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 11: What is your "mission statement"? Strategic plans and operational plans? Describe the five forces that affect you as a student. What are your competitive advantages - how are you distinguished from others in your major searching for jobs.
2		Journal Entry 12: What is your strategy in entering the job market after graduation-low cost or differentiated? What are your long-term and short-term goals? How do you implement them? What are your standing plans? What single use plans are you currently engaged in? What is an objective of your university and how has it been translated through from strategy, operationalized and institutionalized?