One of the goals of taking a principles of management course is to provide you with the opportunity to learn about the fundamentals of management theory and practice. Unless you've been in the workforce for a period of time, some concepts might be hard to relate to or understand.

The following "Journal Entries" will help you apply what you are learning in the text to real-life situations. There are one to two Journal Entries related to each text chapter for you to answer based on experiences you may have had or are having in your life. You can use a notebook to answer these questions to make up these Journal Entries for each chapter, or you can use these fill-in templates and email them to yourself to keep a running record of your experiences with management. You should be able to cut & paste the questions and your answers from your email into whatever word-processing program you use. Remember that your responses to the questions are based on your experiences, so there are no one correct or incorrect answers.

Your professor might choose to assign these as homework. Maintaining these Journal Entries after you study each chapter is also a good way to check your progress after completing a chapter.

1		Journal Entry 1: What types of organizations do you belong to? How do they match the definition of organizations? What do you "manage?" How efficient and/or effective are you? How do you use the four managerial processes to manage your life? Which of the four managerial processes does your boss emphasize (current, past, expected future)? What types of skills should you emphasize in interviews for your first job after graduation? Why?
2		Journal Entry 2: Is/was your boss able to portray all 10 roles? Which was he/she better at? Which did he/she tend not to perform? How do the managerial challenges impact your professional career choices?
3		Journal Entry 3: How would you apply the four principles of Scientific Management to the job of student? Is your college/university a bureaucracy? Explain using the elements identified by Weber. Does your employer/university/college apply all 14 of Fayol's principles of management? Which are best used? Which ones are missing?
4		Journal Entry 4: Which management view do you agree with most? Why? Which management view does your manager/a professor seem to favour? Explain. What else do you see happening to management theories in the next 20 years? Describe two similar situations that didn't turn out the same. What was different and how did that difference impact the outcome. Do you agree mostly with the assumptions of Theory X or of Theory Y? Explain.