MBA5608 Managing People for Competitive Advantage in Asia
Unit Schedule Meeting | Date* | Topic | Preparation | 1 | April 18 (Sat.) | * What is this unit about? * Whom do you manage? * What is evidence-based management? Why? How? * How to read a Harvard-style case? | Unit GuideBarends et al. (2014) | | | Managing self * What is the difference between a manager and a leader? * What is your personality? * How does personality affect job performance? * How do you influence others? Power, influence and political skills Introduction to Simulation: Judgement in Crisis | Get your Big-Five scores (Berkeley Lab)Case: Thomas Green | 2 | April 21 (Tue.) | Managing self: Individual decision making * Neuroscience and decision making * Heuristics * Cognitive biases * Debriefing to simulation exercise | Guest speaker: Prof. Alexandre Schaefer, Neuroscientist, Monash MalaysiaPress Release for Simulation: Judgement in Crisis (due on April 19, 12 mid-night) | 3 | April 28 (Tue.) | Developing others: Motivation * Needs theories * Process theories | The puzzle of motivation (Video). TedGlobal. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation | 4 | May 5 (Tue.) | Developing others: Motivation * Applied performance practices * High performance work systems * The art of giving feedback | The delicate art of giving feedback (https://hbr.org/2013/03/the-delicate-art-of-giving-fee)Video case: Awkward Performance Review | 5 | May 12 (Tue.) | Developing others * Effective leadership styles * Inspirational approaches to leadership | Case: Leadership StylesMeasure your leadership skills/orientationEssay 1 due on May 11 | 6 | May 19 (Tue.) | Shaping culture * Culture as “an invisible hand” * Organizational change * Organizational learning | Case: Kimberly-Clark Andean Region- Creating a Winning Culture | 7 | May 23