Course Outline/Calendar
CSUN
Management 458
Decision Making and Creativity
Spring, 2013
12919
Mon/Wed 11:00am - 12:15pm (Mon 8/26 - Mon 12/9, 16 weeks)
JH1208
(traditional format)
Mon, Dec 9, 2013
[updated: Monday, December 9, 2013]
"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 # 12919, for the Spring, 2013 semester.
This course meets Mon/Wed 11:00am - 12:15pm (Mon 8/26 - Mon 12/9, 16 weeks) in JH1208 [ Campus Map, Google Maps, Google Earth ].
The following summary identifies the key terms used in the course outline.
Note: Materials listed as (CSUN only) are restricted to CSUN students, faculty, and staff only. To access these restricted materials, CSUN stakeholders will need to enter their full CSUN email address and their CSUN password.
- 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 26, 2013
Question: How is success defined in this course?
- Topic(s): Enrollment Management, Class Materials, Class Introduction
- Lecture: DM and C (Course Introduction) [ .pptx ]
Week 1: Wed. Aug 28, 2013
Question: What does "real world" decision-making and creativity look like?
Week 2: Mon. Sep 2, 2013
Week 2: Wed. Sep 4, 2013
Question: What is organizational decision-making? What is organizational creativity?
- Topic(s): Introductory Background Lecture
- Lecture: DM and C (Definitions and Examples) [ .pptx ]
- Hammond: Ch. 1, Making Smart Choices
- Supplemental: TED Talks (Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice) [ .html ]
Week 3: Mon. Sep 9, 2013
Week 3: Wed. Sep 11, 2013
Question: What are the philosophical principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
- Additional/Optional Activity: COBAE-sponsored and funded 'Welcome Day', meet admin/faculty and student organizations, and have free food (Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 9:30am-1:30pm and 4:00pm-6:00pm, between Juniper Hall and Noski Auditorium)
- Lecture: Team Assignment (and description of first deliverable--movie choices)
- HBR: Davenport
- Lecture: "Moneyball" (movie clips)
- Supplemental: Paritosh
- Supplemental: Shellenbarger (A Box)
Week 4: Mon. Sep 16, 2013
Question: What are the philosophical principles of language relevant to decision-making and creativity?
Week 4: Wed. Sep 18, 2013
Question: What are the psychological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
- Lecture: Guest, Jon Kirschner, CEO, DTS (sound technology for the movie industry)
- Due: Big 5 IPIP/NEO Personality Profile
- Lecture: DM and C (Psychology) [ .pptx ]
- Hammond: Ch. 2, Problem
- Supplemental: Wang
- Supplemental: TED Talks (Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory) [ .html ]
- Lecture: Big Bang Theory (clip)- "Pilot" (heuristics/learning) (Season 1, Disk 1, Episode 1)
Week 5: Mon. Sep 23, 2013
Question: What are the psychological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
- Supplemental: Tierney
- HBR: Badaracco
- Supplemental: TED Talks (Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?) [ .html ]
- Supplemental: Exam #1 Sample Questions (CSUN only)
Week 5: Wed. Sep 25, 2013
- Due: First movie choice and second (alternate) movie choice
- Exam: Exam #1
Week 6: Mon. Sep 30, 2013
Question: What are the physiological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 6: Wed. Oct 2, 2013
Question: What are the research and methodological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
- Hammond: Ch. 4, Alternatives
- Lecture: Big Bang Theory (clip) - "The Fuzzy Boots Corollary" (falsifiable hypothesis testing) (Season 1, Disk 1, Episode 3)
- Lecture: Big Bang Theory - "The Financial Permeability" (multi-criteria decision-making) (Season 2, Disk 3, Episode 14)
- Lecture: Big Bang Theory (clip) - "The Friendship Algorithm" (flowcharting) (Season 2, Disk 3, Episode 13)
- Lecture: DM and C (Research/Methodological) [ .pptx ]
Week 7: Mon. Oct 7, 2013
Question: How might we use literature (Shakespeare's plays, specifically) to advantage as managers?
