Notes are available for selected lectures below.
| SES # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and overview | (PDF) |
| 2 | Work and careers: Past, present, and future | (PDF) |
| 3 | Leading and facilitating teams: An engineering team exercise | (PDF) |
| 4 | Organizations: Past, present, future | (PDF) |
| 5 | Organizational analysis: Strategic design lens | (PDF) |
| 6 | Organizational analysis: Political lens | (PDF) |
| 7 | Putting the political lens to work: Influencing upward in organizations | |
| 8 | Organizational analysis: Cultural lens | (PDF) |
| 9 | The cultural lens in action: The Lincoln Electric case | |
| 10 | Applying the three lenses: BP and lessons from the Gulf Coast disaster | |
| 11 | Teams in organizations | |
| 12 | Team processes: Strategies for building a high performance team | (PDF) |
| 13 | Midterm exam | |
| 14 | Introduction to negotiations | (PDF) |
| 15 | Recruitment and job offer negotiation | (PDF) |
| 16 | Interest-based bargaining in action: Riggs Engineering case study | |
| 17 | Leadership and change: Introductions | (PDF - 1.3MB) |
| 18 | Leadership and change (cont.) | |
| 19 | Leadership continued: The Big Dig, Part 1 | (PDF - 1.2MB) |
| 20 | Leadership continued: The Big Dig, Part 2 | |
| 21 | Organizational change: MassDOT case | |
| 22 | Managing the innovation process | |
| 23 | Corporate responsibility in global supply chain | |
| 24 | Team reports on change project | |
| 25 | Inventing the future: Wrap-up |