Course Outline/Calendar

CSUN
Management 458
Decision Making and Creativity

Fall, 2011
12646
Mon/Wed 11:00am - 12:15pm (Mon 8/29 - Wed 12/7, 16 weeks)
JH1236

Wayne Smith   [ wayne.smith@csun.edu ]

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[updated: Sunday, November 13, 2011]

"There are five managerial roles; they are to set objectives, organize, motivate and communicate, measure, and develop people."
-Peter Drucker (1909-2005)

Course Outline/Calendar

The purpose of this web site is to provide information and materials for students enrolled in Wayne Smith's Management 458 course, Class #  12646, for the Fall, 2011 semester. This course meets Mon/Wed 11:00am - 12:15pm (Mon 8/29 - Wed 12/7, 16 weeks) in JH1236 [ Campus Map, Google Maps, Google Earth ].

The following summary identifies the key terms used in the course outline.

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Question:
A general organizing question to place this particular material in context
Topic(s):
General topic(s) to be discussed
Hammond:
Readings from the textbook
HBR:
Readings from the Harvard Business Review materials
Supplemental:
Readings from the supplemental materials (or occasionally, a direct, online resource)
Due:
Assignment or report due at the immediate beginning of class
Review:
Usually a student-led review of an assignment or report
Exercise:
done individually or in teams (announced and collected in-class)
Activity:
done individually or in teams (announced and done in-class)
Lecture:
a lecture or presentation done by the instructor
Quiz:
a relatively short test
Exam:
a relatively long test
(contingency)
Slack time embedded during the course to cover unforeseen events

The following is the detail of the course in chronological order. Students must complete the readings and assignments before the due date.

Week 1: Mon. Aug 29, 2011
Question: How is success defined in this course?
Week 1: Wed. Aug 31, 2011
Question: What does "real world" decision-making and creativity look like?
Week 2: Mon. Sep 5, 2011
Week 2: Wed. Sep 7, 2011
Question: What is organizational decision-making? What is organizational creativity?
Week 3: Mon. Sep 12, 2011
Question: What are the philosophical principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 3: Wed. Sep 14, 2011
Question: What are the philosophical principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 4: Mon. Sep 19, 2011
Question: What are the psychological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 4: Wed. Sep 21, 2011
Question: What are the psychological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 5: Mon. Sep 26, 2011
Question: What are the physiological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 5: Wed. Sep 28, 2011
Question: What are the physiological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 6: Mon. Oct 3, 2011
Question: What are the research and methodological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 6: Wed. Oct 5, 2011
Question: What are the research and methodological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 7: Mon. Oct 10, 2011
Question: What are the legal (or political/anthropological) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 7: Wed. Oct 12, 2011
Question: What are the anthropological (or political/legal) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 8: Mon. Oct 17, 2011
Question: What are the sociological (network) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 8: Wed. Oct 19, 2011
Question: What are the sociological (network) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 9: Mon. Oct 24, 2011
Question: What are the systems dynamics principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 9: Wed. Oct 26, 2011
Question: What are the systems dynamics principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 10: Mon. Oct 31, 2011
Question: What are the technological and engineering principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 10: Wed. Nov 2, 2011
Question: What are the technological and engineering principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 11: Mon. Nov 7, 2011
Question: What is the theory and practice of individual innovation (within an organization)?
Week 11: Wed. Nov 9, 2011
Question: What is the theory and practice of organizational innovation (within a society)?
Week 12: Mon. Nov 14, 2011
Question:
Week 12: Wed. Nov 16, 2011
Question:
Week 13: Mon. Nov 21, 2011
Question:
Week 13: Wed. Nov 23, 2011
Question:
Week 14: Mon. Nov 28, 2011
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
Week 14: Wed. Nov 30, 2011
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
Week 15: Mon. Dec 5, 2011
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
Week 15: Wed. Dec 7, 2011
Finals Week: Wed. Dec 14, 2011 (10:15am - 12:15am)

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