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People and Organizations

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2010

Topics

  • Introduction and overview
  • Teams in organizations
  • Introduction to negotiations

Readings

  • [Ancona] = Ancona, Deborah, Thomas Kochan, Maureen Scully, John Van Maanen, and D. Eleanor Westney. Managing for the Future . 3rd ed. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 9780324055757.
    Listed reading
  • [Fisher and Ury] = Fisher, Roger, and William L. Ury. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In . 2nd ed. Edited by Bruce Patton. New York, NY: Penguin, 1991. ISBN: 9780140157352.
    Listed reading
  • Read [Fisher and Ury] in its entirety for Ses #14-16. Chapters that are especially relevant for specific sessions are noted.
    Listed reading
  • Listed reading
  • Barley, Stephen, and Gideon Kunda. “Contracting: A New Form of Professional Practice.” Academy of Management Perspectives 20, no. 1 (2006): 45-66.
    Listed reading
  • Chandler Jr., Alfred D. “The United States: Seedbed of Managerial Capitalism.” In Managerial Hierarchies: Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Corporation . Edited by A. Chandler Jr., and H. Daems. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 9-40. ISBN: 9780674547407.
    Listed reading
  • Powell, Walter W. “The Capitalist Firm in the Twenty-first Century: Emerging Patterns in Western Enterprise.” In The Twenty-first Century Firm: Changing Economic Organizations in International Perspectives . Edited by Paul DiMaggio. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780691058511.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 6 · TOPICS: Organizational analysis: Political lens · READINGS: “The Political Lens.” Module 2 in [Ancona].
    Reading assignment
  • Van Maanen, John. “The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland.” In Reframing Organizational Culture . Edited by Peter J. Frost, Larry F. Moore, Meryl Reis Louis, Craig C. Lundberg, and Joanne Martin. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1991. ISBN: 9780803936515.
    Listed reading
  • Berg, Norman A., and Norman D. Fast. “The Lincoln Electric Company.” Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-376-028, July 29, 1983.
    Listed reading
  • Kerr, Steven. “On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B.” The Academy of Management Executive 9, no. 1 (1995): 7-14.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 12 · TOPICS: Team processes: Strategies for building a high performance team · READINGS: Review: “Making Teams Work.” Module 3 in [Ancona].
    Reading assignment
  • Chapters 6-8 in [Fisher and Ury].
    Listed reading
  • Chapters 2-5 in [Fisher and Ury].
    Listed reading
  • Maathai, Wangari. “The History of the Green Belt Movement.” Chapter 2 in The Green Belt Movement . New York, NY: Lantern Books, 2003. ISBN: 9781590560402.
    Listed reading
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  • Reading assignment
  • Friedman, Milton. “The Social Responsibility of Business to Increase Profits.” The New York Times Magazine , September 30, 1970.
    Listed reading
  • Evan, William M., and R. Edward Freeman. “A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation: Kantian Capitalism.” In Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics . 5th ed. Edited by Josepfh R. DesJardins and John J. McCall. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2005, pp. 76-84. ISBN: 9780534584641.
    Listed reading
  • Stout, Lynn A. “Bad and Not-So-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy.” Southern California Law Review 75, (2002): 1189-2002.
    Listed reading
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  • Locke, Richard, Thomas Kochan, Fei Qin, and Moinca Romis. “Beyond Corporate Codes of Conduct: Work Organization and Labor Standards at Nike’s Suppliers.” International Labour Review 146, no. 1-2 (2007): 21-37.
    Listed reading
  • Reading assignment
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