BUS 301—Management Process
Course Syllabus, 3 Semester Hours
Linfield College
Online: Summer 2005
Instructor: Rick Lloyd
Contact information:
Email: lloydri@msn.com (Best contact method)
Phone: 503.582.0740 (home)
Required Text
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Management, 7h Edition by Richard Daft Southwestern College Publishing ISBN: 0324317980 |
Catalog Course Description
The key decision-making role of managers in modern organizations. Includes the study of organizations, management styles, and selected administrative problems.
Course Description
This is an overview of the field of management. As a survey course, we will take a broad swath over many different areas within the field. If you were to go on to become a management major, you likely would have an entire semester dedicated to the topics covered in each chapter. The intent is to gain a basic understanding of the areas covered so you will be able to apply the thinking and rationale to more general business problems—this is a foundation course.
Course Mechanics
Due to the nature of the course, a significant amount of out of class time must be spent reading the book before class. Students who struggle in this course typically fall behind on the reading and never catch up. The material itself is not particularly difficult; however, the amount of preparation for success in the course is substantial. Given the compressed semester for this course, there are normally two chapters covered per week—it is imperative to keep up.
Grading
Chapter Quizzes—Will consist of 30 multiple choice questions tied to each chapter covered in the book. These will be open book and online but will be cut off at 60 minutes. This means that you need to prepare before taking the online quiz. The quizzes will be automatically scored and placed in your student gradebook. There is some flexibility in the format of the course in that the weekly quizzes can be taken any time up until the course cut off date. However, any quizzes not taken, will result in scores of zero.
Cases for Critical Analysis—Each assigned chapter has three questions assigned to the case. You will be expected to present either: a well informed initial answer to ONE of the three questions OR an insightful reply to an earlier post. The focus of the threaded discussion should be on real world application and examples and not just repetition of what the textbook says. Most responses will be a few paragraphs long. The discussions will be strictly cut off at the designated times highlighted in the Course Outline section of this syllabus. This means that you must follow the course and keep up on a weekly basis! Most students complete both the quizzes and cases as they progress through the book. You need to have one post per chapter for full credit. You may post your responses earlier than the required week if so desired. Punctuation, layout, and grammar all count in doing your postings.
Point Values
Item
Quantity
Points Each
Total
Homework Questions
540
1
540
Case Discussion Posts
18
10
180
Grand Total
720
Course Outline
Chapters
Covered
Case Posting Due Dates
Ch 1
Ch 2
Week 1 – 6/18/05
Ch 3
Ch 4
Week 2 – 6/25/05
Ch 7
Ch 8
Week 3 – 7/2/05
Ch 9
Ch 10
Week 4 – 7/9/05
Ch 11
Week 5 – 7/16/05
Ch 12
Ch 14
Week 6 – 7/23/05
Ch 15
Ch 16
Week 7 – 7/30/05
Ch 17
Ch 18
Week 8 – 8/6/05
Ch 19
Ch 20
Week 9 – 8/13/05
Ch 21
Week 10 – 8/18/05
*Note: This is a THURSDAY
Grading Scale
A 93 – 100%
A- 90 – 92.9%
B+ 88 – 89.9%
B 83 – 87.9%
B- 80 – 82.9%
C+ 78 – 79.9%
C 73 – 77.9%
C- 70 – 72.9%
D+ 68 – 69.9%
D 60 – 67.9%
F 0 – 59.9%
One word on grades is that they are not gifts to be given but rather a score card of what was earned. Grading in this course will not be curved.
Late Work
Given the flexible nature of online format and the course structure, late work will not be accepted.
Academic Honesty
While there should be interaction with fellow students in the case study postings, the quizzes shall be of the student’s sole work. Any findings of collaboration will result in full academic penalties and a grade of “F” in this course.
Last Words
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
-H. Ross Perot
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
-Vince Lombardi
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
-Warren Bennis