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One other item that you might find helpful for the budgeting exercise we
will do in class is to read the exercise (linked below) and do a little
work on it (using Prentice as a reference). You may also want to read
the negotiation exercise (linked below) that we will do on Saturday --
just to get you thinking about it.
Day 3 - Friday, June 23
To be well prepared for today, please read the assigned
chapters (11, 15 and 16) plus the reading from Prentice's book on
Financial
Planning. It's chapter V on Budget Design. There is a link to it from
the schedule page. An optional reading is also provided. It's old but,
in my mind, a classic dealing with power and influence by the former
editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of a number of
management books, Rosabeth Moss
Kanter. The title is "Power
Failure in Management Circuits."
Aproximate Times and Topic
9:00 REVIEW
In-class exercise. I have a fine negotiation
simulation
but it takes time and space to manage it. I suggest we use our exercise
time this morning for the budgeting exercise (see below). Tomorrow when
we have more space in the building and when we arrive fresh and full of
vim and vigor we'll tackle the negotiation exercise. Please read it over
and be ready.
10:15
10:30
MANAGERIAL CONTROL AND BUDGETING
In-class exercise. Please read the Budget Exercise. Do
the exercise individually or in teams of two or three (your option). You
will have about an hour to work on it. I will provide some work sheets
to simplify your task. Post your completed sheets on the wall (line item
on top and program beneath); I'll supply
the masking tape.
12:00
LUNCH
1:15
DECISION-MAKING
In-class exercise. In groups, please consider the
cases given to you. (They may come from the book or I may get ambitious
and write some (or find some) that are more library oriented. Using the
Vroom-Yetton model, reason through the case and determine which approach
you would collectively recommend. This evening, describe in your
portfolio a recent decision-making activity you participated in or
observed. What was the outcome? Was the decision-making method
effective? How might you have improved it?
2:30
2:45
POWER AND INFLUENCE In-class exercise. In groups of 5 or 6, try the
role play situations designated that are found in Chapter 6,
pp. 413-423. Divide your group into subgroups A and B. Within each
subgroup select and influencer and a
target. Then spend some time analyzing your assigned situation and
planning together an effective style and objectives for the
influencer. Then, role play the situation with an influencer from
subgroup A and a target from subgroup B; other members of both subgroups
observe using the observation sheet guideline provided in the
text. Before discussing the outcome, role-play the same situation a
second time with an influencer from subgroup B and a target from subgroup
A. Compare the results and consider how the influence attempt could be
improved. If time, each group will be two different situations. For your
portfolio, discuss your own prowess (or lack of it) in influencing
others. Is there a plan of action you might follow to improve your
ability to influence others?
3:50
PREPARATION FOR TOMORROW