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2. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Entire Course , Midterm and Final Exam MGMT 530 Entire Course MGMT 530 Week 1 Case Analysis (Conference Decision) MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 1 Defining the Problem MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 2 Enabling Conditions MGMT 530 Week 2 Case Analysis (Conference Decision • MGMT 530 Week 1 Case Analysis (Conference Decision) • MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 1 Defining the Problem • MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 2 Enabling Conditions • MGMT 530 Week 2 Case Analysis (Conference Decision) • MGMT 530 Week 2 DQ 1 Defining Objectives and

3. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Final Exam MGMT 530 Week 1 Case Analysis (Conference Decision) Week 1 Case Analysis: Conference Decision Case Date: September 2, 2005 In less than two weeks, an accounting system user’s conference is scheduled to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 13–16, 2005. Unfortunately • TCOs A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H) Tidewater Services recently celebrated its 10th anniversary as a professional services firm that handles investigations for law firms offering amenities, such as background checks, surveillance

4. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 1 Defining the Problem MGMT 530 Week 1 DQ 2 Enabling Conditions What role does ability, willingness, insight, and commitment play in the decision-making process? How can constraints and other underlying elements complicate the decision-making process?Relate an experience from your work. • What is the difference between problem solving and decision making? What are the key aspects to defining the problem for a decision situation?Give an example of a decision

5. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Week 2 Case Analysis (Conference Decision) MGMT 530 Week 2 DQ 1 Defining Objectives and Alternatives Why is it important to define clear objectives for the decision situation? How can you ensure that you have identified all the appropriate alternatives? Give an example of a problem that you are in the process of deciding • Week 2 Case Analysis: Conference Decision Case • Date: September 2, 2005 • In less than two weeks, an accounting system user’s conference is scheduled to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 13–16, 2005. Unfortunately, Hurricane Katrina has struck the city leaving a wake of destruction. Based on what you see on

6. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Week 2 DQ 2 Intuition MGMT 530 Week 3 Case Analysis Conference Decision Case, Part 2 Date: September 15, 2005 Two weeks after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, you made the decision to postpone the conference and select a different city to hold the conference. Based on your initial objectives and a survey you took of the registered attendees, you created the following consequence table based on the information available. ALTERNATIVES • What role does intuition play in decision making? What role does quantitative data play in decision making? Identify a decision

7. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Week 3 DQ 1 Understanding Consequences and Tradeoffs MGMT 530 Week 3 DQ 2 Decision Making in Your Organization What process does your organization use to make decisions? Do you clearly identify the problem, objectives, alternatives, consequences, and tradeoffs? What special techniques or tools do you use in your process? • Why can it be difficult to identify consequences for each alternative and objective? What techniques can be used to simplify the process? Describe a decision situation in which you made tradeoffs to simplify the alternatives. Did you use the even-swap method, weighted scoring model, or another approach?

8. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Week 4 DQ 1 Defining Uncertainties MGMT 530 Week 4 DQ 2 Decision Making Styles What is your primary decision-making style? What is your manager’s primary decision-making style? What approaches and tricks have you • How does your organization assess uncertainties in your decision-making process? What are the benefits to using decision trees to assess uncertainties?

9. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Week 4 Midterm Exam MGMT 530 Week 5 Case Analysis Labadee Decision In January 2010, the island nation of Haiti was devastated by an earthquake. Royal Caribbean International, a major cruise line, owns a private beach in Haiti, which is typically a port of call on several of their Caribbean cruise itineraries. The private port, known as Labadee, is about 80 miles • 1. (TCO A) Your small services company has outgrown the current facility after the first two years of a three-year lease. As the operations manager, you are being held accountable for cancelling orders, and you are beginning to lose market share due to late deliveries. The goal is to determine what action to take in the future to improve

10. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Week 5 DQ 1 Risk Tolerance MGMT 530 Week 5 DQ 2 Sharing Risk with Partners Describe a decision situation in which you have shared risk with an internal or external business partner. What were the conditions of the shared risk? Explain why the arrangement was successful or not. Is “blame” a • Describe your risk profile—risk seeking, risk neutral, or risk averse. What are the pitfalls of your risk attitude? How can knowing your manager’s desirability curve come in handy during the

11. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Week 6 DQ 1 Linked Decisions MGMT 530 Week 6 DQ 2 Course Project Presentations Briefly describe your problem and post a brief PowerPoint presentation that summarizes your Course Project no later than Tuesday.Give feedback to (at least) two other students’ presentations for your remaining posts. Be sure to post on a total of three different days • Describe a decision situation that involved linked decisions. What flexible plans did you use for the

12. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Week 7 Course Project (US Foods) MGMT 530 Week 7 DQ 1 Psychological Traps Provide a real-life example of one of the traps discussed in the text or the lecture. What can be done to avoid that trap in the future? An interesting human phenomenon is becoming trapped in one's • Objectives • The objective of the Course Project is to provide you with practice in creating, justifying, and explaining a decision-making proposal. All elements involved in the creation of this proposal, from problem definition through action plan, must be covered. Further, the proposal, as constructed, must meet the tests of any sound business plan, namely that it has specific and measurable goals and objectives, clearly defined activities, stipulated time frames during which those activities will take place, and clearly defined measurable

13. MGMT 530 UOP Course Tutorial MGMT 530 Week 7 DQ 2 Estate Case Analysis • This week, we move from the theoretical to the real world.The following group decision problem scenario is outside of the formal organizational structure but highlights the difficulty in making decisions in group settings and the need to collectively

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