Class Policies For RHS Students- Please Read Again

Welcome IB Business Management Student

Class Work Cycle For Each Chapter = This Is What We Are Doing In Class & For Homework Every Day

Your Business Management Textbook and Assignments

Professional Instructions for Outlining a Textbook- from Cornell University (Optional)

How To Draw A Spider Map

Video: Watch A Spider Map Being Created (Best Study Tool)

Read The Rules For Your Notebook Before Every Grading Day

Video: Take A Tour Of A Business Management Composition Notebook

Take A Long Slow Look At A Perfect Notebook Chapter- Page By Page!

How To Do Your Chapter Quick Report (For The Previously Completed Chapter) *Due After Quiz Day

Finished Early? Don't Pack Up! Do This ...

Your Quarter Grade

What is the Resource Bank?

RB = 12 Sections & 50 Posts (= 3 RB Days + HW)

What You Should be Able to Do By the End of this Chapter

Required Background Knowledge

Video: The Basics of Corporate Structure

Video: Corporate Job Titles

Video: The Most Famous Documentary about Corporations (optional assignment due to two hour length)

Video: Quick Economic Explanation of Conglomerates

Video: An Historical Perspective on the Formation of Conglomerates

The "Formal" Organizational Structure

The "By Product" Organizational Structure

The "By Function" Organizational Structure

The "By Region" Organizational Structure

Question: What Happens If You Change the Organizational Structure of Faculty in a High School?

Business Size and the Need For Structure

Visual: The Main Organizational Structures At A Glance

Key Term: Traditional Hierarchy

Key Term: Flatter Hierarchy

Key Term: Completely Flat Structure

Key Term: Flatarchies (flat-ark-eez)

Key Term: Holacracy (hole-AH-crahcy)

Video: Meet the Creator of "Holacracy"

Video: Meet the Creator of "Holacracy"

Read this Case Study: Texas-based Global Company KBR (can you understand it now that you have learned about organizational structure?)

Video: Five Outdated Work Practices

Project-based Structure versus Functional Structure versus Matrix Structure

Quick Review of the 3 Main Organizational Structures

Video: What Determines the Optimal Span of Control?

How the Chain of Command Works in a Business

Handout: Advantages and Limitations of Delegation

Video: Why Delegation Matters

Video: The Secrets of Effective and Successful Delegation

Video: Delegating Can't Be Dumping

Video: Hierarchy Explained by Example

Handout: Delayering- Advantages and Disadvantages (Pros and Cons to Use on Exams)

Video: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Delayering a Tall Hierarchy

Video: Delayering is Not Downsizing

Middle-Managers Are Important (An Article From The ECONOMIST)

Video: Bureaucracy Defined

Video: Max Weber's Ideas About Bureaucracy

Video: How to Reduce Bureaucracy in a Company

Video: Where Did the Term "Red Tape" Come From?

Handout: Advantages of BOTH Centralization and Decentralization of Decision-making Power

Video: Introduction to Centralization and Decentralization in Business Organizations

Video: What's the Difference Between Centralized and Decentralized Decision Making?

Handout: Overview of Handy's Shamrock Organization of Human Resources

Video: Introduction to Types of Culture in Business Organizations

Video: Charles Handy's Shamrock Organizational Culture

Video: Meet Charles Handy

Video: The Role of Communication Technology in the Business World

Video: English Language Communication Errors around China

Video: Discover the Connection Between Bureaucracy, Globalization, and Culture (listen carefully to 2:08-2:27)

CUEGIS Assignment- Write Your Own 6 Impact Statements For This Chapter

Instructions for Analyzing Case Studies

Command Terms List = Rules for Answering Test Questions

Here are Your Case Studies to Analyze.

Instructions for Presenting Your Case Study to a Classmate

Answer Keys for the Case Studies (do not download, print, or take screen shots- they are copyrighted by IB)

Video: Mr. B's 2.2 Review Part 1

Video: Mr. B's 2.2 Review Part 2

Instruction Sheet for Review Assignment

2.2 Review Worksheet

Quizlet

Have You Achieved the Key Learning Outcomes?

How Much Is Your Notebook Chapter Worth? Print and Complete This Reflection and Quality Control Checklist (Staple It Onto The Last Page Of Your Chapter Notes)

You Are Almost Finished!

Don't Forget The Last Piece!

Your IA Project: At this point, you should have a Research Question and a correct, professional looking Force Field Analysis for each research option.

Have You Turned in Your IA Q2 Assignment? Part B of the IA Worksheet was due after the last chapter!

It's Never too Early to Start Thinking About Your IB Extended Essay