MGT 521 WEEK 1 Management Theories and the Workplace

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Ch. 2 of Management: A Practical Introduction, sample leadership theory table. 

Select three theories from the textbook.

Summarize the theory and viewpoint(s) in a table. Please use the sample leadership theory table provided. 

Develop a 1,050- to 1,400-word report including the following:

§  Briefly discuss an overview of management.

§  Include the roles managers play.

§  Examine the development of management theories, including how these theories reflected the changing business environment.

§  Compare and contrast the three management theories you included in your leadership theory table.

§  Include in-text citations and at least one reference.

§  Evaluate which of the three management theories works best for your work environment or an organization with which you are familiar.

MGT 521 WEEK 2 Mission Vision Values and Management

Purpose of Assignment 

The purpose of this assignment is to give learners hands on experience working, mission, and vision statements and to increase learner’s knowledge of an organization’s core competencies. 

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Management: A Practical Introduction, Table 6.1; chosen organization’s mission, vision, and value statements, and strategic plan, BLS Industries at a Glance. 

Examine the mission and vision statements of your place of employment or an organization with which you are familiar. Then, use the internet to locate and examine the mission and vision statement of a comparable organization. 

Use the Mission and Vision Comparison Table provided to compare your organization’s mission and vision statement to the one you found on the internet. 

Create a 1,400-word analysis including the following:

§  Compare your organization’s mission, vision, and values against the criteria for what makes for robust statements.

§  Summarize what you concluded when you compared your organization to the organization you found on the internet.

§  Identify your organization’s core competencies.

§  Examine your organization’s core competencies based on established definitions. Include a rationale for the selection of these core competencies.

§  Briefly summarize your organization’s strategic goals.

§  Evaluate whether your organization’s current behavior and business goals are aligned to its mission, vision, values, and core competencies.

§  Determine if your organization lives up to its own mission, vision, and values.

§  Justify your determination.

§  Append your Mission and Vision Comparison Table to the end of the document. 

Discuss informally your conclusions in class

Format the assignment consist with APA guidelines. 

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MGT 521 WEEK 3 Structure Follows Strategy – Team

Purpose of Assignment 

The purpose of this assignment is to give learners experience in formulating management strategy for expansion into global markets.                 

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Management: A Practical Introduction; Global Markets

Prior to the team discussion, each team member must complete a SWOT analysis for his or her organization. Learners may use the same organization from Week 2. 

Discuss in the team forum each team member’s individual company SWOT analysis based on the Individual Assignment.

Select one of your teammate’s organizations to use for this assignment based on your discussion. 

Select a global market into which the company might expand. This should be a market with different characteristics so do not choose a similar market such as Canada. 

Scenario: The company is considering expanding into the global market. As a result, the management team is analyzing the current strategic objectives, the organization’s structure and looking at how this change may affect any or all of these areas. The team will present these findings to leadership once completed. 

Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint^® presentation including detailed speaker notes or voiceover in which you include the following: 

§  Examine the current strategic objectives of the organization.

§  Determine the current structure of the organization.

§  Discuss how expanding to a global market may affect work functions.

§  Recommend structural alternatives that may facilitate the new global strategy. How do these options differ?  What are their strengths and weaknesses?

§  Determine the key components of a change management strategy for the restructuring.

§  Recommend next steps for an action plan. 

Create a “Recommended Structure” infographic in an appropriate format for the organization based on the analysis. This can be done using Microsoft^® Publisher^®, Word, or sites such as Glogster^® or PiktoChart^®. The infographic should illustrate the team’s choice of structure. 

Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines. 

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MGT 521 WEEK 3 Organizational Planning Part 1

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 University 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

§  At least one goal that can be accomplished through a strategic plan

§  At least one goal that can be accomplished through an operational plan

§  Conduct a SWOT analysis on the selected company

Part Two:

Write a paper that creates strategic and operational plans based on the SWOT analysis, and includes explanations for the following:

§  How these plans will achieve the related goals

§  The effect of planning decisions on the internal and external stakeholders identified

Required Elements:

§  No more than 700 words

§  Cite research in your paper to support your writing

§  Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

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MGT 521 WEEK 4 Operational Tactics and Strategic Goals Presentation

Assignment Steps

Resources: Ch. 5, 6, and 7 of Management: A Practical Introduction; SWOT analysis for the organization used in Week 3; company strategic plan; video creator such as Kizoa Movie Maker. 

Scenario: You have been promoted to senior level manager of a company. You have been tasked with developing a strategic plan for the workforce to present to the CEO and other members of the leadership team.

Choose your organization or one you know well to use for this assignment. You may use the same organization you used in previous weeks.

Develop a 1-year strategic plan of action for your organization using lessons learned and your learning team activity during Week 3.

Include plans for any additional staffing and the proposed budget for your plan. Modify your SWOT analysis, if necessary, for your presentation.

Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint^® presentation including the following:

§  Explain rationale for plan

§  Discuss SWOT of organization

§  Summarize one year plan of action

§  Flowchart of one year plan

§  Give an overview of Budget for plan

§  Evaluate the potential benefit of the plan

§  Write conclusion

Develop a 700- to 1,050-word summary for the Executive team. Append your budget and SWOT analysis to the plan.

Create a 2- to 3-minute motivational video for the workforce highlighting your leadership style as an asset to the organization and the workforce and your assigned task.

MGT 521 WEEK 4 Organizing Work

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.

Select one team member’s company that he or she used to complete the Organizational Planning assignment.

Identify the selected company’s current organizational structure.

Create an organizational chart in Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® for the current structure of the selected company.

Discuss, with your team, any structural changes or adaptations to the existing structures that you think should be recommended to improve that company’s efficiency and effectiveness.

Decide, as a team, what structural changes or adaptations should be recommended.

Create an organizational chart in Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® for the recommended structure of the selected company.

Justify your team’s recommendations in a paper of no more than 1,050 words. If your team recommends that the company structure remain the same, defend your decision. Based on the team’s decision, your paper must also include the following:

§  Describe the work that must be completed to accomplish the recommended changes or adaptations. If no changes are recommended, explain what work is currently being done and why it is successful.

§  Describe how the work could be done most effectively. Would the work be completed by individuals teams or a combination of both? If no changes are recommended, explain how the work is being completed and why the current method is successful.

§  Justify the selection for how the work could be done and describe the approach that should be used.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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MGT 521 WEEK 5 Leaders Are They Born or Made

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Management: A Practical Introduction. 

Discuss the following in your learning team’s discussion forum:

§  Are leaders born or made?

§  Cite your sources during your discussion.

§  As a team, decide on a conclusion. 

Create a 12- to 16-slide PowerPoint^® presentation justifying the team’s conclusion(s) about whether leaders are born or made. 

§  Defend the team’s position on whether leaders are born or made.

§  Justify the team’s position using relevant research.

§  Apply leadership theory to the team’s position.

§  Include an introductory slide and reference slide as a part of the presentation. Do not exceed slide limit.

MGT 521 WEEK 6 Personal Professional Development Plan

MGT 521 WEEK 6 Personal Professional Development Plan

Resources: Personal Professional Development Plan Activity, Parts 1-4 from Weeks 1-3. 

Complete the Personal Professional Development Plan.

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