Article describes the advantages and disadvantages of using divisional structure to organize departments, their relationships, and management responsibilities within an organization

This site can be used for an Intro to Business class.  It is focused on Mean Jeans simulation, but has basic information for other courses if needed.

In this lesson, students think about how groups like trauma units have dynamic team leadership cultures. They will think about how these organizations incorporate new people, bring them up to speed quickly, and at the same time, maintain reliability and never commit an error. In this lesson, they will read about this kind of culture and analyze how this could work for their own organizations/clubs. They will think about how to imagine leadership and team organization as a system and not as a hierarchy.
NBEA STANDARD(S):

Management, III. Business OrganizationCommunication, III. Workplace CommunicationManagement, VI. Human Resource Management

VIdeo Explaination (A little over 1 min)Google Slides Link This resource goes in to the characteristics of leadership and the characteristics of management.  It will go through the similarities and differences of the two and will have students engage with the content at the end with a poll everywhere poll and discussion questions.

The Project Management Toolkit for Teachers® provides a modular, user-friendly resource that teachers can use to help prepare students to be college and career ready. The materials use a project learning approach to teach students the universal life, learning, and professional skills of project management. PMIef requires you to submit your email to receive the toolkit; I have not been solicited with other emails. PMIef does also offer additional resources.

This guide served as an excellent resource for my Principles of Management class as students learned the concepts and skills of project management. It provided useful activities to incorporate into the current curriculum as well as an extra resource for students when they were absent.

This high school business resource provides a PDF template and link to the resource, Job Description Writing Guide. Students are instructed to craft a job description for a new business. Project can be a stand-alone or part of a larger business plan project.