Coffee N More Business
OVERVIEW OF THE BUSINESS
Description of Business
Coffee N’ More is an on-campus coffee and snack cart facility operate on the St. Christa campus
of the University of the Vital Islands (UVI). This student-owned and managed business serves
coffee, teas, sandwiches and snacks to the University community. Briefly, product offerings
include: beverages, specialized coffee (e.g., espresso and latte), teas (e.g., local and nationally
branded herbal teas), and a limited variety of sandwich and snack foods products.
Coffee N’ More began in Spring 2015 as a student-owned but not profit 501(c)(3) business. All
profits earned by this business are funneled into a Student-funded foundation out of which
participating students can earn varying amounts of stipends to partially fund tuition, books and
other student UVI fees.
Students are not permitted to “work” the jobs serving Coffee N’ More customers or any other
first line worker jobs. Coffee N’ More was created for students leading it to do so as Managers and
Supervisors of those employees they would hire.
Therefore, participating students in the of Coffee N’ More business manage the various parts of
the business in approximate alignment with their academic areas of study: management,
marketing, information systems, accounting and finance.
Total School Of Business academic degree programs are integrated with this Coffee N’ More
business enterprise. By design, this Coffee N More business serves as a continual “learning
laboratory” for students. Students will “learn by doing” the core concepts in their chosen majors
and in their general business education learning outcomes, as applied to this business.
This arrangement must be seen as strength or a weakness or some combination of both mans this
a possible competitive advantage or disadvantage. For example, it might be a competitive risk of
a disadvantage too due to lack of sufficient real-world application of such knowledge and skills
by those SOB students. Afterall, the students are “learning by doing”, aren’t they?
Nevertheless, since Coffee N’ More is a real business. Like any other business, it must be managed
and those business functions studied must be integrated and applied well in managing it. As Coffee
N’ More, for example, the student led senior management team of Coffee N’ More performs all
major decision making and strategic management of Coffee N’ More. Also, the student head of
Operations Manager and the student head of Marketing, of Coffee N’ More together, with
sufficient input from the student Supervisors of Coffee N’ More, hire all employees of Coffee N’
More.
Participating UVI students will apply all facets of business management responsibilities that have
to be carefully assigned and scheduled by the Coffee N’ More student leadership team: operations
management [supply chain management, inventory management, job scheduling, equipment
maintenance, quality management (of current job performance, process performance, and
product/service performances)]. Also to be managed and decisions made about are: Coffee N’
More’s marketing, accounting, information systems and technology, and finance activities and
responsibilities.
All employees are hired from within the local non-student St. Christa community, with a special
positive bias toward hiring senior citizens and retirees. The reason the original Coffee N’ More
senior management team in 2015 chose this hiring strategy was based upon the Walmart
Corporation’s successful use of this hiring approach.
Operating hours for Coffee N’ More are between 7am to 4pm. Work Shifts: 6:00am to 5:30pm.
Shift 1 (6:00am – 10:00am); Shift 2 (10:00am to 2:00pm) Shift 3 (2:00pm to 6:00pm). Shift 1
does 1 hour of set-up the business for opening and operating beginning at 7am and 3 hours of
operating/serving. Shift 2 continues operating/serving until 2pm. Shift 3 continues serving until
closing at 4pm and them spends 2 hour of closing the records, securing the funds, cleaning and
shutting down.
Each Shift require 2 paid employees (hired from the local community of residents) and two
participating UVI student Managers/Supervisors, not directly paid salaries. Each of the two
participating UVI student Manager/Supervisors in a given shift will have only a two-hour
responsibility to oversee and manage the Coffee N’ More business—which is why two student
managers are needed per shift.
The New Students Owned Coffee N’ More Business Model
While engaging in marketing research, the students identified and evaluating a current local
business’s successful version of this model, a competitor. The students team agreed to mimic this
idea as their off-campus business model, while attempting to successfully differentiate from this
competitor’s version.
Now, the location of the second Coffee N’ More unit, first such off-campus unit, has been
identified. SOB Students plan, based upon substantial student led market research, to eventually
locate an off-campus Coffee N’ More mobile units on their small Caribbean island next year.
This business will be offering take-out service and not enable sit down service.
The new off-campus Coffee N’ More business will be specially designed to operate out of a
converted School Bus. This Coffee N’ More business will be located legally, with official Vital
Islands government permits. This new Coffee N’ More business will be placed and positioned
strategically throughout St. Christa Island. This business’s location must be in a high traffic area
and enable customer access to sufficient parking.
