Prof. 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, Prentice Hall, 1997. [ISBN: 0-13-862970-6]
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. 1
Assignment 2--Topic due for final project, Feb. 15
Assignment 3--Motivation, due Feb. 24
Assignment 4--Influence, due March 2
Assignment 5--Marketing, due March 9
Assignment 6--Optimization, due Apr. 6
Final project assignment, due May 4
 

I. INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS
 
 

Weeks 1-2	Jan. 18, 20, 25, 27	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 3	Feb. 1	Map of the information industry

 

III. DECISION MAKING, PLANNING, BUDGETING
 

Week 3	Feb. 3	Decision making
		Text, Ch. 4 A. C. Doyle, "The Final Problem" (handout)

 

IV. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE & PROCESSES
 

Week 4	Feb. 8, 10	Org structure and design; virtual organizations
		Text, Ch. 6-8;  Chesbrough & Teece  Byrne, et al.
Week 5	Feb. 15, 17	Human resources policies and practices
		Text, Ch. 9;  Tang & McCollum

 
 
 
 

V. PEOPLE IN ORGANIZATIONS
 

Week 6	Feb. 22, 24	Motivation
		Text, Ch. 12 Strebel
		Assignment on motivation
Week 7	Feb. 29, Mar. 2	Teams, leaders, power, organizational culture (to be coordinated with IS 208)
		Text, Ch. 10-16  Pfeffer Schein
		Assignment on influence

VI. MARKETING
 

Week 8	Mar. 7, 9	Readings to be assigned
		Assignment on marketing

VII. MODELING & OPTIMIZATION
 

Weeks 9-10	Mar. 14-23	Text, Ch. 17; handouts on optimization
		Assignment on optimization

 

VIII. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION IN ORGANIZATIONS
 

Week 11	Apr. 4, 6	Information in Organizations: Managing Change with IT
		Text, Ch. 18
		Managing Services
		Appendix to Ch. 17

 

VI. PRESENTATIONS, REVIEW, ETC.
 
 

Week 13	Apr. 18, 20	Knowledge Management
		D. Cohen, "Toward a Knowledge Context," CMR 40 (3): 22-39 (Spring 1998).  J. S. Brown & P. Duguid, "Organizing Knowledge," CMR 40: 90-111.  D. Holtshouse, "Knowledge Research Issues," CMR 40: 277-280.  G. Miles, et al., "Some Conceptual and Research Barriers to the Utilization of Knowledge," CMR 40: 281-288.
	Presentations	Karthik, Technology in KM Petras, KM in International Companies Jordan, CASE & KM

 

Week 14	Apr. 25	Start-ups
		Hartvigsen, Transition Cao, Implementation Strategy
	Apr. 27	Ephraim, Distributed Project Management
Week 15	May 2	Marsh-Flores, Corporate Libraries
		Martin, Alternate Management Practices
	May 4	(if needed)