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MGT 521 Final Exam Guide (New)
MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1 MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 2 MGT 521
Week 1 DQ 3 MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 4 MGT 521 Week 2
Individual Assignment Functional Areas of
Business Paper MGT 521 Week 2 Knowledge Check
1. ________ is defined as a business firms
intention, beyond its legal and economic
obligations, to do the right things and act in
ways that are good for society.          Social
screening          Social responsibility Social
obligation         Values-based management 
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MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Final Exam Guide (UOP Course)
1) John writes a memo to his employees. Putting
his thoughts onto paper is an example of    2)
Chantel received an invitation to a web meeting
that will take place at 300 p.m. She accepted
the invitation. This is an example of    3) You
are doing research on political issues and find
that you are on a conservative leaning site. What
type of source credibility issue is this? 
Select a channel used for business communication.
What are the advantages and challenges of that
form of communication? Provide an example when
you have used that form of communication or when
someone else has used that form of communication
with you. Did it work well for that situation?
Why or why not?
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MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
What mistakes should be avoided when presenting
an argument and why are these important in
developing effective arguments? Be sure to
provide specific examples.
How would you use credentials, impartiality,
style and tone, and currency criteria in
evaluating the credibility and validity of your
sources of information? Be sure to provide
specific examples
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MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
How might presenting effective arguments differ
in the classroom, daily life, and your job? Would
you use different types of supporting evidence to
make your argument? Explain
What strategies have been used to promote
collaboration at your place of employment or a
company you are familiar with? Have these
strategies been successful or unsuccessful?
Explain. Would you recommend implementing other
strategies to promote collaboration? If so, what
would those be?
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MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
What are some real world examples of ethical and
unethical practices you have read about, seen in
the news, or encountered at your place of
employment? What were the outcomes of those
practices?
  How can values and communication styles impact
intercultural collaboration in a diversified
organization?
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MGT 521 Week 2 Individual Assignment Functional
Areas of Business Paper
MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
How would protected values, preferences, and laws
affect consistency in making ethical decisions? 
What strategies would you develop and implement
to attain consistent ethical decision making?
You have decided to pursue an MBA degree either
to further your career, start a new career, or
achieve a personal goal. In this program, you
will study the functional areas of
business. Use the MBA Overview and Effective
Research and Writing at Modules you reviewed to
complete this assignment.
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MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter
MGT 521 Week 2 Knowledge Check
1.As a process of self-examination during her
senior year of college, Casey decides to develop
a SWOT analysis of her prospects relative to
getting a job. Casey realizes that she has a
personal characteristic that suggests she is not
comfortable interacting with strangers. She
interprets this as a(n) ________ if she is to get
a job as a salesperson.
MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter
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MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Weekly Reflection
(UOP Course)
Discuss last weeks objectives with your team.
Include both the topics you feel comfortable
with, topics you struggled with, and how the
weekly topics relate to application in your field
From the results of your Ethics Awareness
Inventory, do your personal values align with
your organizational values? Explain. If there is
a misalignment between your personal values and
your organizational values, what would be an
appropriate response to this misalignment?
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MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
What attributes do successful entrepreneurs
possess? Which attribute do you feel is the most
important and why?
Who are the stakeholders in your place of
employment or in a company with which you are
familiar? What are their wants and needs? How
does management meet their needs? What
difficulties arise in balancing the needs of the
various stakeholders?
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MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Week 3 Individual Assignment
Organizational Planning
What are some potential strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities, and threats that a business should
consider in a SWOT analysis? How can a business
benefit from gathering this information?
Review the example SWOT Analyses located in this
week's Electronic Reserve Readings to see the
types of information companies include.Complete 
the following tasks in the Material
Organizational Planning Worksheet. Cite your
resources. 
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MGT 521 Week 3 Knowledge Check
MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection
1.The process of dividing work activities into
separate job tasks is known as ________. 2.The
process of grouping jobs together is known as
________. 3.The line of authority that extends
from upper organizational levels to lower levels,
clarifying who reports to whom, is known as the
________.
Read the Developing Your Empowering People
(Delegating) Skill Skills Exercise at the end of
Ch. 10 of Management. Discuss the scenario with
your Learning Team.  Consider the five behaviors
described for delegating to determine how to
handle the scenario. 
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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
How could benchmarking be effectively used to
achieve competitive advantage? Provide an example.
What information is gained through managerial
accounting? How can a business use this
information? As an investor in a small business,
what sorts of things may concern you regarding a
firms financial statements?
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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Week 4 Learning Team Reflection
What are some of the benefits of using technology
in managing information and human resources in
business? What technology is used at your place
of employment to manage information and human
resources?
How has outsourcing to other countries affected
U.S. businesses? Have the results been mostly
positive, or mostly negative? If you had the
authority to stop U.S. businesses from
outsourcing, would you do that? Why or why not?
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MGT 521 Week 4 Knowledge Check
MGT 521 Week 4 Team Assignment Organizing Work
1.Which of the following describes the leadership
style in which a leader tends to centralize
authority, dictate work methods, make unilateral
decisions, and limit employee participation? 2.The
________ style of leadership describes a leader
who tends to value employee participation,
including in such areas as decision making and
deciding on work methods and goals.
You are a team of managers at a company. Upper
management is concerned that the structure of the
division your team manages is not accomplishing
goals as efficiently as it could. As a result,
upper management has tasked you to review the
current organizational structure for efficiency
and recommend needed changes.
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MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
How can organizational restructuring enable
specific types of business attain competitive
advantage in a changing market? Provide specific
examples
How does the local, state, or national economy
affect your business or place of employment?
Provide examples.
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MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
How does training and development improve
employee motivation, increase productivity, and
increase retention for the benefit of the
business?
What are some of the negative impacts of the U.S.
recession on for-profit and non-profit business?
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MGT 521 Week 5 Individual Assignment Team
Leadership
MGT 521 Week 5 Knowledge Check
Your manager tells you about a new department the
company will be adding that is part of the
companys strategic plan to enter a particular
market segment. Your manager would like you to
manage one of the teams in this new department.
Your manager has put together the team you will
be managing. Your new team consists of the
members of your current Learning Team.
1.The control process assumes that ________. 2.An
example of control criteria that can be used in
any situation is ________. 3.In reviewing the
result of the control process, managers could
choose to avoid taking action when ________.
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MGT 521 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection
MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Assignment Planning and
Measuring Performance
Your Learning Team is a team of managers of a
customer call center for timeshare
vacations.  Discuss, with your team, the types of
control measures you would use to see how
efficient and effective an employee is.  Discuss,
with your team, the measures you would use to
evaluate the entire call center.
Review the Example and Practice sections of the
Balanced Scorecard Module to practice reading and
evaluating the information it presents. Complete
the Assignment section of the Balanced Scorecard
Module to evaluate the performance of the
organization against established standards.
Complete the following
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MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Personal Professional
Development Plan
MGT 521 Week 6 Knowledge Check
Resources Personal Professional Development Plan
Activity, Parts 1-4 from Weeks 1-3.   Complete the
Personal Professional Development
Plan. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit
your assignment.
1.As a university student, your institutions
social principles and practices reflect on you,
as a stakeholder, in the organization. Therefore,
it is your right to question how these practices
should be evaluated in relation to the social
issues that your school is addressing.
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MGT 521 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection

Read Case Application 1, "Lessons from Lehman
Brothers Will We Ever Learn?" at the end of Ch.
5 of Management. Discuss the scenario with your
team.  Discuss the second, third, and fifth
discussion questions at the end of the case with
your team. 

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