Competitive Situation
For the past few years, global coffee competitive forces have affected local coffee serving and
food serving competitors. Since 2009, the McDonald’s Corporation and Starbucks have
aggressively penetrated markets worldwide, as they’ve both campaigned for the attention of
coffee connoisseurs.
St. Christa Islands is no exception. McDonalds offers lattes and mochas in its McCafés
restaurants United States. McDonalds has also marketed more healthy food offerings to compete
with Starbuck’s healthy food offerings. In an attempt to woo rival Starbucks’ more healthconscious and socially more “woke” customers, McDonalds promised to offer premium coffee
and healthy food offerings but at bargain prices.
Meanwhile, Starbucks has aggressively positioned itself to be located nearby McDonalds
establishments. Starbucks markets and offers more healthy and nutritiously delicious snacks and
food options aiming to attract more of McDonalds’ customers, especially those becoming
increasingly more health conscious.
So, the McDonalds versus Starbucks fight continues. Both global brands and food-beverage
stores exist on St. Christa for local coffee serving and food serving businesses to contend with.
More recently, large fast food brands on St. Christa—Burger King, Wendy’s and even Kentucky
Fried Chicken—have joined the competition to offer better quality flavored coffee and latte
beverages and some healthier-food options.
All of these global brands have the benefit over local St. Christa food and beverage businesses in
terms of having lower food and beverage costs than local businesses have due mainly to
economies of scale and economies of experience effects (i.e., learned to operate most efficiently
due to years of experience).
In contrast, the UVI participating students only can have accumulated two to three years of
experiences before they graduate and be replaced by new participating students. Hence, the
participating UVI School of Business students won’t have accumulated much economies of
experience benefits. Nor would it be possible for such a small sized business like Coffee N’
More could achieve any economies of scale cost reductions like a Starbucks, Wendy’s,
McDonalds’ has achieved.
So, while Coffee N’ More relies upon locally available suppliers and related costs, competitors
like McDonalds, Starbucks, Wendy’s and Burger King have their own global suppliers, which
disadvantages local St Christa competitors.
Consequently, size does matter here. Brand recognition value matters too. Coffee N’ More, while
well known and successful on campus for the past 4 years, does not logically mean that the
Coffee N’ More brand is recognized much outside of UVI’s campus. Both local competitors and
globally branded large competitors have an advantage over Coffee N’ More in this brand
recognition regard.
Perhaps, UVI School of Business students may market their student and non-profit status to
appeal to local customers to “help your local students”. If this works, then that would provide
some advantage over both local and global brand competitors. But only if such an appeal would
work, which must be discovered once the off-campus business starts.
Assignment:
The focus of your thinking and application of Management concepts you’ve learned so far:
The shifts of Coffee N’ More from only an on-campus and non-profit 501(c)(3) operation to
the new off-campus and for-profit business model. This shift indicates and begs the need to
anticipate a variety of “possible” management problems for the off-campus Coffee N’More
for profit business. By your anticipating and properly planning for such possible
management problems, you can avoid must of them. Therefore, your task is to answer the
following questions that demand you to seriously think about and apply your management
concepts you’ve learned so far. All answers below must make business and management
sense for the specific facts given to you by this Coffee N’ More case study. If your answers
make little sense, then you’ll not get many points, if any for such questions.
Using all of the learning materials provided, apply these appropriately to answer the following
questions. You are a business consultant that Coffee N’ More’s leadership team will receive free
consulting advice from the Vital Islands Small Business Administration Office. You work for
this organization and have lot’s of wise business counsel to give.
1. Given the narrative given in this Coffee N’ More business case, there are some
significant external environmental factors indicated, which need further sensemaking and
understanding in order to plan for responding to. Identify three such external
environmental factors/forces indicated in this business case and discuss what
additional analyses you realize is necessary in order for Coffee N’ More to plan to
respond to. Finally, formulate a brief and succinct plan of action for each of these
three environmental factor patterns, you understand.
2. Form of Business Ownership. Even though the on campus Coffee N’ More business is a
non-profit entity, have a brief introductory conversation with the Coffee N’ More’s
student leadership team about the possible different types of for-profit legal business
organization options they might consider for the off campus business entity. Discuss
briefly the pros and cons of each type of business organization they should think
about. You realize that you will need to brush up on this detail and must prepare
your brief descriptions of each business ownership types. Go online, perhaps the
SBA, and find brief descriptions of the major types of business organization. DO
NOT PLAIGARIZE but write in your own words the type and brief description of
business organization you’re going to tell the Coffee N’ More team. Only a brief
paragraph will suffice. Write these accurately here.
