Short Answers On two separate pages, select three of the following questions to aliSwer; each answer ten points. The three combined answers must not exceed two.To receive comparable credit, each answer should be about the same length.
1. "Why do you want to be a manager?" If you're interviewing a management candidate, what are some good and bad answers to this question? Based on the individual's interview response, what are some likely positive and negative outcomes of their future behavior as a manager?
2. Pick two of the "management theories" from chapter two and discuss how each theory can be applied in 2016. What are some of the current strengths and weaknesses of your selected theories as they are applied in today's business world?
3. Describe a personal or professional example of planning from your personal experience. Did the planning exercise add or detract from the activity/project that you describe? What improvements have you made to your planning efforts as a result of this experience? What are some critical concepts to planning that can make it more effective in the future?
4. What are the challenges faced by a supervisor when he/she seeks to establish a new work flow in the department? What are the possible reasons to re-organize the physical work space, and what are some pitfalls that supervisors should avoid?
5. After our discussion of chapter 17, which leadership model is most compelling to you, and why? Which of the leadership theories doesn't seem to be valid for you in 2016, and why? In an interview setting, what questions might you ask to determine the candidate's "leadership potential"?
6. If most managers prefer the 10-10-10-70 model of management (focus on control), how would you convince them that 30-30-30-10 will be more productive in their business? What is the best use of 'control' as a management function? In the best situation, how does control relate to the other management functions?
7. As a preview of your management journal assignment, you can select this question as a short essay response for exam 1: describe a "good-bad-ugly" management situation and why you considered that management was good (or not so good) in that specific situation. Make sure that your answer ties to one of the four primary management fUnctions.