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Module 6: Retention and Utilization through Development

Date

Topic

Assignments

 

 

 

 

4/13

R: Change Management Needs to Change (2013) HBR Blog

 

PREPARE:  Log on to Simulation and view How to Play and Scenario Instruction Screens

Change Management

Please read this overview of the organization

Please review the overview on How to Play

 

 

 

 

2/23

Changing Culture

 

R: Coutu, D. (2009).  Why Teams Don’t Work.  Harvard Business Review, 99-105.

R: How to Reward Your Stellar Team (2013) HBR Blog

 

 

R: Breen, B. (2001). How EDS Got Its Groove Back. Fast Company, 51: 10p.

R: Nayar, V. (2010). A Maverick CEO Explains How He Persuaded His Team to Leap into the Future.  Harvard Business Review, 110-113.

R: Hsieh, T. (2010).  Zappos’s CEO on Going to Extremes for Customers. Harvard Business Review, 41-45.

 

SD: Downsizing – Complete Part A.

 

OR: Vance & Ricadela (2013) Can Meg Whitman Reverse Hewlett Packard’s Free Fall?, Bloomberg BusinessWeek

4/15

Empowerment & Engagement

R: Schaffer, R. (2010). Four Mistakes Leaders Keep Making.  Harvard Business Review, 86-91.

R: The Key to Managing Change (2013) BusinessWeek
SD: Overcoming Resistance to Change - Be prepared to discuss.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R: Heathfield, S. (2014). Top Ten Ways to Make Employee Empowerment Fail. About Money.

SD: Empowering Employees – Be prepared to discuss.


Harvard Online Simulation – Change Management: Please complete Simulation 1 & 2 

Simulation 1 Overview

Simulation 2 Overview

LO: Change Management Simulation 1&2

 

OR: Stahl, G, et al. (2012).  Six Principles of Effective Global Management.  MIT Sloan Management Review, 24-32.

4/20

Application of Change & Review

Harvard Online Simulation – Change Management

Please complete Simulation 3 & 4

Simulation 3 Overview

Simulation 4 Overview

 

LO: Change Management Simulation 3 & 4

 

Review for Final Exam

 

OR: Leaders everywhere: A Conversation with Gary Hamel (2013) McKinsey Quarterly

OR: Leading at a Higher Level – Chapters 4 & 6

4/22

No Class

Group Project Day

 

 

 

 

 

 


Key:
R: Reading
SD: Skill Development
LO: Learning Opportunity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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