Principles of Management s1

Survey of Management

MGT 8063 Spring 2007 ______

Professor: Assistant: Dr. Allison W. Pearson Mr. Bart Debicki 302G McCool Hall 201B McCool Hall 325-7015 (office) 324-7806 (home) 325-6726 (office) [email protected] [email protected]

Office Hours and Class Message Board I check and respond to e-mail and the class message board M-F several times a day. I am in my office for phone consultation on Monday and Wednesday mornings 9:00-11:00AM CST, beginning January 8 2007. I strongly encourage you to post any questions you might have to the Class Message Board, so if others have similar questions, answers can be easily shared.

Required Materials: (1) Understanding Management, 5th edition by Daft & Marcic. Thomson Southwestern. ISBN 0324368828 (2) Operations Management, special edition for MSU by Stevenson. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0074271385

Course Description & Objectives: MGT8063: Survey of Management (Prerequisite: Graduate standing). Three hours lecture. Survey of management principles and techniques including: objective, policies, functions, leadership, organization, and production control procedures and systems as applied to all fields of business. The Management half of this course is designed to convey the basic concepts of the management function in organizations, including defining management, history of management, business environments, ethics, planning, strategy, organizational structures, job design, human resources, motivation, leadership, employment law, teams, communication and organizational control.

The Production Management half of the course is designed to examine the specific management processes used to create goods and services. This section of the course will cover production strategies, decision making, forecasting, capacity planning, facilities layout, quality, statistical process control, inventory management, and just-in-time management techniques.

Evaluation: Your grade in the course will be calculated as the simple average of your 5 exam grades. Grades are based on a 10-point scale.

Exams: Exams will be multiple- choice, on-line exams. Once an exam is posted, you have 48 hours to complete it. The exam schedule is on the last page of the syllabus – please make sure in advance of the course that you will be able to take each exam as scheduled. There will be no-makeup exams and no extension of the 48 hour exam window.

Assignments: Assignments will consist of homework problems and cases. Assignments are designed as learning tools to help you prepare for the exams. 1 Class: As graduate students with considerable education and experience, you are expected to do a considerable amount of the coursework on your own. You will have access to PowerPoint Slides, additional lecture notes/examples, and audio of lectures (Mp3 and Wav formats). The audio files will contain recordings of lectures given in a face-to-face setting on the MSU campus. Please keep in mind that the Production Management portion of the course will include working problems – you must be proficient in basic statistics and algebra for this portion of the course.

How to be successful in this class:

1. Strive to learn. You have to want to learn the material. You aren’t in a traditional classroom setting to keep you focused, so you must be self-motivated. 2. Read the textbooks. The textbooks and the audio files are your two primary resources. If you don’t understand something from the audio file of the lecture, follow up with the textbook. 3. Do your work. You need to keep up throughout the semester. Read chapters. Do homework in order to prepare for exams. 4. Play fair. Academic misconduct will not be tolerated. You are expected to take your exams without assistance and without use of materials. 5. Manage Your Time & Be Timely. Most people don’t have enough time to get everything done. So we have to make choices among what gets done and what doesn’t. Without the schedule of a “regular” class, you must manage how and when you listen to lectures. And, to complete this class, you must get exams completed on time. The burden of your schedule rests entirely with you. 6. Practice Professional Communication. Please use professional business communication when requesting information or assistance about the course. 7. Have fun learning. I promise to try hard to make the material relevant & interesting.

Academic Misconduct:

The Bulldog Handbook defines academic misconduct as: ....any activity which may compromise the integrity of the University. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to, deceptive acts such as the following: a. using unauthorized materials (crib notes, books, etc.) as an aid during an examination; b. looking at or using information from another person’s examination, report, or assignment; c. providing assistance to, or receiving assistance from, another person in any manner prohibited by the instructor; d. possessing or providing an examination or assignment, or any part thereof, at any time or in any manner not authorized by the instructor; e. taking a quiz, examination, or similar evaluated assignment for another person; or utilizing another person to take a quiz, examination, or similar assignment in place of oneself; f. submitting any course materials or activities not the student’s own, allowing such a submission to be made for oneself, or making such a submission for another; g. using the ideas, organization, or word of another from a book, article, paper, computer file, or other source in any assignment without giving proper credit following accepted citation rules (plagiarism); h. altering, stealing, and or falsifying research data used in research reports, theses, or dissertations; and/or; i. disregarding policies governing use of human subjects or animals in research.

