Week 11: Interactive Learning Activity
11.1 Learning Outcomes:
Describe the communication process.
Compare communication channels and appropriate ways for managers to use them.
Identify barriers to communication and ways managers can overcome them.
Discuss how managers can successfully use social media to communicate.
11.2 Action Required:
Communication is the transfer of information and understanding from one person to another. You are an efficient communicator when you can transmit your message accurately in the least time. You are effective communicator when your intended message is accurately understood by the other person.
11.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
Examine the effects of social media on managerial and organizational effectiveness.
11.4 Instructions
Answer the question available in the “Test your Knowledge” section.
Post your answer in the discussion board
-Week 12: Interactive Learning Activity
12.1 Learning Outcomes:
Describe control as a managerial function.
Describe the steps in the control process and types of control.
Discuss ways that managers can control an organization.
12.2 Action Required:
Controlling is the fourth management function, along with planning, organizing, and leading and its purpose is plain: to make sure that performance meets objectives. Control is making something happen the way it was planned to happen.
Financial controls are especially important for the organization, which include budgets, financial statements and audits.
12.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
Discuss Controlling. Discuss the importance of two basic types of financial statements.
12.4 Instructions
Answer the question available in the “Test your Knowledge” section.
Post your answer in the discussion board
