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• MGT 521 Entire Course

• MGT 521 Final Exam Guide (New)

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• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1
• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 2
• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 3
• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 4

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• 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         

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• MGT 521 Final Exam Guide (UOP Course)

• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course)

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• 1) John writes a memo to his employees. Putting
  his thoughts onto paper is an example of    

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• Select a channel used for business communication.
  What are the

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• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course)

• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP Course)

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• 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

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• What mistakes should be avoided when presenting
  an argument and why are these important in
  developing effective arguments? Be sure to
  provide specific examples.

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• MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 4 (UOP Course)

• MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course)

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• 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

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• 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

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• MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course)

• MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 3 (UOP Course)

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• 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

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• How can values and communication styles impact
  intercultural collaboration in a diversified
  organization?

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• MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 4 (UOP Course)

• MGT 521 Week 2 Individual Assignment

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• How would protected values, preferences, and laws
  affect consistency in making ethical decisions? 
  What strategies would you develop and implement
  to attain consistent

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• 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.

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• MGT 521 Week 2 Knowledge Check

• MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter

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• 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

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• MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter

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• MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Weekly

• MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course)

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• 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.

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• 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

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• MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP Course)

• MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP Course)

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• What attributes do successful entrepreneurs
  possess? Which attribute do you feel is the most
  important and why?

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• 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

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• 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?

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• Review the example SWOT Analyses located in this
  week's Electronic Reserve Readings to see the
  types of information companies include.

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• MGT 521 Week 3 Knowledge Check

• MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection

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• 1.The process of dividing work activities into
  separate job tasks is known as ________.
• 2.The process of grouping jobs together is known
  as ________.

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• Read the Developing Your Empowering People
  (Delegating) Skill Skills Exercise at the end of
  Ch. 10 of Management.

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• MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP Course)

• MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP Course)

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• How could benchmarking be effectively used to
  achieve competitive advantage? Provide an example.

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• 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

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• MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP Course)

• MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 4 (UOP Course)

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• 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?

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• 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

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• MGT 521 Week 4 Knowledge Check

• MGT 521 Week 4 Team Assignment Organizing Work

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• 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?

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• 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

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• MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP Course)

• MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP Course)

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• How can organizational restructuring enable
  specific types of business attain competitive
  advantage in a changing market? Provide specific
  examples

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• 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)

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• How does training and development improve
  employee motivation, increase productivity, and
  increase retention for the benefit of the
  business?

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• 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

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• 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

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• 1.The control process assumes that ________.
• 2.An example of control criteria that can be used
  in any situation is ________.

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• MGT 521 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection

• MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Assignment

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• 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. 

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• Review the Example and Practice sections of the
  Balanced Scorecard Module to practice reading and
  evaluating the information it presents.

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• MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Personal

• MGT 521 Week 6 Knowledge Check

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• Resources Personal Professional Development Plan
  Activity, Parts 1-4 from Weeks 1-3.
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• 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

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• MGT 521 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection

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• 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. 

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