Chapter 12: Review Essay

Assignment Instructions:

In order to ensure that you are truly grasping the assigned readings, each week students are required to submit (approximately) a 150-word essay on:

Each of two chapter Review Essay questions.

Since this is an introductory course in business & management, I do not expect students to submit elaborate essay responses. However, I do expect you to follow all of the (critical thinking and writing rubric) guidelines provided and to make an honest attempt at responding to a question to the best of your ability. In general, responses are expected to be (approximately) 10 to 12 sentences in length. Please realize that I can clearly tell when students just throw an answer together at the last minute so please take proper care in preparing your answer.

Essay Question assignments will be graded manually using the attached rubrics, within 7 days of due date. Writing skills will be evaluated using the attached Writing rubric, and Critical Thinking skills will be evaluated using the attached Critical Thinking rubric. The professor may choose to send back the assignments with notations and comments using the assignment submission box. Thus, it is students' responsibility to download the assignment submission after they have been graded in order to review any comments and recommendations the professor may have given.

CHAPTER 12 REVIEW ESSAY QUESTIONS Questions: 1. If your subordinates expect you to be consistent in your decision making style, but you believe that different decision making styles (e.g., high involvement of others vs. low involvement) are appropriate for specific situations, how can you change your decision making approach and yet not seem inconsistent to your employees?

2. Think of someone you know personally who is an effective decision maker. What key characteristics would you use to describe this person?

3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of a manager with good instincts and who seems to make effective decisions, but whose approach is more like the retrospective than rational model?

4. Japanese and Korean managers tend to spend considerably more time on and involve more people in the problem formulation stage of decision making than American managers do. What are the pros and cons you see with this?