Introduction To Management
Management
Module 1: Managers and Managing
Class #1: Introduction to the Course, its process and instructor expectations
Case: Road to Hell (A), HBS # 480074
Class #2: Managing a Company
Readings:
Daft, Kendrick and Vershinina, “Innovative Management for Turbulent Times” and “The
Evolution of Management Thinking,” Chapters 1 and 2.
Case: Chattanooga Ice Cream, HBS #498001
Assignment Questions – to be prepared individually and then discussed in instructor-assigned study groups.
1. How well is Chattanooga Ice Cream Division doing?
2. What is your assessment of the senior management team?
3. What should Charlie Moore do?
Class #3: Managers and Managing: Your Personal Management Style
Online Exercise: Myers Briggs Inventory, http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
Readings and assignment:
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Determine your MBTI preference through the online assessment.
Review your MBTI Type in Isabel Myers, Introduction to Type on reserve in the DIU offices until you understand more about your personal profile.
Read either: Daft, 9th ed., pp. 392-3; or Daft, Kendrick and Vershinina, pp. 541-4.
Assignment Questions:
1. What is the instrument and why was it developed?
2. How well does your MBTI profile seem to fit you?
3. Is this useful for managers and companies? What data does it provide individual managers? Companies?
Class 4: Leadership vs. Management
Readings:
Daft, Kendrick and Vershinina, chapter 15; or Daft, 5th ed., chapter 16; or Daft 9th ed., chapter 14.
William Ellet, The Case Study Handbook. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press,
2007), chapter 3, pp. 19 – 36.
Assignment:
Go online to take a leadership quiz. http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/blleadershipquiz.htm
Homework assignment:
Write a one or two page statement for your personal journal answering the following questions. 1. Does the leadership profile fit your own self-image?
2. What do your MBTI type and your leadership profile tell you about yourself? Can they help you think about the kind of
Module 1: Managers and Managing
Class #1: Introduction to the Course, its process and instructor expectations
Case: Road to Hell (A), HBS # 480074
Class #2: Managing a Company
Readings:
Daft, Kendrick and Vershinina, “Innovative Management for Turbulent Times” and “The
Evolution of Management Thinking,” Chapters 1 and 2.
Case: Chattanooga Ice Cream, HBS #498001
Assignment Questions – to be prepared individually and then discussed in instructor-assigned study groups.
1. How well is Chattanooga Ice Cream Division doing?
2. What is your assessment of the senior management team?
3. What should Charlie Moore do?
Class #3: Managers and Managing: Your Personal Management Style
Online Exercise: Myers Briggs Inventory, http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
Readings and assignment:
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•
•
Determine your MBTI preference through the online assessment.
Review your MBTI Type in Isabel Myers, Introduction to Type on reserve in the DIU offices until you understand more about your personal profile.
Read either: Daft, 9th ed., pp. 392-3; or Daft, Kendrick and Vershinina, pp. 541-4.
Assignment Questions:
1. What is the instrument and why was it developed?
2. How well does your MBTI profile seem to fit you?
3. Is this useful for managers and companies? What data does it provide individual managers? Companies?
Class 4: Leadership vs. Management
Readings:
Daft, Kendrick and Vershinina, chapter 15; or Daft, 5th ed., chapter 16; or Daft 9th ed., chapter 14.
William Ellet, The Case Study Handbook. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press,
2007), chapter 3, pp. 19 – 36.
Assignment:
Go online to take a leadership quiz. http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/blleadershipquiz.htm
Homework assignment:
Write a one or two page statement for your personal journal answering the following questions. 1. Does the leadership profile fit your own self-image?
2. What do your MBTI type and your leadership profile tell you about yourself? Can they help you think about the kind of