Describe characteristics of effective 21st century managers and the managerial skills required
- Characteristics: team players, work cooperatively, multicultural skills, engage in learning, facilitate change; ethics will be forethought generalist with multiple specialties.
- Clarifies goals and objectives
- Encourages participation
- Plans and organizes
- Technical and administrative expertise
- Facilitates work
- Provides feedback
- Keeps things moving
- Controls details
- Pressure for goal accomplish
- Empowers and delegates
- Recognizes good performance
Describe the difference between past managers and future managers
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Primary role
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Past managers
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Future managers
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Cultural Orientation
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Mono-cultural, Monolingual
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MulticulturalMultilingual
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Source of Authority
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Formal authority
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Technical knowledge and interpersonal skills
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View of people
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Potential Problems
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Primary source human capital
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Decision making style
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Limited input for individual decisions
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Broad-based input for joint decisions
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Ethical Consideration
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After thought
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For thought
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Explain four sources of knowledge and the scientific method.
- Method of experience
- Method of intuition "obvious/ self-evident"
- Method of authority
- Method of science - scientific studies
- Scientific method: Hypotheses/beliefs....TheoryàHypothesesàCollect dataàVerify/test data
Explain how correlation is used in social science research.
- Insert Graph
- R=1.00 * can be positive or negative from Ø (no sted relationship) to ± 1 (perfect stat relationship)
- * This graph is perfect correlation
- * Correlation in OB*