| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and Overview | |
| 2 | Introduction to Teams and Teamwork | [M] "A Team Primer." Module 3, pp. M3-10 to M3-16. [M] "Team Process Observation Guide." Module 5, pp. M5-8 to M5-16. |
| 3 | Contemporary Management Challenges | [K&S] D'Arbeloff, Alex. "Preface." pp. xi-xii. [K&S] Annan, Kofi. "Corporate Citizenship in a Global Society." pp. 17-24. [K&S] Fiorina, Carly. "Restoring Trust: Corporate Responsibility and the CEO." pp. 25-36. |
| 4 | Work and Careers - Past, Present and Future | [M] "Workforce Management: Employment Relationships in Changing Organizations." Module 7, pp. M7-12 to M7-28. |
| 5 | Organizational Analysis - Strategic Design Lens | [M] "Three Lenses on Organizational Analysis and Action." Module 2, pp. M2-13 to M2-32. Look over the organizational charts from the Office of the Dean of Student Life and the Dean of Undergraduate Education. |
| 6 | Organizational Analysis - Political Lens | [M] "The Political Lens." Module 2, pp. M2-33 to M2-55. Dalton, Melville. "Men who Manage." In The Sociology of Economic Life. Edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992, pp. 315-320 and 334-344. ISBN: 0813397642. |
| 7 | Organizational Analysis - The Cultural Lens | [M] "The Cultural Lens." Module 2, pp. M2-57 to M2-82. Bring an MIT cultural artifact to class, one per team (we will explain this in the next class). |
| 8 | Organizational Analysis - The Lincoln Electric Case | Berg, Norman, and Norman Fast. "Lincoln Electric Co." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-500-071, August 1, 1975. |
| 9 | Shareholders or Stakeholders - A Debate | Friedman, Milton. "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits." The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970. Evan, William, and R. Edward Freeman. "A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation: Kantian Capitalism." In Ethical Theory and Business. 6th ed. Edited by Beauchamp and Bowie. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001. ISBN: 0133985202. Stout, Lynn. "Bad and Not-So-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy." Southern California Law Review 75 (2002). |
| 10 | The Nike Case | [K&S] Locke, Richard. "The Promise and Peril of Globalization: The Nike Case." pp. 39-70. |
| 11 | Teams Revisited - Feedback and Workshop Session | |
| 12 | Introduction to Negotiations | [M] "Negotiations and Conflict Resolution." Module 12, pp. M12-4 to M12-21. "Negotiation Simulation Ground Rules." (class handout) "An Alarming Night." (class handout) |
| 13 | Multi-party Negotiations | "Laboratory Sciences, Inc." (class handout) |
| 14 | Recruitment/Job Offer Negotiations | "The New Recruit." (class handout) |
| 15 | Leadership and Change - Introduction | [M] "Leadership." Module 14, pp. M14-8 to M14-19. Biographic sketch of César Chavez. |
| 16 | The Big Dig, Part 1 | |
| 17 | The Big Dig, Part 2 | |
| 18 | Social Influence, Communications and Selling Ideas | [M] "Issue Selling from Within." Module 13, pp. M13-6 to M13-11. [M] "Inex." Module 13, pp. M13-14 to M13-19. |
| 19 | Organizational Change | [M] "Organizational Change." Module 8, pp. M8-6 to M8-21. [M] "The Strategy that Wouldn't Travel." Module 8, pp. M8-22 to M8-25. |
| 20 | Organizational Change (cont.) | "Internship Protocol and Cases." (class handout) |
| 21 | Managing the Innovation Process | [K&S] Brockley, Ellen, et al. "The Next Technological Revolution: Predicting the Technical Future and its Impact on Firms, Organizations and Ourselves." pp. 259-285. |
| 22 | Team Presentations | |
| 23 | Alumni Panel | |
| 24 | Technology and Its Social Context | |
| 25 | Inventing the Future | |
| 26 | Inventing the Future (cont.) |
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There are two required books for the course, which are noted in shorthand in the table below:
[M] Ancona, D., T. Kochan, M. Scully, J. Van Maanen, and E. Westney. Managing for the Future. 3rd ed. Mason, OH: Thomson/Southwestern, 2005. ISBN: 0324055757.
[K&S] Kochan, Thomas, and Richard Schmalensee, eds. Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 0262112825.