Class: T-R 1:45-3:00 p.m. or 5:30-6:45 p.m., Room 200 BSA

Sections No: 13842 (1:45 pm) and 13843 (5:30 pm)

Professor: Dr. William Acar

Office: A413 BSA (M&IS Student Service Center: A402 BSA)

Hours: T-R 3:00-5:00 pm, 6:45-7:30 pm (& by appointment)

E-mail: wacar@bsa3.kent.edu

Phone: (330) 672-1156 -- In case of emergency call me at home at 330-673-6514.

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing (completion of 30 hours). For full details please consult p. 435 of the U-G Course Catalogue or the advisors at the UPO (Undergraduate Programs Office) in Room 107.

Registration: It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that one is not just authorized to register, but also duly registered. You only have till the 7^th of September to correct any registration error. You should therefore review your enrollment situation with your advisors at the UPO before that date. Even though you may diligently attend and earn good grades on your exams, I will not be allowed to give you a grade at the conclusion of the term unless you are properly registered for this class.

Required Text: "Management " by Chuck Williams, South-Western 2000 (ISBN 0-324-03709-0)

Objective: This course covers the current and future issues of management by introducing you to the field of management, and presenting you with some theoretical insights on its most important aspects.

Method: How to do well in this course? The course consists of a mixture of lectures and discussions, but makes room for some personal research. You are supposed to read the chapters assigned in the following course outline beforehand. The classes are sessions in which your instructor (with the participation of occasional guest lecturers) will discuss the material with you in order to bring up the subtle points that may be missed in your initial study.

Please note that class time will not be spent showing you simple summaries intended for short-term memorization. A large number of Power-Point slides have been posted for long-distance viewing from the comfort of your home or the convenience of the College’s computer lab (preferably before the sessions, but right afterwards when there’s a time conflict). These cover all parts of the 18 chapters of your text, and are intended to help you review the material highlighted for you during the class presentations and discussions. They can be accessed by visiting the College’s home page (http:www.

business.kent.edu), and by clicking successively on “Course Information”, “Department of M&IS” and finally the course number "M&IS 24163". You may use the password management or just acarclass.

Attendance:

Please note that, although the course is taught in two sessions, the students must attend the session in which they are registered. Exams must be taken during the session in which one is registered. No departures from this rule will be allowed except in cases of dire emergency – and these will have to be cleared with the instructor beforehand. Failure to do so may result in no grade being given for exams taken outside one's allocated time.

Attendance is for your benefit and is your responsibility. Grades usually correlate strongly with attendance, especially since most exam questions will focus primarily on all that is covered in class and the way it is presented. It is therefore to your advantage to attend regularly.

Moreover, as you have probably gathered from my initial questionnaire, you (and your grade) would greatly benefit if you and a few classmates organize yourselves into a student support group or quality circle for the purpose of sharing notes and asking each other questions. If an impediment arises and you can’t attend on a certain day, do not call the lecturer; simply visit the Power-Point slides posted for you and make arrangements with members of your support group to take notes for you. If you run into questions your group meetings have left unresolved, bring them to my attention.

Similarly, make sure that all members of your support group have a personal copy of all course handouts (when any), so as to be able to assist each other with replacing any material lost or misplaced.

Class Participation: When attending, students are expected to attend the entire session since late arrivals and early departures are very disruptive. Repeat offenders should meet with the instructor and seek a solution.

Students should come to class prepared to discuss any pre-assigned material (text, cases, handouts) in class. They are also expected to be active participants in class discussions. All parts of the course (lectures, discussions, handouts and videos) are fair game for the exam; attending and following the thrust of the lectures becomes extremely important. However, attending them with no preparation whatsoever will not allow you to fully benefit from them. You should read, or at least scan, the material beforehand. Students are responsible for asking questions about material not clearly understood. There will also be group discussion periods in each session to develop your critical thinking and give you a chance to acquire an understanding of the material that goes beyond mere memorization. In most cases, you will simply discuss the material with the person closest to you. Occasionally, Room 200 will be sectioned into 12 groups, and an intragroup discussion will be followed by an intergroup discussion moderated by the instructor and open to the whole class.

Students with Disabilities: In accordance with University policy, if you have a documented disability and require accommodation to obtain equal access in this course, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester (or when given an assignment for which accommodation is required). Students with disabilities must verify their eligibility through the Student Disability Services (SDS) office in the Michael Schwartz Center (672-3391).

Grading: A total of 100 points can be obtained. An easy, direct grading scale will be used for both the numbers and percentages. The conversion scale will conform to, or possibly be more lenient than, the following:

A = [90-100], B = [80-89], C = [70-79], D = [60-69], F = [ < 60 ]. The point breakdown is:

Exam 1	20 points
Mid-term Exam 2	30 points
Mid-term Exam 3	30 points
Final Exam 4	20 points

Exams: The exams will consist of multiple-choice questions based on the recent material as well as all previous material from the lectures, textbook, handouts and class discussions. In addition, to test your retention and digestion, they will also comprise some thoughtful and integrative questions to which the answer cannot be gathered by straight and literal memorization of the course material.

Exam 1 will bear on a small segment of the book. Exams 2 and 3 will bear mostly on a segment of the book, but will also contain a number of questions from the earlier parts, so as to test your digestion of the entire course and prepare you for the state’s Outcomes Assessment Exam that is administered to 4^th-year seniors.

