reflections project

PROCRASTINATION LEADING TO

FAILURE!

Amany Harb

MAN3025.791F11: Principles of Management

Reflections Project

LOCATION & TIME Thursday

May 5th of 2011

Financial Accounting

Final Exam!

• 15 Minutes before class starts

• Last Minute Studying • Over worked & Tired

THE EXAM STARTS

Uh Oh!!! It’s a Cumulative Exam!

Studied only last

chapters.

Not Ready!

DISAPPOINTED!

FINAL GRADES

Receive Email from

Professor

Final Grades Have been

Posted

Final Grade : D+ (69%)

Major Disappointment!!!!

PROFESSORS POINT OF VIEW

SHALL WE BEGIN

“Please clear your tests. You may begin as soon as you receive your final exam booklet. Good

Luck!”

AS TIME PASSES

I decide to start grading the final exams from my previous class to pass time.

CHECKING UP

7:00 pm , Half way

through.

Walk around the class

to check up on everyone.

Waited patiently till all

students were done.

GOOD LUCK!

As students began to

turn in their final exam

booklets I wished them

all good luck on their

final exam and on their

futures!

MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS NUMBER 1

Planning:

“A Process to determine and implement

actions to achieve organizational

objectives”

(Hitt, Black, and Porter, 3rd ed. P.113).

Strategic Plans,

Tactical Plans, and

Operational Plans.

My two Specific

Components are: • Strategic Planning

& Tactical Planning.

PLANNING CONCEPTS

Strategic Planning:

“Plans that focus on the broad

future of the organization and

incorporation both external

environmental demands and

internal resources into

managers’ actions”

(Hitt, Black, and Porter, 3rd ed.

P.113).

PLANNING CONCEPTS CONT.

Tactical Plans:

“Plans that translate strategic plans into specific

goals for specific parts of the organization” as

defined in the test

(Hitt, Black, and Porter, 3rd ed. P.113).

ORGANIZATION CONCEPTS

Organizational Structure:

“The sum of the ways an organization divides

its labor into distinct tasks and then coordinates

them”

(Hitt, Black, and Porter, 3rd ed. P.134).

ORGANIZATION CONCEPTS CONT.

Value:

“The fundamentally important

behaviors, activities, and outcomes”

(Hitt, Black, and Porter, 3rd ed. P.137)

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED

I do not plan ahead

I do not Manage my Time

I am Lazy

I am a Procrastinator

PLANNING & ORGANIZING

I need to start planning

accordingly

Manage my time

Organize my schedule

UNDERSTANDING THE SITUATION

Could of changed the

outcome if I had studied.

Should be more aware

of my school work.

Never assume that I

have everything under

control.

MANAGING MY FUTURE!

I will not wait till last

minute

I will organize my time

Plan accordingly

Get things done in a

timely manner.