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JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY
COURSE CODE: "MGT 301"
COURSE NAME: "Principles of Management"
SEMESTER & YEAR:
Summer Session I 2012
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SYLLABUS
INSTRUCTOR:
Hull Frank
EMAIL: [email protected]
HOURS:
MTWTH 9:00-11:00
TOTAL NO. OF CONTACT HOURS:
45
CREDITS:
PREREQUISITES:
OFFICE HOURS:
11:00-noon TuTh
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Understand principles underlying best practices that drive performance improvement in executing projects and transforming organizations. Upload into your mind-map the enduring principles of management from Roman times to the present that are widely applicable across most cultures. Know the thinkers who laid the foundations of modern management from early Italians such as Machiavelli and Pareto to contemporary gurus such as Peter Senge and Clayton Christianson with stops along the way to understand Max Weber’s seminal formulations and the addition of human factors by socio technical advocates such as Burns and Stalker. Learn how you can use their seminal thinking to understand modern management and how to use it in work and career development.
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SUMMARY OF COURSE CONTENT:
The course provides and evolutionary perspective on modern management thought and its applications to global organizations. The approach integrates humanistic and behavioral science perspectives to provide a paradigm integrating managerial principles applicable to your experiences in life, work, and modern organizations.
· Classical thought in antiquity: Aristotle, Sun Tzu, Augustine, etc. as well as a special focus on the management of the Roman Empire
· Pioneering the industrial revolution and rethinking how to do work in organizations, e.g., Owen, Marx, etc.
· Early modern thinkers about efficiency, e.g., Max Weber, Fredrick Taylor, etc.
· Early research on human factors, e.g., socio-technical theories such as the Hawthorne Effect, etc.
· Integrative paradigms for Total Quality Management in dynamic technical-market environments
· Systems frameworks for managing value creation in goods, services, and social services and competition in globalizing markets with an increasing focus on human and environmental factors
· Engage in case analyses of the application of principles of management thought to project execution and organizational transformation
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LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Learn how to be an effective leader in managing business enterprises at various levels of responsibility. Grow your capabilities for enacting strategies and tactics as team members, project leaders, department heads, and top managers. Use a statistically proven paradigm of best management practices linked with performance outcomes as a guiding framework for continual learning during your working experience. Build your life-long learning capabilities by participating in problem-solving discussions, hypothetical project execution exercises, multi-media feedback assessments, and experiential exercises. Build behavioral skills by role-play in an experiential simulation of organization transformation. Augment the art of management with the growing knowledge base of best practices established by behavioral science research.
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TEXTBOOK:
| Book Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN number | Library Call Number | Comments | Format | Local Bookstore | Online Purchase |
| history of management thought | D. Wren | Wiley | ISBN-10: 0470128976 | | older editions are ok | | | |
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REQUIRED RESERVED READING:
RECOMMENDED RESERVED READING:
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GRADING POLICY
-ASSESSMENT METHODS:
| Assignment | Guidelines | Weight |
| 1. Papers written and presented | Core principles and sources of the ideas<br />
Historical applications <br />
Contemporary applications in case studies <br />
How you will use these principles in your work and leading organizations | 50 percent |
-ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
D represents marginal understanding of course content
C represents retention and repeatability of discrete content items
B represents integration of content items so that relationships are established between readings, lecture/discussions, and your life experiences
A represents creative insights that build on integrated learning that are unique to your way of thinking about principles of management and their application
-ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
The course is very experiential and your participation is needed on a daily basis to ensure optimal learning experiences for you as an individual as well as our class as a whole
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ACADEMIC HONESTY
As stated in the university catalog, any student who commits an act of academic
dishonesty will receive a failing grade on the work in which the dishonesty occurred.
In addition, acts of academic dishonesty, irrespective of the weight of the assignment,
may result in the student receiving a failing grade in the course. Instances of
academic dishonesty will be reported to the Dean of Academic Affairs. A student
who is reported twice for academic dishonesty is subject to summary dismissal from
the University. In such a case, the Academic Council will then make a recommendation
to the President, who will make the final decision.
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STUDENTS WITH LEARNING OR OTHER DISABILITIES
John Cabot University does not discriminate on the basis of disability or handicap.
Students with approved accommodations must inform their professors at the beginning
of the term. Please see the website for the complete policy.
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SCHEDULE
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1st Week
Innovative Management for Turbulent Times
The Evolution of Management Thinking
Management of the Roman Empire
2nd Week
The Environment and Corporate Culture
Managing in a Global Environment
Integrating X vs. Y paradigms of organization and management
3rd Week
Managerial Planning and Goal Setting
Strategy Formulation and Implementation
Managerial Decision Making
4th Week
Leadership
Motivating Employees
Managing Communication
5th Week
Leading Teams
Managing Quality and Performance
Leading organizational transformation
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