Course Outline/Calendar

CSUN
Management 360
Principles of Management and Organizational Behavior

Spring, 2014
12671
Wed 3:30pm - 6:15pm (Wed 1/22 - Wed 5/7, 16 weeks)
NA101
(traditional format)

Wayne Smith   [ wayne.smith@csun.edu ]

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[updated: Wednesday, April 30, 2014]

"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 360 course, Class #  12671, for the Spring, 2014 semester. This course meets Wed 3:30pm - 6:15pm (Wed 1/22 - Wed 5/7, 16 weeks) in NA101 [ Campus Map, Google Maps, Google Earth ].

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

Question:
A general organizing question to place this particular material in context
Topic(s):
General topic(s) to be discussed
Carpenter:
Readings from the textbook
HBR:
Readings from the Harvard Business Review materials
Supplemental:
Readings from the supplemental materials (or by direct link)
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)
Quiz:
a relatively short test
Exam:
a relatively long test
(contingency)
Slack time embedded during the course to cover unforeseen events

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 (e.g., "john.doe.14@my.csun.edu") and their CSUN password.

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

Week 1: Wed. Jan 22, 2014
Question: How is success defined in this course?
Question: Why study Organizational Behavior?
Question: What does management look like at 30,000 feet?
Week 2: Wed. Jan 29, 2014
Question: What are the primary activities of management?
Question: How do professionals, managers, and executives influence knowledgable others in a substantive manner?
Question: Who is a manager?
Week 3: Wed. Feb 5, 2014
Question: What does planning, leading, organizing, and controlling look like in practice?
Question: What have we learned from the significant organizational challenges and opportunities in the past?
Question: Who are the key internal and external stakeholders for an organization?
Week 4: Wed. Feb 12, 2014
Question: What is business ethics and how do professionals, managers, and executives apply them?
Question: What are the wider organizational missions and individual values in the contemporary, global economy?
Week 5: Wed. Feb 19, 2014
Question: How does an organization leverage labor-intensive infrastructures?
Question: Where are the deepest strengths and deepest weaknesses within complex organizations?
Week 6: Wed. Feb 26, 2014
Question: What is organizational culture and why does it matter?
Question: What does the organization look like through multiple "lenses?"
Week 7: Wed. Mar 5, 2014
Question: How do individuals and organizations make optimal decisions in the face of uncertainty?
Week 8: Wed. Mar 12, 2014
Question: What are the formal and informal feedback mechanisms in an organization?
Week 9: Wed. Mar 19, 2014
Question: What does the mind of a strategist look like?
Week 10: Wed. Mar 26, 2014
Question: What does the body of a strategist look like?
Week 11: Wed. Apr 2, 2014
Question: What does the action of a strategist look like?
Question: What does a generic business plan look like for a business start-up or other, similar entrepreneueral endeavor?
Question: What can we learn about process, product, and business-level strategy from current events?
Question: What do objectives and goals look like when a professional isn't included in strategy formulation?
Week n/a: Wed. Apr 9, 2014
Week 12: Wed. Apr 16, 2014
Question: How do we design persistently successful organizational units in contemporary society?
Question: How does one attend to managing one's significant others (i.e., bosses and teammates)?
Question: How does one communicate extraordinarily well in an organizational context?
Week 13: Wed. Apr 23, 2014
Question: Other than differing expectations, what is the root cause of most organizational pathologies?
Question: What are the origins of motivation?
Question: Can "emotional intelligence" complement "cognitive intelligence"?
Question: What do we know (and not know) about trust?
Week 14: Wed. Apr 30, 2014
Question: What do we know about power in organizations, and how we can leverage (without abusing) that knowledge to advantage?
Question: What are the subtle aspects of day-to-day organizational behavior that matter greatly to managers?
Question: What function of management is most associated with organization success?
Question: Why do I contribute? Where do I belong?
Question: Why do people resist change, and what can a leader do about it?
Question: What is the optimal overall design to best meet the mission of the organization?
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
Week 15: Wed. May 7, 2014
Finals Week: Wed. May 14, 2014

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