BA 351 Managing Organizations

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BA 351Managing Organizations

• Instructor
• Manolete V. Gonzalez, Phd
• College of Business
• Bexl 204B

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Instructor Manolete V. Gonzalez, Phd
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Perspective Management of an Organization
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Vision of an ideal organization
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Vision as a Mental Image

• Magnificent Obsessions
• What the organization can be in the future
• Personal beliefs as to what are achievable and
  desirable

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What goes into Vision?

• Who does organization serve and what do they
  need? Stakeholders?
• For profit Customers, shareholders, employees
• Non-profit Constituents, clients, policy makers
• What type of organization do we create? How does
  it conduct business?
• What are the organizations responsibilities to
  its stakeholders?
• Includes basic questions as
• What role does ethics play in how the
  organization conducts its business? Does its
  work?
• Social responsibility what is its responsibility
  to society?

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Managements Challenge

• Organizations as systems of people making choices
• People with a range of agendas
• External forces which require response, e.g.
  technology, social, economic, etc.
• Establish a sense of purpose, instill a sense of
  direction

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How Can Management Create an Organization that .
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• Among others,
• Meets customer requirements
• Is built on trust and mutual respect
• Is ethical
• Cares for the environment
• While providing shareholders value

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Challenge and Responsibility Securing Commitment

• Orchestrating or achieving coordination
• Everyone on the same page
• Focus attention
• Execution
• Effectiveness

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Focus Attention
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Functions of Management

• Planning
• Organizing
• Leading
• Controlling

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Plan for the Course
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Learning Outcomes

• Explain the context of management decisions
• External factors, e.g. social, technological,
  etc.
• Internal factors, e.g. culture, etc.
• Explain the requirements of establishing goals
  and creating systematic strategies and plans
• Compare/evaluate alternative organizational
  arrangements
• Identify how individual and group dynamics
  contribute to goals
• Explain the significance of organizational
  control processes in ensuring goal accomplishment

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Course Information

• Syllabus and lecture slides will be on COB
  website click on Academic Programs, Course
  Materials, BA 351, Gonzalez
• Text
• Management People, Performance, Change,
• Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, Cardy
• 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2008

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Requirements

• Grade distribution
• Quizzes 85
• In-class activity 15
• Quizzes
• Four throughout term (the last quiz will be given
  during schedule for Final Exam)
• Will cover chapters from previous quiz to last
  chapter assigned before quiz is given
• Expect a combination of 9 True/False and Multiple
  Choice questions per chapter

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Requirements . . . In-class activities

• Each chapter will be covered with a lecture and
  at least one in-class activity
• An in-class activity will usually include a small
  group discussion of a case or situation that may
  be in the chapter and/or illustrated through a
  video.
• An in-class writing exercise will be built into
  at least one of these activities most sessions.
• The writing will be collected and will be used to
  monitor participation in activities.
• To earn a credit for an in-class writing
  exercise
• Must be submitted during the class it is given
• Must relate to the topic discussed.

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Examples of in-class writing

• Microtheme write a brief response to a situation
  or data presented.
• One minute paper spend one minute summarizing
  what you gained from a lecture or seminar.
• Writing notes bring a note to class about what
  you understand about a concept studied (I will
  identify the concept) and what you had difficulty
  with. You will then exchange these notes with a
  classmate and respond.
• Cubing extend writing notes to include
  comparison, analysis, application, and arguments
  for and against.

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Example of in-class writing

• Watch short film
• On a sheet of paper . . .
• Leave some room at the top, I will need to you to
  write some information there later.
• Write a brief response to this question From a
  management perspective . . .
• if this was your business, what would you not
  want to see happen?
• what managerial task, if any, is lacking?
• Exchange sheets with the person next to you,
  read, and discuss
• Return sheet and write what else you learned.

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Invitation and in-class activity credit

• Ursula Burns, President of Xerox will be the COB
  Deans Distinguished Lecturer in the Austin
  auditorium 600pm 730pm on January 10th. 
• This can be viewed in Dean's Distinguished
  Speaker Series . (NOTE This is the College of
  Business website. Click on the first link under
  Highlights. You will need RealPlayer.)
• Writing exercise due January 24 what is my take
  away? After listening to Ms. Burns, inparticular
  their efforts to turnaround Xerox, what
  leadership or management lesson did you find
  yourself saying, I need to remember that!?

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Before you turn in your sheets . .

• I need some information on students in this
  class. Please write the following on the same
  sheet
• your name,
• major,
• what job or occupation do you hope/expect to be
  doing five years from now?

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House Rules

• Come to class prepared, i.e. do assigned reading
  prior to class.
• The University policy on academic dishonesty will
  be enforced.
• Avoid disruptive behavior (refer to the
  University definition of disruptive behavior)
• SHUT OFF CELL PHONES OR USE SILENT MODE
• USE LAPTOPS TO TAKE NOTES OR FOLLOW PRESENTATION
• Office and email address are on syllabus

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Management is hard work!