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Describe how you will use the four functions of management to achieve your performance goals in your current work or volunteer position.

Based on Management Close-up 5.2, how do you think technology is likely to change strategic, tactical, and operational planning in the future? Explain your answer.

Can you teach people to make decisions? What types of decisions are useful for giving people experience in decision making? What types of decisions should be avoided in teaching trainees about decision making?

Define the following decision making errors and identify ways to correct for them: a. Poor problem identification. b. Solution focus. c. Premature evaluation. d. Groupthink. e. Overemphasis on objective data without considering gut feelings. f. Omission of a way to monitor and control the decision.

What are the elements comprising the four components (technology, process, people and structure) of new reporting system?

Why do you think the new reporting system failed? In other words, which of the four components of the information systems failed to support the goal of the system?