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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
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
10:30
ORGANIZATION THEORY AND DESIGN
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
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
2:45
CATCH UP TIME In-class exercise. As desired.
3:50
PREPARATION FOR TOMORROW