Exams, especially the first, are likely to contain one or two extra (i.e. bonus) questions to cover for the odd chance of a question being misread or misinterpreted. Given this precaution, no grade change will be made on an individual basis because of questions misread or misunderstood. So please do not contact your instructor for that reason; however you can review the way you responded to exam questions by looking up your copies in the M&IS Student Service Center (A402 BSA). However, asking questions of the instructor and reviewing past exams has to occur before the day of the exam.

Make-up Exams: Students are expected to take exams on the dates indicated in the syllabus or posted on the PoM Bulletin Board. Make every effort to attend. In the event of an emergency or unavoidable conflict, there will be no need to make up a mid-term exam; I will simply adjust the weight of the other exams accordingly. However, the final exam is comprehensive and has to be taken. In this case, there will be alternate arrangements (including the possibility of an essay exam) for those students who have a legitimate emergency for which written documentation has been provided.

Drop Date: The last day to withdraw is Saturday 3 November 2001

Student Feedback: Formal class evaluations will be filled out at the end of the term; however, don’t wait till then to share your concerns or simply your views with me. Your feedback is valuable: feel free to visit or e-mail me and offer any suggestions, insights or other feedback throughout the semester.

· I am setting up a Web Bulletin Board for last-minute announcements. If you contact me ahead of time regarding a common problem, I may be able to do something about it and POST the solution on the Web Board for the class to see. In other words, visit the Web Board when you suspect that some date or system is wrong and that an announcement is likely to be made to correct the error.

Academic Honesty: The use of the intellectual property of others without giving them due credit is considered a serious academic offense. It is the University’s policy that cheating or plagiarism results in receiving a failing grade for the work or course. Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University.

COURSE OUTLINE

8-28 Introduction to the course

8-30 Chapter 1: Introduction to Management

9-4 Chapter 2: Organizational Environments (pp. 41-63)

9-6 Ch. 12 & 2: Personality Dimensions (pp. 479-486) & Organizational Culture (pp. 42-74)

9-11 Chapter 4: Planning (pp. 121-135, 138-149, 154-155)

9-13 Exam 1 [chapters 1, 2 & 4]

9-18 Chapter 5: Multi-criteria Decision Making (pp. 161-179) and C-E Analysis (instructor)

9-20 Chapter 5: Review of pp.161-179 and C/E Analysis, + Other Approaches (pp. 180-193)

9-25 Chapter 9: Corporate Strategies (313-337) and Industry-Level Strategies (337-343)

9-27 Chapter 9: Review of pp. 313-343 + Firm-Level Strategies (pp. 344-354)

10-2 Chapter 10 Innovation and Change (pp. 359-361, 380-390, 396-402)

10-4 Review Session

10-9 Exam 2 [chapters 5, 9 & 10 + earlier material]

10-11 Chapter 11 Structuring Organizations (pp. 409-431, 437-441)

10-16 Chapter 11 Review of pp. 409-431 & 437-441, and Designing Organizations (pp. 430-454)

10-18 Chapter 12 Managing Individuals and Diversity (pp. 461-478, 487-496)

10-23 Chapter 13 Managing Teams (pp. 501-510, 514-520, 523-526, 533 and 537)

10-25 Chapter 14 Basics of HRM (pp. 545-547, 556-557, 560-572)

10-30 Chapter 14 Review of above basics, and Testing & Appraisal (pp. 582-596)

11-1 Review Session

11-6 Exam 3 [chapters 11, 12, 13, 14 + earlier material]

11-8 Chapter 15 Managing Operations (pp. 603-607, 14-631, 633, 636-637)

11-13 Chapter 16 Basics of Motivation (pp. 647-675)

11-15 Chapter 16 Review of Motivation (647-675) and Goal-Setting Theory (676-686)

11-20 Chapter 17 Leadership – Part I (pp. 691-694, 695-697, 700-708)

11-22 Thanksgiving: NO CLASS

11-27 Chapter 17 Leadership – Part II (pp. 712-716 and 721-729)

11-29 Chapter 17 OPEN AGENDA: Invited speaker?

12-4 Concluding video

12-6 Review Session

tba Final Exam [chapters 15, 16, 17 + earlier material]

NOTE ON THE FINAL EXAM DATE

As of now, the date of the evening class's exam is tentatively set for Tuesday 11 December at 5:45; however, the date of the day class's exam is still undecided by the Registrar's Office. The reason for this is that the “block exam” designation for M&IS 24163 in the Schedule of Classes is being revoked. The Registrar’s Office is expected to issue the date, time and room assignment soon. As soon as I am informed, I will post these. Please check the PoM web board and the Bulletin Board on the first floor often.

EARNING BONUS POINTS

There is one (and only one) way to earn bonus points in this course, and that is to partake to the activities of one of the 8 student associations of the College. These are:

- Accounting Association (AA)

- American Marketing Association (AMA)

- Beta Alpha Psi

- Collegiate Business Association (CBA)

- Delta Sigma Pi

- Financial management Association (FMA)

- Management & Information Systems Association (MISA)

- Society for HR Managers (SHRM).

I set up a system last term that was administered by the student associations themselves and coordinated by Ms. Patti Akers of the UPO under the supervision of the Assistant Dean of U-G studies. It entailed earning up to 5 points in total that would be tallied by one or more of the business associations. The breakdown is as follows:

· 1 point for attending a student association's general meeting.

· 2 points for attending an association's speaker events (there might be 2-4 of them per term).

· 2 points for doing work for or partaking of the activities of a students association.

PLEASE NOTE that these events start early in the term – so set out to contact your favorite association soon by watching out for advertisements on the College's many bulletin boards. Remember the adage: Seek not, and thou shalt not find!