3. Since this new Coffee N’ More will be located off campus and more in “the real world”,
you consult with the student leadership team and recommend they consider hiring a fulltime manager from the non-student community and have UVI leadership team to oversee
and manage this on-site full time Manager. Hence, a new full time Manager’s job
description is required. You’ll assist the leadership team by preparing a job analysis for
this Coffee N’ More Manager’s position. You will outline:
a. Leadership characteristics, values and/or people management philosophy desired in the
successful Coffee N’ More Manager. Provide at least seven such
characteristics/values/people management philosophy traits;
b. Documentable evidence the candidate must present for review supporting their claim
to be such a leader described in question 1a. Because you’re consulting with the student
leader team, you will help them by specifying what those types of documentable evidence
that should be listed in the advertisement of this Coffee N’ More Manager position
description. Provide at least three types of documentable evidence the Candidate
must commit to share when submitting their application for the Manager’s job.
4. Assume three applicants have applied for this full time Manager position. Suggest and
explain at least relevant five interview questions the Coffee N’ More’s student
leadership team should ask of each candidate. Be sure to go online to learn the types
of illegal or unethical interview questions you must never ask a candidate—this is
important, since you might be sued for malpractice should you advise the leadership
to ask illegal or unethical job interview questions.
5. Now the Coffee N’ More’s leadership team has interviewed the candidates. One
candidate has really impressed them overall, while a couple more candidates have done
well but not as impressive as Jai Kay. The Cofffee N’ More briefed you about their
interview with Jai Kay. They mentioned that Jai Kay was recently laid off from a large
coffee shop and snack food establishment on the other end of the island and was still
collecting unemployment compensation. Towards the end of the interview, Jai Kay
suggested that the Coffee N’ More consider paying him "under the table" for another six
months because he wants to continue receiving his unemployment compensation for that
time. Jai explains should the student leadership team accepts this suggestion, he’d would
be willing to reduce his manager’s salary a bit. Jai continued this offer by saying that
Coffee N’ More’s employer payroll taxes would not have to be paid from this under the
table arrangement. As the Coffee N’ More’s consultant, what would you suggest to the
student leadership team members regarding this ethics-related issue. Describe and
explain clearly your response and reasons, especially the ethics.
6. Since you’re hiring a full-time non-student Manager for the for-profit off-campus Coffee
N’ More business, your UVI student leadership team has to adjust how you manage a
non-student and full time manager who is not on campus but in the community location.
Your full time Manager will likely be older than your student leadership team members
and probably has achieved lots of real-world management experiences, one of the reasons
why you would have hired him or her. Identify at least 10 management concepts
you’ve learned in the Model of Management and other learning materials you’ve
been taught. For each of these 10 specifically named management concepts,
demonstrate how that concept could be the basis for a possible conflict which may
occur between the Manager and your Coffee N’ More student leader team
members, who are his or her “boss”. Try to write only a few sentences to describe
each of the 10 management concepts you’ve selected but be sure to explain why you
selected each as a potential area of conflict. Name each concept before answering
and be sure that concept is part of the learning materials given to you. For example,
and you can’t use this one: the possibility that the Manager you hired is actually more a
Theory X manager, when he or she interviewed and claimed to be more descriptive of a
Theory Y manager
7. Given the meaning of commitment-oriented controls, specify exactly which such controls
you’ll establish for this for-profit Coffee N’ More business operation and how you’ll
install these into the Manager’s responsibilities to manage. Identify and explain your
deployment of at least three such commitment-oriented controls to deploy in Coffee N’
More.
Management Concepts
Concepts:
Definitions:
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Gives The Whole and the Parts of Management
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Your conscious recognition and remembering
specific experiences enables you to discover
specific text book concepts;
Therefore, real learning is an active mental
engagement in your life experiences that you map
to your textbook concepts;
PAY ATTENTION - TO YOUR LIFE SITUATIONS!
