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Organizational Theory & Behavior, Welcome to Abilene & Brave New World!
Resources: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Syllabus, Jerry Harvey's Definition of Cheating, Class Lecture - Whiteboard Notes
Class Meeting Times: Mon-Wed, 11am-12:20pm, 38-213
Live Online Access:Â Â https://zoom.us/j/6560275446?pwd=Q3Y1Vk5jZ2lXY1I4QkNxem9Bb1dCQT09
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Student Support: Â Â Â Â Â Â Hany Makhlouf Academic Center for Student Support
Office Hours:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Before/after class, and by appointment (online, day, evenings, and weekends)
Course Readings:
Required:Â Â
Management Productivity Multipliers: Tools for Accountability, Leadership, and Productivity (2021), Gerald Kraines
Out of the Crisis (The MIT Edition) (2018), W. Edwards Deming (in UDC Library on Reserve)
The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management (1988), Jerry B. Harvey (in UDC Library on Reserve)
Obedience to Authority (1983), Stanley Milgram (free on Google), free downloadable PDF (in UDC Library on Reserve)
Optional:
1984, George Orwell
The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education, third edition (The MIT Press) 3rd Edition (2018), W. Edwards Deming
The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness, James J. Lynch
The Principles of Scientific Management, Frederick Taylor
A General Theory of Bureaucracy, Elliott Jaques
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, Norman Dixon (in UDC Library)
A General Theory of Bureaucracy, Elliott Jaques
A Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness, James J. Lynch (in UDC Library on Reserve)
The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management, Jerry B. Harvey (in UDC Library on Reserve)
Swatting Flies and Telling Lies: Stories of a Mad Organizational Consultant, Jerry B. Harvey
Executive Leadership: A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity, Elliott Jaques
It's All About Work: Organizing Your Company To Get Work Done, Clement
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt
Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm
Our Own Worst Enemy, Norman F. Dixon
How Come Every Time I Get Stabbed in the Back My Fingerprints Are on the Knife? And Other Meditations on Management, Jerry Harvey
The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace, M. Scott Peck
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil, M. Scott Peck
Requisite Organization, Elliott Jaques
Social Power and the CEO, Elliott Jaques
Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails, Michael Maccoby
The Leaders We Need, Michael Maccoby
Accountability Leadership: How to Strengthen Productivity Through Sound Managerial Leadership, Gerald A. Kraines
The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli (free on Google Books)
The Art of War, Sun Tzu (author), Samuel Griffith (translator)
The Age of Fallibility, George Soros
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory--A Clear Explanation that Anyone Can Understand, Albert Einstein
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality, Richard G. Wilkinson
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, Ricks
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs, Muhammad Yunus
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100, Michio Kaku
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Fear No Evil, Natan Sharansky
Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution, Peter Kropotkin
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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