Becoming an Effective Manager

Management skill development is a crucial part of graduate school curricula. However, when practicing managers are asked to evaluate the organizational behavior and management courses they took in college, they generally complain that the courses did not teach them skills relevant to their jobs. Most report that “people problems” were their most significant challenge and they felt that their university education had not prepared them to handle this challenge.

Tasks

• Review your journal entries from the past weeks and complete an essay on how to become an effective manager.
• Address the specific skills you wanted to improve and the circumstances in which the improvement efforts were made.
• State the specific behavior you have engaged in to improve your skill.
• Identify the specific outcomes that will indicate success. In essence, you need to analyze, evaluate, and record your skill improvement efforts toward becoming an effective manager.

400-500 words no plagiarizes. 

Annotated Bibliography

This assignment will be one of several throughout the Ph.D. program that we use to help you prepare for the dissertation process. One of the core competencies necessary to succeed in a doctoral program is the ability to identify other research that pertains to your own. This means you will have to identify related research, read the papers, and assimilate prior work into your research. An annotated bibliography helps you develop and hone these research skills.

Your paper must be an in a correct APA format, use correct grammar, and will need to include at least five (5) resources, ALL of which must:

1) Be current. Published within the last 5 years.

2) Be peer-reviewed.

3) Relate directly to defense in depth in the context of protecting National Infrastructure.

Remember that an annotation is not the same as an abstract. Abstracts are descriptive. Your annotations are to be evaluative and critical. Give me enough information for me to decide if I am interested enough to read the paper, and also how you perceive the paper. Do not go skimpy on these annotations, but DO NOT write too much here. Quality is far more critical than quantity. This exercise is for each of you to demonstrate that you can identify, categorize, and digest multiple research papers. 

Every resource you choose must be peer-reviewed. That means the paper must have undergone a formal peer review before being published in a journal or presented at a conference. You must ensure that your resources have undergone rigorous reviews. In most cases, you can find out the review process for a conference or journal by visiting the appropriate web site. Do not merely assume that a resource is a peer-reviewed – check it out. 

Here are a few URLs with additional information: (I Strongly suggest that you look at these. Really.)

https://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/bibliography_apa.cfm

https://www.bethel.edu/library/research/apa-annobib-sixth.pdf

http://libguides.enc.edu/writing_basics/annotatedbib/apa    <<<< Check out the “Rules! Rules! rules!” section

http://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/

  

Question One [20 marks]

Internet games have become very popular. Designing a good computer game needs to use 3D graphics and artificial intelligence technologies. Search the literature to specify what AI techniques are able to make computer entertainment more exciting and challenging  20 marks

Question Two [20 marks]

Identify an organization and understand the nature of its business and identify problems that have been supported or can potentially be supported by intelligent systems. Some examples include selection of suppliers, selection of new employee, job assignments computer selection, market-contact method selection, and determining admission to graduate school. Discuss how these issues can be addressed by knowledge based systems   20 marks

Question Three [20 marks]

Consider the decision-making situation defined by the following rules: 

1. If it is a nice day and it is summer, then I go to the golf course. 

2. If it is a nice day and it is winter, then I go to the ski resort. 

3. If it is not a nice day and it is summer, then I go to work. 

4. If it is not a nice day and it is winter, then I go to class.

5. If I go to the golf course, then I play golf. 

6. If I go to the ski resort, then I go skiing. 

7. If I go skiing or I play golf, then I have fun. 

8. If I go to work, then I make money. 

9. If I go to class, then I learn something. 

a. Follow the rules for the following situations (what do you conclude for each one?): 

1. It is a nice day and it is summer. 

2. It is not a nice day and it is winter. 

3. It is a nice day and it is winter. 

4. It is not a nice day and it is summer. 

b. Are there any other combinations that are valid? Explain. 

c. What needs to happen for you to “learn something” in this knowledge universe? Start with the conclusion “learn something” and identify the rules used (backward) to get to the needed facts. 

d. Encode the knowledge into a graphical diagram (like an influence diagram). Use a circle to represent a fact such as: The day is nice or The day is not nice and an arrow to indicate influence. 

e. Write a L.C. (or other third-generation language) program to execute this knowledge. Use IF- THEN (ELSE) statements in your implementation. How many lines long is it? How hard would it be to modify the program to insert new facts and a rule such as: 

1. If it is cloudy and it is warm 

2. and it is not raining 

3. and it is summer 

4. then I go play golf. 

f. Implement the knowledge in a spreadsheet or database package on a PC. 

g. Advanced exercise. In an implementation similar to the one in part (d), write a new implementation but store the knowledge in variables. Let the program search the arrays to make decisions

• Prompt: Submit a 3-page response to the following questions. Include at least one biblical example in your answers.
• What biblical tenets are helpful for managers in ensuring that they are communicating with honesty and integrity regarding performance measures for employees?
  • Requirements: Minimum 750 words. APA format  7th edition. PLEASE REVIEW APA 7th edition

 Your final written analysis should follow the APA style of professional writing.  Remember the point of Marketing Research is to analyze and include recommendations, an action plan, project plan, etc.  Strategic marketing research is not a history lesson.  Your thoughts based on research are also important to the life cycle of the product, service, or bothespecially in these challenging times.  You will present your findings to the class via Zoom as per the schedule I the syllabus which is the week of August 10th.  You may record your presentation or provide it live.  Either way, taking questions is important.  You may consider your classmates to be competitors, consumers, regulators, funding agents, and other constituents. They should ask you questions that you as the knowledge expert can answer.  If you have any questions, please send them to me asap and I will respond.