This schedule is subject to rapid change. That's why it's on the web. You must check the schedule before each class. Do not print out the schedule at the beginning of the semester and then assume it will be valid a month later. It won't be.
Readings and homework are due on the day they are listed in the schedule.
Legend:
| D = | Daft, Organizational Behavior |
| L = | Lewis, M. Liar's Poker |
| C = | Card, Orson S. Ender's Game |
| T = | Tannen, Deborah. Talking from 9 to 5 |
| AM = | Application Memo -- a homework assignment |
| 1 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 3-Sep
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< Labor day > | ||
| 5-Sep | Overview of the class: mechanics; Overview of the field; What is an organization? | ||
| 7-Sep | Course logistics; Why do organizations exist? | What is OB?; Why study organizations?; | Signup for section listserv |
| 2 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 10-Sep
|
Bureaucracy; scientific management; classical school | Taylor;
More on
Taylor; Bureaucracy; Fayol;
Org. Theory of Struct;
D1; L1-2 |
You should have already chosen your team (& section) at this point! |
| 12-Sep | Departmentation; division of labor | Coordination; Departmentation;
D15 |
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| 14-Sep | Teams will compete (for real points) in the Words-in-Sentences game. |
D16 |
Work out in advance how to best play WIS game |
*** Midnight 15-Sep Fill out Social Network Survey ***
| 3 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 17-Sep
|
Basic concepts; class network | Intro to
network analysis; Hawthorne;
Human
Relations; More
Hawthorne; Hawthorne
2;
Leavitt;
D9; L3-5 |
AM: Articles of Incorporation |
| 19-Sep | Communication across boundaries; communities of practice | Communities
of practice;
(optional: CIO's view of social networks) (optional: article on using network analysis to defeat terrorism) L6 |
Kevin Bacon Game |
| 21-Sep | Special assignment | L7 | Each team must bring 2-foot stack of newspapers, scissors & several rolls of masking tape to class |
| 4 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 24-Sep
|
Culture and climate; Salomon Brothers; | Org
Culture;
Schemas
D17 L8-Epilogue |
1-page Paper Tower report (team paper) |
| 26-Sep | Org culture in context | Culture w/ examples; | |
| 28-Sep | BC culture; | C1-2 | AM: communication network |
| 5 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 1-Oct
|
Power & status in organizations | Dependency
Theory
D12; C3-10 |
|
| 3-Oct | Structural holes; centrality | Structural
Holes;
C11 |
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| 5-Oct | C12 |
| 6 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 8-Oct
|
* Columbus Day holiday: no class * | ||
| 10-Oct | Leadership; Team building; Ender's Game | Leadership
& mgmt;
D11; C13-15 |
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| 12-Oct | Midterm Exam | Weeks 1-5, inclusive. Ender's Game will be covered only up to chapter 12. | Midterm Exam |
| 7 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 15-Oct
|
Theories of motivation | D5-6 | |
| 17-Oct | In class exercise | Motivation | Personality Test |
| 19-Oct | What motivates you? |
| 8 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 22-Oct
|
Attribution & perception; bounded rationality | Attribution &
Perception;
D:4; T:preface-2 |
|
| 24-Oct | Schemas, Heuristics, Biases |
D:10 |
|
| 26-Oct | marathon case presentations | Heuristics; Gilovich; |
| 9 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 29-Oct
|
Team decision making | Challenger; Challenger data; Timeline; Optional: Nasa Report | AM: leadership (optional) |
| 31-Oct | Big 5 personality traits; Myers-Briggs cognitive styles; personality vs situation | Personality Types;
Keirsey temperaments; powerpoint
T:3-6 |
|
| 2-Nov | MBTI briefing |
| 10 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 5-Nov
|
Conversation rituals; indirection; mitigation | Conversation rituals; indirection; markedness;
D2; T:7-end |
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| 7-Nov | Gender differences in speech | Gender
diversity; gender communication;
D3 |
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| 9-Nov | AM: personality |
| 11 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 12-Nov
|
Stages; characteristics of high-performing teams; cross-functional teams |
Team manual; Group Dynamics;
D7-8 |
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| 14-Nov
|
Negotiation | Powerpoint | |
| 16-Nov
|
| 12 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 19-Nov
|
Consulting project presentations
on SUNDAY night ( no class Monday) |
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| 21-Nov
|
** Thanksgiving vacation ** | D18 | |
| 23-Nov
|
** Thanksgiving vacation ** |
| 13 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 26-Nov
|
Action Inquiry techniques | Action science history; parts of speech; powerpoint presentation | |
| 28-Nov
|
Debriefing the consulting project | ||
| 30-Nov
|
Debriefing the consulting project (all sections go to Merkert 127) |
| 14 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 3-Dec
|
Debriefing the consulting project (all sections go to Merkert 127) | ||
| 5-Dec | The course in perspective | ||
| 7-Dec | *no class* |
| 15 |
Topic |
Reading Due: | Homework: |
| 10-Dec
|
*no class!* | ||
| 12-Dec | |||
| 14-Dec | AM: term paper |
*** Final Exam Dec 18th 12:30pm Merkert 127 ***