MGMT
contains several separate types of cases and exercises:
Practice Being a Manager
This experiential exercise allows students to work with
many aspects of management in a hand-on fashion. Because
learning occurs most deeply in context, that is, when
students are immersed in a situation, these experiential
exercises include multiple steps that take students
through multiple aspects of a process or scenario. Teaching
notes are in the instructor manual. NOTE: These exercises
are not available to students on the student side of
www.mgmt4me.com. This enables instuctors to assign these
exercises as most appropriate for individual classes.
What Would You Do Case –
Multiple Choice Questions
Each chapter has an engaging case outlining actual management
problems facing a well-known company. After students
read the case, they are presented several questions
to help guide their thinking about the issues, and are
ultimately asked “If you were the manager at this
company, what would you do?” Putting students
in the place of the manager personalizes the dilemma
and forces students to solve common managerial problems.
The solution to the case, or “What Really Happened?”
is in the Instructor Manual. Allowing students to compare
what they would have done to what the managers really
did provides a great learning opportunity.
For instructors with large sections, a multiple choice
quiz based on a hybrid of the problem and solution help
you use this case to determine how well students understand
the issues presented. The quizzes are automatically
gradable, and results can be returned to you via email.
That way, you can still benefit from the more involved
case presentations that tend to be more difficult to
implement with large class sizes.
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. The short answers are not automatically
gradable, but the answers can be email to you, if you
choose.
Management Decision
Making decisions is part of every manager’s job.
To give students practice at managerial decision making,
each chapter contains a “Management Decision”
assignment focused on a particular decision. Students
will need to decide what to do in the given situation
and then answer several questions to explain their 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.
Students will learn more about managing teams in Chapter
10, but to give them 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 students
develop their present and future capabilities as a manager.
What students 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 more time to accomplish, but students can still
benefit now by making specific plans for future improvement.
