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MGT 521 Entire Course
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 1
Individual Assignment Viewpoints Paper MGT 521
Week 2 Assignment Norwegian Air Worksheet MGT 521
Week 2 DQ 1 MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 2 MGT 521 Week 2 DQ
3 MGT 521 Week 2 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
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MGT 521 Final Exam Guide (New)
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 2.
The balanced scorecard measures organizational
performance against previously established
standards. Which of the four functions of
management relates most closely to setting these
standards? Controlling Leading

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MGT 521 Final Exam Guide
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?
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MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1
Week 1 DQ1 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
Week 1 DQ2 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
Week 1 DQ3 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
Week 1 DQ4 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
Viewpoints 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
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
Week 2 DQ1 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
Week 2 DQ2 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
Week 2 DQ3 How can values and communication
styles impact intercultural collaboration in a
diversified organization?
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MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 4
Week 2 DQ4 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 Week 2 Individual Assignment Functional
Areas of Business Paper
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. Write a paper that analyzes the role
of a manager within the functional areas of
business Required elements No more than1050
words Two articles, including at least one
peer-reviewed article, from the University
Library cited in your paper to support your
writing Format your paper consistent with APA
guidelines
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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. 2.Casey is looking for a
new job. She decides to develop a SWOT analysis
of the industries she might want to work in.
Casey majored in marketing and enjoyed studying
market research. Through her research on the
Internet and in the University Library, she
learns that this industry is currently doing
well. She interprets this as a(n) ________.
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MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter
MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter
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MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Weekly Reflection
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
Week 3 DQ1 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
Week 3 DQ2 What attributes do successful
entrepreneurs possess? Which attribute do you
feel is the most important and why?
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MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 3
Week 3 DQ3 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
Week 3 DQ4 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
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
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. Explain why the
different types of planning are important to the
strategy of an organization. Examine the
elements or factors involved in creating an
effective strategy for an organization.
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MGT 521 Week 3 Knowledge Check
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
________. 4.Which of the following is a
characteristic of a mechanistic
organization? 5.Which of the following structures
is highly adaptive, loose, and flexible? 6.Compani
es would become more ________ if they allowed
professionals to set the priorities and allocate
the resources for their departments.
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MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection
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. Prepare a 350- to
1,050-word paper detailing how your team would
handle the situation described in the
scenario. Click the Assignment Files tab to
submit your assignment.
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MGT 521 Week 4 Assignment Organizational
Structure Presentation
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. They currently employ
roughly 500 employees. Your team has been tasked
with recommending a new organizational structure
to the head of the organization. Create a 16-
to 20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation,
including detailed speaker notes, directed toward
the head of the organization.
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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 1
How could benchmarking be effectively used to
achieve competitive advantage? Provide an example.
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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 2
Week 4 DQ2 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
Week 4 DQ3 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
Week 4 DQ4 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
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. 3.Which of
the following describes the leadership style in
which the leader generally gives the group
complete freedom to make decisions and complete
the work in whatever way it sees fit?
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MGT 521 Week 4 Team Assignment Organizing Work
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. To begin the task, your team must create
an up-to-date organizational chart to determine
the efficiency of the current structure. Then,
you must create a new organizational chart that
represents the recommended structural changes.
You will then present recommendations and
rationale to upper management. Complete the
following tasks to prepare for your meeting with
upper management.
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MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 1
Week 5 DQ1 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
Week 5 DQ 2 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
Week 5 DQ 3 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
Week 5 DQ 4 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
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. Discuss how you would practice this
leadership style in your current work
environment. If you are not currently employed,
discuss how you would practice this style of
leadership in a future job you might like to
hold. Identify 1 article on leadership from
Harvard Business Review and discuss how you might
incorporate this.
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MGT 521 Week 5 Individual Assignment Team
Leadership
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. To be
successful in the new market segment, your team
must efficiently accomplish the goals set by the
company. Your manager, therefore, would like you
to develop a leadership approach for each team
member on your team based on the theories of
leadership and each members individual
personalities
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MGT 521 Week 5 Knowledge Check
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
________. 17.If a manager rationalizes that he
does not have time to investigate the source of a
problem and instead resorts to putting out
fires, the manager is missing the use of
________. 4.Which of the following types of
control prevents problems because it takes place
prior to the actual activity?
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MGT 521 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection
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. Prepare a 350- to 1,050-word
paper detailing the findings of your discussion
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MGT 521 Week 5 Team Assignment What Makes a
Leader? Presentation
What Makes a Leader? Presentation Create a 12- to 
15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with 
detailed speaker notes in which you address the fo
llowing question  Are leaders born or can they b
e made?  Why or why not? The team should take a p
osition on this question and include the team's ra
tionale as well as supporting this with research
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MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Assignment Planning and
Measuring Performance
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 Identify the performance
gaps. Recommend actions to reduce performance
gaps. Note. The Balanced Scorecard Module will
give you an option to save your assignment in a
document on your desktop. Click the Assignment
Files tab to submit your assignment.
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MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Personal Professional
Development Plan
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
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 ________. 2.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 the school
is addressing. If your university provides
job-share programs, builds a day-care facility,
and only uses recycled paper, it could be said to
be ________.
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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. Answer each question based on your
team's discussion in no more than 350 words per
question. Click the Assignment Files tab to
submit your assignment.
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