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2 MISWEB: The Course Management System for MGT 8063 Registering for MISWEB

To register for MISWEB, use the following link: http://misweb.cbi.msstate.edu/editor

To register for MISWEB, you need your MSU NetID and Password:

Welcome to the COBI misweb Student Information System. Use this page to register for the COBI misweb Student Information System. You will also use this page in the future to log into your misweb Student Edit Routine.

MSU Banner Net Id: (example: abc123) You can always use your Banner Password: net password to log into misweb. Additionally, if you have set up a special misweb password (using Log in the option in your Edit Routine), you can use that password to login.

You will create a password-protected account that will allow you to do many things, including: (1) checking your grades, (2) viewing the course calendar (3) receiving course e-mail, (4) accessing archived course e-mails, (5) downloading notes, lectures, & assignments for the course, and (6) posting questions to the class message board.

When you register for MISWEB, you must: (1) Complete the information under the first link, “main information” (2) Provide a valid e-mail address. Without your correct e-mail address, you will NOT receive course e-mails. If your e-mail address changes during the semester, update your e-mail address at: http://misweb.cbi.msstate.edu/editor It is your responsibility to maintain the correct contact information.

MISWEB -Checking Grades, Class Calendar, E-mail Archives, Course web-site, Notes, Message Board, & Audio:

To access your grades, the class calendar, e-mail archives, or the course web-site with notes and audio files, at any point during the semester, go the web site: http://misweb.cbi.msstate.edu Click on your instructor’s name, for this course, Allison Pearson. Scroll down the page to the section Courses Taught. Select your course, MGT8063, and click on the link for Online Grades. You will check your grades using the password that you selected when you registered for MISWEB. You will also find links for course calendar, course website (on-line notes and audio files of lectures), e-mail archives, etc. in your gradebook.

3 Course Outline

Audio Files for each lecture will be posted to the MGT8063 website immediately following each lecture. The lecture & exam schedule are posted below:

Principles of Management Section of Course All Assignments for this portion of the course come from Daft & Marcic’s Understanding Management. Class Date Day Topic Lecture notes & audio are available from my webpage for this course at: # http://misweb.cbi.msstate.edu 1 01/08 M Introduction & Overview of Course. Register for MISWEB. Must complete the “main information” section and provide correct e-mail address. Go to http://misweb.cbi.msstate.edu/editor to begin. 2 01/10 W Chapter 1: The Changing Paradigm of Management & Foundations of Learning Organizations. 3 01/15 M University Holiday 4 01/17 W Chapter 1 continued. Management History (begins page 28). 5 01/22 M Chapter 2: The Environment and Corporate Culture 6 01/24 W Chapter 3: Managing in a Global Environment 7 01/29 M Chapter 4: Managerial Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility 8 01/31 W EXAM 1: 48 hour window to take exam begins at 1:00PM 9 02/05 M Chapter 5: Organizational Goal Setting & Planning 10 02/07 W Chapter 7: Structure & Fundamentals of Organizing 11 02/12 M Chapter 9: Human Resource Management & Diversity 12 02/14 W Chapter 11: Leadership in Organizations 13 02/19 M Chapter 12: Motivation in Organizations 14 02/21 W Catch up and Exam Review 15 02/26 M EXAM 2: 48 hour window to take exam begins at 1:00PM Production Management Section of Course All assignments for this portion of the course come from Stevenson’s Operations Management 16 02/28 W Chapter 1: Introduction to Production; History of the Assembly Line Video 17 03/05 M Chapter 2: Competitiveness, Strategy, & Productivity 18 03/07 W Chapter 3: Forecasting 19 03/12 M SPRING BREAK – University Holiday 20 03/14 W SPRING BREAK – University Holiday 21 03/19 M Chapter 3: Forecasting 22 03/21 W Homework & Exam Review 23 03/26 M EXAM 3: 48 hour window to take exam begins at 1:00PM 24 03/28 W Chapter 5: Strategic Capacity Planning for Products & Services 25 04/02 M Chapter 6: Process Selection & Facility Layout 26 04/04 W Chapter 9: Management of Quality 27 04/09 M Homework & Exam Review 28 04/11 W EXAM 4: 48 hour window to take exam begins at 1:00PM 29 04/16 M Chapter 10: Quality Control 30 04/18 W Chapter 11: Inventory Management 31 04/23 M Chapter 11: Inventory Management 32 04/25 W Homework & Exam Review; Course Evaluations

FINALS Monday, 04/30 EXAM 5 – 48 hour window to take the text begins at 1:00PM. The final is not comprehensive. The final covers Chapters 10 & 11.