M&IS 24163 Summer 2009 Weinroth
College of Business Administration
Kent State University
Department of Management & Information Systems
Principles of Management
M & IS 24163
Section 20
Summer II 2009
Dr. Jay Weinroth
This class meets in 324 BSA, Monday and Wednesday, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.
This syllabus is posted on the department website: http://mismain.bsa.kent.edu
To see any announced changes to the syllabus, go to http://mismain.bsa.kent.edu/, click on Syllabi Archive under Resources, select Summer 2009 and choose our course – the link will be on the name of the course.:
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M&IS 24163 Principles of Management |
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324 BSA |
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7:00-9:30pm |
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Your best way of communicating with Dr. Weinroth, the instructor, is by e-mail, at gweinroth@gmail.com. Use this e-mail link at any time during the course to ask questions or to notify the instructor of a problem. If you wish you may leave a phone message with the department secretary, Ms. Pam Silliman, at 330 672-1140. You may leave written messages for the instructor in his mail box in the copier room on the 4th floor A Wing of the Business Building.
Office hours are in our classroom one half hour before class time.
Principles of Management presents a broad overview of prominent concepts and research results in the field of organizational management. There are no pre-requisites for this course.
The required textbook is Kinicki and Williams, Management: A Practical Introduction, 4th Edition, McGraw Hill. All assigned readings and exercises are from this textbook. For anyone who has the 3rd edition, I have included alternate page references. There is no difference between these two editions for the materials we are using. Note – bookstores have adopted a process of ordering fewer books than are needed for a class since they expect students to order online.
The McGraw Hill website for purchases is http://catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/buyBook.do
We will discuss options for buying the textbook. Amazon.com and other online sellers may also provide options.
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 be cheating when one cooperates with another 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 may result in dismissal from the University.
Summer II 2008 course withdrawal deadline is Sunday, July 13, 2008.
University policy 3342-3-18 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access equal access course content. If you have documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for these through the Student Disability Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit www.kent.edu/sds for more information on registration procedures).
Students have responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes. Should you find an error in your class schedule, you need to correct the error with your advising office no later than Wednesday, May 27, 2009 for Intersession 2009 – Thursday, June 18 for Summer I – Sunday, June 21 for Summer II - and Thursday, July 23 for Summer III. If registration errors are not corrected by these dates 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.
Your grade is based on the following components:
Team presentations are 12 points each, for a total of 60 points
Mid-term counts for 10 points.
Final counts for 20 points.
Attendance counts for 10 points.
We will discuss the format of the exams in class.
Individual grades for the team presentations may be modified by a percent score assigned by the team. Your team always has the option of giving every member of the team the same grade for any specific presentation, or of assigning points to individuals based on the team’s assessment of the individual’s contribution to the presentation. Example – if you have five team members and I give your team a 90, you have 450 points to distribute. Any combination of individual grades that you chose and that adds to 450 is acceptable. Note – if you chose not to assign individual points, you run the risk of some team members not doing any work.
Grades on the team presentations will be based on the amount of value added to our understanding of the relevant course material by the presentation. In seeking to add value, you will do the following:
Report on material from the textbook related to the example
Report on material from the web related to the example
Improve on the explanations offered in this material.
Work as a team – each person knows every part of the material
Decide what the main question is, then identify the answer you will argue for, and make your presentation that argument.
Present one argument as a team. You may bring in individual differences among yourselves later when you get to the Q & A part of your presentation.
Be prepared to answer questions from the class and instructor.
Prepare questions that you will require the rest of the class to answer, questions calculated to prompt a good discussion.
The one thing that will absolutely kill your grade is a group of you reading from your notes like zombies – especially if one or two students dominate the presentation. That goes for reading from Power Point slides as well! Do you enjoy this when the professor does it? In a presentation you are actors. Rehearse. Your notes should be abbreviated aids to memory, not a text for a sermon. Use humor. Use activity. Borrow and acknowledge self-assessment instruments from the text and elsewhere – make your audience part of the solution.
Note that if you are business school students you will probably be doing team presentations every semester. Consider this course as a first workshop in presenting for success.
