Discussion Questions
Each section only needs to be a paragraph or two.
# 1 – Principles of Management
1. Identify a charismatic leader and a leader with little charisma. What are the traits and skills that allow them to succeed in their roles?
2. How can you incorporate the traits that allow them to be successful in their roles into the skills you will need to have in a leadership position?
#2 Historical Theories
1) After doing the readings for this course, what is one concept that you found interesting. Explain why you found the concept/information interesting. https://myleoonline.tamuc.edu/content/enforced/77671-202130ORGL-4341-1CW/imscc18a9708e59fb47eda2bf2a4613626e7a/U3R/C11R/stone_history%20of%20leadership.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=Jajsf7HaXS8XaFAHuPlhiFziP&ou=77671
https://openstax.org/books/principles-management/pages/3-introduction
#3 – Challenges
1) How much would you change your ethical values or standards or your view of social responsibility in order to fit into a company?
2) What if you were sent on assignment to another country where the national standards seemed to differ both from the corporate ones and from your personal standards?
#4 – Planning Functions
1) As you look at your own experience and capabilities, where are your strengths and weaknesses relative to the seven elements of the planning process?
2) What is your plan of action for strengthening your planning capabilities?
#5 – Organizing Function
You have been selected to lead a team to decide on a different type of structure in your organization to better serve customers who are complaining about poor service that is slow, impersonal, and not meeting their needs to be heard. Presently, the functional structure isn’t working well. Outline some information from your reading about Organizational Structures and Designs that would help the team in its assignment.
https://openstax.org/books/principles-management/pages/4-3-organizational-designs-and-structures
#6 – Internal/External Environments
What key environmental changes do you think will increasingly force managers to be proficient at conducting environmental analyses?
