Reference no: EM13321915
*What are organisations and why do we have them?
*Discuss management as a set of roles and as a set of skills.
*What are planning, organising, leading and controlling?
*What is assertiveness and how is it different to passive and aggressive communication styles?
*Describe basic assertion, empathetic assertion, consequence assertion, discrepancy assertion, negative feeling assertion and broken record
assertion.
*What were Taylor’s rules for scientific management?
*Is Taylor’s general approach still useful in today’s organisations?
*What is human resource management?
*Explain what human resource planning is, and how and why it is done.
*Describe Thompson's model of an organisation's environment.
*Discuss how the Thompson's model of the organisation's environment is useful and not useful.
*Describe the simple, complex, complicated and chaotic contexts.
*How many contexts may a leader face at one time? How would a leader behave in such a situation?
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Best ordering policy for a warehouse to minimize cost
: What is the best ordering policy for a warehouse to minimize cost, while meeting demands? Holding Cost Storage Space per unit (m3) Demand per month Ordering cost per order Storage space available (m3)
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Useful for seismologists to locate earthquake epicenters
: List the types of data you that you may needed to locate the earthquake epicenter. Why can’t you locate an earthquake with data from just two seismic stations? Why do you think it is useful for seismologists to locate earthquake epicenters?
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What is the difference between mission and vision statements
: What is the difference between mission and vision statements? What factors need to be considered to produce an appropriate mission statement and vision statement for an organization?
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Different communication mediums team could use communicate
: Your company has 21 offices around the world. None of the members will ever meet face-to-face because of geographical dispersion and scheduling conflicts. Explain the different communication mediums the team could use to communicate. Which computer m..
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Discuss management as a set of roles and as a set of skills
: What are organisations and why do we have them? Discuss management as a set of roles and as a set of skills. What are planning, organising, leading and controlling? What is assertiveness and how is it different to passive and aggressive communication..
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Discuss the role of primary and secondary groups
: Discuss the role of primary and secondary groups.
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What is the total cost without the discount
: Happy Pet, Inc., is a large pet store located in Long Beach Mall. Although the store specializes in dogs, it also sells fish, turtle, and bird supplies. The Everlast Leader, a leather lead for dogs, costs Happy Pet $7 each. There is an annual demand ..
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Architectural styles and building techniques
: Historically, architectural styles and building techniques have been dependent upon _____.
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Globalizes its labor force
: If the assumption is that job loss in the U.S. is a result of moving certain production offshore, what ethical and regulatory difficulties might emerge as a company globalizes its labor force?
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