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DETAILS ON ASSIGNED TEAM PRESENTATION TOPICS ARE IN SEPARATE TABLE FOLLOWING THIS CALENDAR,
ASSIGNED READINGS AND TEAM PRESENTATION OBLIGATIONS
4TH EDITION PAGES IN REGULAR FONT – 3RD EDITION IN ITALICS
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6/15/09 |
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discuss course, form teams Chapter 1 –. pp.4 to 18 – pp. 4 to 19 -- introduction to the basic concepts of management |
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6/17/09 |
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Finish chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 – 42 to 62 – management theory |
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6/22/09 |
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Finish chapter 2 -- Team work session |
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6/24/09 |
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Team presentations (1) |
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6/29/09 |
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Chapter 3 – 72 to 74 -- 74 to 76 – chapter 4 – 106 to 109 --108 to 112 – chapter 5 – 140 to 159 -- 146 to 165 – stakeholders – globalization – planning: the foundation of management
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7/1/09 |
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Finish chapters 3 to 5 Team work session |
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7/6/09 |
2,3,4 |
Team presentations (2)
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7/8/09 |
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Chapter 6 – 168 to 189 -- 181 to 196—strategy Assign mid-term [???] |
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7/10/09 |
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Finish chapter 6 -- Team work session |
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7/15/09 |
5,6,7 |
Team presentations (3) Mid-term due [???] |
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7/20/09 |
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Chapter 8 – 240 to 243, 255 to 261 -- 249-250,262-269 – organizational culture |
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7/22/09 |
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Chapter 12 -- 370 to 388 – 384 to 400 -- motivation in the workplace Team work session |
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7/27/09 |
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Team presentations (4) Assign final exam [???] |
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7/29/09 |
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Chapter 13 – leading SEE TOPICS 10,11,12 Chapter 16 – 511 to 513, 518 to 530 – 530 to 532, 537 to 545 – controlling the process, including total quality management |
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8/3/09 |
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Finish chapter 16 – Team work session |
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8/5/09 |
10,11,12 |
Team presentations (5) Final exam due [???] |
DETAILS ON TEAM PRESENTATION TOPICS::
4TH EDITION PAGE REFERENCES IN REGULAR FONT – 3RD EDITION – BOLD
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page 5 page 5 |
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Efficiency vs. effectiveness. Note the concepts as applied here to automated phone responses. |
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Can you find evidence that customers switch brands because of this? Access the web site and first call a company of your choice without the key codes, then compare results with the codes. |
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Page 36 page 35 |
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Ethics in business -- a realistic scenario. Each team member declare what he or she would do, then summarize for the team. Note -- as instructor I do not have the answer here. |
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Lean management techniques. Teams will brain-storm on the question of whether we could use lean management -- OR ANY OTHER INNOVATIVE APPROACH -- at the university. |
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Data mining that can result in pushy marketing that could alienate customers. Examine the question of invasion of privacy by browsing the topic on the web and discuss marketing implications. BE CAREFUL! OTHER THAN GARBAGE IN DATA OUT, I AM NOT INTERESTED IN A REPORT ON DATA MINING. |
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Personal self-esteem. Complete the exercise individually and then as a team debate and conclude with respect to the discussion questions.
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Page 102 page 104 |
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Should job applicants reveal their chronic illnesses to potential employers? Reverse the case. Typically companies will try to avoid high costs associated with hiring a person with a chronic illness. But do you think this is the ethical thing to do? What can be done about the problem? |
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Page 148 page 156 |
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Strategic, tactical and operational goals integrated -- Southwest Airlines. Look up their current situation. Are they in danger of going the way of Skybus? Was it possible to anticipate the impact of huge fuel cost increases? Was there anything in Southwest’s internal competence that gave them the opportunity to do this kind of planning? |
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Page 175 page 183 |
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Mission statements and vision statements. Does the company answer key questions? find a company on the web -- see their annual statement -- and complete this exercise using this company |
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Page 181 page 189 |
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Based on your SWOT analysis of Starbuck's, design a company-wide strategy for them. Look them up on the Web to make your strategy up to date. |
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Page 465 Page 441 |
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Conflict management. Complete the self-assessment test individually. As a team, present your answers to the questions provided. |
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Nucor Corp – steelmaker. Answer the question with respect to American automakers or airlines! |
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The job characteristics model. A world historical management tool with the opportunity to administer a mini-version of the questionnaire to ourselves. Apply the tool to your individual jobs and complete a report as a team. |
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