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Intel is an example of an organization that has taken steps to improve worker productivity by changing the way it designs offices.

This situation in our text book help understand exactly how productivity works in businesses.

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Production Skill: the ability to transform organizational resources into products.

Productivity equals outputs over inputs( this icon explains this )

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Production and control

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Slide share gives all the information i'd follow on chapter 17
https://www.slideshare.net/eyadnalsamman/controlling-information-technology

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This Icon gives some ideas on ways employers reward employees to improve motivation.

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15 ways to motivate your team. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/anush-kostanyan/15-effective-ways-to-moti_b_5854242.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoMgrpQVDJ4

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A committee is a group of individuals charged with performing a type of specific activity and is usually classified as a task group. From a managerial viewpoint, committees are established for four major reasons:

1.To allow ideas to be exchanged among the group.
2.put together suggestions and recommendations
3.Develop new ideas for situations that need to be resolved
4.Assist in process of development of new policies.

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Chapter 15 is based off of teams and groups.
Team Skill: the ability to manage a collection of people so that they influence one another toward the accomplishment of an organizational objective(s)
Team work is like a puzzle game. Each person is a piece to the puzzle but it will never work if the parts don't fit into one another.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al3L6cnCmMU

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Chapter 12, based on communication in business. This is very important to understand.
Communication Skill: the ability to share information with other individuals
This article gives you 10 steps to improve these communication skills.

https://www.thejobnetwork.com/10-steps-to-improve-your-workplace-communication-skills/

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Responsibility is key to chapter 9

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Delegation of Authority article, breaks down what I've learned and what i'd bring to the table in the workplace. https://www.managementstudyguide.com/delegation_of_authority.htm

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Workplace communication is VITAL to an organization. Here is a link to a you-tube video that explained communication skills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FljoEitkIeM

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Organizational structures

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Our SWOT assignment gave me insight on how to properly analyze and recommend a decision for a company. This icon shows the analyze outline that I found most helpful.

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This icon indicates how to handle the strategic planning process

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In this module, I learned a lot on the process of planning in a business. Strategic Planning Skill: the ability to engage in long-range planning that focuses on the organization as a whole

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Decision making can be a huge process in a business.

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Domestic Organizations-
are organizations that essentially operate within a single country.

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Workers in multinational organizations can be divided into three basic types:

1) Expatriate—An organization member who lives and works in a country where he or she does not have citizenship.
2)Host-country national—An organization member who is a citizen of the country in which the facility of a foreign-based organization is located
3)Third-country national—An organization member who is a citizen of one country and works in another country for an organization headquartered in still another country

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We talked about the Marriott business and how it's a global company. A global company is a company that operates in two or more countries and Marriott is in 102 countries. Marriott participated in lending hands during Haiti earthquake disaster. Along with donating to the red cross to provide relief to the community. This business acted due to the ethics they hold.

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Global organization. I knew nothing about global organizations before this module. Now, I know the struggle a business can have juggling finding new ways to operate, and also keep their organizational ethics along with it.

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Forbes gives good idea to keep diversity in the work place

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gaudianohunt/2016/08/15/six-simple-things-you-can-do-to-support-workplace-diversity-inclusion/amp/

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I found our Corporate Governance assignment to be most interesting in this module. Each company have these policies, all of them relatively have the same mission.

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Explained a business operates by their organizational ethics. Principles and standards hold fairness, compassion, responsibility, integrity, and honor. This icon is an examples, a business is like puzzle, it can't operate without all the parts coming together.

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I've learned about gender diversity in the workplace. Having a proportionate division of females and males makes for a growing, successful company. I didn't realize the importance of this topic and how a lot of companies lack diversity in general.

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Module 1

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Our Steve Jobs assignment really explained the importance of how management has changed and what it takes to become a successful CEO of a huge organization.

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This icon explains what a manager should suggest doing to develop those human skills & communicate, along with, grow a relationship with their employees. Unlike Steve Jobs, other managers will find that their team will come to work more at ease.

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Rodney Adkins career growth with the IBM company, put a face on the career development in management. The BIGGEST thing I learned out of this reading material was that in this career field you may have to go above and beyond just technical or human skills to move up in a company/organization.

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My name is Stephanie, I’m interested in taking this adventure through this course with everyone. I originally took a short trail into the nursing field, after realizing it wasn’t for me, I’ve decided to take a path to get my associates in business administration. I hope to get the education and skills needed for management out of this course as this is what I’m aspiring to become. With this being a fast pace course, I’m hoping to keep up with the assignments.