MGMT
contains several separate types of cases and exercises:
What Would You Do Case –
Multiple Choice Questions
Each chapter has an engaging case outlining actual management
problems facing a well-known company. After you read
the case, there are several multiple choice questions
to help guide your thinking about the issues. Ultimately
you are asked “If you were the manager at this
company, what would you do?”
What Would You Do Case –
Short Answer Questions
The same engaging case is used as in the Multiple Choice
Question version, but the questions at the end are in
short answer format.
Management Decision
Making decisions is part of every manager’s job.
To give you practice at managerial decision making,
each chapter contains a “Management Decision”
assignment focused on a particular decision. You’ll
need to decide what to do in the given situation and
then answer several questions to explain your choices.
Management Team Decision
From sports to school to work to civic involvement,
working in teams is increasingly part of our experience.
But although working in teams is more and more common,
making decisions as teams is not necessarily any easier.
You will learn more about managing teams in Chapter
10, but to give you more experience with teamwork, a
“Management Team Decision” exercise designed
for a group of three to five students is included in
each chapter.
Develop Your Career Potential
These assignments have one purpose: to help you develop
your present and future capabilities as a manager. What
you will learn through these assignments is not traditional
"book learning" based on memorization and
regurgitation, but practical knowledge and skills that
help managers perform their jobs better. Lessons from
some of the assignments-for example, goal setting-can
be used for immediate benefit. Other lessons will obviously
take time to accomplish, but you can still benefit now
by making specific plans for future improvement.
