Professor: Yale Braunstein
	yale@sims.berkeley.edu
	203B South Hall
	+1-510-642-2235

Enrollment: SIMS students or permission of instructor.

Grading:

20% class participation
40% periodic small assignments
40% final paper/project

Textbook: Gary Dessler, Management, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2000. [ISBN: 0-13-017780-6]  (The link is to the textbook's companion website.)

Reader: The reader is available at Copy Central on Bancroft.
 

Tentative Schedule and Some Readings:

More readings will be added; schedule subject to change.

Assignment 1--Management Journals , due Feb. 8
Assignment 2--Topic due for final project, Feb. 22
Assignment 3--Motivation, due March 6
Assignment 4--Influence, due March 13
Assignment 5--Marketing, due March 20
Assignment 6--Optimization, due April 12
Final project assignment, due May 8
 

I. INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS
 
 

Weeks 2-3	Jan. 23, 25, 30, Feb. 1	Introduction, Globalization, Ethics
		Text, Ch. 1-3
		Mintzberg on managers
		Kraut et al on managers
		Kling, The centrality of organizations in the computerization of society, from Kling
		Drucker, et al., HBR 97
		Assignment on management journals

 

II. INFORMATION INDUSTRIES & THEIR ENVIRONMENT
 

Week 4	Feb. 6	Map of the information industry

 

III. DECISION MAKING, PLANNING, BUDGETING
 

Week 4	Feb. 8	Decision making
		Text, Ch. 4 A. C. Doyle, "The Final Problem" (handout)

 

IV. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE & PROCESSES
 

Week 5	Feb. 13, 15	Org structure and design; virtual organizations
		Text, Ch. 6-8;  Chesbrough & Teece  Byrne, et al.
Week 6	Feb. 20, 22	Human resources policies and practices
		Text, Ch. 9;  Tang & McCollum

 

V. PEOPLE IN ORGANIZATIONS
 

Week 7	Feb. 27, Mar. 1	Motivation
		Text, Ch. 11 Strebel
		Assignment on motivation
Week 8	Mar. 6, 8	Teams, leaders, power, organizational culture (to be coordinated with IS 208)
		Text, Ch. 10-15  Pfeffer Schein
		Assignment on influence

 

VI. MARKETING
 

Week 9	Mar. 13, 15	Readings to be assigned
		Assignment on marketing

 

VII. MODELING & OPTIMIZATION
 

Weeks 10-11	Mar. 20, 22, Apr. 3-5	Text, Module A; handouts on optimization
		Assignment on optimization

 

VIII. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION IN ORGANIZATIONS
 

Week 12	Apr. 10, 12	Information in Organizations
		Text, Module B
		Managing Services (Text, pp. 501-505)

 

VI. PRESENTATIONS, REVIEW, ETC.