MGT/230

MANAGEMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE

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MGT 230 Week 1 The Managers Role in the Workplace

Purpose of Assignment

In business, understanding the role of the manager in an organization is fundamental for

employees. Students will learn about the manager's role in the workplace, and the
importance of an organization's social responsibilities.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Exploring Management: Ch. 1, Ch. 2; University Library

Compose a 525- to 700-word summary in which you address the following:

Discuss the manager's role in the workplace.
Explain why it is important for managers to understand the concepts of social
responsibility, ethics, and cultural differences when creating a meaningful
workplace?
Consider how the social responsibility, ethics, and cultural differences might guide
you as a manager?

Cite at least two peer reviewed references, one may be your textbook and at least one
must come from the University Library.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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MGT 230 Week 2 New Business Venture: Choose a Fortune 100/500
Business
Purpose of Assignment

In this assignment, students will learn the concepts surrounding innovation, sustainability,
cultural diversity, and elements of conducting business in the global marketplace.
Students will analyze and design a new business division based on the Fortune 100 or
500 organization chosen. The new business division is part of the student's past or
current position held within the organization.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Exploring Management: Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17; University Library; Week 2
videos

Consider your position as a manager. As a manager, you are researching a Fortune 100
or 500 organization's profile that your current organization is going to collaborate with
and create a new division.

Conduct a minimum 875-word analysis in which you explain the importance of

innovation, sustainability, cultural diversity, and global management and how these
factors are essential to the new division.

Include the following:

Describe how innovation, sustainability, cultural diversity, and global management
affect organizational performance and achieve competitive advantage.
Explain how innovation, sustainability, cultural diversity, and global management
align and guide the strategic direction of the organization.

Cite at least two peer reviewed references, one may be your textbook and at least one
must come from the University Library.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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MGT 230 Week 2 Charter: Individual Assignment

Resources: Week 2 Learning Team Collaborative Discussion and the Learning Team
Charter for Collaborative Learning Activities.

Write a 150- to 200-word individual response to the following:

Consider the multiple definitions of collaboration.
 Define collaboration and how you will apply it in this course based upon the
discussion with your Learning Team. Be sure to reference and cite your sources.
Answer the question individually.

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your Learning Team Charter for Collaborative Learning Activities.

MGT 230 Week 2 Team Discussion

Using the area provided, each team will discuss the multiple definitions of collaboration,
define it, and state how it would be applied in this course

MGT 230 Week 3 SWOTT External and Internal Forces: The New
Venture
Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is for students to explore and analyze the SWOTT
structures of the organization. Students will evaluate and explain which SWOTT
elements affect the organization's ability to remain competitive while conducting
business.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Exploring Management: Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6; Week 3 Learning Team
Collaborative Activity

Use the organization you work for or an organization you know of locally to complete this
assignment.

Create a SWOTT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should
consider, at a minimum, the following factors.

Identify the one primary strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and trend,
and include it in your table for each factor below:
External forces and trends considerations:
o Legal and regulatory
o Global
o Economic
o Technological
o Innovation
o Social
o Environmental
o Competitive analysis
Internal forces and trends considerations:
 o Strategy
o Structures
o Processes and systems
o Resources
o Goals
o Strategic capabilities
o Culture
o Technologies
o Innovations
o Intellectual property
o Leadership

Analyze relevant forces with trends from the list above.

Summarize your findings in no more than 875 words in an executive summary including
the following:
Identify economic, legal, and regulatory forces and trends.
Review how well the organization adapts to change and provide feedback.
Analyze and explain the supply chain of the new division of the existing business.
Share your plans to develop and leverage core competencies and resources
within the supply chain in an effort to make a positive impact on the business
model and the various stakeholders.

Identify issues and/or opportunities:

Identify the major issues and/or opportunities that the company faces based on
your analysis.
Generate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to use for
conducting analysis.
Identify the circumstances surrounding each issue; classify the circumstances;
attribute the importance of each classification; and test the accuracy of the
importance for each classification.

Cite at least three peer reviewed references, one may be your textbook and at least one
must come from the University Library.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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MGT 230 Week 4 Signature Assignment: Human Resource

Management: Organizational Change, Structure, and
Management
About Your Signature Assignment
Signature/BenchmarkAssignments are designed to align with specific program student
learning outcome(s) in your program. Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad
statements that describe what students should know and be able to do upon completion
of their degree. Signature/Benchmark Assignments are graded with a grading guide or an
automated rubric that allows the University to collect data that can be aggregated across
a location or college/school and used for course/program improvements.

Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to provide students an opportunity to apply research

on organizational structures and design, and to explore the relationship of culture to
change in human resource management.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Week 4 Learning Team Collaborative Activity; Exploring Management: Ch. 7,

Ch. 8, Ch. 9

Note: There are two parts to this assignment. The first part consists of a
MicrosoftPowerPoint presentation focusing on organizational culture and management
processes. The second part of the assignment is a communication plan in which the
manager must send to all stakeholders regarding the layoff of staff.

Part I

Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes on each
slide in which you address the following:
Identify the importance of human resource management.
Analyze the relationship of organizational culture to change.
Discuss three activities in the strategic management process and define why it is
important for managers to recognize the interdependent of these activities.

Part II

Create a manager's communication plan of at least 1,050 words informing the

stakeholders of your organization that 1,500 employees will be laid off.

Include the following in your communication plan:

Explain why the change in staffing must take place and its impact on all
stakeholders.
Identify key trends, assumptions, and risks in the context of your communication
plan. As you develop them, consider the vision, mission, and values for your
business.
Prepare a SWOTT analysis of your organization.
Cite at least two peer reviewed references, one may be your textbook and at least one
must come from the University Library.

Format your presentation consistent with APA Guidelines.

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MGT 230 Week 5