Course Outline/Calendar

CSUN
Management 458
Decision Making and Creativity

Spring, 2013
19090
Tue 7:00pm - 9:45pm (Tue 1/22 - Tue 5/14, 16 weeks)
JH1206
(traditional format)

Wayne Smith   [ wayne.smith@csun.edu ]

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[updated: Friday, April 26, 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 #  19090, for the Spring, 2013 semester. This course meets Tue 7:00pm - 9:45pm (Tue 1/22 - Tue 5/14, 16 weeks) in JH1206 [ 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: Tue. Jan 22, 2013
Week 2: Tue. Jan 29, 2013
Question: How is success defined in this course?
Question: What does "real world" decision-making and creativity look like?
Week 3: Tue. Feb 5, 2013
Question: What is organizational decision-making? What is organizational creativity?
Week 4: Tue. Feb 12, 2013
Question: What are the philosophical principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 5: Tue. Feb 19, 2013
Question: What are the psychological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 6: Tue. Feb 26, 2013
Question: What are the physiological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 7: Tue. Mar 5, 2013
Question: What are the research and methodological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 8: Tue. Mar 12, 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 9: Tue. Mar 19, 2013
Question: What are the sociological (network) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 10: Tue. Mar 26, 2013
Question: What are the systems dynamics principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 11: Tue. Apr 2, 2013
Question: What are the technological and engineering principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week n/a: Tue. Apr 9, 2013
Week 12: Tue. Apr 16, 2013
Question: What is the theory and practice of individual innovation (within an organization)?
Question: What is the theory and practice of organizational innovation (within a society)?
Week 13: Tue. Apr 23, 2013
Question:
Week 14: Tue. Apr 30, 2013
Question:
Week 15: Tue. May 7, 2013
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
Finals Week Tue. May 14, 2013

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