Different aspects of Management

Week 8 Learning Activities (10%)

Directions: Reflect on each of the previous seven weeks. Briefly describe seven management concepts (one from each week) that you can apply to your management career. Be as specific as you can. Consider both information from the course materials and the experiences you had in your group work. Whenever referencing concepts from course materials, be sure to provide in-text citations and references.

Respond to a minimum of three classmates by Saturday at midnight in the following manner: select ONE of the concepts highlighted by your classmate and describe how you could also use that new knowledge in your leadership career.

(Note the Saturday deadline for responses to classmates.)

Completing the Learning Activity

• Read the grading rubric for the project. Use the grading rubric while completing the project to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible grade.

• Third person writing is required. Third person means that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or your” (second person writing). If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this link: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar….

• Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.

• Paraphrase and do not use direct quotation marks. Paraphrase means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document, but put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage to the source document. Not using direct quotation marks means that there should be no passages with quotation marks and instead the source material is paraphrased as stated above.

• Provide the page or paragraph number when using in-text citations. Note that a reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.

Week 1- Organizational theory

Week 2- Competitive advantage

Week 3- Planning

Week 4- SWOT analysis

Week 5- Organizing

Week 6- Leading

Week 7- Control

note: about 3/4 page each topic 

Answer preview

Organizational Theory

Organizations are run differently based on the decisions of the managers who are in charge. The study of organizational designs and how they interact with their external environment, how the managers behave within the organization. Organizational theories also recommend ways that the organization can use to deal with the changes within the business environment.  There are numerous organizational theories such as classical, neoclassical, contingency, systems and organizational structure (Haveman et al., 2018, 65).  A manager will use an organizational theory to analyze the effect of the social relationships that exist among the staff at the organization…

 

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