Week 7: Wed. Oct 9, 2013
Question: What are the legal (or political/anthropological) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Question: How can students apply the theories/models/frameworks from class to an exemplar current event?
Week 8: Mon. Oct 14, 2013
- Due: Current Event (from the LA Times, NY Times, Fortune, WSJ, Economist, or BusinessWeek) linked to DMandC Theory/Model/Framework mini-presentation (2 minutes per student, no Powerpoint)
- Activity: 'Speed Presentations' for Current Event article [ .ppt ] (Mon. Oct 10, 2011)
- (contingency)
Week 8: Wed. Oct 16, 2013
Question: What are the sociological (network) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
- Lecture: DM and C (Sociological) [ .pptx ]
- Lecture: Social Network Analysis Data
- Hammond: Ch. 5, Consequences
- Hammond: Ch. 6, Tradeoffs
- Hammond: Ch. 7, Uncertainty
Week 9: Mon. Oct 21, 2013
Question: What are the sociological (network) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
- Supplemental: Smart Choices pp. 127-128, Karen's Decision (expected payoff) [ .xls ]
- Supplemental: Romero/Cruthirds
Week 9: Wed. Oct 23, 2013
Question: What are the systems dynamics principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
- Lecture: DM and C (Systems Dynamics) [ .pptx ]
- Hammond: Ch. 8, Risk Tolerance
- Hammond: Ch. 9, Linked Decisions
Week 10: Mon. Oct 28, 2013
Question: What are the systems dynamics principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 10: Wed. Oct 30, 2013
Question: What are the technological and engineering principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 11: Mon. Nov 4, 2013
Week 11: Wed. Nov 6, 2013
Question: What are the technological and engineering principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
- Due: Student Reports: Movies in Management
- Lecture: DM and C (Technology/Engineering) [ .pptx ]
- Hammond: Ch. 10, Psychological Traps
- Hammond: Ch. 11, The Wise Decision-Maker
- Supplemental: Sternberg
- Supplemental: Shellenbarger (Tactics)
Week 12: Mon. Nov 11--no class, 2013
- (no class - Veterans Day)
Week 12: Wed. Nov 13, 2013
Question: What is the theory and practice of organizational innovation (within a society)?
- Lecture: DM and C (Creativity--Runco book chapter) [ .pptx ]
- Lecture: Creativity (Runco Book Chapter)
Week 13: Mon. Nov 18, 2013
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
- Exercise: Informal Student Presentations: Movies in Management
Week 13: Wed. Nov 20, 2013
Question: What is the theory and practice of organizational innovation (within a society)?
- HBR: Drucker
- Unexpected Occurrances
- Incongruities
- Process Needs
- Industry and Market Changes
- Demographic Changes
- Changes in Perception
- New Knowledge
Week 14: Mon. Nov 25, 2013
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
- Due: Student Presentations (Shakespeare in Management) - Teams 1 and 2
Week 14: Wed. Nov 27, 2013
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
- Due: Student Presentations (Shakespeare in Management) - Teams 3 and 4
Week 15: Mon. Dec 2, 2013
Question: What is the theory and practice of organizational innovation (within a society)?
- Lecture: Creativity (Runco Book Chapter) (follow-up)
- Supplemental: Audia/Goncalo
- Activity: Drucker (Innovation) (follow-up)
Week 15: Wed. Dec 4, 2013
Question: What is the theory and practice of individual innovation (within an organization)?
- (student evaluations of faculty)
- (team evaluations)
- Lecture: DM and C (Personal/Societal) [ .pptx ]
- (contingency)
Week 16: Mon. Dec 9, 2013
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
- Materials for Further Study [ .html ] (Wed. Aug 15, 2012)
- Supplemental: "20 Things 20-year-olds Don't Get" (Forbes) [ .html ]
- Supplemental: Hayden, D. A., and M. Wilder ("How to sell yourself in an interview") [ .html ]
Finals Week: Wed. Dec 11, 2013
- Supplemental: Kwoh ("Shape Up or Pay Up: Firms Put in New Health Penalties") [ .pdf ]
- Exam: Final Exam (10:15am - 12:15pm) (verify in SOLAR)