Learning = Awakening
CONSCIOUSLY RE-COGNIZE - LIFE REVEALING AND
BROADCASTING TO YOU YOUR CLASSROOM
LEARNING CONCEPTS;
RE-COGNIZE = “KNOWING AGAIN”
one’s belief in their ability to accomplish what he
or she seeks to do (in any situation)
These 4 variables together lead to self-efficacy;
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Course Overview – turbulent
envir., factors/forces of
change; challenges to
managers and management
theory principles: leading, etc.
Your Life Experience Encodes
Every Text Book Concept
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Learning happens mostly
OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM
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Self-Efficacy –
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Self-Knowledge; Self-Confidence;
Self-Competence; Self-Love;
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MANAGEMENT KEYS:
1. “The Relationship Is More
Important Than Your Point”
2. “Follow The Golden Rule”
3. Communicate, Communicate,
Communicate;
4. If all your Employment
Development attempts fail,
terminate the employee
Week(s)
Discussed:
Weeks 1, 2
and 3
Weeks 1, 2
and 3
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Universal Relationships:
• Part-to-Whole
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Cause-Effect
Systems – Inputs, Processes,
Outputs, Feedback.
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Connectedness of Everything
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X – Principle of Crossing
Model of Management –
(Level 0)
• Level 0 Model Reveals Each
Universal Relationship Above
Model of Management – MOM
(Level 1)
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Part-to-Whole - Anything or person comprises
parts related properly to function as a whole
• Cause- is a force or action causing result, the Effect
• Anything or person functions (as a whole-of-parts)
by receiving proper inputs from the environment
it needs, that internal parts processes properly, to
produces outputs with which to sustain its
existence and form. Feedback enables after-thefact detection of whether or not proper inputs,
processes or outputs are proper and sufficient.
• Anything and person has a distinguishable and
recognizable relationship to anything and any
other person;
• X symbolizes RELATIONSHIP, CROSSING,
CREATING A NEW “ONE” THING BY RELATING
TWO SEPARATE THINGS/PEOPLE
Environment, Leading, Planning, Organizing, Doing,
Controlling
Weeks 1, 2
and 3
Week 1, 2
and 3
Week 2
MOM Definitions below:
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Environment
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Leading
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Planning
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Organizing
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Doing
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Controlling
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Organization
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Management
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Taylorism – Scientific Mgt
“You” – Manager of “You”
Entities: Economy, Regulations, Customers,
Competitors, Technology, Society, Global Resources,
Stakeholders, Population, Legal, Governments,
Suppliers, Strategic Alliances. Educational Institutions,
Media, Industries, Markets
Influencing other people to get the job done,
maintaining morale, molding company culture, and
managing conflicts and communication.
Setting goals, deciding on courses of action,
developing rules/procedures, developing plans and
forecasting
Identifying jobs to be done, hiring people to do them,
establishing departments, delegating authority,
establishing a chain of command, coordinating work of
subordinates.
Implementing actions planned, identifying emerging
opportunities and obstacles, changing and adjusting
actions and plans to exploit opportunities and
overcome obstacles,
Setting standards, comparing actual performance,
taking corrective action as required.
group of people working together in defined roles to
achieve common goals and objectives
Management: coordinating and overseeing the work
of others so that their activities are completed
efficiently and effectively.
Belief that there’s “One Best Way” to perform any job.
Self-management leads to learning, growth and
success.
Concepts:
Definitions:
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Economic Eras
Transitions and
The Wars Causing
Them
2 Main Levers to Control:
• Agricultural . land, slaves
• Industrial . machine capital, financial capital
• Information – data info., computer tech
• Psych-Soc-Tech – minds, social relationships
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Forces of Change
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Disruptive
Technology
Week 2
Weeks 2-3
Weeks 2-3
Weeks 2-3
Weeks 2-3
Weeks 2-3
Weeks 2-3
Weeks 2-3
Weeks 3-4-4
Week 2
changing customer wants;
innovative technologies – new technology;
disruptive technologies;
converging technologies – combinations of 2 or more
technologies;
• globalization – forces towards “one-world govt”
• legal and regulatory dynamics;
• political instabilities;
• cultural diversity;
• economic uncertainties;
• Internet/e-commerce revolutions.
A radical technology that changes how businesses and other
organizations must compete; if not adopted, it will cause the business
or organization to fail. In time, disruptive technologies become the
standard technology used by most.
Week(s)
Discussed:
Weeks 4-5
Weeks 4-5
Weeks 4-5
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Theory X
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Theory Y
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Emerging Business
Psych-Soc-Tech
Environmental
Changes, Threats
and implications
on management,
human, society
and relationships.
