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MGT 521 NERD Innovative Education / mgt521nerd.com
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MGT 521 NERD Innovative Education
MGT 521 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 MGT 521 Week 2
Learning Team Charter MGT 521 Week 2 Learning
Team Weekly Reflection
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MGT 521 Final Exam Guide (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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-ba
sed management 
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MGT 521 Final Exam Guide FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 1) John writes a memo
to his employees. Putting his thoughts onto paper
is an example of2) 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 
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MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 1 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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
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MGT 521 Week 1 Individual Assignment Viewpoints
Paper FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com V
iewpoints Paper Select one of the viewpoints
mentioned in Chapter 2 of the text. Write a 350-
to 700-word paper summarizing the basics of that
viewpoint including highlighting at least one of
the key figures related to that viewpoint.
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MGT 521 Week 2 Assignment Norwegian Air
Worksheet FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521nerd.co
m Norwegian Air Worksheet Read "Management in
Action Norwegian Air Shuttle Aspires to Become
the Cheapest Global Airline." Complete the
Norwegian Air Worksheet.
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MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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?
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MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com How can values and
communication styles impact intercultural
collaboration in a diversified organization?
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MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 4 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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?
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MGT 521 NERD Innovative Education
MGT 521 Week 2 Individual Assignment Functional
Areas of Business Paper FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 Knowledge Check FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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.
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MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com MGT 521 Week 2
Learning Team Charter
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MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Weekly
Reflection FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521nerd.c
om 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. Prepare a 1- to 3-page paper
detailing the findings of your discussion MGT521
Week 2 Weekly Reflection  
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MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 NERD Innovative Education
MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 3 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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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MGT 521 Week 3 Individual Assignment
Organizational Planning FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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.  Part One (hand
in early)Select a Fortune 500 company. 
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MGT 521 Week 3 Individual Assignment Strategy and
Planning Paper FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com Strategy and Planning
Paper Review Figure 5.3 in the textbook. Write a
950- to 1,100-word paper in which you address the
following Explain why the 3 types of goals are
important to the strategy of an organization.
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MGT 521 Week 3 Knowledge Check FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 ________.
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MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 NERD Innovative Education
MGT 521 Week 4 Assignment Organizational
Structure Presentation FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com Organizational
Structure Presentation The organization you work
for currently has a traditional structure -
divisional structure. However, the organization
has gone through some big changes including a
merger with another organization. The
organization is now global and produces products
and services clients in a number of different
areas.
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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com How could benchmarking
be effectively used to achieve competitive
advantage? Provide an example.
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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 4 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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
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MGT 521 Week 4 Team Assignment Organizing Work
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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. Your team notices
the organizational chart has not been recently
updated.
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MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com How can organizational
restructuring enable specific types of business
attain competitive advantage in a changing
market? Provide specific examples.
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MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com How does training and
development improve employee motivation, increase
productivity, and increase retention for the
benefit of the business?
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MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 4 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 Leadership
and Your Career Paper FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com CAREER CONNECTION
Leadership and Your Career Paper Write a 950- to
1,100 word paper in which you address the
following From the leadership theories
discussed in Chapter 14 of your text, identify
one theory that appeals to you the most
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MGT 521 NERD Innovative Education
MGT 521 Week 5 Individual Assignment Team
Leadership FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521nerd.
com 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.
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MGT 521 Week 5 Knowledge Check FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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 FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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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MGT 521 Week 5 Team Assignment What Makes a
Leader? Presentation FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com What Makes a Leader?
Presentation Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft
PowerPoint presentation with detailed speaker
notes in which you address the following
question Are leaders born or can they be made?
Why or why not? The team should take a position
on this question and include the team's rationale
as well as supporting this with research.
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MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Assignment Planning
and Measuring Performance FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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.
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MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Personal Professional
Development Plan FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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.
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MGT 521 Week 6 Knowledge Check FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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. If your university was paying
minimum wage when necessary and applying the
minimum legal standards to its employees work
environment, it would be said to have fulfilled
its ________.
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MGT 521 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521nerd.com 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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