Chapter $3$: Managerial Decision Making

What effects does time pressure have on your decision making? In what ways do you handle it well and not so well?

What do you think are some advantages and disadvantages to using computer technologies in decision making?

Why is it so hard to make decisions that weight long$-$term more than short$-$term consequences? What examples, personal and in current events, can you think of$?$

Chapter $4$: Planning and Strategic Management

How do strategic, operational, and tactical planning differ? How might the three levels complement one another in an organization?

What accounts for the shift from strategic planning to strategic management? In which industries is this essential? Why?

How could SWOT analysis help newspaper companies remain competitive in the new media environment?

Chapter $5$: Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, and Sustainability

Consider the various ethical systems described early in the chapter. Identify concrete examples from your own past decisions or the decisions of others you have seen or read about.

Does Hampton University have a code of ethics? If so$,$ what does it say? Is it effective? Why or why not?

What do you think of the concept of a transcendent education, as described in the chapter? What can be done to implement such a vision for education?