23 Jun PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT
Principles and practice of management
Project description
This is an assignment of management, needed the student finish studying the chapters (management and the evolution of management thought and Defining the manger’s
terrain)
1: what is management and what do mangers do
Is the manger’s job universal
Early developments in management thinking
Management trends and issues
2: the organization’s culture
the enivronment
managing in a global environment
social responsibility and managerial ethics
the decision making process and limits to rationality
The assignment format
Left Right Margin ( Use the Default Margin Size
Top Margin 2cm
Bottom Margin 2cm
Paper Size A4
Content Style
List Use bullet points
footnotes do not use the word footnote feature
Tables Use the word table feature to prepare tables
Assignment File 1
Assignment 1
Due date: 24 Nov 2014
Coverage: Units 1–2
Length: The total length of essay-type questions should not exceed 2,000 words. Those exceeding the upper word limit will be strictly penalized.
Important note
You must use word processing software (such as Microsoft Word) to prepare the TMAs, and submit the TMAs via the Online Learning Environment (OLE). All assignments must
be uploaded to the OLE by the due date.
Failure to upload a TMA in the required format to the OLE may result in the score of the TMA being adjusted to zero.
Question 1 (20 marks)
For each of the following ten sub-questions, select the best answer. Each correct answer is worth 2 marks.
1 The candy market in Asia has grown recently as more Asians imitate the American lifestyle, and Hershey has decided that to grow it must start selling to the Asian
markets. This decision was part of which management function?
A planning
B organizing
C leading
D controlling
2 The marketing manager of Interstate Bakeries was asked to meet with the organization’s research and development department to explain why the company needed to
change its 25-year-old package design for Twinkies. The marketing manager took on an interpersonal role as:
A liaison
B disseminator
C disturbance handler
D figurehead
2 MGT B240 Principles and Practices of Management
3 Which of the following would be a part of an organization’s specific environment?
A the technology it uses to make its product
B new laws controlling its product’s exportation
C the economy in which it operates
D its competitors
4 The __________ is the set of key values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by organizational members.
A industry code of ethics
B internal environment
C organizational culture
D organizational strategy
5 Doug has a low-paying job for a telecommunications company. Every day when he goes home from work, Doug puts a headset, a stapler, or something similar in his lunch
box and takes it with him. Doug sees nothing wrong with his behavior since he feels inadequately paid. In terms of the stages of moral development, Doug is operating
at which level?
A postconventional
B legally mandated
C preconventional
D none of the above
6 Which of the following is a recommendation for how managers can model and encourage ethical behavior in employees?
A use resources only for company business
B handle information in a confidential and honest manner
C set reasonable rather than unreasonable goals
D all of the above
7 The ________ perspective is that management’s social responsibility goes beyond making profits to include protecting and improving society’s welfare.
A socio-cultural
B socio-economic
C socio-legal
D socio-political
Assignment File 3
8 Neither Chile nor Peru has a mass-market café culture, but this fact has not stopped Starbucks from trying to determine what can be done to make its coffee houses
successful in those markets. By recognizing that people in these two South American countries do not drink coffee as people in the United States do and that it needs
to change this habit, Starbucks has begun a __________ process with problem identification.
A rational decision-making
B trend analysis
C satisficing
D selection of optimal solutions
9 Japanese-based Bandai, the world’s third-biggest toymaker, plans to acquire several smaller companies in an effort to knock Mattel out of its first place in the
industry. Due to _____, it will not have access to all of the information it would need to make a 100% satisfactory selection of the toy manufacturers it needs to
acquire to reach its goal.
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