Leading Concepts
• Autocratic
Versus
Theory X: A set of assumptions managers have about human nature
believing that people:
• dislike work;
• are not motivated to do a good job;
• are motivated only by financial incentives;
• dislike responsibility;
• prefer to be directed;
• need to be closely monitored;
• can’t be trusted.
Theory y: A set of assumptions managers have about human nature
believing that people:
• enjoy work;
• are motivated to do a good job;
• are motivated by more than financial incentives;
• like responsibility;
• are self-directed;
• don’t need to be closely monitored;
• can be trusted.
Critical Question: How will you be able to Manage Others in such a
new world emerging?
• Tech Giants’ Addicting Users – challenges profitability,
productivity and workplace relationships;
• Mass Media Control – ‘divide-and conquer’ mind manipulation of
masses about ‘reality’ and ‘truth’;
• Social Credit System – Mass real-time 24/7 surveillance and
systemic modifying human behaviors through social
reward/punishments (a mass ‘Control’ function)
Old vs New Environment
• Autocratic – ‘auto’ means self and – ‘cracy’ means govern or rule.
Autocratic leaders manage others as their single authority and
power over them. Autocratic leaders use ‘top-down’ decisionmaking and ‘command and control’ authority over the work and
workers’ responsibilities.
• Democratic/Participatory - ‘demo’ means the people’ and – ‘cracy’
means govern or rule. Democratic leaders use ‘bottom-up’
approach towards the work and workers’ responsibilities by
seeking their participation in decision-making processes.
Weeks 3-4
Weeks 5-6
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Democratic
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Transactional
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Versus
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Transformational
Transactional - an exchange-based relationship between the
manager/leader and the employees being led.
Transformational – an emotion-based relationship wherein the
manager motives, inspires and positively changes the workers.
Weeks 3-4
Weeks 4-5
Weeks 5-6
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Programmed
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Versus
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Non-programmed
Decisions
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Problem-solving
Steps 1-5
• Leadership
Orientations
• Leadership Styles
Planning Concepts
• Workers Do &
Managers
Think/Plan
versus
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Workers
Do/Think/Plan &
Managers
Think/Plan
Rational Decisionmaking -
Versus
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1.Define the Problem; 2.Clarify Objectives;
4.Analyze Consequences; 5.Make Choice.
Telling; Delegating; Participating; Selling
Versus
Weeks 5-6
Weeks 5-6
Weeks 5-6
Weeks 5-6
Weeks 5-6
Weeks 5-6
Workers Do/Think/Plan & Managers Think/Plan – A manager’s belief
and practice that workers’ value lies in doing the work and
participating in some of thinking and planning.
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Analytical,
Creative &
Intuitive Decisionmaking
Organizing Concepts
• Tall
3.Identify Alternatives;
Thinking vs Feeling and Intuiting vs Sensing
Old vs New Environment
Workers Do & Managers Think/Plan – A manager’s belief and practice
that workers’ only function in the workplace is to do the work and the
manager’s functions are thinking and planning.
Satisficing
Decision-making
• Analytical
Decision-making
Programmed decisions (problematic situations on the job) – These
are for ‘familiar’ problematic situations on the job for which a
‘routine’ solution should be applied to resolve situation. Examples
of programmed decisions: a procedure, a policy, a company rule, a
rule of thumb (called a heuristic). Note: also ‘familiar’ problem
situation called ‘structured’ problem.
Non-programmed decisions (problematic situations on the job) –
These are for ‘unfamiliar’ problematic situations on the job for
which a ‘unique’ solution should be used. Note: ‘unfamiliar’
problem situation also called an ‘unstructured’ problem, which
requires the standard 5 problem-solving steps to solve it:
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Rational Decision-making - The rational approach to planning
ASSUMES an nearly infinite amount of 1. information; 2. time; and
3. brain-power will be needed and available to managers (which is
unrealistic) to make the decisions. So managers seek to make
‘optimal’ (meaning ‘the best’) decisions.
Satisficing Decision-making - The satisficing approach to planning,
ASSUMES only a limited amount of 1. information; 2. time; and 3.
brain-power available to make any decisions (which is the reality).
Managers settle with making ‘good enough’ decisions, given these
limits.
Weeks 5-6
Analytical Decision-making – Uses rational, fact-based, and logical
reasoning to formulate decisions, figure out and solve problems.
