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Questions
1. How do managers differ from nonmanagerial employees? Is your course instructor a manager? Discuss in terms of managerial functions, managerial roles, and skills.
2. What is the source of an organization's culture? How does organizational culture continue?
3. What is workforce diversity, and why is managing it so important?
4. How might the cultural differences in the GLOBE dimensions affect how managers (a) use work groups, (b) develop goals/plans, (c) reward outstanding employee performance, and (d) deal with employee conflict?
5. How do entrepreneurs add value to the economy?
6. What does social responsibility mean to you personally? Do you think business organizations should be socially responsible? Explain.
7. Describe Lewin's three-step change process. How is it different from the change process needed in the white-water rapids metaphor of change?
8. Describe the eight steps in the decision-making process.
9. What types of planning do you do in your personal life? Describe these plans in terms of being (a) strategic or operational, (b) short term or long term, and (c) specific or directional.
10. Describe the six steps in the strategic management process.
11. Discuss the traditional and contemporary views of each of the six key elements of organizational design.
12. Define communication, interpersonal communication, and organizational communication. Why isn't effective communication synonymous with agreement?
13. Describe the different performance appraisal methods.