Course Outline/Calendar

CSUN
Management 360
Principles of Management and Organizational Behavior

Spring, 2012
17964-18557
Sat 9:00am - 11:45am (Sat 1/21 - Sat 5/12, 16 weeks)
EH2132

Wayne Smith   [ wayne.smith@csun.edu ]

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[updated: Saturday, May 12, 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 360 course, Class #  17964-18557, for the Spring, 2012 semester. This course meets Sat 9:00am - 11:45am (Sat 1/21 - Sat 5/12, 16 weeks) in EH2132 [ 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
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

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

Week 1: Sat. Jan 21, 2012
Question: How is success defined in this course?
Question: Why study Organizational Behavior?
Question: What does management look like at 30,000 feet?
Question: What are the primary activities of management?
Question: Who is a manager?
Question: How do professionals, managers, and executives get heard above the organizational noise?
Week 2: Sat. Jan 28, 2012
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 3: Sat. Feb 4, 2012
Question: What does planning, leading, organizing, and controlling look like in practice?
Week 4: Sat. Feb 11, 2012
Question: What are the wider organizational missions and individual values in the contemporary, global economy?
Week 5: Sat. Feb 18, 2012
Question: How does an organization leverage labor-intensive infrastructures?
Question: What does the organization look like through multiple "lenses?"
Question: Where are the deepest strengths and deepest weaknesses within complex organizations?
Week 6: Sat. Feb 25, 2012
Question: What is organizational culture and why does it matter?
Week 7: Sat. Mar 3, 2012
Question: How do individuals and organizations make optimal decisions in the face of uncertainty?
Week 8: Sat. Mar 10, 2012
Question: What does the mind of a strategist look like?
Question: What does the body of a strategist look like?
Week 9: Sat. Mar 17, 2012
Question: What does the action of a strategist look like?
Question: What do objectives and goals look like from the front lines?
Week 10: Sat. Mar 24, 2012
Week 11: Sat. Mar 31, 2012
Week 12: Sat. Apr 7, 2012
Week 13: Sat. Apr 14, 2012
Week 14: Sat. Apr 21, 2012
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?
Week 15: Sat. Apr 28, 2012
Question: Other than differing expectations, what is the root cause of most organizational pathologies?
Question: What do we know (and not know) about trust?
Question: What are the origins of motivation?
Week 16: Sat. May 5, 2012
Question: What function of management is most associated with organization success?
Question: Why do I contribute? Where do I belong? What are the roots of power?
Question: What is the optimal overall design to best meet the mission of the organization?
Week 17: Sat. May 12, 2012
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
Finals Week: Sat. May 19, 2012

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