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Introduction and Overview
What challenges can I expect in my first job? |
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Introduction to Teams and Teamwork
How do we build a high performance team? |
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Contemporary Management Challenges
What are the big challenges facing management and organizations today, and what skills do I need to face them? |
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Work and Careers - Past, Present and Future
What do I want/expect from my work and career? How is this similar or different from what my parents and grandparents wanted and expected? |
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Organizational Analysis - Strategic Design Lens
How do I analyze and make sense of the organizational structure in which I am working? |
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Organizational Analysis - Political Lens
Who will share my interests and who won't? Who has power, and how will it affect what I do? |
First paper on work and careers due. |
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Organizational Analysis - The Cultural Lens
What traditions matter in an organization, and how do they affect what goes on? |
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Organizational Analysis - The Lincoln Electric Case
Why has Lincoln Electric's incentive compensation system worked for decades while most others' have failed? |
Group project topics due. |
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Shareholders or Stakeholders - A Debate
What purpose(s) should corporations serve? |
Individual project topics due. |
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The Nike Case
Should Nike and other global corporations be held responsible for the practices of their suppliers? If yes, how? |
By this class at the latest, you should have completed the online team assessment survey that we will be discussing on Ses #11. We will mention some more details about this in class on the Ses #9. |
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Teams Revisited - Feedback and Workshop Session
So, are we a high performance team yet? |
This class will be a workshop. Prior to class you will each complete a short Team Assessment Form. In class your team will review your team's data, assess your strengths and weaknesses, and develop a plan for continuous improvement. |
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Introduction to Negotiations
How do I negotiate when it looks like I have no power? |
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| 13 |
Multi-party Negotiations
How do I balance the interests of several stakeholders, especially when some of them aren't at the bargaining table? |
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| 14 |
Recruitment/Job Offer Negotiations
What should ask for? What should I offer? |
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| 15 |
Leadership and Change - Introduction
What is leadership? Are we born leaders or can we learn to become good leaders? How can we develop leadership skills?
We will have a guest speaker, Marshall Ganz from the Kennedy School. |
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| 16 |
The Big Dig, Part 1 |
Draft memos for individual projects due. |
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The Big Dig, Part 2 |
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| 18 |
Social Influence, Communications and Selling Ideas
How do I sell a great idea to higher authorities? |
Instructors will return individual project draft memos, with comments. |
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Organizational Change
If it worked once, why not again? |
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Organizational Change (cont.) |
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| 21 |
Managing the Innovation Process
How do ideas move from the laboratory through the organization to the marketplace?
We will have a guest speaker, Tom Barocci, from TAB Associates. |
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Team Presentations |
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| 23 |
Alumni Panel |
Papers for team projects due. |
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Technology and Its Social Context
What social and cultural impacts will your technical design decisions have, on the workplace and on the wider world?
We will have a guest speaker, David Hartzband from the MIT Engineering Systems Division. |
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| 25 |
Inventing the Future |
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| 26 |
Inventing the Future (cont.) |
Papers for individual projects due. |