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 6: Who are your stakeholders? How do they impact your decisions? What factors impact your ethical (or unethical) behaviour? Which view of ethical behaviour do you agree with most? Why? Which ethical view do you tend to use in decision making? What recent ethical dilemma have you faced? How did you decide what to do? Use a recent example of an ethical dilemma discussed or encounter in the media (i.e., news, TV show, book) to analyze the factors that influence ethical decisions.
2		Journal Entry 7: How does workforce diversity affect you? Is it more important for the classroom to use procedural or distributive justice? Why? Is diversity considered important to your university or college or to a company you work(ed) for? Why or why not? Does your work environment/college/university have a sexual harassment policy in place?