Stephanie Bloodworth MAN2021 by Bloodworth, Stephanie M.

Module 1: Management Overview

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-18 23:32:54 UTC

This article by Julie Zhuo about her personal accounts and things she learned while managing companies was very interesting to me, as rather than provide a general and basic overview of business management, she provides an in-depth, personal chronicle of her experiences, greatest takeaways, and afterthoughts that helped me better understand how management works.

Module 1: Management Overview

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-18 23:49:36 UTC

Steve Jobs' account on leadership applied to real-life situations and his leadership at Apple and in various other areas provided an additionally interesting overview of management, especially with such a well-known CEO that had one of the most successful endeavors in the industry. I found his practices to be particularly interesting, as he did many things considered to be "out-of-the-norm" and had several unique approaches to managing his team and company.

Module 2: Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 00:13:37 UTC

This Forbes article helped me better understand each level of ethics and corporate social responsibility because of the model that was provided by Archie Carroll. The author gave an overview of how this model takes a deeper look into this subject, which I had never particularly studied a lot before.

Module 2: Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 00:25:09 UTC

This image I found was helpful to me in terms of understanding the difference between ethics and corporate social responsibility; these 2 concepts are often associated with each other or correlate to each other, as they are in this module, so it is nice to be able to look at this information that distinguishes the two in each of their aspects and details as well as outcomes.

Module 3: Management Within a Global Organization

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 00:34:12 UTC

I mainly thought this cartoon about management was entertaining and a bit silly. In management, especially on a larger scale such as managements within global organizations, there are various levels of operations and a need for approval on each level or each advancement. This cartoon depicts the stereotype that management never approves ideas that employees think are "good", and the doubt that employees have when creating a project that could potentially run well.

Module 3: Management Within a Global Organization

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 00:36:34 UTC

This article better helped me understand the challenges of what it is like to be a global leader in an organization. By going over the qualities that a good global leader should have followed by the challenging aspects of managing a global organization, I now have a more realistic viewpoint of what global managers/leaders have to navigate.

Module 4: Planning and Decision Making

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 00:45:27 UTC

I found this BigThink video to be very interesting; Adam Bryant introduces the idea of being CEO and how it is portrayed, and he proceeds to go into depth about the "paradoxical" qualities that a CEO must possess in order to be successful. These qualities include characteristics that may seemingly contradict each other, yet are completely achievable. These aspects go into the decision-making of CEOs and how they are successful or unsuccessful as a result.

Module 4: Planning and Decision Making

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 00:49:30 UTC

In this video, author and performance coach Bryon Morrison explains how successful CEOs make decisions that benefit their companies and consumers that essentially help them to be effective. This helped me further understand the "trick" behind what sets an effective CEO apart from others; making disciplined and well-planned decisions that stand miles ahead rather than what sounds plausible or rewarding in the moment.

Module 5: Organizational Structure and Processes

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 00:52:51 UTC

I found this article to be helpful to me in understanding various types of organizational structures that can be utilized in a business, more specifically a small one. I have always been interested in opening my own business and I know that big CEOs start small and build their way up. I found the organizational structures provided in the article to be sensible and realistic.

Module 5: Organizational Structure and Processes

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 00:56:33 UTC

I found another cartoon that I thought was amusing and also depicts a common stereotype or mindset of a typical business environment that may be perceived by some employees. Instead of naming an actual organizational structure in business, this employee appears to tell another that no matter how much work they do or how good it is, the higher-ups, such as their CEOs and managers, will take credit for it and it will always be that way in the company.

Module 6: Managing Human Resources and Communications

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 01:04:38 UTC

This blog was very informative and effective in explaining techniques to communicate clearly with employees, managing people, and focusing on positive outcomes. I find unclear communication to be one of the main problems that lead to the failure of organizations and even personal human relations, which makes it even more important to learn to communicate effectively and clearly with people in the organization to prevent negative outcomes and misunderstandings.

Module 6: Managing Human Resources and Communications

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 01:20:03 UTC

In contrast to the last blog, this one added more in-depth techniques to improve communication in HR and business organizations. The examples were especially helpful, as they named specific ways that communication could be improved in various situations as well as what type of information and practices would be included in each example, such as maintaining workplace culture and encouraging face-to-face communication.

Module 7: Leadership and Motivation

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 01:27:54 UTC

This Forbes article got in-depth with how motivational leadership styles are most effective, as they can cultivate more qualitative work among employees and produce higher loyalty among employees. As I understand it, this leadership style makes employees feel like they belong where they are and are working towards something bigger that will be rewarding for all parties, which is inspiring and builds trust.

Module 7: Leadership and Motivation

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 01:31:05 UTC

Simon Sinek's narration on steps to become a good leader and what makes a good leader highlighted the most important aspects of what a good leadership must consist of. I never looked deeply into the way leaders of an organization deal directly with employees in varying circumstances, but it all comes down to always listening to the needs and concerns of their team rather than dismissing or overlooking them, and working together to find solutions.

Module 8: Controlling Performance and Operations

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 01:35:50 UTC

This article focused on OPM and went over controlling operations for organizations, which helped me better understand this topic and module. After going through the module, I initially had difficulty understanding OPM to its fullest extent and how it is applied and utilized in organizations, but the core components of it were discussed in this resource which expanded my understanding.

Module 8: Controlling Performance and Operations

s3808039_1 — 2025-02-19 01:38:42 UTC

This video provided insight into what operational managers actually do and how they are able to achieve their roles such as obtaining the resources they need and having a team of employees that make the organizational operation possible. I never knew specifically what operations managers did until viewing this.