Analytical, Creative & Intuitive Decision-making – These
approaches combines the analytical processes with creative and
intuitive inputs and processes to formulate decisions, figure out
and solve problems.
Weeks 5-6
‘Tall’ structures (shown as a tall pyramid) has many, many levels in
the chain command between the top and bottom. Tall
organizations require lots more time for decision-making and
acting upon by top managers, through middle management levels,
Weeks 5-6
Weeks 5-6
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Versus
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Flat
Mechanistic
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Versus
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Organic
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Centralized
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Versus
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De-centralized
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Lewin’s Change
Process
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Maslow’s Need
Hierarchy
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down to the bottom levels of the organization. Tall organizations
tend to fail in turbulent environments because they’re sluggish
and slow when they need to act quickly and timely.
‘Flat’ structures (shown as a wider, shorter pyramid) contain only
a few levels in the chain command between the top and bottom.
Flat organizations require less time for a decision-making and
acting upon by top managers, through middle management levels,
down to the bottom levels of the organizations. As such in a
rapidly changing business environment (turbulent), Flat
organizations tend to succeed more in turbulent environments
because they are nimble, adaptable, and fast and can act quickly
and timely.
‘Mechanistic’ – organizations, like a machine, have many, many
parts that need to fit together rigidly and precisely for the
organization to function properly. Mechanistic organizations tend
to be inflexible and rigid and fail in turbulent environments.
‘Organic’ – organizations, like your body, also have many, many
parts but those parts are flexible and adaptable like your body’s
organs. Organic organizations tend to be more successful than
Mechanistic in a turbulent environment because they can better
adapt and respond to turbulent environments.
Weeks 5-6
‘Centralized’ – This concept is not about structure but decisionmaking authority. A certain degree and amount of decisionmaking power and authority can be concentrated at the top of the
hierarchy of the organization (e.g., the President, Chief Executive
Officer, and Board of Directors). So, centralized authority and
decision-making comes from this level.
Typical example is authority over large dollar value decisions by
the organization. For example, financial decisions over $1 million,
would only be allowed to be made by the centralized authority of
the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Board of Directors.
‘Decentralized’ – Continuing this example. Any financial decisions
less than $1 million could be decentralized to authority levels
below such as the Executive Vice-Presidents(EVPs) (between $1
million to $500,000); Senior Vice-Presidents (under the EVPs),
(between $500,000 to 100,000 - ); Vice-Presidents (under the
SVPs); (under $100,000)
Pre-Change - Frozen dysfunctional/problem conditions – leaders
identifies need to change these;
Unfreeze dysfunctional/problem conditions – leaders makes the
case for change; halt dysfunctional/problem conditions; involve
willing employees’ input, participation in decision-making and
change implementation plan;
Change - institute the changes – leaders assures proper levels of
training, resources, practice at change, employee involvement,
and other support are provided to implement change effectively;
Refreeze – Establish the change as the ‘new normal’ – leaders
assure that the change is ‘routinized’, celebrating small successes,
producing reports that show effectiveness.
‘Maslow’s Need Hierarchy’ – physiological – food, water, clothing,
etc.; safety/security – shelter, other protection; social – people
interaction, social acceptance, and belonging; esteem – self
Weeks 5-6
Weeks 5-6
Weeks 5-6
worth, self acceptance, and self appreciation; self-actualization –
becoming the best you can be, realizing your potential.
Doing Concepts
• Telling and
Delegating Versus
Participative and
Selling
• Formal
Communications
Versus
Informal
Communications
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Top-Down or
Bottom-Up (e.g.,
Unions)
Versus
Relational, TopDown and
Bottom-Up
Communications
Model
Controlling Concepts
CONTROL-ORIENTED
CONTROLS
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Previously explained;
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Formal Communications – follows the written policies and
procedures for communications and discourages informal
communications.
Versus
Informal Communications – allows for more non-written, naturally
human, and fluid communications, while acting within culturally
and socially appropriate, moral and ethical boundaries and
policies.
