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Is Lululemon a multinational, multidomestic, global, and transnational organization?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of how Lululemon does business globally?
What external environmental forces are affecting Lululemon’s sourcing and manufacturing? What forces affect the first store opening in a new market or country?
What do you think Lululemon might need to do better to expand rapidly in the global marketplace?
Differentiate the business practices related to social responsiveness, social responsibility, and social obligation.
Does social responsibility mean something different to your employee behavior than your behavior as a manager? Do you think a business can be socially responsible when its employees and managers are
Compare the market, stakeholder, and activist approaches to green management. Why would a company choose one approach instead of the other?
Describe an approach companies should use to evaluate and report on their social responsibility and sustainability efforts.
Review the United Nations principles for doing business globally (see Exhibit 7-8). Identify and describe the two most important principles in your opinion.
How can managers encourage ethical behavior in the workplace?
Do you think promoting social responsibility through social media shows that a company is mostly concerned with enhancing its reputation rather than being ethical? Why or why not?
Do you think businesses have a responsibility to help employees balance their work demands with their family and personal commitments? Why or Why not?
How would you respond to your coworker or boss taking all the credit for your work? Explain.
Is Chobani a better example of social responsibility or social responsiveness? Provide reasons why.
What actions has Chobani taken that illustrate the socioeconomic view of social responsibility? What ways (if any) could Chobani expand its efforts logically into corporate philanthropy?
Which of the arguments for and against social responsibility apply to Chobani (see Exhibit 7-1)?
Do you think Chobani’s approaches to business would attract customers? Why or why not?
What barriers did Shanay confront in creating Every Kid Fed? How did she overcome them?
You read about one graduate student making a difference by being socially responsible. With Every Kid Fed as an example, how important is a partnership with companies for to individuals being
Building on the example of Shanay Thompson, what personal qualities and behaviors does it take to be socially responsible?
Provide examples of individuals leading socially responsible activities in your community. Have these individuals partnered with corporations? Why or why not?
Will the universality of management continue to be true in the future? Why or why not?
Describe what a manager does. How does the work of managers differ from that of nonmanagerial employees?
What is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness? Explain why both are valuable to managers.
Is there one best “style” of management? Discuss in terms of managerial functions, roles.
How are technology, social media, and other technological advances making a manager’s job easier? More complex?
Are the skills managers need different for lower-level and middle managers? Do managers at Amazon use managerial skills differently than those at UPS or Uber?
If career opportunities in an organization are limited, do managers have a responsibility to convey this information to employees? Explain your position.
Which of the four management functions of a manager’s work do managers most need guidance on from AI?
How might AI change a lower-level manager’s job differently than a top manager’s job by 2030?
What kinds of tasks do you think can be done by machines or computers in the future to help managers improve their employees’ well-being?
What can you do to make yourself more valuable to companies so that they need you (and not a machine) to get work done?
What makes Nike’s focus on the customer efficient and effective?
If you were in charge of taking Nike’s focus on the customer to the next level, what would you do?
What advantages of online shopping and in-person shopping do Nike Live stores try to combine? Why do you think (or why do you not think) Live stores will continue to be successful for Nike?
What do you think a focus on the customer will look like for companies in 2030?
Why is the Industrial Revolution significant for managers?
How have the classical approaches of management shaped management in today’s organizations? Are any of the classical approaches of management still relevant?
In what ways did the social-person and human relations approach influence management?
Is the quantitative approach to management still useful to managers? Explain.
Explain sustainability and the ESG movement in the field of management. What implications do they have for someone studying management?
Can managers focus too aggressively on productivity?
Should there be concerns about safety, quality, or customers’ cybersecurity at Twitter?
How will the changes at Twitter affect employee commitment and turnover?
Does Uber’s method for improving its drivers’ experience match the quantitative method? Explain. How could executives at Uber improve their data collection?
How would the early advocates for the social-person approaches feel about Uber’s CEO’s decision to get behind the wheel?
What data should managers collect to determine the best hybrid work arrangements?
Do managers have to offer hybrid work arrangements to remain competitive? Explain.
Because hybrid work arrangements are driven by employee preferences that will change over time, is it possible to find the “best way” to work remotely? Explain.
How can managers find the best way to do hybrid work and still put people first?
Describe the decision-making process.
Compare and contrast the five ways managers use intuition and evidence to make decisions. Can bounded rationality impact intuition and evidence-based management?
Explain the two types of problems and decisions. Contrast the four decision-making styles.
Is there a difference between wrong decisions and bad decisions? Why do good managers sometimes make wrong decisions? Bad decisions?
Describe some of the decision errors and biases. How do managers reduce errors and biases in their decisions?
Explain why blending technology with decision making will improve managers'’ judgment.
Was the decision by Ikea to recall and stop production of the Sladda appropriate? Explain both “why” and “why not.”
If you were a manager, how would you use this incident to “teach” employees about ethics and decision making?
What should managers and companies do to minimize their use of bad data?
How might intuition, the analytical decision style, and the conceptual decision style help to work against problems arising from using bad data?
What does this case illustrate about big data and analytics?
What do you think Major League Baseball needs to do to evaluate if the pitch clock is effective over the next five years?
How might rational and intuitive decision making both be involved when Major League Baseball changes the rules of the game?
