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This Article by KJ Miner in Business Degrees talks about the four functions of Management; planning, organizing, leading and controlling.  He shares that most positions within a company are tasked with specific duties. Management plays a different role.  Mr. Miners shares that Managers have to have a more broader and complex set of responsibilities.  He also states that "management requires an ability to navigate numerous procedural, structural, and interpersonal challenges in the process of guiding one's team to the completion of various goals."

http://www.aiuniv.edu/blog/january-2016/functions-of-management

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Discussion 7
Motivate is the inspire, influence, energize, and encourage.  ALl the tools need to make for a successful employee and company.  If you motivate your employees so much can derive from that motivation.  Employees are happier and they perform better.  They have a different outlook on the workplace that's what motivation can do for everyone involved.

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Discussion 7
This picture is a boss telling his employee he would sack him if he does not complete a task by a certain time.  This is not a great example of Motivating your employees.  Presenting fear and threats does not motivate, it brings stress and unhappiness.  Motivation is about setting achievable goals and having the support from your Leader; thats what this picture lacks.

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Discussion 7
Motivation is essential to leading your staff.  Motivation leads to great performance evaluations, success of the company, great ideas, great attitudes, and much more.  This artifacts reminds us that if we continue to motivate, so much can derive from this great gesture.

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Discussion 7
Our course book defines Leadership as the process of directing the behavior of others toward the accomplishment of an objective.  Dr. Greg Halpern is a performance improvement consultant with the DoD.  He wrote an article in About Leaders called "All Leadership is Situational."  He  believe that every leader retrieved their leadership style from learning and experiences.   He stated "Leadership decision making is based on a continuum, with each end represented by two key sides. Boss-centered leadership is on the left and subordinate-centered leadership is on the right."  Boss-centered-leadership are more autocratic which means they make all decisions pertaining to decision making and Subordinate-centered leadership are more democratic which means that the employees have some participation in the decision making process.  Read more by clicking here:
https://aboutleaders.com/all-leadership-is-situational/

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Managing Human Resource and Communications

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Discussion 6
"The job of Human Resources today is to make people and organizations grow, yet it has only marginally evolved since its inception around the end of the nineteenth century" stated Louis Efron, a Contributor for Forbes Magazine. He wrote the article, What Organizations Need Now From Human Resources.  He went on to reintegrate how Human Resources as a departments needs to do more than just hire, fire, attendance and compensation for employees.  Human Resources department needs to take more of a role in building a  more sustainable organization.  To read more click this link:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/louisefron/2014/08/18/what-organizations-need-now-from-human-resources/#41360a093173

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Discussion 6
This cartoon show a Manager giving his employees a symbolic quote sign that depicts communication and he is simply telling them that communication is a powerful tool.

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Discussion 6
This pictures  depicts a communication model and shows us that how each person perceives the others communication is important.  What is heard, what they are thinking, how it is said, and what is said back.  It is all crucial to effectively communicating with each other.

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Discussion 6
David Krantz is a CEO for a Marketing Solution company called YP.  On July 24, 2015, Mr. Kranz was Guest writer for Entrepreneur called "5 Ways to Effectively Communicate with Employees."  Mr. Krantz pointed out that communication should be the very first thing all leaders should do before doing anything else.  Mr. Krantz has over 5000 employees under him that is spread through 34 states; which meant finding a way to communicate with them effectively was essential key to the companies success as a whole.  In the article, he listed five strategies that need to be in place for creating a culture of communication; Send weekly correspondence to all employees in the company, Build comfort in talking about what is not working, Hold town hall meetings, Put on an annual senior leadership conference for your top leaders, and Answer every employee email within 24 hours.  He said "Commit to effective communications and you’ll be glad you did."

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/248757

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Module 5
What is the difference between Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions within the organization structure?  Cynthia Myers wrote an article in the Chron called "The Definitions of Horizontal and Vertical Organizations" She said the difference between the two is vertical organization follows more of a pyramid chain of command whereas the person on top has all the power and employees report directly to the person above them.  Horizontal organizations do not have one specific boss.   They can work in teams and each team can have a team leader that report to several supervisors and they all are equal in power.  She also list a few advantages and disadvantages in her article. Please click here to read the article.
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/definitions-horizontal-vertical-organizations-23483.html

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Module 5

The importance of organization structure is very important.  I recently read the article

"Why Is Organizational Structure Important?" by Mr. David Ingram. Mr. Ingram explained that organizational structures can help small or large companies provide guidance and clarity on many levels within human resources problems.  He stated that "Small-business owners should begin thinking about a formal structure early in the growth stage of their business." Mr. Ingram is a small business owner as well as a writer. He provided a few key factors that you can use as a guide to a great organizational structure for your company.  Please click the link to read the article.

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/organizational-structure-important-3793.html

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Module 4
Effectively communicating and making sure that what you are communicating is understood is crucial to a business plan as well as a personal situation. When a something goes wrong at the office, more often it is because of miscommunication. In order for any business to be effective, communicating clearly; meaning making sure that the person understands what you are saying before they move forward.

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Module 4
There are several steps in the Decision Making Process.  Small businesses and managers have to make decisions all the time regarding day to day activities and strategic planning, but there is a process to decision making.  David Ingram who wrote the article "What Are the Steps in the Decision-Making Process of a Manager? and also a small business owner, knows all to well the challenges that management can face if they don't follow an effective decision making process.  If you want to be an successful managers and business owner follow these steps: Identify Problems, Seek Information, Brainstorm Solutions,Choose an Alternative,  Implement the Plan and Evaluate Outcomes.  This can definitely improve your decision making process with ease.

