CSUN
Management 458
Decision-making and Creativity
[updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2012]
"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Contents
Preface
The purpose of this web site is to provide links to supplementary materials ("materials for further study") that may be of some
interest to students after the completion of the MGT 360 course.
Recommended Reading (CSUN Library)
The following is a list of books available in the CSUN Library that are germane to the subject of this course. These
books may be excellent Summer reading in particular.
- Autry, J. (2006), The Book of Hard Choices: How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect, Morgan Road Books. [ CSUN Library ]
- Bazerman, M. (2002), Judgment in Mangerial Decision Making, John Wiley and Sons. [ CSUN Library ]
- Beach, L. (1997), The Psychology of Decision Making: People in Organizations, Sage Publications. [ CSUN Library ]
- Crainer, S. (1999), The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made...and 21 of the Worst, American Management Association. [ CSUN Library ]
- Kaner, S. (2007), Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, Jossey-Bass. [ CSUN Library ]
- Keeney, R. (1992), Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decisionmaking, Harvard University Press. [ CSUN Library ]
- Ray, M., and Myers, R. (1986), Creativity in Business, Main Street Books. [ CSUN Library ]
- Ritti, R., and Levy, S. (2007), The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know (7th. ed.), John Wiley and Sons. [ CSUN Library ]
- Shekerjian, D. (1990), Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born, Viking Penguin. [ CSUN Library ]
- Turner, F. (1999), Shakespeare's Twenty-First-Century Economics, Oxford University Press. [ CSUN Library ]
Recommended Reading
The following is a list of books (not available in the CSUN Library) that are germane to the subject of this course. These
books may be excellent Summer reading in particular.
- Brawer, R. (1998), Fictions of Business: Insights on Management from Great Literature, John Wiley and Sons.
- Coles, R., and LaForge, A. (ed.'s) (2008), Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business from Tolstoy to now, The New Press.
- Gagliardi, P., and Czarniawska, B. (ed.'s) (2006), Management Education and Humanities, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Hastie, R., and Dawes, R. (2010), Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making, Sage.
- O'Hagan, A., et al. (2006), Uncertain Judgements: Eliciting Experts' Probabilities, John Wiley and Sons.
- Pollard, A. (ed) (2009), The Representation of Business in English Literature, Institute of Economic Affairs (Amagi Books, Liberty Fund, Inc.).
- Puffer, S. (1991), Managerial Insights from Literature, PWS-Kent.
- Ray, M. (2006), The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment, Berrett-Koehler.
Recommended Reading (full-text, online)
The following is a list of ten books available online for free (as in "speech") from Project Gutenberg. The Copyrights on these works have expired and
volunteers have transcribed the text of book into electronic form (.txt or .pdf).
- Carroll, L. (1931), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [ .html | audio ]
- Hume, D. (1777), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [ .html ]
Supplementary "Open Courseware" materials ("Management Text")
The following course materials at MIT are tangentially related to CSUN MGT 360. MIT
posts materials of interest to motivated learners desiring a deeper understanding of managerial principles. These materials are relatively easy to access and use, because
they are available in a public, consistent, and available-at-no-charge manner.
Supplementary "Open Courseware" courses ("Management Courses")
The following complete courses at UC Berkeley are tangentially related to CSUN MGT 458. The beauty of these offerings is
that the entire course, including all lectures, is online and available at no charge.
- Students considering an M.S./Ph.D. program
- Students considering an M.B.A./J.D. program
- Students considering entering the management profession
