Notes are available for selected lectures below.
Lecture notes files.
| SES # |
TOPICS |
LECTURE NOTES |
| 1 |
Introduction and overview |
(PDF) |
| 2 |
Work and careers: Past, present, and future |
(PDF) |
| 3 |
Leading and facilitating teams: An engineering team exercise |
(PDF) |
| 4 |
Organizations: Past, present, future |
(PDF) |
| 5 |
Organizational analysis: Strategic design lens |
(PDF) |
| 6 |
Organizational analysis: Political lens |
(PDF) |
| 7 |
Putting the political lens to work: Influencing upward in organizations |
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| 8 |
Organizational analysis: Cultural lens |
(PDF) |
| 9 |
The cultural lens in action: The Lincoln Electric case |
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| 10 |
Applying the three lenses: BP and lessons from the Gulf Coast disaster |
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| 11 |
Teams in organizations |
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| 12 |
Team processes: Strategies for building a high performance team |
(PDF) |
| 13 |
Midterm exam |
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| 14 |
Introduction to negotiations |
(PDF) |
| 15 |
Recruitment and job offer negotiation |
(PDF) |
| 16 |
Interest-based bargaining in action: Riggs Engineering case study |
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| 17 |
Leadership and change: Introductions |
(PDF - 1.3MB) |
| 18 |
Leadership and change (cont.) |
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| 19 |
Leadership continued: The Big Dig, Part 1 |
(PDF - 1.2MB) |
| 20 |
Leadership continued: The Big Dig, Part 2 |
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| 21 |
Organizational change: MassDOT case |
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| 22 |
Managing the innovation process |
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| 23 |
Corporate responsibility in global supply chain |
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| 24 |
Team reports on change project |
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| 25 |
Inventing the future: Wrap-up |
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