Discussion:
Part A: Management and Leadership
1. Review Exhibit, then identify your strengths and weaknesses as a manager. What will you do to compensate for your weaknesses?
2. Search https://www.canadabusiness.com for recent articles relating to business leaders that interest you, and identify their leadership styles based
Part B: Planning
1. To see an excellent example related to the importance of planning and to build on the concept for your business, go to the Carewest web site.Examine Carewest's Frame of Reference and develop a similar Frame of Reference for your business.
2. List three goals for your business for each of the areas of Strategic, Tactical, Operational, and Contingency planning. Be as specific as you can, and make sure that your goals include some measure of performance, so that you will clearly know that a goal has been achieved, or that progress has been made
3. Discuss how the information contained, "Types of Planning" (textbook p. 206), helps the organization to achieve its mission statement
Part C: Organizational Structures
1. Discuss your business and growth strategy and how it will determine the future organizational structure of your business.
2. Design an organizational structure for your business. Demonstrate how you linked the organizational structure to business goals, functional areas of your company, and satisfying customers.
Part D: Human Resources Management
1. Prepare position descriptions for the top three jobs in your business. Include job qualifications, job details, level of responsibility, amount of authority, level of decision making, and reporting structure. If you will be doing all three jobs, estimate the amount of time you will devote to each job function
2. Describe the strategies you will use to fulfill all of the critical functions in your start-up business. Will you recruit family members? Will you contract virtual employees? Will you hire part-time or full-time staff? What critical functions MUST be fulfilled in order for your company to be successful
3. Review the Critical Thinking Case on page 295 of your textbook and answer the two related questions.
4. What are the management and union strategies for dealing with conflict?