What decision-making errors might Major League Baseball fall victim to as it tries to improve the game for its fans?
Be aware of your environment. What do you think this statement means for an organization? What are implications for managing the external environment?
How would a first-line manager’s job differ in these two organizations? How about a top-level manager’s job?
Describe your ideal organizational culture using the seven dimensions of organ-izational culture. What constraints would this culture put on organizational managers’ behavior? How? Does it
Can offering remote work to employees weaken an organization’s culture? Explain.
What are the ways an organization sustains its culture.
Do you think the use of technology in sports is based on the desire to gain an advantage or the fear of competing at a disadvantage? Is this an ethical concern for the use of technology?
How would you feel as a new employee if your boss asked you to do something and you had to admit that you didn’t know how to do it? Most of us would probably feel pretty inadequate and incompetent.
A product is manufactured in a two-stage process, the stages being designated $\mathrm{A}$ and $\mathrm{B}$.Each process has two machines, named $A 1$ and $A 2$ for process $A$, and B1 and B2 for
You receive the following email:From: Sebastian Cohard To: Financial manager Subject: Driverless bus investment$\mathrm{Hi}$The board has decided that it would like to move forward with investing
Which of the following statements is true? Select ALL that apply.- A small company will always have a higher risk appetite than a larger company.- A company with a divisionalised structure will
State whether the following activities would result in a risk retention or risk avoidance strategy:- An organisation sells a subsidiary in a politically unstable country.- The Board of a company
CC Freight is a freight forwarding business. It sends containers of freight from Heathrow to other airports around the world. It specialises in consolidating the freight of different shippers into a
The Managing Director of Monterey Ltd has recently started looking at ways of gathering Big Data for her business. She is concerned that some of the sources of data she has chosen are unreliable, and
Access to a larger market, targeted marketing, reduced costs and the elimination of intermediaries are just some of the benefits that could result from the implementation of:A. knowledge management
Which of the following is NOT an intangible cost of a new information system?A. The opportunity cost of other projects foregone B. Day to day running costs such as heating and insurance C. Staff
Chen Products produces four manufactured products: Products 1, 2, 3 and 4 . The company's risk committee recently met to discuss how the company might respond to a number of problems that have arisen
Use the words and phrases in the table provided below to complete the following paragraphs:An organisation is likely to have a portfolio of projects, some incurring more risk than others, so that the
The ZXC company manufactures aircraft. The company is based in Europe and currently produces a range of four different aircraft. ZXC's aircraft are reliable with low maintenance costs, giving $Z X C$
$\mathrm{ZZ}$ is a music streaming company specialising in classical tracks and opera. It has a growing loyal customer base, which has largely been created through word of mouth and magazine adverts
A company has identified four possible outcomes from a new marketing strategy as follows:The expected outcome of this strategy is $ _____________________. Outcome A Profit ($) 100,000 Probability
- Hofgarten Newsagents stocks a weekly magazine which advertises local second-hand goods. Marie, the owner, can:- buy the magazines for $15 \mathrm{c}$ each- sell them at the retail price of $25
A company is choosing which of three new products to make $(A, B$ or $C$ ) and has calculated likely pay-offs under three possible scenarios (I, II or III), giving the following pay-off
Using the information from 'Objective Test Question 3' above, apply the minimax regret rule to decide which product should be made.Data from Objective Test Question 3A company is choosing which of
Using the information from 'Objective Test Question 3' above, apply the maximin rule to decide which product should be made.Data from Objective Test Question 3A company is choosing which of three new
Following on from the data provided in 'Objective Test Question 3' above, the company has made an estimate of the probability of each scenario occurring as follows:However, an external consultant has
A manager has identified the following two possible outcomes for a process.The expected value has been calculated as $\mathrm{EV}=(0.4 \times-20)+(0.6 \times$ $40)=+16$. This would suggest that the
Identify the correct description of imperfect information:A. costs more to collect than its value to the businessB. is available only after preliminary decisions on a business venture have been
Three investors are considering the same investments. The net returns from the investments depend on the state of the economy and are illustrated as follows:Details on the attitudes to risk of the
For the past 20 years a charity organisation has held an annual dinner and dance with the primary intention of raising funds.This year there is concern that an economic recession may adversely affect
The RS Group owns a large store in Ludborough. The store is oldfashioned and profits are declining. Management is considering what to do. There appear to be three possibilities:1. Shut down and sell
A company can make either of two new products, $X$ and $Y$, but not both. The profitability of each product depends on the state of the market, as follows:Calculate the expected value of perfect
The Venus Department Store operates a customer loan facility. If one of its new customers requests a loan then Venus either refuses it, gives a high loan limit, or gives a low loan limit. From a
An importer has produced the following budget for next month:The importer wants to stress test the budget for a potential change in currency rates on the products that it imports. A currency change
The adoption of JIT normally requires which one of the following factors to increase?A. Inventory levels B. Work-in-progress levels C. Batch sizes D. Quality standards
Match the cost to the correct cost category:Costs(a) Reliability studies(b) Returned material processing and repair(c) Quality audits(d) Quality control investigations of failures Cost categories-
Use the words and phrases in the table provided below to complete the following paragraphs:In a company operating on JIT principles, the absence of inventories deprives production of a safety net or
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