Describe the 3 main reasons why managers are important to an organization and expand on the following: o Managerial skills, getting things done and Contribution to employee productivity Give possible reasons (at least 2) why the general managers succeeding Mr. Kawasaki failed in their assignment? Explain why your role as the General manager of ABC co will be extremely important to this organization -identify briefly as many problems as you can find in the above case text and propose solutions What is your definition of a manager? What is your definition of an organization? expand on its 3 main characteristics (distinctive purpose, composed of people and a defined structure) How can you improve on ABC Co's 3 characteristics? Describe the functions, roles and skills of a manager in general? what will you do in order to improve ABC Co? Define the 4 functions of management (planning, organizing, leading and controlling) Select 2 (of 4) and explain why you think they are the most needed improvements for ABC CO In your opinion, what are the factors redefining the manager's job? -select 2 areas that need improvement in ABC CO and discuss your proposed solutions Define the Omnipotent view of management Define the Symbolic view of management What works best, in your opinion for the current state that ABC CO is in? (Explain and justify) The importance of setting the right organization culture is clearly an urgent need for ABC -Describe what kind of culture should be created - what will be its characteristics? How about the organizational environment? (Customers, suppliers, competitors, economic, legal, socio cultural) - what needs to be done? Define work place diversity. State and explain the 3 reasons why managing it is important. (People management benefits, organizational performance benefits and strategic benefits) Since ABC is a non diverse co for the time being, what would you do to solve this? List the different types of diversity that should exist in ABC CO once your proposed actions are in place Assuming the non diverse nature problem of the company has been solved, how would you address the 2 main challenges of managing diversity (personal bias and Glass ceiling) and propose solutions Diversity management initiatives are important -Some are internal to the company (mentoring, management commitment, etc.) others are external (federal laws). Discuss the pros and cons for each Describe the 8 steps in the decision-making process Explain briefly the 4 ways managers make decisions (bounded rationality, satisficing, intuitive decision making and evidence-based management) Select one (of 4 mentioned above) that best represents your management style and explain why you chose it -give examples based on personal experience or outside observation. Linear vs non linear thinking style -define the 2 types briefly -describe what type of thinking style you belong to (hint: you can be a mix of both) and provide at least 3 examples to support this The 12 common decision-making errors and biases: Select 4 and give real life examples for each (situation that happened to you or a friend, etc...)