BUSI 240 is Liberty's organizational behavior and management course. Its written work is four key-term forums (a researched 400-word thread one week, three replies the next) and an individual learning project that analyzes ten self-assessments in a page each.
Liberty's catalog lists the course as BUSI 240 Organizational Behavior and Management, 3 credit hours; Canvas and the course guide file print it as BUSI240.
What BUSI 240 covers
The catalog description: This course integrates a study of individual and group behavior in organizations with management principles and techniques for efficient and effective planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Topics include methods for managing individual differences, diversity, motivation, performance practices, decision making, conflict management, leadership, organizational structure, and organizational change and development.
The course integrates the study of individual and group behavior in organizations with management principles for planning, organizing, leading and controlling: individual differences, diversity, motivation, performance practices, decision-making, conflict management, leadership, structure, and organizational change and development. The text is McShane and Von Glinow, Organizational Behavior.
Eight quizzes (400 points) have no guide here. The individual learning project (200) is built across the whole course from ten self-assessment activities and submitted at the end.
Textbook named in the published guide: McShane & Von Glinow, Organizational Behavior (2015). Check the current edition in your Canvas section.
BUSI 240 assignments, week by week
Every graded written assignment in the published guide has its own how-to guide below. Quizzes, exams, checklists and class introductions are left out because there is nothing to write.
| Week | Assignment | Points | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Discussion Board Forum 1 | 100 | Thread at least 400 words; replies at least 200 words |
| 3 | Discussion Board Forum 2 | 100 | Thread at least 400 words; replies at least 200 words |
| 5 | Discussion Board Forum 3 | 100 | Thread at least 400 words; replies at least 200 words |
| 7 | Discussion Board Forum 4 | 100 | Thread at least 400 words; replies at least 200 words |
| 8 | Individual Learning Project | 200 | Ten full-page analyses |
Week 1: Discussion Board Forum 1
A 400-word thread on a key term you choose, with page references, in Week 1; then three 200-word replies in Week 2. How to write BUSI 240 Week 1 Discussion Board Forum 1.
Week 3: Discussion Board Forum 2
A 400-word key-term thread in Week 3 and three 200-word replies in Week 4. How to write BUSI 240 Week 3 Discussion Board Forum 2.
Week 5: Discussion Board Forum 3
A 400-word key-term thread in Week 5 and three 200-word replies in Week 6. How to write BUSI 240 Week 5 Discussion Board Forum 3.
Week 7: Discussion Board Forum 4
A 400-word key-term thread in Week 7 and three 200-word replies in Week 8. How to write BUSI 240 Week 7 Discussion Board Forum 4.
Week 8: Individual Learning Project
Ten self-assessment activities, each analyzed in a full page, combined in the provided format and submitted at the end of the course. How to write BUSI 240 Week 8 Individual Learning Project.
How BUSI 240 is graded
The published guide totals 1,010 points. The four forums are 100 each (thread 60, replies 40), the individual learning project 200, quizzes 400 and the checklist 10.
| Graded item | Points |
|---|---|
| Discussion Board Forums (4) | 400 |
| Individual Learning Project | 200 |
| Quizzes (8) | 400 |
| Course Requirements Checklist | 10 |
The published scale puts an A at 900 to 1010 points.
Week timing in the published guide: Each course module/week (except Module/Week 1) begins on Tuesday morning at 12:00 a.m. (ET) and ends on Monday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). The final module/week ends at 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday.
How to approach BUSI 240
Do the self-assessments as their chapters come up and write each one-page analysis right away; ten analyses written in the last week rarely go well.
Forum threads are built on a key term you choose at the start of each forum week, with page references from the textbook, so read the chapters with key terms in mind.
Questions students ask
What is the BUSI 240 individual learning project?
Ten self-assessment activities completed through the course, each analyzed in a full page, combined in the provided format and submitted at the end.
How do BUSI 240 forums work?
You choose a key term at the start of the week and write a thread of at least 400 words with page references; the next week you reply to at least 3 classmates in at least 200 words each.
Working through BUSI 240 now?
Tell us the week and the assignment. A tutor who knows the course replies with a plan for the draft.