Principles of Management

                      Bill Klinger

                               Syllabus 

Topic Class Slides               Reading Homework  Resources
Week 1 Introduction Introduction Chapters 1, 2 HW1 Take notes with pen and paper
* SW Video - Lead with LUV
Business Writing - 1 Manager Assignment * B&K Video - Geek Squad
Manager-Yamada * Boone 15e Video - Ch.7 Smart Design
Environment Homework template   HM Video - Effective Mgmt - SW airlines
* Dalio Principles for Success
Business Writing - 2 Common errors  * Griffin 10e Video - Numi Tea's New Manager
How to cite   DVD - Walmart - Bonus - CEO
Week 2 Planning Basic Planning Chapter 3 Yamada Due
Manager-Venables
* Steve Jobs vision video at 6:44
* Apple Navigator vision video
Business Writing - 3 * DVD - Nike - Birth of an Empire
Strategy  
Business Writing - 4    Griffin 9e Video - Planning & Goal Setting
Week 3 Strategy - II Chapter 4 HW1 due
Venables due
* Strategy Exercise
   Lucent SWOT analysis
   Nokia SWOT analysis
  Pick a Manager * DVD - Google - Chapter 1
Strategy - II    DVD - Trump - Skill Set
* Prisoner's Dilemma in action
Week 4 Decision Making Pick a Manager due
Study for exam
* DVD - McDonalds - one owner
New Ventures quizlet flash cards by Amanda Greene * DVD - Google - Chapter 5
          * Griffin DVD - Ch. 3, Recycline
          *  
Week 5 Business Examples Chapters 6, 7 Manager Gorman   Griffin 9e Video - American Flatbread
* Griffin 9e Video - Quadrant Capital
* Griffin 9e Video - Baker's Best
          * McDonalds - Birth 
Exam * Griffin DVD - Ch. 3, Finagle a Bagel
* Pole exercise
* Griffin DVD - Ch. 7, Flight 001 Planning
  DVD - Trump - Entrep. Play Book
  HM Video - Ch 1 - Southwest Airlines
Week 6 Organizing Org. Basics Chapter 8 Gorman due * DVD - Walmart - Build it and they will come
Pick a Manager
HW2
* Griffin 9e - Org at Green Mountain
Organization Design * Organizational designs exercise
Week 7 Org. Change Pick a Manager due * Interview Exercise
Human Resources
Study for exam
* DVD - American Airlines - labor
quizlet flash cards by Amanda Greene   DVD - Walmart - Walmart Wages
Week 8 Business Examples Chapters 9, 10 HW2 due * Do Start-Stop-Continue 
Exam Pick a Manager    DVD - Cruise Inc. - Bonus Meet the Crew
* HM CD -  Ch. 4, Performance Review
          * DVD - AA - Labor pains 
  DVD - Nike - Labor pains
  Griffin Video - Change at Jordan's Furniture
Week 9 Leading Individual Behavior
Business Presentations
Chapters 11, 12 HW3 - HW example * Personality Profile and careers
* Dalio Principles for Success
Pick a Manager due

CEO - what it takes
* Choosing a career
Motiv. & Perform. * B&K Video - Chapter 1 - Cannondale
Week 10 Leadership Chapter 13 CEO - what it takes due  
Team exercise * Collaborations exercises
Week 11 Work teams HW3 due * New manager talk
* Boone 15e Ch. 9,
Kimpton Hotels
Interpersonal Comm. Study for exam * Griffin 9e Video - Ch. 18 - Comm. at IDG
* Communication exercise
Week 12 Group exercises Chapters 14, 15 quizlet flash cards by Amanda Greene   Griffin 10e Video - Ch. 16 Flight 001
* Griffin 9e Video - Ch. 17 - Leadership at Life is Good
* Griffin 9e Video - Ch. 16, Motiv. Sales Force
Exam Pick one of two
HW4 - HW example
* Griffin 9e Video - Ch. 19 - Work Groups and Teams at   Finagle a Bagel
* Winter Survival 
* Paper Tower
 
Extra credit:
Mission statements
Lessons learned
  Goldman Sachs video
Week 13 Controlling Controlling Chapter 22   *  YouTube - Netflix

 
          *  AA - Jet A fuel 
Operations Pick one of two due *  DVD - Coke - The Bottlers
Delta Airlines 3,200 meals a day

*  DVD - Cruise Inc. - Setting Sail
Maersk shipping
Vessel finder
AA Cargo
Amazon Fulfillment

*  B&K Video - FedEx
*  B&K Video - Ch. 16 - Pizzeria Uno
 *  American Airlines - gathering storm
   Griffin 10e Video - EVO
Week 14 Information Tech HW4 due Observation exercise 1
Observation exercise 2
Observation exercise 3
Observation exercise 4
Manager Characteristics

Resources

NOTE: What to do if you miss a class.

Read this!

Papers you write should be in the format of this template.  Make sure your references are cited properly and follow these guidelines.  NOTE: you should both a citing in the text and a Works Cited page.

Guide for how to do well in this course.

Never send email like this A guide for sending professors email.

Get in the habit of reading The Wall Street Journal.  For quick news, try CNN/Money.  To learn more about investing go to Vanguard.  You should also listen to Bloomberg radio 1130 AM or the business news on 880 AM at 25 minutes and 55 minutes after the hour.  On TV, try CNBC or Bloomberg TV.

Financial information on companies can be found at Bloomberg, Google, and Yahoo

There are many jobs and internships available.  Go to the RVCC Internship web pages.

You can find a nearly complete Principles of Management course with videos at the Education Portal.

Reading List

If you are interested in business, here are books you should consider reading:

Read any management book by Peter Drucker.
If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly: William J Bernstein
Elements of Investing: Burton G. Malkiel: ISBN: 9781118484876
Free to Choose: Milton and Rose Friedman:
ISBN 978-0-15-633460-0            See the TV series here.
Fooled By Randomness: Nassim Taleb: ISBN 0812975219
Freakonomics: Steven Levitt: ISBN 006073132X
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Burton G. Malkiel:  ISBN: 0393325350

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