Category: Essays

Final Exam: Chapters 1-7

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Analyze the concepts of freedom versus responsibility and ethical decision making. Analyze the concepts of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. Assess how employment-at-will and Sarbanes-Oxley impact corporate whistleblowing. Analyze employee and consumer privacy under the law. Assess protection against discrimination provided by various laws. Analyze employee rights to health and safety in the workplace. Analyze environmental protection laws and their impact on organizations. Assess the impact of advertising laws on consumers and organizations. Analyze laws relative to product safety and liability. Analyze copyright laws and intellectual property rights. Analyze the underlying causes for passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the short and long-run impact of full compliance. Use technology and information resources to research issues in law, ethics, and corporate governance. Write clearly and concisely about law, ethics, and corporate governance using proper writing mechanics.

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COURSE OUTCOMES

Upon the successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Describe the role of quantitative methods in business decision making.

2. Analyze decision-making problems electronically.

3. Create statistical analysis of simulation results.

4. Apply the most appropriate forecasting method for the properties of the available data. .

5. Solve linear programming problems.

6. Create sensitivity analysis on linear programming model parameters.

7. Apply linear programming models to project management applications.

8. Solve integer-programming problems.

9. Develop solutions for transshipment problems.

10. Use technology and information resources to research issues in Management Science

11. Communicate issues in Management Science.

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Learning through Experience. Does your organization have a formalized process for reflection and review? Or, is there an informal process that is used by some departments?

a. If affirmative, give examples on how the information gets disseminated through the organization. Why is it important to disseminate information?

b. If negative, why doesn’t a review process happen – or if it does happen, why isn’t the information disseminated?

Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings.

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Change Management. Research the databases in the Ashford University Library for two to three full-text scholarly sources that focus on change management approaches. Research and submit a two-page paper analyzing change management approaches that support the learning organization philosophy.

2. Reminder. Begin work on your Final Paper which is due in Week 6.

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Artifacts, Norms and Assumptions. Reflect on the organization in which you work.

d. Identify some of the artifacts and note what they represent to you and other employees.

e. List some of the espoused values and shared assumptions.

f. Identify some behaviors (in communication and decision making) that reflect some of the values and assumptions.

g. Answer the question: Do the values and assumptions help or hinder moving the organization into a learning organization?

When preparing your response to at least two of your classmates, consider the following:

a. Are the values and assumptions of their organization in alignment with the philosophy of the learning organization?

b. Are there some values and assumptions that do not support the learning organization concept (example: “we don’t change the way we do things around here”)?

c. How can the organization change to be more high-performance, learning organizations?

Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings.

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Organizational Learning. You are a top manager of a major clothing store. Although the store has been the leader for the last 15 years, competition has resulted in declining sales. You have been asked to design a program to increase the level of organizational learning and recommend ways to promote organizational learning at all levels. Develop a search or information gathering plan to identify:

a. What data is needed?

b. How will it be collected?

c. How will it be disseminated?

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Learning Organizations. Research the databases in the Ashford University Library for two to three full-text scholarly sources that focus on learning organizations. Submit a two-page paper that identifies two companies that you believe are learning organizations. Provide supportive evidence of your choice.

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Organizations as Systems. Discuss your own organization as a system. How does information flow – does one department hold back in order not to give away an advantage? Is attention focused more on one type of input when another type of input could provide more leverage? How do groups within the organization view themselves? Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings.

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Why be a Learning Organization? Can a profitable company not be a learning organization? If not, explain your answer. If so, then what is the incentive to change to become a learning organization? Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings.

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Application in the Workplace. Note the application of theories to the workplace. Select one of the following scenarios to discuss. Then, provide an example of your own. Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings.

a. Well pay versus sick pay: Most employees take all their sick days. Are organizations reinforcing the wrong behavior?

§ Some companies pay employees a certain amount per sick day not taken.

§ Some have lotteries for prizes and the entries are those employees with perfect attendance.

b. Employee discipline: How far should managers go in the use of punishment?

§ What conditions, if any, do you think justify the use of punishment?

§ Have you ever worked for a boss that used punishment? What was your response?

c. Training: How valuable is training to the learning process?

§ Modeling behaviors?

§ Rewards for new skill development?

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