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MGT 521 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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
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MGT 521 Final Exam Guide (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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
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MGT 521 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521master.c
om   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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.
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MGT 521 Week 2 Knowledge Check FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521master.com   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.
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MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Charter FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521master.com   MGT 521
Week 2 Learning Team Charter
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MGT 521 Week 2 Learning Team Weekly Reflection
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521master.com   Di
scuss 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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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.
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MGT 521 Week 3 Individual Assignment Strategy and
Planning Paper FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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.
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MGT 521 Week 3 Knowledge Check FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521master.com   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 ________.
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MGT 521 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521master.com   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
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MGT 521 Week 4 Assignment Organizational
Structure Presentation FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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.
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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   How could benchmarking be
effectively used to achieve competitive
advantage? Provide an example.
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MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521master.com   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
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MGT 521 Week 4 Team Assignment Organizing Work
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521master.com   Yo
u 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
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MGT 521 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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.
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MGT 521 Week 5 Individual Assignment Team
Leadership FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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.
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MGT 521 Week 5 Knowledge Check FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521master.com   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 ________.
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MGT 521 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   What Makes a Leader? Prese
ntation Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerP
oint presentation with detailed speaker notes in 
which you address the following question  Are le
aders born or can they be made?  Why or why not?
The team should take a position on this question a
nd include the team's rationale as well as support
ing this with research.
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MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Assignment Planning and
Measuring Performance FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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.
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MGT 521 Week 6 Individual Personal Professional
Development Plan FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.mgt521master.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.mgt521master.com   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 ________.
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MGT 521 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.mgt521master.com   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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