Chapter 7: Mass customization of products has become a common approach in manufacturing organizations. Explain the ways in which mass customization can be applied to service firms as well.
Chapter 7: A top executive claimed that superior management is a craft technology because the work contains intangibles (such as handling personnel, interpreting the environment, and coping with unusual situations that have to be learned through experience). If this is true, is it appropriate to teach management in a business school? Does teaching management from a textbook assume that the manager’s job is analyzable and, therefore, that formal training rather than experience is most important?
Chapter 8: Do you believe that technology will eventually enable high-level managers to do their job with little face-to-face communication?
Chapter 9: Look through several recent issues of a business magazine (Fortune, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, etc.) and find examples of 2 companies that are using approaches to busting bureaucracy. Explain the techniques that these companies are applying.
Chapter 9: Do you believe that a no growth philosophy of management should be taught in business schools?

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Discussion Assignment Instructions

The student will complete 4 Discussions in this course. The student will post one thread of at least 1,000-1,500 words by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of the assigned Module: Week. The following week the student must then post 2 replies of at least 400 words by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of the assigned Module: Week. For each thread, students must support their assertions with scholarly citations in APA format. Each reply must incorporate scholarly citations in APA format. Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years.