Design your ideal position

MGTU 301 **Signature Assignment

My Utopia Job

Length:            4-6 double-spaced pages (excluding title and references pages)

Due:                 Week 8 by Thursday Midnight (Assignments folder)

Value:              240 Points

ILO:                  #5- Integrated Learning

Description

The purpose of this paper is for students to take management theories presented in this class and the text and apply them to themselves. Students are to identify their own management strengths and to consider two to three of specific management tools offered in this class. Students need to then apply that information and design and explain what they feel would be their ideal work role and environment. This is going to be a personal paper that is backed up by the data from this class.

Based upon:

1. What you have learned about yourself and your management strengths;
2. Two to three of the most useful management techniques that have been offered in the         text and in class discussions;
3. What you have learned about the business marketplace.

Using the above three criteria, design your ideal position. The purpose of this paper is for students to take management theories presented in this class and the text and apply them to themselves. Students are to identify their own particular management strengths and to consider two to three of specific management tools offered in this class. Students need to then apply that information and design and explain what they feel would be their ideal work role and environment. This is going to be a personal paper that is backed up by the data from this class.

This paper is to address the following questions:

• What are the student’s strengths?
• What management concept best fits with the student’s strengths?
• How would the management concepts in this class be utilized to create the utopia job for the student?
• Why would the proposed role and environment best fit the student’s strengths?
• What would be two to three specific boundaries, authority, role and tasks that would be a part of the utopian job?
• How does this job fit in with the four responsibilities of management: Planning, Organizing, Controlling and Leading?

Introduction (20%)

• Is there a clear “Purpose Statement”?
• Does the introduction explain what the paper is about – the main points of analysis?
• Does it give a quick overview of the three to five points of analysis?

Analysis (60%)

• Does the paper have three to five main points of analyzing how the organization did or did not evolve as explained in the text on how the chosen organization did or did not follow the theories presented?
• Does each of the main points have a citation back to the text with a page number and a direct (short – 3 to 5 words) quote?

Conclusion (10%)

• Is the conclusion a clear and concise recap of the analysis?
• The conclusion can not bring in any new ideas!
• Does the conclusion tie into the first two or three sentences in thought?

Process, Punctuation and Grammar (20%)

• Are all of the words spelled correctly?
• Are the correct words used?
• Is the wording smooth to read?
• Is proper grammar used?
• Does the paper follow APA Guidelines?
• Is the paper interesting?