Business Management

Please select 3 of the following questions and provide short essay answers for all 3 chosen.

1. Think of yourself as a business. Identify your lifetime goals and apply the management functions to the management of yourself in achieving those goals. Think of yourself as a one-employee business in which you are that employee. You may include the use of any technological tools you feel would be helpful. What plans do you need to make to achieve the goals? How can you organize yourself and maintain controls to assure that you do what you need to do when you need to do it? Is there something you need to do to influence or motivate yourself to achieve your goals?

2. Use the Internet to identify sources for assistance in potential career development, in particular: associations, conferences, recent publications, and training programs. Explain what skills and knowledge are the focuses of the event and why these are important for managers.

3. Share a complaint you have concerning an organization you have experienced or about which you have read. Imagine you have taken over as its top manager. Explain how you could use the approaches suggested in Chapter 2 to change the organization.

4. Based on your experience in a business, schools, or other organization, identify one or more of the approaches in Chapter 2 that you saw being used in the organization. How well did the approach work (explain what did or did not work)? What do you think they should have done differently?

5. How many approaches in Chapter 2 can be applied in your personal life? For example, is there anything about contingency management, which might be useful to you?