Course Outline/Calendar

CSUN
Management 458
Decision Making and Creativity

Fall, 2015
13227
Mon/Wed 3:30pm - 4:45pm (Mon 8/24 - Mon 12/7, 16 weeks)
JH1236
(traditional format)

Wayne Smith   [ wayne.smith@csun.edu ]

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[updated: Wednesday, December 9, 2015]

"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 #  13227, for the Fall, 2015 semester. This course meets Mon/Wed 3:30pm - 4:45pm (Mon 8/24 - Mon 12/7, 16 weeks) in JH1236 [ 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: Mon. Aug 24, 2015
Question: How is success defined in this course?
Week 1: Wed. Aug 26, 2015
Question: What does "real world" decision-making and creativity look like?
Week 2: Mon. Aug 31, 2015
Question: What is organizational decision-making? What is organizational creativity?
Week 2: Wed. Sep 2, 2015
Question: What are the practical principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 3: Mon. Sep 7, 2015
Week 3: Wed. Sep 9, 2015
Week 4: Mon. Sep 14, 2015
Question: What are the philosophical principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Question: What are the philosophical principles of language relevant to decision-making and creativity?
Week 4: Wed. Sep 16, 2015
Question: What are the psychological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 5: Mon. Sep 21, 2015
Question: What are the psychological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 5: Wed. Sep 23, 2015
Week 6: Mon. Sep 28, 2015
Question: What are the physiological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 6: Wed. Sep 30, 2015
Question: What are the research and methodological principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 7: Mon. Oct 5, 2015
Question: How might we use literature (Shakespeare's plays, specifically) to advantage as managers?
Week 7: Wed. Oct 7, 2015
Question: What are the rhetorical (or legal/political) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 8: Mon. Oct 12, 2015
Question: How can students apply the theories/models/frameworks from class to an exemplar current event?
Week 8: Wed. Oct 14, 2015
Question: What are the sociological (network) principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 9: Mon. Oct 19, 2015
Question: What are the details of decision trees and expected payoffs?
Question: What role does humor play in the workplace, and how might it be related to creativity?
Week 9: Wed. Oct 21, 2015
Question: What are the systems dynamics principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 10: Mon. Oct 26, 2015
Question: What role does affect play in the workplace, and how might it be related to creativity?
Week 10: Wed. Oct 28, 2015
Question: What is the theory and practice of individual and organizational creativity?
Week 11: Mon. Nov 2, 2015
Week 11: Wed. Nov 4, 2015
Question: What are the technological and engineering principles needed to understand decision-making and creativity?
Week 12: Mon. Nov 9, 2015
Question: What is the theory and practice of applied organizational innovation (within an economy)?
Week 12: Wed. Nov 11, 2015
Week 13: Mon. Nov 16, 2015
Question: What have the students learned and what can they contribute to others?
Week 13: Wed. Nov 18, 2015
Question: What is the theory and practice of machine learning algorithms in society?
Week 14: Mon. Nov 23, 2015
Question: What have the students learned, and what can they contribute to others?
Week 14: Wed. Nov 25, 2015
Question: What have the students learned, and what can they contribute to others?
Week 15: Mon. Nov 30, 2015
Question: What have the students learned, and what can they contribute to others?
Week 15: Wed. Dec 2, 2015
Question: What is the theory and practice of individual innovation (within an organization)?
Week 16: Mon. Dec 7, 2015
Question: What is the theory and practice of organizational innovation (within a society)?
Finals Week: Wed. Dec 9, 2015

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