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The course's aim is to provide you with a comprehensive framework for understanding both traditional management principles in today's businesses as well as alternative principles that are becoming increasingly important. It offers theoretical as well as practical perspectives on the nature of management in today's organisations.
Syllabus :
- Management versus Leadership
- How the business world is changing
- The Failure of Traditional Management
- The Need for Management Innovation
- What does this mean for me?
- Defining your management model
- Principles of co-ordination
- Steven Weber, University of Berkeley: Making our actions visible to others enables better coordination and overall social welfare
- Moving from bureaucracy to emergence
- Principles of decision making
- Gary Hamel, London Business School : A crowdsourcing approach to getting new ideas funded in large companies
- Moving from hierarchy to collective wisdom
- Principles of motivation - Managing within
- Andrew McAffee, MIT: How do we tap into everyone’s “slice of genius” in an organisation?
- Moving from Extrinsic to Intrinsic Motivation
- Principles of Objective Setting
- Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University: The problem with traditional measures in large organisations
- Moving from Linear Alignment to Obliquity
- Putting the four dimensions together
- Diagnosing your current and future models
- How can you change your management model?
- A methodology for experimenting with new ways of working
- Rise and fall of "outlier" companies with unusual models
- Learning from outlier companies
- From firm to individual
- An employee's eye view
- Understanding our biases
- How do I change my own way of working?
- What will the company of the future look like?
- Changing nature of work
