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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
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MGT 521 Final Exam Guide (New)

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• 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 
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MGT 521 Final Exam Guide

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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 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?     4) When reviewing an educational
  math website, you find the authors background is
  in English. What type of source credibility issue
  is this?   
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MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1

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• Week 1 DQ1
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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?
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MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 2

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• Week 1 DQ2
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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
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MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 3

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• 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

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• 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

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• Viewpoints Paper  
• Select one of the viewpoints mentioned in Chapter 
  2 of the text. 
• Write a 350- to 700-word paper summarizing the bas
  ics of that viewpoint including highlighting at le
  ast one of the key figures related to that viewpoi
  nt.
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MGT 521 Week 2 Assignment Norwegian Air Worksheet

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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
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• 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

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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.
• 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)
  ________.
• 3.In performing a SWOT analysis, which of the
  following would be considered as a threat?
• 4.Strategic plans are usually ________.
• 5.Operational plans are usually ________.
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MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter

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• MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter
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MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Weekly Reflection

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• 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
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MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 1

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• Week 3 DQ1
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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?
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MGT 521 Week 3 DQ 2

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• Week 3 DQ2
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• 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

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•  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

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• Week 3 DQ4
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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?
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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.
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MGT 521 Week 3 Individual Assignment Strategy and
Planning Paper

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• Strategy and Planning Paper
• Review Figure 5.3 in the textbook. 
• Write a 950- to 1,100-word paper in which you addr
  ess 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 i
  mportant to the strategy of an organization.
• Examine the elements or factors involved in creat
  ing an effective strategy for an organization. 
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• Cite a minimum of 2 peer-reviewed sources and incl
  ude examples from one or more Fortune 500 companie
  s to illustrate your points.
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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.
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• 7.In a ________ structure, no clear chain of
  command exists.
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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.
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  assignment.
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MGT 521 Week 4 Assignment Organizational
Structure Presentation

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• Organizational Structure Presentation
• The organization you work for currently has a trad
  itional structure - divisional structure. However,
   the organization has gone through some big change
  s including a merger with another organization. Th
  e organization is now global and produces products
   and services clients in a number of different are
  as. They currently employ roughly 500 employees. 
• Your team has been tasked with recommending a new 
  organizational structure to the head of the organi
  zation.  
• Create a 16- to 20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint pr
  esentation, including detailed speaker notes, dire
  cted toward the head of the organization. 
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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 1

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• Week 4 DQ1
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• How could benchmarking be effectively used to
  achieve competitive advantage? Provide an
  example.
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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 2

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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?
• 4.The ________ model proposed that the results of
  the least-preferred coworker questionnaire could
  determine whether someone was relationship or
  task oriented, and these results would determine
  effectiveness of group performance.
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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.
• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• CAREER CONNECTION Leadership and Your Career Pape
  r
• Write a 950- to 1,100 word paper in which you addr
  ess 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 st
  yle in your current work environment.
• If you are not currently employed, discuss how yo
  u would practice this style of leadership in a fut
  ure job you might like to hold.
• Identify 1 article on leadership from Harvard Bus
  iness Review and discuss how you might incorporate
   this.
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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
  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

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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
  ________.
• 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?
• 5.Management by walking around is what type of
  control?
• 6.What type of control gives employees
  information on how well they performed, and
  therefore, can increase motivation?
• 7.The current ratio and acid test are two
  examples of what type of ratio?
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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. 
• 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

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• What Makes a Leader? Presentation
• Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint pr
  esentation with detailed speaker notes in which yo
  u 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 suppor
  ting this with research
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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.
• 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

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• Resources Personal Professional Development Plan
  Activity, Parts 1-4 from Weeks 1-3.
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• Complete the Personal Professional Development
  Plan.
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  assignment.
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MGT 521 Week 6 Knowledge Check

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• 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

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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. 
• 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.
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