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MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS – FALL 2003
Dr. Kathleen Dechant
University of Connecticut School of Business
Tentative Syllabus Subject to Change Prior to August 25
What’s this course about? Do you want to be more effective at your job? Find better solutions to organizational problems? Reduce the time and effort it takes to get others to listen to you or work for you? Then you need to learn and use the tools and techniques of organizational behavior management. At a macro level, this means learning how to structure a unit, division or company and create the production, information, technological, and personnel systems appropriate to it. At a micro level it means learning about people—what makes them cooperative or resistant. And, it means gaining insight into your own behavior as a co-worker or manager. Finally, it means figuring out how to change—the organization, others, and yourself.
MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS introduces you to the area of study called organizational behavior so that you can more easily understand, predict and influence organizational performance and human behavior. The purpose of Management 338 is to introduce you to a framework and a set of tools for creating and implementing an organizational design that results in high performance.
What do I need to do well in this course? All course sessions require your active participation. You should be prepared to share your ideas as well as listen to and interpret those presented by others.
You will be required to work at both conceptual and applied levels throughout the course as individuals and within small teams. All assignments should exhibit a high level of critical thinking along with a demonstrated ability to apply course concepts accurately.
This means that discussions and assignments need to incorporate the appropriate concepts and principles as described in your texts and article readings. Written assignments should be professional in presentation relative to structure and
Dr. Kathleen Dechant
University of Connecticut School of Business
Tentative Syllabus Subject to Change Prior to August 25
What’s this course about? Do you want to be more effective at your job? Find better solutions to organizational problems? Reduce the time and effort it takes to get others to listen to you or work for you? Then you need to learn and use the tools and techniques of organizational behavior management. At a macro level, this means learning how to structure a unit, division or company and create the production, information, technological, and personnel systems appropriate to it. At a micro level it means learning about people—what makes them cooperative or resistant. And, it means gaining insight into your own behavior as a co-worker or manager. Finally, it means figuring out how to change—the organization, others, and yourself.
MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS introduces you to the area of study called organizational behavior so that you can more easily understand, predict and influence organizational performance and human behavior. The purpose of Management 338 is to introduce you to a framework and a set of tools for creating and implementing an organizational design that results in high performance.
What do I need to do well in this course? All course sessions require your active participation. You should be prepared to share your ideas as well as listen to and interpret those presented by others.
You will be required to work at both conceptual and applied levels throughout the course as individuals and within small teams. All assignments should exhibit a high level of critical thinking along with a demonstrated ability to apply course concepts accurately.
This means that discussions and assignments need to incorporate the appropriate concepts and principles as described in your texts and article readings. Written assignments should be professional in presentation relative to structure and