Reflecting on your weekly learning by recording your thoughts on what you have read and learned is a perfect way to solidify your learning. The purpose of the learning journal is to provide you that means of reflection.

Task

You are to make weekly entries into your Learning Journal that will address the items found in the following table and any additional thoughts about your learning experience for that week. The entire journal is to be saved as a single MS Word document to which you add each weekly entry as the course progresses. The Journal is to be submitted at the end of Week $13.$

Learning Journal Schedule

Week Journal Entry Directions

$1$ Create a title page for your journal that includes your name and any other relevant information that you would like to include. At the top of the next page enter the title "Week $1".$ In the journal body, state your personal learning goals for this course and indicate why each of these goals is important to you. As well, explain how and why companies create competitive advantage through people

$2$ Enter $$Week $2$ at the top of this page. This week you examined the history of management. Describe, using reference to your textbook, how management has evolved through the ages.

$3$ Title this page $$Week $3($repeat for the following weeks$).$ Discuss how environmental constraints affect management. Why is environmental awareness important to management at all levels?

$4$ Discuss what being an ethical manager means to you. How will you as a manager ensure the organization you manage maintains social responsibility?

$5$ Take an organization either present or past that you have been associated with and conduct a SWOT analysis of that organization. Use a cited definition for each of the four SWOT elements to introduce each element of your analysis.

$6$ Draw the organizational design for an organization you either work for now or one you are familiar with. Consider using MS Word$/$Insert$/$Smart Art for your organizational structure if available.

$7$ Discuss the impact on global business of the trade rules and agreements that govern how companies operate globally.

$8$ Outline the strategies you would like to see used for Human Resource management in your organization or one that you have been associated with. Be sure to cite content from the readings to support your strategy.

$9$ Explain the advantages and disadvantages of working in teams. Also, describe how to determine training needs and how to select the appropriate training methodology.

$10$ Explain the basic principles and practices that can be used to manage diversity in the workplace.

$11$ Use equity theory to explain how employees$$ perceptions of fairness affects motivation.

$12$ Describe how managers can manage effective one on one and organization wide communications.

$13$ Describe the various methods that manager can use to maintain organizational control. Submit your Learning Journal at the end of Week $13$

$14$ No Journal Entry Required

Conduct

The following details how the journal is to be structured:

$1.$ You must provide at least one cited source for each week$$s entry from either the textbook, the course lessons, or another source consulted to support your weekly entry. The cited source is to be formatted in APA citation format and be included in an APA formatted reference list at the end of the journal. See How to Write an Essay in this Assignment file if you are unfamiliar with APA citation format.

$2.$ The content of the Journal is to be thought provoking, coherent, and illustrative of an active study effort. In other words, not just personal reflection on the week$$s studies. Ensure you comment on elements of the course content and readings in your entries.

$3.$ The entry for each week is not to exceed one and one half pages $(1\mathrm{.}5)$ and be not less than one page $(1),$ double spaced, in Times Roman $12$ pt font.

$4.$ The journal must be grammatically sound