Class               No classes in classrooms; it is a 100% web based course

Sect. & Call    24163 -004

Professors      Mr. Venugopal Gopalakrishna Remani

Office              A417 BSA

Hours              By appointment

Weblinks:        http://edugen.wileyplus.com/edugen/class/cls231257/

General Info  For university notifications as well as class announcements, please regularly consult your university email.

E-mail          vgopalak@kent.edu  

Phone             (330) 672-1153

Prerequisite    Sophomore standing (completion of 30 hours).  Since students without the proper prerequisites risk deregistration from the class, in case of doubt please consult the U-G Course Catalogue or the advisors at the UPO (Undergraduate Programs Office, room 107).

Registration   Students have responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes.  You are advised to review your official class schedule (using Student Tools on FlashLine) during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure you are properly enrolled in this class and section.  If registration errors are not corrected by the required date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class in which you are not properly registered.

Drop date

For Fall 2011, the course withdrawal deadline is Sept. 11, 2011 ( Please check the registrar’s  website for details)

Required Text   " Exploring Management” (Binder- ready edition)” by Schermerhorn, (ISBN 9780470169643).

Objective   Students will recognize each functional area of management (i.e. accounting, finance, information systems, human resources, management, marketing, operations, planning) and its contribution to organizational success.

Correspondence

All announcements and email reciprocation will happen through  Flashline email service The chapters and other study materials shall be accessible through Wiley website

-          All your class notes will be accessible at www.wileyplus.com

-          Your exams and quizzes will be administered through www.wileyplus.com. 

-          All your grades will be available www.wileyplus.com.

              How to do well in this course? You are supposed to read the online chapters assigned in the following course calendar beforehand. All study materials pertaining to each chapter is available on Wiley website for long-distance viewing before exams.  

Attendance

Please note that, when the course is online, it is the responsibility of student to read chapters and attend exams online in the required time frame. Pop quizzes (also conducted online) shall help you achieve better grades in the class.  Exams must be taken online in the stipulated time.  No departures from this rule will be allowed.

Students with Disabilities      University policy 3342-3-01.3 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access to course content. If you have a documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary adjustments for conducting the examinations. Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for these through Student Accessibility Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit http://www.registrars.kent.edu/disability/  for more information on registration procedures.

Evaluation Design

Examinations

There will be 5 examinations. All examinations will be taken online, and are best taken using a standards compliant web browser like Mozilla Firefox. Examinations will consist of multiple choice type questions. All online testing material can be found at the Wiley course web and can be taken from anywhere (home, work, school, BSA computer labs, in the airport, from a hammock sipping Mango juice, etc.) the student has access to the Web. All tests are open-book, open notes; but before taking any test, the student will be asked to indicate his/her agreement to an Academic Honesty Statement. This statement will certify that the student agrees to abide by university rules on cheating, and any failure to do so will result in a failing grade. Thus, for example, while you are allowed to use books and notes for the tests, it is cheating if you ask other students to help you while taking the tests.

There will be 5 examinations. Each examination is worth 25 points. Each exam (including the final) will take approximately 30 minutes. You will have only one attempt to take each examination. Results for the examination will be available after the examination closes in the Wiley website. From the five examinations, only the best 4 examination scores will be considered. Students will receive a score of 0 for any missed examination. Thus, the maximum score from examinations is 100. If you miss one exam, that exam shall be counted zero and all other becomes mandatory. There is no provision for any makeup points for the missed exam other than successfully taking the pop quizzes.

Extra credit

Quiz. There are 5 pop quizzes for this class. Each quiz is worth 2 extra credit points and shall be conducted in online. Thus, the maximum point from quizzes is 10. 

Grading           A maximum of 100 points (including 100 points from online examinations and 10 extra credit points (quizzes)) can be obtained for the course. The grading scale is as follows

 Exams    The online exams will consist of multiple-choice questions based on the textbook lessons and materials posted online in Vista and or Wiley website.

                        Each exam will cover four chapters from the book. No grade change will be made on an individual basis because of questions misread or misunderstood.  Those who follow the text book closely and regularly usually recognize the intent and scope of the questions, and do well on the exams.

Missed Exams   Students are expected to take exams on the dates indicated in the syllabus or posted through email.  Make every effort to attend. Missed exams will be counted as zero. Exams and extra credit points cannot be made up.

Student Feedback     Formal class evaluations will be filled out at the end of the term; however, don’t wait till then to share your concerns or simply your views with me.  Your feedback is valuable: feel free to visit or e-mail me at (vgopalak@kent.edu) and offer any suggestions, insights or other feedback throughout the semester.

           I will only be using Backboard Vista and/or email  for posting.  If you discover a common problem and contact me ahead of time, I may be able to email a general last-minute announcement to all using Flashline. 

Academic Honesty   Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., tests, papers, projects, assignments) so as to get undeserved credit.   In addition, it is considered to cheating when one cooperates with someone else in any such misrepresentation.  The use of the intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense.  It is the University's policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or course.  Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University.

COURSE CALENDAR

Please note that this is only a tentative course calendar. If there is any change in the course calendar, I shall inform you the change by email.

Aug 29- Sept 14: Prepare chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4          

            Chapter 1:       Managers and the Management Process

            Chapter 2:       Management Learning

            Chapter 3:       Ethics and Social Responsibility

            Chapter 4:       Managers as Decision Makers

 Sept 15:  Exam 1   Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4

                                    {Please follow the exam procedures indicated on the exam sheet for all examinations}

 Sept 16- Oct 5:  Prepare chapters 5, 6, 7 & 8

            Chapter 5:       Plans and Planning Techniques

            Chapter 6:       Controls and Control Systems

            Chapter 7:       Strategy and Strategic Management

            Chapter 8:       Organization Structure and Design

Oct 6:  Exam 2     Chapters 5, 6, 7 & 8

Oct 7 – Oct 26- Prepare chapters 9, 10, 11 &12

            Chapter 9:       Organizational Culture, Innovation, and Change

            Chapter 10:     Human Resource Management

            Chapter 11:     Leadership

            Chapter 12:     Communication

   Oct 27: Exam 3       Chapters 9, 10, 11 &12

   Oct 28- Nov 16: Prepare chapters 13, 14, 15 &16

            Chapter 13:     Individual Behavior

            Chapter 14:     Motivation

            Chapter 15:     Teams and Teamwork

            Chapter 16:      Conflict and Negotiation

     Nov 17:  Exam 4   Chapters 13, 14, 15 & 16

     Nov 18-Dec 11: Prepare chapters 17, 18, 19 &20

            Chapter 17:       Diversity and Global Cultures

            Chapter 18:       Globalization and International Business

            Chapter 19:       Entrepreneurship and Small Business

            Chapter 20:       Essentials of Operations and Services Management

           Dec 12, 2011   Exam 5   Chapters 17, 18, 19 & 20                                                  

PLEASE NOTE that the timing of the final exam is not under the control of your instructor, but has been posted long ahead of time on the University Registrar’s website.  Its timing, as well as that of your other exams, can be verified by accessing the official Registrar’s website