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BA450
MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS
Winter 2007
Jonathan King Bexell
332
T: 1200-1300 W: 0830-1000 Th: 1000-1130
jonathan.king@bus.oregonstate.edu 737-4601
If I am
not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what
am I? And if not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel circa 10 AD
There is no more important element in education today than the under-standing of the systems which we form and by which we are both sustained and constrained.
Sir
Geoffrey Vickers circa 1960
Objectives: Learning to recognize
games that play people
Learning to choose which games to play
Grading: Homeworks, Mindmaps
over Required
Why
We Do What We Do, Deci
First,
Break All the Rules, Buckingham & Coffman
Assorted chapters and articles
PART I: Learning How-To See Systems
1. Jan 9 Introduction
R:
Leadership and Self-Deception
2. 11 Transcending
Machine Age Thinking
R&V: “ From
Mechanistic to Social Systemic Thinking,” Ackoff
3. 16 Games
That Play Us -- Overview
4. 18 Patterns
of Interactions – Dr. Bella
R: “The Dark Side of Organizations….”
5. 23 Cont’d
– Dr. Bella
6. 25 Frames
R:
Seeing Systems, “Act II,” (excerpts) Oshry
R:
“Reframing Excerpts”
7. 30 Cont’d
R:
Tell Me a Story,
8. Feb 1 Cont’d
PART II: Learning How To Want-To See Systems
9. 6 Intrinsic
Motivation
R:
Why We Do What We Do, Deci
10. 8 An exemplar
V: Tuesdays With
Morrie
11. 13 Intrinsic
Motivation
R:
Why We Do What We Do, Deci
12. 15 Listening – Dr. Friedman
R:
“Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood,”
Covey
13. 20 Defensive
Reasonings
R:
TBA
14. 22 TBA
PART III: Learning How
to be Able-To See Systems
15. 27 Our
“Environments”
R: “Tools R
Us,” King
16.Mar 1 TBA
17. 6 Keys to “Social Systems”
R: First,
Break All the Rules
18. 8 TBA
19. 13 An exemplar
V: Office Space
20. 15 Starting this afternoon – tool kits and small wins