Day 5 - Friday, June 30
Today we will be dealing with organizing and organizational issues all day. Chapters 19-21 in your text provide good background. I have added two optional readings -- one by Greiner on how organizations evolve as they grow and one from a consolidated overview of mangement concepts by Montana on "Organizational Structures" that I like because of the diagrams and the fact that it includes all the terms that you might like to be familiar wtih. It also has a very short section on Delegation on p. 8 but you might prefer to read my "Secrets of Delegation". Please remember all three of these are optional readings although I will refer to them in class..
Aproximate Times and Topic
9:00
REVIEW
- Questions, Comments, Portfolio Sharing
- Report on Evaluative responses from last week
- Review of Today's Agenda
- Some "Secrets of Delegation" (topic left over from last week)
In-class exercise. Please print out the Delegation Exercise. To do this exercise, we will need to form interest groups of 3-4 based on your career interests. Essentially, this exercise walks you through the delegation steps identified in my notes (see above).10:15
Break 10:30
ORGANIZATION THEORY AND DESIGN
- The concept of an "open system" approach to understanding the organization
- Mechanistic and Organic structures
- Formal and Informal structures
- Structural types
- Greiner's theory of organizational growth and changes
In-class exercise led by Kate McNeill. In preparation for the "Family Hotel" exercise, please re-read the scenario on p. 534-536 and study the organization chart on p. 535. Kate will lead a discussion of some of the questions on p. 537. Then she will ask for volunteers for a role play following the guidelines on p. 538. We will need nine people. We may try to do this role play in one of the other rooms as they need a stage area and the rest of us will be the audience. Our post-role play discussion will focus on the organizational design choices and rationale. It should be fun.12:00
LUNCH
1:15
JOB DESIGN
- Comments from the morning sessions
- Possible continuation of organizational design issues
- Relationship of job design to motivation and performance
- Job Characteristic Enrichment Model (see p. 568)
In-class exercise. I will give you a Job Diagnostic Survey form for you to fill out as individuals. If you are not now working, consider some prior job or one you have observed closely enough to be able to make the judgments required and answer as though you held the job. The scoring is complicated but not difficult. When all have completed the form and scoring, in groups of 2-4 compare notes. As a whole we will look for a volunteer job for redesign and do it as a group using the Job Characteristics Model.2:30
Break 2:45
CATCH UP TIME
- Additional time for discussion on today's issues
- Other issues/examples any of you would like to discuss
- Review of class objectives one more time
- Suggestions for Tomorrow's class
In-class exercise. As desired.3:50
PREPARATION FOR TOMORROW
- Read chapter 22 on Managing Change up to p. 628.
- Review the short section in Chapter 1 on External Influences and Changing Expectations (pp. 7-8)
- Bring scissors and envelopes (if you're able to) for the Hollow Square Exercise on p. 629
- Read chapter 6 and complete the Life Goal Inventory (I won't ask you to share unless you wish)
- Review the Self-Assessment and Life Planning Exercise
- We will do this in class either in trios, teams or individually as you prefer
Have a nice evening -- See you tomorrow morning!
