Days of the Year and Management Reading
MGMT 101: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
SPRING 2014
Professor:
E-mail:
Canvas course site:
Lectures:
Office Hours:
Head TA:
Martine Haas mrhaas@wharton.upenn.edu https://wharton.instructure.com/courses/1099976
001, M 10:30-11:50 (in SHDH 350)
002, M 12-1:20 (in SHDH 350)
003, M 1:30-2:50 (in SHDH 350)
Professor: Tuesdays 4-6pm, or by appointment (in 2024 SH-DH)
TAs: Office hours vary by TA; available on Canvas (all in 3101 SH-DH)
Arjan Markus (markusa@wharton.upenn.edu)
We all spend much of our lives in organizations. Most of us are born in organizations, educated in organizations, and work in organizations. Organizations emerge because individuals can’t (or don’t want to) accomplish their goals alone. Management is the art and science of helping individuals achieve their goals together. Managers in an organization determine where their organization is going and how it gets there. Put differently, managers formulate strategies and implement those strategies. This course provides a framework for understanding the opportunities and challenges involved in both managing and being managed, and it will help you to be a more effective contributor to organizations that you join. We develop a “systems” view of organizations, which means that we examine how management addresses multiple aspects of organizations including their environments, strategy, structure, culture, tasks, people, and outputs, as well as how managerial decisions made in any one of these domains interrelate with decisions in each of the others.
MATERIALS:
We use a variety of source materials. The custom text “Introduction to Management” (Rosenkopf and
Haas, MGMT-101) can be purchased in either electronic form through the McGraw-Hill site
(https://wharton.instructure.com/courses/1099976/modules) at a price of $50 or in print form through
Wharton reprographics at a price of $65. Note that the electronic textbook chapters are directly accessible through Canvas, but your
SPRING 2014
Professor:
E-mail:
Canvas course site:
Lectures:
Office Hours:
Head TA:
Martine Haas mrhaas@wharton.upenn.edu https://wharton.instructure.com/courses/1099976
001, M 10:30-11:50 (in SHDH 350)
002, M 12-1:20 (in SHDH 350)
003, M 1:30-2:50 (in SHDH 350)
Professor: Tuesdays 4-6pm, or by appointment (in 2024 SH-DH)
TAs: Office hours vary by TA; available on Canvas (all in 3101 SH-DH)
Arjan Markus (markusa@wharton.upenn.edu)
We all spend much of our lives in organizations. Most of us are born in organizations, educated in organizations, and work in organizations. Organizations emerge because individuals can’t (or don’t want to) accomplish their goals alone. Management is the art and science of helping individuals achieve their goals together. Managers in an organization determine where their organization is going and how it gets there. Put differently, managers formulate strategies and implement those strategies. This course provides a framework for understanding the opportunities and challenges involved in both managing and being managed, and it will help you to be a more effective contributor to organizations that you join. We develop a “systems” view of organizations, which means that we examine how management addresses multiple aspects of organizations including their environments, strategy, structure, culture, tasks, people, and outputs, as well as how managerial decisions made in any one of these domains interrelate with decisions in each of the others.
MATERIALS:
We use a variety of source materials. The custom text “Introduction to Management” (Rosenkopf and
Haas, MGMT-101) can be purchased in either electronic form through the McGraw-Hill site
(https://wharton.instructure.com/courses/1099976/modules) at a price of $50 or in print form through
Wharton reprographics at a price of $65. Note that the electronic textbook chapters are directly accessible through Canvas, but your