CSUN
Management 360
Management and Organizational Behavior
[updated: Monday, July 18, 2011]
"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 ten books available in the CSUN Library that I believe every student of Management should read before they graduate. These
books may be excellent Summer reading in particular.
- Barnard, C. (1938), The Functions of the Executive, Harvard University Press, Cambridge:MA. [ .html ]
- Brown, J. S., and Duguid, P. (2000), The Social Life of Information, Harvard Business School Press, Boston:MA. [ .html ]
- Drucker, P. (1968), The Effective Executive, Harper and Row, New York:NY. [ .html ]
- Drucker, P. (1954), The Practice of Management, Harper and Row, New York:NY. [ .html ]
- Goleman, D. (1997), Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books, New York:NY. [ .html ]
- Handy, C. (1976), Understanding Organizations, Penguin Books, Baltimore:MD. [ .html ]
- Kouzes, J., and Posner, B. (2002), The Leadership Challenge (3rd ed.), Jossey-Bass, San Francisco:CA. [ .html ]
- Ohmae, K. (1982), The Art of Japanese Business, McGraw-Hill, New York:NY. [ .html ]
- Porter, M. (1980), Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, Free Press, New York:NY. [ .html ]
- Strunk, W, and White, E. B. (1999), The Elements of Style (4th ed.), Allen and Bacon, Boston:MA. [ .html ]
In addition, many other authors have made important contributions to the management field. Books by any of the following
authors would be of very high quality and would make for a deeper exploration of the topics discussed in this course.
- Argryis, C. (Organizational Behavior)
- Bennis, W. (Leadership)
- Mintzberg, H. (Organizations)
- Simon, H. (Organizations)
- Weick, K. (Organizations)
The following is a list of ten videos available in the CSUN Media Library that I believe every student of Management should view before they graduate. These
videos are excellent supplementary materials.
- Apsell, P., and Ritsko, A. (2000), The Trillion Dollar Bet, WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston:MA. [ .html ]
- Bass, H., and Bass, S. (1994), Working together: Saturn and the UAW, Merrimack Films, Hohokus:NJ [ .html ]
- Beaty, S. (1993), Taking the lead: the management revolution, INTELECOM, Pasadena:CA. [ .html (7 parts) ]
- Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2003), Flow, Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont:CA. [ .html ]
- Dawson-Pick, D. (1997), W. Edward Deming: prophet unheard, Films for the Humanities, Princeton:NJ. [ .html ]
- Fine, H., and Fine, P. (2000), Cisco's John Chambers: The Best Boss in America, ABC News, Princeton:NJ [ .html ]
- Jones, J. (1997), Coaching the Team (Warren Bennis), Films for the Humanities, Princeton:NJ. [ .html (2 parts) ]
- Knights, R., and Langton, S. (1996), The Unorganized Manager, Coastal Training Technologies Corp, Chicago:IL. [ .html (3 parts) ]
- McCarthy, B. (1988), Bill Moyers Interview with Peter Drucker, Films for the Humanities, Princeton:NJ. [ .html ]
- Porter, J. (2000), Quest for Excellence, The Institute, Gaithersburg, MD. [ .html ]
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 ]
- Devlin, J. (1910), How to Speak and Write Correctly. [ .html ]
- Freud, S. (1920), Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners. [ .html ]
- Gilbreth, L. M. (1919), The Psychology of Management: The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste, Macmillan. [ .html ]
- Hume, D. (1739), A Treatise of Human Nature [ .html ]
- Hume, D. (1777), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [ .html ]
- Keller, H. (1920), The World I Live In, Macmillan. [ .html ]
- Machiavelli, N. (translated by W. K. Marriott) (1694), The Prince. [ .html ]
- Smith, A., (1776), An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. [ .html ]
- Sunzi (translated from Chinese by L. Giles) (1910), The Art of War. [ .html ]
- Taylor, F. W. (1911), The Principles of Scientific Management, Harper and Row, New York:NY. [ .html ]
Recommended Reading (Wikibooks, online)
The following is a list of books in a pdf format that are pieced together from various Wiki pages. These are referred
to as "WikiBooks". The following complete books are tangentially related to this course.
- Learning Theories [ .pdf ]
- Introduction to Sociology [ .pdf ]
- Rhetoric and Composition [ .pdf ]
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")
A few universities post materials for one or more complete courses online. The following complete courses are tangentially related to CSUN BUS 302. The beauty of these offerings is
that the entire course, including all lectures, is online and available at no charge. For commuter students--such as nearly all CSUN students--the audio-only format can be very useful. But
depending on both the technical nature of the course and the learning style of the student, the audio-video format (if available for a given course) might be more useful.
- Directly aligned
- Indirectly aligned
Supplementary "Open Courseware" materials ("Management Radio")
The following audio files ("audiocasts" or "podcasts") may be useful for summer review or preparation for future management-related education.
These materials contain the full audio of each class lecture or presentation suitable for listening on your computer or your favorite portable audio device (e.g., Podcasting).
- "Entreprenurial Thought Leader Series" (Stanford) [ .html ]
- "Graduate School of Business" (Univ. of Chicago) [ .html ]
- "Index of Business School Podcasts" [ .html ]
Supplementary Streaming Videos ("Management TV")
The following streaming videos illuminate upon many of the management principles embodied in this introductory course. Most of the videos
on a University campus. Access to these resources requires some type of broadband Internet connection (at home, work, or school). Additionally, most of the resources utilize the basic RealPlayer viewer, while a few
use Windows Media Player or Apple's Quicktime. The videos are loosely organized by key Chapter topic and
sequence.
- Introduction to Management and Organizations
- Organizational Culture and Environment
- Foundations of Behavior
- Understanding Groups and Teams
- Managing in a Global Environment
- Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics
- Decision-Making
- Motivating Employees
- Leadership
- Communication
- Foundations of Planning
- Strategic Management
- Organization Structure and Design
- Information Technology
- Human Resource Management
- Managing Change and Innovation
- Foundations of Control