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/steps-decisionmaking-process-manager-10601.html

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Module 3
Globalization is increasing rapidly and this picture shows just how fast corporations are making moves to grow overseas. If you notice some of the workers have more than one flag in their hand.

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Module 3
Many businesses face risk when operating as a multinational corporation explained Dr. Jack Gordon, the Chief Technology Officer at Strontium Logistics.  He wrote an article for the Chron called “Managing Risks Associated with a Multinational Corporation.” He continued on to say that all firms face some type of risk, but when operating across national boundaries you face additional challenges.  In order to battle these challenges, you must devise a plan that will help you to manage these challenges so that globalization and market liberalization can increase opportunities for growth overseas.   Dr. Gordon went on to give us a list of risk that corporations should look for while operating as a multinational corporation.  Please click the link to read more information from Dr. Gordon.

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/managing-risks-associated-multinational-corporation-78224.html

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Module 3
Kevin Johnston writes for Ameriprise Financial and he wrote the article, What Makes a Company a Multinational Corporation.  Small businesses just as large business are making a play for the global world. With the ease of international marketing and product delivery being easy to sell in other countries  consider your company mu be able to do more than export goods.  There are many ways to be considered a multinational company such as; If you have a home office and open another office in a foreign country you are considered multinational.  If you manufacture products or open production facility in another country, you can be considered multinational. You can read more about this article by following this link http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/company-multinational-corporation-13544.html

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Module 3
Bill George wrote and article called A New Era for Global Leadership Development. Global organizations is presenting challenges for corporate leaders to develop the leaders required to run global organizations.  Many Multinational companies such as German, Indian, and Japanese still use a trusted group of people from their home country.  Most times they groom leaders from their corporate office to go overseas and work for a period of time.  Mr. George stated "In order to adapt to local cultures and market needs, companies must shift to decentralized, collaborative decision-making."  He also list four approaches for developing global leaders, you can find them listed in the article.

https://hbr.org/2012/02/a-new-era-for-global-leadershi.html

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Discussion 8
Our course book defines Quality as how well a product does what it is intended to do and how closely it satisfies the specification to which it was built.  The quality of a product is most often determine by the customer by how it looks, how it works, is it available, and it sustainability.  All these things matter in when, where and what a customer purchases.  That is why it is important that quality has to be seen as a number 1 priority for management.

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Organizational Ethics and Corporate Governance

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Module 2
In Leadership communicating is a key factor.  This cartoons displays a manager presenting a report to his employees but they were clueless as to what he was trying to communicate to them.  This reminds me that effectively communicating to your staff is important and being prepared is also a key factor.

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Module 2
A Diverse workplace is becoming more and more relevant. This epidemic is becoming common in large and small corporations.  Neil Kokemuller wrote a article called Advantages & Disadvantages of Having a More Diverse Workforce.  He stated "Small business owners realize that when operating in a community with a diverse population, it makes sense to have a workforce reflecting that diversity, as it will appear familiar to customers."

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-having-diverse-workforce-22935.html

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Module 1
This picture from the movie, The Devil Wears Prada, played by Meryl Streep and Miranda Priestly reminds me of our Discussion on Steve Jobs.  Meryl Streep played this boss who was very much hard to please.  She was rude, ruthless and hard to please in the movie.  Mr. Jobs was the same but, he was successful as Ms. Streep was in the movie.  I would not suggest that anyone emulates this behavior to become successful.  It does not always work.

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This cartoon represents a dysfunctional Leadership.  It has leadership but, the basic functions are not being implemented.  When you have a leader that is not implementing the four basic functions of management, planning, organizing, leading and controlling, you have a chaos.

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As a manager move from Supervisor to top management a certain level of skills is important.  As noticed in the chart, As a first line manage; technical skills are important.  When you are in middle management; human skills are important.  When you reach the top management; Conceptual skills are important.

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Discussion 8
Data and information are two different entities but yet they work hand in hand.  Our course book defines data as process of developing information begins with gathering some type of facts or statistics and Information is referred to details about a project or the set of conclusions derived from data analysis.  In researching information, I read the article, What is the Difference Between Data and Information, written by Martin Doyle posted in Business 2 Community.  He said there is a simple way to tell data from information.  He stated
"computers need data; humans need information and data is a building block; Information gives meaning and context. In other words, data is raw and lack substance.  Data not take shape until processed and turned into ledge able information.  Once the processing is complete then it can be used by humans as needed.  Read more by clicking here:
http://www.business2community.com/strategy/difference-data-information-0967136#kiyo0VvjGHVWy5ly.97

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Discussion 8
What is the difference between power and authority is an article from Extension written by entrepreneur and their communities.  The article described Power and Authority as separate but related concepts.  Our course book defines power as the extent to which an individual is able to influence others so that they respond to orders.  The article defines Power as the possession of authority, control, or influence by which a person influences the actions of others, either by direct authority or by some other, more intangible means.  So the word authority, control, or influence all fall under Power.  In other words, whatever task that needs to be completed is influenced, controlled or authorized by the power of that individual.
Read more by clicking this link:
http://articles.extension.org/pages/42913/what-is-the-difference-between-power-and-authority-in-an-organization

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Module 2
In this cartoon, Millennial employee which is described as a younger generation is being sarcastic to a Baby Boomer, older generation,  on how they communicate.  Each generation have something different to offer and should never be ridiculed for doing things there way.

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Module 2
Jeffrey Hayzlett, VIP Contributor, for Entrepreneur 360 wrote an article called "Why Should Your Business Care About Social Responsibility?"  The article talks about how Fortune 500 companies have integrated corporate social responsibility into their daily routines.  Social responsibility is the way of the world.  Corporations are taking more hands on approach to making the world a better place.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/269665