Assignment for chapter 3

Dear Students , No class for this Friday. Read the slides for chapter 3 and watch the video from earlier posts on  the external environment and corporate culture in this blog site. Submit the assignment for chapter 3 until Saturday, 18 Aug., 2:00 pm.
Your Instructor

Welcome to the summer 2012 MBA 611 course participants

 Dear Students ,

A very warm welcome to all of you who have registered for the MANAGEMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE ( MBA 611) course which is offered during the 2012 summer.

Student resources materials I prepared will reach you all today. You go through them before we meet on Friday August 10,2012 at 9:00 am in Room 2 Building No. 613.

Best wishes,

Ayele Abebe (PhD)

The course Instructor

Successful entrepreneurs are NOT necessarily innovative:

Here is a news on my presentation at the annual conference of Associations of Ethiopians Educated in Germany ( AEEG) . The theme of my presentation was that successful entrpreneurs are NOT  necessarliy those with innovative ideas.  Click this link for details http://www.daad-ethiopia.org/en/19943/index.html

Discussion Question 14. Organizational Control

Which of the three types of organizational control (i.e. feed forward control, Concurrent control, and Feedback control) are often adopted as a main focus (or dominantly) in your organizations? What are the implications of this type of control to your organization's culture, structure, system, and its interaction with its task environment? 

Discussion Question 13 Substituting or Neutralizing Leadership

 Provide examples from your management practice where situational variables (like organizational, task, and group variables) can be so powerful that they actually substitute for or neutralize the need for leadership.

Discussion Question 12 Understanding Leadership

 Discuss the different approaches to understand the essence of leadership. What are the implications of these approaches to your understanding of leadership?