principles of management (MAN3025)

Week 9 Notes covers Chapter 9: Human Resource Management, which includes human resource management, strategic human resource management, principles, human capital investments, tools of strategic human resource management, Labor relations, compensation, health and safety, Equal employment opportunity, recruitment, selection, interviews, orientation, training, development, performance management, performance appraisal, incentives, benefits, career path, labor-management issues, and workplace labor...

Study Guide Exam 1 covers Chapters 1- 4, as well as Chapter 13. The Exceptional Manager, Management Theory, The Manager's Changing Work Environment and Ethical Responsibilities, Global Management, and Groups and Teams.

Week 4 Notes covers Chapter 3: The Manager's Changing Work Environment & Ethical Responsibilities, which includes the role of stakeholders, task environment, general environment, ethical responsibilities, four approaches to deciding ethical dilemmas, 3 levels of personal moral development, social responsibility, Social Responsibility Pyramid, agency theory, and SarbOx.

Week 9 Notes covers the first portion of Chapter 10: Organizational Change and Innovation, which includes change, two types of change, forces of change, 5 key initiatives, and the application of changing strategies and initiatives at GE.

Week 5 Notes covers Chapter 7: Individual and Group Decision Making, which includes decision making, management functions, two approaches of decision making, evidence-based decision making, implementation principles, decision making styles, biases, three effective reactions, and group and team decision making.

Week 8 Notes covers the remaining portions of Chapter 8: Organizational Culture, Structure, and Design, which includes an organizational chart, common elements of organizations, basic types of organizational structures (functional, divisional, matrix, horizontal, hollow, modular, and virtual), Mechanistic vs. Organic organization, and differentiation vs integration.

Week 4 Notes covers Chapter 4: Global Management, which includes global economy, globalization, labor policies, the environment (general vs. international), Managerial Challenges, the economic environment, the legal-political environment, the sociocultural environment, MNE's, Companies expanding internationally, barriers to international trade (tariffs, import quotas, embargoes), international trade, foreign direct investment, World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Tr...

Week 7 Notes cover Chapter 6: Strategic Management, which includes Steps 3-5 of Strategic Management, Grand Strategies, Cost-Leadership, Differentiation, Cost-Focus, Focused-differentiation, Single-product, Diversification, Vertical Integration, Portfolio Planning Models, Implementing and Controlling Strategy (Execution), 3 building blocks, strategic formulation process, and the planning process.

Week 6 Notes cover Chapter 5: Planning, which includes planning, benefits of such, VRIO, fundamentals of planning, mission statements, vision statement, values statement, goals, action plans, operating plans, planning process, strategic goals, tactical goals, operational goals, standing policies, policy, procedure, rule, single-use plans, programs, project, SMART Goals, MBO (4 guiding principles), 4 step process, planning/control cycle, and planning for a turbulent environment.