Text book:Essentials of Management Read chapters 3 and 14 from the textbook and week 2 lecture befor

Text book:Essentials of Management

Read chapters 3 and 14 from the textbook and week 2 lecture before answering the questions below If you have any question understanding the content, please contact me

Chapter 14: Information Technology and e-Commerce

Learning objectives are listed at the beginning of each Chapter

1 A growing number of managers believe that in order to work on difficult business problems, they must refrain from looking at e-mail for certain blocks of time during the day In what ways might checking e-mail frequently interfere with problem solving?(Use a work experience or personal example to support your answer)

2 Skill-Building Exercise 14-A: Costs Reduction through Information Technology Page 535 Do exercise individually and use a work experience to support your answer A contribution of this exercise is that it translates the wonders of information technology into concrete savings for a company The cost savings from information technology have helped some companies and hurt others For example, drastically fewer photocopies are made today because of the widespread dissemination of e-mail messages, and fewer letters are mailed You might identify savings in your company due to the use of Infomation Technology

Chapter 3: Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

3 What is your reaction to the following statement made by many business graduates?“Itmay be nice to study ethics, but in the real world the only thing that counts is money“

4 Management in Action – Wal-Mart Managers Take the High Road and the Low Road Read the case and answer the three questions at the end Page 94