Self-explanatory;
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Weeks 5-6
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TASK-ORIENTED: BUDGETS, BALANCED SCORECARDS, COMPANYWIDE SYSTEMS, TIMESHEETS, CHECKLISTS, ACCOUNTING
SYSTEMS, REPORTS
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PEOPLE ORIENTED: BELIEF SYSTEMS, VALUES, COMMITMENT
FOSTERING SYSTEMS, REWARDS AND INCENTIVES, EMPLOYEE
DEVELOPMENT
VERSUS
COMMITMENTORIENTED CONTROLS
Weeks 5-6
Weeks 5-6
Management Concepts Discussed APPROXIMATELY WEEK S 1, through Exam #1 Week 8
Concepts:
Definitions:
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Leadership Power:
a. Legitimate;
b. Coercive;
c. Reward;
d. Expert;
e. Referent
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Hygiene – Dissatisfaction to No
Dissatisfaction.
Leadership Power:
• Legitimate- formal authority in the organization;
• Coercive- ability to force one to do something they
otherwise wouldn’t do;
• Reward- use a coveted reward as leverage over
one who wants it;
• Expert- use of expertise as leverage over one who
needs it;
• Referent- use of widespread credibility, charisma
and respect as leverage of influence;
• Hygiene – Dissatisfaction to No Dissatisfaction.
Moving a worker’s attitude about their job from
dissatisfaction to no dissatisfaction. Progress but
not sufficient, right? Think about it.
• Motivational – No Satisfaction to Satisfaction. A
worker isn’t dissatisfied but is still NOT SATISFIED
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Leaders must motivate such persons to become
SATISFIED with their jobs. Make sense?
• Extrinsic Motivation: Extrinsic motivation: when
an activity is done to obtain a separate outcome.;
• Intrinsic Motivation : doing an activity for the
pleasure of doing it
• Hawthorne Studies – group influences individual
behavior; $ less significant factor;
• Heuristic: rule of thumb - an informal solution
practice for a specific situation that works most of
the time but not always.
• Decision-Making Bases: 1. Rational; 2. Bounded
Rationality; 3. Intuition
• Group – a set of individuals assembled together
who are not necessarily working together;
• Team - individuals who are committed to work
together cooperatively and effectively as a whole;
• Effective Teams: clear goals, skills, trust;
commitment; communications, negotiating;
leadership and support
• Team Stages: forming, storming, norming,
performing, adjourning
1 Traditional goal setting – top-down;
2 Means-End chain;
3 Management by Objectives;
4 Planning in Dynamic Environments;
Organizing Approaches:
• Traditional – Organizing By: Function; Product;
Customer; Process; or Geographic Location;
• Modern - Organizing By: : Matrix; Network; Teambased; Virtual (e.g., internet-based)
Max Weber’s Bureaucracy – division of labor, defined
hierarchy, rules and regulations, impersonal
relationships
Fayol’s principles - Division of work; Authority;
Discipline; Unity of command; Unity direction;
versus
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Motivational – No Satisfaction to
Satisfaction.
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Extrinsic Motivation
versus
Intrinsic Motivation
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Hawthorne Studies
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Heuristic - rule of thumb
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Decision-Making Bases
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Group vs Team
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Effective Teams:
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Team Stages:
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Planning Approaches
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Organizing Approaches –
Traditional
Versus
Modern
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Max Weber’s Bureaucracy
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Fayol’s principles
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Current Trends/Issues in
Management
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Organizational Culture (OC)
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Organizational Culture (OC)
Dimensions
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Organizational Culture (OC)
Trends
Suppress individual; Centralization; Chain of
command;
Current Trends/Issues in Management:
Globalization; Ethics; Diversity; Entrepreneurship; EWorld; Knowledge Management/Learning
Organization; Quality Management
Organizational Culture (OC): Shared assumptions of a
group of people working in an organization: beliefs,
values, expectations, perceptions, norms; expected
behaviors; role models, symbols, rituals;
OC Dimensions: innovation & risk-taking; attention to
detail; outcome orientation; people orientation; team
orientation; aggressiveness; stability
Current Trends:
• Ethical OC;
• Innovative OC;
• Customer-Responsive OC;
• Spiritual OC
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McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y
Theory = A set of assumptions
Theory X: A set of assumptions managers have about
human nature believing that people:
1. dislike work;
2. are not motivated to do a good job;
3. are motivated only by financial incentives;
4. dislike responsibility;
5. prefer to be directed;
6. need to be closely monitored;
7. can’t be trusted.
Theory y: A set of assumptions managers have about
human nature believing that people:
1. enjoy work;
2. are motivated to do a good job;
3. are motivated by more than financial incentives;
4. like responsibility;
5. are self-directed;
6. don’t need to be closely monitored;
7. can be trusted.
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