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Leading Organizations

3-0-3 units · Graduate

Analyzes through lectures, discussions, and class exercises, the human processes underlying organizational behavior. Restricted to Sloan Fellow MBAs.

Fall 2003 · Leading Organizations II

Topics

  • The Changing Organizational World: Problems and Prospects
  • Learning Styles
  • Career Anchors
  • Three Perspectives on Organizational Analysis and Action
  • Reward Systems and Incentives
  • Power and Networks in Organizations
  • Group Process Revisited
  • Cultural Rules of Interaction
  • Models of Organization Change
  • Living in a Changing Organizational World

Readings

  • Schein, Edgar H. Career Anchors: Discovering Your Real Values . San Diego, CA: University Associates, 1990. (Workbook)
    Listed reading
  • Van Maanen, John. Tales of the Field . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988. (Optional)
    Listed reading
  • Bailyn, Lotte. Breaking the Mold . New York, NY: Free Press, 1993. (Optional)
    Listed reading
  • Van Maanen, John. Tales of the Field. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988. (Optional)
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 1 · TOPICS: The Changing Organizational World: Problems and Prospects · READINGS: Ancona, Kochan, Scully, Van Maanen, and Westney. Changing Organizational Models . In Organizational Behavior and Processes . Edited by Ancona, et al. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Publishing, 2003. (inc. “Coda”)
    Reading assignment
  • Semler, Ricardo. Managing Without Managers . Harvard Business Review . Boston, MA: September-October, 1989.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 2 · TOPICS: Learning Styles · READINGS: Argyris, Chris. Teaching Smart People How to Learn . Harvard Business Review . Boston, MA: May 1991.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 3 · TOPICS: Career Anchors · READINGS: Schein. Career Anchors . (Booklet)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 4 · TOPICS: Three Perspectives on Organizational Analysis and Action · READINGS: Ancona, et al. The Three Lenses: Strategic Design, Political and Cultural . In Organizational Behavior and Processes . Edited by Ancona, et al. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Publishing, 2003.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Reward Systems and Incentives · READINGS: Björkman I., and C. Galunic. Lincoln Electric in China . INSEAD, 1999. European Case Clearing House Case No. 499-021-1.
    Reading assignment
  • Pfeffer, Jeffrey. Six Dangerous Myths About Pay . Harvard Business Review . Boston, MA: May 1998.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 6 · TOPICS: Power and Networks in Organizations · READINGS: Skinner, C. Wickham, and Ardis Burst. Elizabeth Best (A, B, and C) . Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing, 1991. Case No. 9-675-123, 9-675-124, and 9-675-125.
    Reading assignment
  • Krackhardt, David, and Jeffrey R. Hansen. Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart . Harvard Business Review . Boston, MA: July 1993.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 7 · TOPICS: Group Process Revisited · READINGS: Review: Schein. Process Consultation . Chapter 4 in Career Anchors: Discovering Your Real Values . San Diego, CA: University Associates, 1990.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 8 · TOPICS: Cultural Rules of Interaction · READINGS: Schein, Edgar H. Three Cultures of Management: The Key to Organizational Learning . MIT Sloan Management Review . Boston, MA: Fall 1996, pp. 9-20.
    Reading assignment
  • Kunda, Gideon and John Van Maanen. Changing Scripts at Work: Emotional Labor of Managers and Professionals . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 561, no. 1, January 1999.
    Listed reading
  • Review: Bailyn. Chapters 5 and 6 in Breaking the Mold . New York, NY: Free Press, 1993. (Optional)
    Listed reading
  • Van Maanen. Chapters 1 and 2 in Tales of the Field . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988. (Optional)
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Models of Organization Change · READINGS: Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Barry A. Stein, and Todd D. Jick. The Challenge of Organizational Change . New York, NY: Free Press, 1992, Chapter 10.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Living in a Changing Organizational World · READINGS: Loveman, Gary. The Case of the Part-Time Partner . Harvard Business Review. Boston, MA: September 1990.
    Reading assignment
  • Schoar, Juliet. Workers of the World, Unwind . Technology Review. Cambridge, MA: November-December 1991.
    Listed reading
  • Handy, Charles. Trust and the Virtual Organization . Harvard Business Review . Boston, MA: May 1995.
    Listed reading
  • Review: Bailyn. Chapters 7 and 8 in Breaking the Mold. New York, NY: Free Press, 1993. (Optional)
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: None G (Fall; first half of term) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-3 units

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