DEVELOPING AND MANAGING PEOPLE BUS210

Fall 2005

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Based on the philosophy that increased self-awareness and effective self-management leads to more effective management of others, BUS210 uses experientially focused, integrating models, principles, and activities.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing.       Units: 3

COURSE OVERVIEW
Successful management requires knowledge about human behavior and organizational processes.   This course provides you with an overview of the challenges that arise for managers in organizational settings and introduces the key concepts and theories needed by successful managers and leaders.   Despite their satisfactory technical skills, people's careers are often plateaued by their inability to work effectively with others and the lack of interpersonal and leadership skills needed to make a difference.   BUS210 presents the same content and training found in executive development programs (only cheaper).   The course seeks to help you understand human behavior in the workplace.   My goal is to help you develop the organizational and people skills you need to manage yourself and others effectively and to create effective organizations.   We will cover practical skills that you can begin to apply them immediately at work and home.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• To increase your self-awareness
• To help you become more skilled at reading cues and analyzing behavior in organizations using theories and concepts
• To help you learn what actions are appropriate and effective for different situations
• To help you acquire a larger repertoire of management behaviors or skills
• To teach you to think like a management expert and leader

 TEXTS :

1. Organizational Behavior: An Experiential Approach by Osland, Kolb, and Rubin. 7 th Edition ( Upper Saddle River , NJ : Prentice-Hall, 2001).
2. The Organizational Behavior Reader by Osland, Kolb, and Rubin, 7 th Edition ( Upper Saddle River , NJ : Prentice-Hall, 2001).
3. The Power of Intuition by Gary Klein ( New York : Currency/Doubleday, 2004) (paperback)

COURSE FORMAT
The most effective method for teaching interpersonal and managerial skills is experiential learning.   This means that we will turn the classroom into a laboratory and create conditions for understanding concepts through experience as well as readings.   We will use role-plays, exercises, teamwork, and simulations so that you can pull out your own learning points from these experiences.   This type of course requires students to take responsibility for their own learning.   In order for an experiential course to be successful, students must do all the reading and homework preparation and participate actively in the classroom.   Therefore, attendance is mandatory because what goes on in class is not a repeat of the readings but the heart of the course.   You are an important ingredient in the class community we will form.   If you have an emergency and cannot attend class, please call me beforehand so we can make special arrangements if need be.

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