Course Outline/Calendar

CSUN
Management 458
Decision Making and Creativity

Fall, 2012
13045
Mon/Wed 11:00am - 12:15pm (Mon 8/27 - Wed 12/6, 16 weeks)
JH1236

Wayne Smith   [ wayne.smith@csun.edu ]

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[updated: Wednesday, December 5, 2012]

"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 #  13045, for the Fall, 2012 semester. This course meets Mon/Wed 11:00am - 12:15pm (Mon 8/27 - Wed 12/6, 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 27, 2012
Question: How is success defined in this course?
Week 1: Wed. Aug 29, 2012
Question: What does "real world" decision-making and creativity look like?
Week 2: Mon. Sep 3, 2012
Week 2: Wed. Sep 5, 2012
Question: What is organizational decision-making? What is organizational creativity?
Week 3: Mon. Sep 10, 2012
Question: What are the philosophical principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 3: Wed. Sep 12, 2012
Question: What are the philosophical principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 4: Mon. Sep 17, 2012
Question: What are the psychological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 4: Wed. Sep 19, 2012
Question: What are the psychological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 5: Mon. Sep 24, 2012
Question: What are the physiological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 5: Wed. Sep 26, 2012
Question: What are the physiological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 6: Mon. Oct 1, 2012
Question: What are the research and methodological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 6: Wed. Oct 3, 2012
Question: What are the research and methodological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 7: Mon. Oct 8, 2012
Question: What are the legal (or political/anthropological) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 7: Wed. Oct 10, 2012 (temporary room change: JH3107)
Question: How can students apply the theories/models/frameworks from class to an exemplar current event?
Week 8: Mon. Oct 15, 2012
Question: What are the sociological (network) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 8: Wed. Oct 17, 2012
Question: What are the sociological (network) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 9: Mon. Oct 22, 2012
Question: What are the systems dynamics principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 9: Wed. Oct 24, 2012
Question: What are the systems dynamics principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 10: Mon. Oct 29, 2012
Question: What are the technological and engineering principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 10: Wed. Oct 31, 2012
Question: What are the technological and engineering principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 11: Mon. Nov 5, 2012
Question: What is the theory and practice of individual innovation (within an organization)?
Week 11: Wed. Nov 7, 2012
Question: What is the theory and practice of organizational innovation (within a society)?
Week 12: Mon. Nov 12, 2012
Question:
Week 12: Wed. Nov 14, 2012
Question:
Week 13: Mon. Nov 19, 2012
Question:
Week 13: Wed. Nov 21, 2012
Question:
Week 14: Mon. Nov 26, 2012
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
Week 14: Wed. Nov 28, 2012
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
Week 15: Mon. Dec 3, 2012
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
Week 15: Wed. Dec 5, 2012
Week 16: Mon. Dec 10, 2012
Finals Week: Wed. Dec 12, 2012 (10:15am - 12:15am)

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