Principles of Management
Principles of Management
| Topic | Class Slides | Reading | Homework | Resources | |
| Week 1 | Introduction | Introduction | Chapters 1, 2 | HW1 |
Take notes with pen and paper * SW Video - Lead with LUV |
| Business Writing - 1 | Manager Assignment | * B&K Video - Geek Squad | |||
| Manager-Yamada | * Boone 15e Video - Ch.7 Smart Design | ||||
| Environment | Homework template | HM Video - Effective Mgmt - SW airlines * Dalio Principles for Success |
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| Business Writing - 2 | Common errors | * Griffin 10e Video - Numi Tea's New Manager | |||
| How to cite | DVD - Walmart - Bonus - CEO | ||||
| Week 2 | Planning | Basic Planning | Chapter 3 |
Yamada Due Manager-Venables |
* Apple vision video |
| Business Writing - 3 | * DVD - Nike - Birth of an Empire | ||||
| Strategy | |||||
| Business Writing - 4 | Griffin 9e Video - Planning & Goal Setting | ||||
| Week 3 | Strategy - II | Chapter 4 | HW1 due Venables due |
* Strategy Exercise Lucent SWOT analysis Nokia SWOT analysis |
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| Pick a Manager | * DVD - Google - Chapter 1 | ||||
| Strategy - II | DVD - Trump - Skill Set * Prisoner's Dilemma in action |
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| Week 4 | Decision Making | Pick a Manager due Study for exam |
* DVD - McDonalds - one owner |
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| New Ventures | quizlet flash cards by Amanda Greene | * DVD - Google - Chapter 5 | |||
| * Griffin DVD - Ch. 3, Recycline | |||||
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| Week 5 | Business Examples | Chapters 6, 7 | Manager Gorman | Griffin 9e Video - American Flatbread | |
| * Griffin 9e Video - Quadrant Capital | |||||
| * Griffin 9e Video - Baker's Best | |||||
| * McDonalds - Birth | |||||
| Exam | * Griffin DVD - Ch. 3, Finagle a Bagel | ||||
| * Pole exercise | |||||
| * Griffin DVD - Ch. 7, Flight 001 Planning | |||||
| DVD - Trump - Entrep. Play Book | |||||
| HM Video - Ch 1 - Southwest Airlines | |||||
| Week 6 | Organizing | Org. Basics | Chapter 8 | Gorman due | * DVD - Walmart - Build it and they will come |
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Pick a
Manager HW2 |
* Griffin 9e - Org at Green Mountain | ||||
| Organization Design | * Organizational designs exercise | ||||
| Week 7 | Org. Change | Pick a Manager due | * Interview Exercise | ||
| Human Resources | Study for exam |
* DVD - American Airlines - labor | |||
| quizlet flash cards by Amanda Greene | DVD - Walmart - Walmart Wages | ||||
| Week 8 | Business Examples | Chapters 9, 10 | HW2 due | * Do Start-Stop-Continue | |
| Exam | Pick a Manager | DVD - Cruise Inc. - Bonus Meet the Crew * HM CD - Ch. 4, Performance Review |
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| * DVD - AA - Labor pains | |||||
| DVD - Nike - Labor pains | |||||
| Griffin Video - Change at Jordan's Furniture | |||||
| Week 9 | Leading |
Individual Behavior Business Presentations |
Chapters 11, 12 | HW3 - HW example |
* Personality Profile and
careers * Dalio Principles for Success |
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Pick a Manager due CEO - what it takes |
* Choosing a career | ||||
| Motiv. & Perform. | * B&K Video - Chapter 1 - Cannondale | ||||
| Week 10 | Leadership | Chapter 13 | CEO - what it takes due | ||
| Team exercise | * Collaborations exercises | ||||
| Week 11 | Work teams | HW3 due | *
New manager talk * Boone 15e Ch. 9, Kimpton Hotels |
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| Interpersonal Comm. | Study for exam | * Griffin 9e Video - Ch. 18 - Comm. at
IDG * Communication exercise |
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| Week 12 | Group exercises | Chapters 14, 15 | quizlet flash cards by Amanda Greene | Griffin 10e Video - Ch. 16 Flight 001 | |
| * Griffin 9e Video - Ch. 17 - Leadership at Life is Good | |||||
| * Griffin 9e Video - Ch. 16, Motiv. Sales Force | |||||
| Exam |
Pick one of two HW4 - HW example |
* Griffin 9e Video - Ch. 19 - Work Groups and Teams at Finagle a Bagel | |||
| * Winter Survival | |||||
| * Paper Tower | |||||
| Extra credit: Mission statements Lessons learned |
Goldman Sachs video |
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| Week 13 | Controlling | Controlling | Chapter 22 | * YouTube - Netflix | |
| * AA - Jet A fuel | |||||
| Operations | Pick one of two due | * DVD - Coke - The Bottlers * Delta Airlines 3,200 meals a day |
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* DVD - Cruise Inc. - Setting Sail |
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| * B&K Video - FedEx | |||||
| * B&K Video - Ch. 16 - Pizzeria Uno | |||||
| * American Airlines - gathering storm | |||||
| Griffin 10e Video - EVO | |||||
| Week 14 | Information Tech | HW4 due |
Observation exercise 1 Observation exercise 2 Observation exercise 3 Observation exercise 4 |
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| Manager Characteristics |
Resources
NOTE: What to do if you miss a class.
Papers you write should be in the format of this template. Make sure your references are cited properly and follow these guidelines. NOTE: you should both a citing in the text and a Works Cited page.
Guide for how to do well in this course.
Never send email like this. A guide for sending professors email.
Get in the habit of reading The Wall Street Journal. For quick news, try CNN/Money. To learn more about investing go to Vanguard. You should also listen to Bloomberg radio 1130 AM or the business news on 880 AM at 25 minutes and 55 minutes after the hour. On TV, try CNBC or Bloomberg TV.
Financial information on companies can be found at Bloomberg, Google, and Yahoo.
There are many jobs and internships available. Go to the RVCC Internship web pages.
You can find a nearly complete Principles of Management course with videos at the Education Portal.
Reading List
If you are interested in business, here are books you should consider reading:
Read any management book by Peter Drucker.
If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly: William J Bernstein
Elements of Investing: Burton G. Malkiel: ISBN: 9781118484876
Free to Choose: Milton and Rose Friedman: ISBN 978-0-15-633460-0 See the TV series here.
Fooled By Randomness: Nassim Taleb: ISBN 0812975219
Freakonomics: Steven Levitt: ISBN 006073132X
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Burton G. Malkiel: ISBN: 0393325350