BUSI 310 Principles of Management Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · BS in Business Administration · Business and accounting · Updated

BUSI 310 teaches management as a balance between people and numbers, and between efficiency and effectiveness, across planning, organizing, leading and controlling. The samples below follow its three forums, on organizational culture, ethical decision making and servant leadership, each with its thread and two replies, and its key concept paper on managing hybrid teams with research from the last four years.

CourseBUSI 310 Principles of Management (BUSI310)
Credit hours3
ProgramBS in Business Administration
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work4 of 8
Samples on this site4 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published BUSI 310 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What BUSI 310 covers

The course reads Bateman, Snell and Konopaske's Management two chapters at a time in the odd modules/weeks, with LearnSmart, a video case and a timed essay-question quiz, and reviews the same chapters in the even modules/weeks, when the forum and a test fall due.

Every forum calls for a thread of 700 words or more on a topic the student chooses, citing at least two sources, and two replies of at least 300 words with one source each, all in the same module/week. The key concept paper is 1,000 words in APA format with a cover page, an abstract and five scholarly sources published within the previous four years.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes BUSI 310 Principles of Management this way:
Management requires a balance between social (people) and technical (quantitative) perspectives, as well as between efficiency and effectiveness. This course emphasizes the application of these perspectives in each of the planning, organizing, leading and controlling functions.

BUSI 310 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1Essay-question quiz, LearnSmart and video case onlyNo written paper this week
Week 2Discussion Board Forum 1 Thread and Replies (Test 1 also due)100Read the Week 2 sample
Week 3Essay-question quiz, LearnSmart and video case onlyNo written paper this week
Week 4Discussion Board Forum 2 Thread and Replies (Test 2 also due)100Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5Essay-question quiz, LearnSmart and video case onlyNo written paper this week
Week 6Discussion Board Forum 3 Thread and Replies (Test 3 also due)100Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Essay-question quiz, LearnSmart and video case onlyNo written paper this week
Week 8Key Concept Paper (Test 4 also due)100Read the Week 8 sample

Where BUSI 310 papers lose points

BUSI 310 work loses points when a thread stops short of 700 words or rests on a single source, when replies fall under 300 words or skip their source, and when the key concept paper relies on older studies, omits the abstract or describes the concept without showing how a manager would use it.

Using a BUSI 310 sample well

The forum samples draw on research about organizational culture, unethical decisions at work and servant leadership; the key concept paper draws on studies of remote and hybrid work published from 2022 to 2024.

BUSI 310 questions, answered

What textbook does BUSI 310 use?

Bateman, Snell and Konopaske's Management, read two chapters at a time in the odd modules/weeks and reviewed in the even ones before each test.

How long are BUSI 310 discussion posts?

Each thread runs at least 700 words with two or more sources, and each of the two replies posted the same module/week runs at least 300 words with one source.

What is the BUSI 310 Key Concept Paper?

A 1,000-word APA paper on a management concept the student wants to explore, with a cover page, an abstract and five scholarly sources published within the previous four years, due in Module/Week 8.

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