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2. MGT 521 Entire Course And Final Guide
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MGT 521 Entire Course And Final Guide

3. MGT 521 Entire Course
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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
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
MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 1
MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 2
MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 3
MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 4

4. MGT 521 Final Exam Guide (New)
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1. ________ is defined as a business firm’s 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

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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
3:00 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?

6. MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1
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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?

7. MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 2
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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 provide specific examples

8. MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 3
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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.

9. MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 4
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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 argument? Explain

10. MGT 521 Week 1 Individual Assignment Communication Channel
Scenarios
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Resources: Communication Channel Scenarios located on the student website.
Read the scenarios located on the student website.
Answer the questions after each scenario. Be sure to select the communication
channel appropriate for each scenario.
Defend your responses.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

11. MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 1
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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. Would you recommend implementing
other strategies to promote collaboration? If so, what would those be?

12. MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 2
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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?
What were the outcomes of those practices?

13. MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 3
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How can values and communication styles impact intercultural collaboration
in a

14. MGT 521 Week 2 DQ 4
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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 ethical decision making?

15. MGT 521 Week 2 Individual Assignment Functional Areas of Business
Paper
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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.
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:

16. MGT 521 Week 2 Knowledge Check
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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 comfortable interacting with strangers. She interprets this as a(n)
________ if she is to get a job as a salesperson.

17. MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team assignment Credible Information
Debate
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Begin a debate with your learning team.
Divide your learning team evenly with one side for and one side against.
Debate with your learning team whether Wikipedia is a credible and valid
source of information.
Refer to the debate to complete your individual assignment due this week.

18. MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter
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MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter

19. MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Weekly Reflection
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Discuss last week’s 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

20. MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 1
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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 your organizational values, what would
be an appropriate response to this misalignment?

21. MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 2
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What attributes do successful entrepreneurs possess? Which attribute do you
feel is the most important and why?

22. MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 3
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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?

23. MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 4
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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

24. MGT 521 Week 3 Individual Assignment Organizational Planning
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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.
Complete the following tasks in the Material: Organizational Planning
Worksheet. Cite your resources.
Part One (hand in early):
Select a Fortune 500 company.
Research the selected company by first clicking on the Business Source
Complete: SWOT Analyses link in this week's Electronic Reserve Readings.
Note that additional research is needed to complete this assignment.
Identify the company's internal and external stakeholders.
Identify the company's goals and identify the following, specifically:
The company's mission and vision

25. MGT 521 Week 3 Knowledge Check
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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 ________.
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.Companies would become more ________ if they allowed professionals to
set the priorities and allocate the resources for their departments.

26. MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Values and Ethical
Decision Making
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Resources: Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory
Perform the Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory Assessment.
Select an organization to research or use your own organization.
Write a paper no more than 1,500 words evaluating personal values,
organizational values, and ethical decision making.

27. MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection
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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.

28. MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Weekly Reflection
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Resources: Conflict Scenario
Read the scenario and discuss with your team strategies to resolve the conflict
in the scenario to achieve the desired goal or objective.

29. MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 1
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How could benchmarking be effectively used to achieve competitive
advantage? Provide an example.

30. MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 2
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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 firm’s financial

31. MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 3
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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

32. MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 4
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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, would you do that? Why or why not?

33. MGT 521 Week 4 Individual Assignment Business Analysis Part I
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Write a paper no more than 2,200 words in which you assume the role of a
mutual fund manager deciding whether to invest in a specific company. You
will conduct a business analysis in the remaining weeks based on the
company you select.
Select one company from the list below:
Motorola Mobility

34. MGT 521 Week 4 Knowledge Check
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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?
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?

35. MGT 521 Week 4 Learning Team Weekly Reflection
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Resources: Video Case: “College Entrepreneurs Do Good and Make Money”
from Ch. 1 of Understanding Business.
Discuss the case with your team and the Thinking it Over Questions

36. MGT 521 Week 4 Team Assignment Organizing Work
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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, upper management has tasked
you to review the current organizational structure for efficiency and
recommend needed changes.

37. MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 1
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How can organizational restructuring enable specific types of business attain
competitive advantage in a changing market? Provide specific examples.

38. MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 2
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How does the local, state, or national economy affect your business or place of
employment? Provide examples.

39. MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 3
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How does training and development improve employee motivation, increase
productivity, and increase retention for the benefit of the business?

40. MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 4
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What are some of the negative impacts of the U.S. recession on for-profit and
non-

41. MGT 521 Week 5 Individual Assignment Business Analysis Part II
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Continue your business analysis using the company you selected in Week
Four.
Write a paper no more than 2,400 words in which you research the company’s
business environment.

42. MGT 521 Week 5 Individual Assignment Team Leadership
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Your manager tells you about a new department the company will be adding
that is part of the company’s 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 member’s individual
personalities.
Write a memo to your manager of no more than 1,400 words in which you
explain how you plan to successfully lead your team. Include the following:

43. MGT 521 Week 5 Knowledge Check
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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 ________.

44. MGT 521 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection
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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.

45. MGT 521 Week 5 Learning Team Weekly Reflection
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Discuss last week’s objectives with your team. Include the topics you feel
comfortable with, you struggle 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 5 Weekly Reflection

46. MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Assignment Business Analysis Part III
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Finish your business analysis using the company you selected in Week Four.
Write a paper of no more than 3,500 words reviewing the strategic initiatives
taken by the company relative to organizational and operational adaptation
to changing markets.

47. MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Assignment Planning and Measuring
Performance
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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.

48. MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Personal Professional Development Plan
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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.

49. MGT 521 Week 6 Knowledge Check
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1.As a university student, your institution’s 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 institut

50. 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.

51. MGT 521 Week 6 Learning Team Weekly Reflection
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Discuss last week’s objectives with your team. Your discussion should include
the topics you feel comfortable with, you struggle 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 6 Weekly Reflection