MGT425-Spreadsheet Decision Modeling
General Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
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The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via
allocated folder.
Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented; marks may be
reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover
page.
Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
Late submission will NOT be accepted.
Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students
or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No
exceptions.
All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced)
font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered
plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Course Learning Outcomes-Covered
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)
Question
Find some structured ways of dealing with complex managerial
decision problems.
Explain simple decision models and management science ideas
that provide powerful and (often surprising) qualitative insight
about large spectrum of managerial problems.
Demonstrate the tools for deciding when and which decision
models to use for specific problems.
Build an understanding of the kind of problems that is tackled
using Spreadsheet Modeling and decision analysis.
Question-1
Aligned (PLOs)
MGT.K.1
(1.1)
MGT.K.3
(1.2)
MGT.S.1
(2.1)
MGT.V.1
(3.1)
Question-3
Question-2
Question-4
Assignment Instructions:
• Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website.
• On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases.”
• From the list find and click on EBSCO database.
• In the Search Bar of EBSCO find the following article:
Title: “Intuitive and Rational Cognition in the Theory and Practice of Management
Sciences”
Author: Marcin Nowak, Joanna Ziomek
Date: March 26, 2019
Assignment Questions:
Read the above case study and answer the following Questions:
Question 1: Explain the role of rational and intuitive cognition in the theory and practice
of management. (250-300 words)
Question 2: Discuss that the decision-making process takes place in conditions of
permanent uncertainty under the pressure of time. (250-300 words).
Question 3: Discuss the inadequacy of the management theory in relation to problems faced
by management practitioners in the decision-making process. (250-300 words)
Question 4: Explain the various stages of problem-solving process with suitable examples.
(250-300 words)
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Quality Management (MGT 424)
General Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
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The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated
folder.
Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented; marks may be reduced
for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
Late submission will NOT be accepted.
Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other
resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No
pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Use quality improvement tools and practices for continuous improvement to achieve the organizational
change and transformation. (2.2)
2. Implement quality improvement efforts using teams for organizational assessment and quality audits. (3.1)
•Instructions to search the article:
Via your student services page, log in to the Saudi Digital Library. After your login with your student
ID, search for the following article:
CUSTOMER-FOCUSED ENVIRONMENT: ORGANIZATIONS MUST EXTEND THEIR
DEFINITION OF CUSTOMERS.
ISSN: 03609936
In this article, the author discusses the different definition of customers either internal or external and how
satisfying all customersÂ’ needs helps the organization in term of accomplishing its quality objectives.
Read the article, and answer the following questions:
Assignment Question(s):
1. In your own words, summarize the article. ( 150 – 200 words )
2. To which extent do you agree or disagree with the author point of view “that internal customers’ needs are
important as externals to create a true quality environment” and Why? ( 150 – 200 words )
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Discuss the tools needed to operate within the new environment as indicated by the author. ( 150 – 200
words)
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For each question, you need to answer not in less than 150 Words.
Support your answers with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and
scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles etc.
Use APA style for writing references.
Answers
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Business Ethics and Organization Social Responsibility (MGT
422)
General Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
• The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated
folder.
• Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
• Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced
for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
• Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
• Late submission will NOT be accepted.
• Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other
resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
• All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No
pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
• Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Learning Outcomes:
No
CLO-6
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)
Write coherent project about a case study or actual research about ethics
The content is available for free download in knowledge resource from the SEU
homepage:
Read – Yilmaz, N. (2021). Business Ethics: The Changing Face of Working Life. In M.
Taskiran & F. Pinarba?i (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethics in the Digital
Era (pp. 184-219). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4117-3.ch012
https://0y11jjshw-y-https-www-igi–globalcom.seu.proxy.deepknowledge.io/gateway/chapter/full-text-pdf/274113
available in SDL and answer the following questions:
1. Write a short summary of the article “Business Ethics: The changing face of Working
life” and the Significance of ethical codes discussed by the author. (Not less than 400
words).
2. Discuss the ethics and the ethical values addressed by the author. (not less than 500
words).
3. Discuss the approaches mentioned by the author to make ethical decisions. (not
less than 500 words)
• Note: All answers should be supported with proper references.
