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SYLLABUS:
ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT
BA 550 –
Spring 2007
[Schedule] [PowerPoints]
[Cases] [Term
Project] [Grade Spreadsheet]
Instructor: John Sloan
Office: 340 Bexell Hall
Office Phone: 737-6042
E-mail: SLOANJ@bus.oregonstate.edu
Office hours:
Tuesday 3:00 - 4:00
Thursday 10:00 – 12:00
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
o
Coaching
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:
Executing Change: Seven Key
Considerations
What Leaders Really Do
Managing Your Boss
Turning Great Strategy into Great
Performance
Framing for Learning – Lessons in
Successful Technology Implementation
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
Let’s Hear It for B Players
In Praise of Middle Managers
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
(PowerPoints folder).
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:
20% 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.
30% Group Term project (25%
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.