the importance of strategic human resource management.
Discuss ways to recruit and hire the right people.
Outline common forms of compensation.
Describe the processes used for orientation and learning and development.
Discuss effective performance management and feedback techniques.
List guidelines for handling promotions, transfers, discipline, and dismissals.
Discuss legal considerations managers should be aware of.
Describe labor-management issues and ways to work effectively with labor unions.
Review the steps for becoming a better receiver of feedback.
Identify the rewards of being an exceptionalmanager.
List the four principal functions of a manager.
Describe the levels and areas ofmanagement.
Identify the roles an effective managermust play.
Discuss the skills of an outstanding manager.
Identify the seven challenges faced by mostmanagers.
Define the knowledge, soft skills, attitudes,and other characteristics needed for careerreadiness and discuss how they can bedeveloped.
Describe the process for managing yourcareer readiness.
What are the differences among the four levels ofmanagers in the organizational pyramid?
Mintzberg’s study in the 1960s came up with threeimportant findings about a manager’s routine. Whatare they, and are they probably still the same today?
What is the underlying problem in this case fromCommissioner Rob Manfred’s perspective?
Why do you think Bowman’s behavior was ignoredfor over 10 years?
What would you have done if you were CommissionerManfred?
Did Commissioner Bud Selig operate more from aprinciple of efficiency or effectiveness? Explain yourrationale.
Which of the seven challenges to being an exceptionalmanager did Commissioner Manfred face in dealingwith Bowman? How did he handle them?
Which of the three skills exceptional managers needdid Bowman most lack? Which ones does CommissionerManfred most need? Explain your answers.
Which of the KSAOs needed for career readiness didBowman lack? Which ones did he display?
Given the facts of this case, do you believe Bud Seligshould have been inducted into the Baseball Hall ofFame in 2016? Why or why not?
Compare rational and nonrational decision making.
Explain how managers can make decisions that are both legal and ethical.
Describe how evidence-based management and business analytics contribute to decision making.
Compare four decision-making styles.
Identify barriers to rational decision making and ways to overcome them.
Outline the basics of group decision making.
Describe how to develop the career readiness competencies of critical thinking/problem solving and decision making.
Describe how managers align vision and strategies with the organization’s culture and structure.
Explain how to characterize an organization’s culture.
Describe the process of culture change in an organization.
Compare the structures of for-profit, nonprofit, and mutual-benefit organizations.
Identify the major elements of an organization.
Describe the eight organizational structures.
Identify the factors that affect the design of an organization’s structure.
Describe how to use the career readiness competencies of understanding the business and personal adaptability to assess an organization’s internal context.
Discuss what managers should know about organizational change.
Discuss three types of change, Lewin’s change model, and the systems approach to change.
Describe the purpose of organizational development.
Describe the approaches toward innovation and components of an innovation system.
Discuss ways managers can help employees overcome fear of change.
Review the different ways to increase the career readiness competency of openness to change.
Describe the importance of personality and individual traits in the hiring process.
Explain the effects of values and attitudes on employee behavior.
Describe the way perception can cloud judgment.
Explain how managers can deal with employee attitudes.
Identify trends in workplace diversity that managers should be aware of.
Discuss the sources of workplace stress and ways to reduce it.
Describe how to develop the career readiness competencies of positive approach and emotional intelligence.
Identify the characteristics of groups and teams.
Describe the development of groups and teams.
Discuss ways managers can build effective teams.
Describe ways managers can deal successfully with conflict.
Describe how to develop the career readiness competency of teamwork/collaboration.
Describe managers’ appropriate use of power and influence.
Identify traits and characteristics of successful leaders.
Identify behaviors of successful leaders.
Describe situational leadership.
Describe transformational leadership and its effects on employees.
Compare three additional perspectives on leadership.
Explain how to develop the career readiness competency of self-awareness.
Compare communication channels and appropriate ways for managers to use them.
Identify barriers to communication and ways managers can overcome them.
Discuss how managers can successfully use social media to communicate.
Identify ways for managers to improve their listening, writing, and speaking skills.
Review the techniques for improving the career readiness competency of networking.
Describe control as a managerial function.
Explain how successful companies implement controls.

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