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SYLLABUS:
ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT
BA 550 –
Spring 2005
Instructor: John Sloan Office
Phone: 737-6042
Office: 340 Bexell Hall E-mail:
SLOANJ@bus.oregonstate.edu
Office hours:
Monday
Tuesday 2:00 – 4:00
COURSE
DESCRIPTION:
The course
description reads: Organization-wide implementation issues driven by
change. This course provides a balanced
view of the structural and human sides of organizational design.
Building on this
description, we will be integrating strategy formulation, organizational
design, and strategy implementation.
This course provides an opportunity to learn about diverse, practical
approaches to making strategy happen, and how to resolve actual implementation
issues. We will have to share our
business experiences to do this. At the
end of the course, you should be better able to define strategic implementation
issues, and prepare plans to address them.
COURSE
OBJECTIVES:
·
Identify and explore various aspects of
organizational design related to implementing strategic plans
·
Learn about diverse, practical
approaches to making strategy happen and resolving implementation issues,
including:
o
Structured planning
o
Measurement and control systems
o
Leadership
CLASS
MATERIALS:
All articles and
cases for this course are in the BA 550 class notes packet available in the
bookstore. There is no textbook for this
class.
Articles:
Building the Strategy Implementation
Network
What Leaders Really Do
Managing Your Boss
Let’s Hear It for B Players
Note on Implementing Strategy
Framing for Learning – Lessons in
Successful Technology Implementation
In Praise of Middle Managers
Governance and Strategy Implementation
Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?
Leadership That Gets Results
How to Get Aboard a Major Change Effort
Tipping Point Leadership
Cases:
Microsoft’s Vega Project
Americhem: The
Gaylord Division (A)
Johnsonville Sausage Co. (A)
Silvio Napoli at Schindler
Allentown Materials Corporation: The
Electronic Products Division (A)
Overheads
used in the class will be posted on www.bus.oregonstate.edu
website.
CLASS
PROCEDURES
Class will be
conducted with equal emphasis on lecture and class participation. Class lectures will relate to the reading assignments,
but will not attempt to cover all the material in the reading, and will present
some new material. This class
incorporates five cases, designed to generate discussion of problems that you
may face in real business settings.
Students are expected to have read the assigned material prior to the
beginning of class. Students should come
to class prepared to discuss/debate the chosen daily topic and case material.
In sessions where a
case is assigned, students are expected to read and analyze the case, and to
submit a one-page case brief. You may be
called upon to present part or all of your brief, as well as contribute to the
class discussion.
A term project,
consisting of a PowerPoint presentation to the class, is required for this
course. Students that are part of an
“Integrated Business Project” team will carve out relevant pieces of their
business plan for this project. Other
students will (with instructor approval) select a specific topic in implementation
or managing change in organizations.
GRADING:
Grades will
be based on the following:
15% Participation – The student’s
contribution to the class discussion of
lecture material, readings and cases.
50% Individual Case briefs – The
brief must briefly set the context for the case
and raise the major question(s) that
the manager must address; it should be
explained clearly and argued effectively;
and the solution proposed must have
good chance for success.
35% Group Term project (30%
PowerPoint content, 5% in-class presentation)
– The PowerPoint presentation must include the business strategy backed
up
with the supporting organizational design
and implementation plans.
All written
work must be typed (Arial or Times New Roman, no smaller than
10 font), and edited
well. Work will be graded on both
content and clarity of
presentation, with
points deducted for spelling and grammatical errors.
Note:
This syllabus, including the attached schedule, is subject
to change. Every effort will be made to
adhere to these documents – however, things can change. When changes do occur, you will be notified
in class. It is the student’s
responsibility to be aware of these changes.
SCHEDULE
– BA 550 Spring Term 2005
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Date |
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Topics |
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Assignment |
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3/28 |
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Introductions |
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4/04 |
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Organization
Design –
7–S Model Case
discussion |
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1
Building the Strategy Implementation Network 2 What Leaders
Really Do 3
Managing Your Boss 4 Let’s
Hear It for B Players |
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Microsoft
Vega case |
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4/11 |
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Structured
Planning – Case
discussion |
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5 Note on
Implementing Strategy 6 Framing
for Learning – Tech Implementation 7 In Praise
of Middle Managers 8
Governance and Strategy Implementation |
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Americhem case |
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4/18 |
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Guest speaker – Case discussion |
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Johnsonville
case |
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425 |
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Discuss
readings 1 – 8 Case discussion |
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Silvio Napoli case |
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5/02 |
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Guest
speaker –
Bill Buskirk Case discussion |
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5/09 |
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Leadership Discuss
readings 9 – 12 Term
project presentations |
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9
Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? 10
Leadership That Gets Results 11 How to
Get Aboard a Major Change Effort 12
Tipping Point Leadership |
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Term
project presentations |
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5/16 |
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Term
project presentations |
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Term
project presentations |
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5/23 |
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Term
project presentations |
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Term
project presentations |
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5/30 |
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