PAUL INGRAM COURSE SYLLABUS
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Summer 2014
Professor Paul Ingram
Uris Hall, Room 712
212-854-2740
pi17@columbia.edu www.columbia.edu/~pi17 Global EMBA, B7011
Leadership and Organisational Change
Course Syllabus
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Course Goals
This course is designed to increase your effectiveness as a leader by introducing you to a framework for understanding organizations and the performance of people and groups within them. This is part of improving your own career performance, and the performance of those you lead. The specific goals of the course are three:
1) The Art. To introduce you to a problem-solving tool for analyzing why an organization is underperforming, and guiding you to improving its performance.
This tool is called the alignment model, and we’ll practice it by analyzing cases.
2) The Science. To introduce you to a body of science useful for improving the performance of organizations and the people in them. For most organizational problems, there are multiple right answers, but there are also some answers that are clearly wrong. We’ll discuss the empirical evidence on organizational and individual performance that will help you separate promising ideas from bad ones.
3) You. To apply the material to your own career. This course is meant to be practical, and to pay off for you immediately. We will do a number of things to help you apply the course material to yourself. For example, much of the learning will be experiential, so you can practice using the ideas. And we have two major assignments which are “personal cases”, opportunities to apply course material to shape your own career trajectory, and to guide your development throughout the
MBA program.
Course Overview
This course will focus on a alignment model of organizational effectiveness. In the first session we will introduce this model:
1) The alignment model. The alignment model is described in the first reading of the course.
The model predicts that organizations will be effective when their
Summer 2014
Professor Paul Ingram
Uris Hall, Room 712
212-854-2740
pi17@columbia.edu www.columbia.edu/~pi17 Global EMBA, B7011
Leadership and Organisational Change
Course Syllabus
2
Course Goals
This course is designed to increase your effectiveness as a leader by introducing you to a framework for understanding organizations and the performance of people and groups within them. This is part of improving your own career performance, and the performance of those you lead. The specific goals of the course are three:
1) The Art. To introduce you to a problem-solving tool for analyzing why an organization is underperforming, and guiding you to improving its performance.
This tool is called the alignment model, and we’ll practice it by analyzing cases.
2) The Science. To introduce you to a body of science useful for improving the performance of organizations and the people in them. For most organizational problems, there are multiple right answers, but there are also some answers that are clearly wrong. We’ll discuss the empirical evidence on organizational and individual performance that will help you separate promising ideas from bad ones.
3) You. To apply the material to your own career. This course is meant to be practical, and to pay off for you immediately. We will do a number of things to help you apply the course material to yourself. For example, much of the learning will be experiential, so you can practice using the ideas. And we have two major assignments which are “personal cases”, opportunities to apply course material to shape your own career trajectory, and to guide your development throughout the
MBA program.
Course Overview
This course will focus on a alignment model of organizational effectiveness. In the first session we will introduce this model:
1) The alignment model. The alignment model is described in the first reading of the course.
The model predicts that organizations will be effective when their