TOPIC: Organizing the Business Enterprise

• Broad understanding of current managerial roles and functions
• Recognize, define, and apply decision-making and planning models to business issues discussed in class
• Use a collaborative team approach during classroom activities and group assignments
• Apply business case study methods, working with a group to solve a business problem

• Textbook
• Unit 8 slide deck (PDF)
• Slide deck on flashdrive
• Printed copies of Team Assignment handout

• Read Ch. 7

• Focusing Activity
  Time = 40 minutes
  Presentation from Writing Centre
  

• Lecture = About the Team Assignment
• Lecture = Organizing the Business Enterprise
• Activity: Watch the following online streaming video
  Time = 28 minutes
  Organizational Structure (2012) by Holk & Lassenius
  http://library.capilanou.ca/record=b355654~S1
  

• Learning Consolidation & Check-In
  Activity - Team Assignment
  Moving into Assignment Groups, students are to use this time to get creative with their ideas of what they could include in their Team Assignment.No idea is too zany.  Write it all down because it may inspire a more viable idea to use later.Example of the many resources online explaining how to use mind maps to brainstorm:  Conti, G.  (August 30, 2016).  How to Make Mind Maps: Visualize Your Ideas for Better Brainstorming.  https://zapier.com/blog/mind-mapping-tutorial/