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Managing Transformations in Work, Organizations, a posted by duggu on 11/28/2007

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The course focuses on skills managers need to adapt to current sweeping changes in the nature of work and the workforce, in business organizations and their roles in society, and in the institutions that interact with work, particularly the labor market, community and family-centered groups. This year's teaching will be the basis for a workshop session at the Sloan School's 50th Anniversary Convocation.

The course will involve a mix of on-campus and off-campus students taking the course via distance learning, and professionals from a variety of organizations who will participate in specific modules of interest to them. One session will be linked to colleagues at Cambridge University in England where a parallel course is being offered.

Course Description

Managerial issues addressed are associated with managing changes and innovations occurring in the nature of work and organizations and the role of the corporation in society. Topics covered include the changing social contract at work, integrating work and family, managing diversity, managing strategic labor-management partnerships, and managing relations between the firm and its multiple stakeholders. Subject is open to distance learning as well as on-campus students and to industry participants.

*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.

Syllabus

Objectives, Format, and Participants

This is a modular course designed for on-campus and distance learning among students and industry professionals. We focus on the skills managers need to adapt successfully to:

The sweeping changes in the nature of work and the workforce.
Changes occurring in business organizations, the debates about their roles in society, and their relationships with employees and other stakeholders.
Changes in relations among institutions that interact with work, particularly labor market, community and family-centered groups and organizations and government.

There is a great deal of innovation and debate underway on these issues today. This course will surface these debates and innovations and discuss their implications for current and future managers and leaders.

This year we will use the course to prepare for a workshop session on the "Future Business Organizations and their Relations With Constituents" to be held at the Sloan School's 50th Anniversary Convocation. A group of us are responsible for preparing a paper on this topic. We will use our course modules as venues for discussing these issues, collecting data, and building a draft document as we go along.

Calendar


MODULE #	TOPICS	LECTURE NOTES


1	Managing the Changing Workforce and Changing Nature of Work	Managing Transformations in Work, Organizations and Society (PDF)


2	The Sustainable Corporation: Business and the Environment	The Corporation in Society: Managing for Sustainability (PDF)


3	Managing Labor-Management Strategic Partnerships: Are they Sustainable?	Managing Strategic Partnerships (PDF)


4	The Changing Workforce: Implications for Work-Family Integration	The Changing Workforce: Implications for Work and Family Integration (PDF) Managing Transformations in Work, Organizations and Society (PDF)


5	Knowledge Work and Knowledge Management: Integrating Human Capital and IT	Knowledge Work and Knowledge Management: Integrating IT and Human Capital in the 21st Century Corporation (PDF)


6	Implementing Technical and Social Systems Change: The Case of Knowledge Based Work Systems	Integrating Social and Technical Systems (PDF) Passing the Point of No Return: Accelerated Implementation of a Lean Manufacturing System (PDF) Implementation Simulation (PDF)


7	Managing Independent Contractor/Project Worker Relations	Managing Independent Contractor and Project Worker Relations (PDF)


8	Managing Cultural Diversity in Global Organizations	Managing Diversity for Business and Personal Success (PDF)


9	Leadership Skills for the 21st Century	Leadership Skills for the 21st Century (PDF)


10	Transforming Regional, National and International Institutions	Transforming Regional, National, and International Institutions (PDF)

Further Reading:


	MODULE #				READINGS


	1				"HP's Efforts Towards Environmental Sustainability." Kochan, Thomas. "Building a New Social Contract at Work: A Call to Action." Perspectives on Work 4, 1 (2000): 3-12. McGregor, Douglas. "The Human Side of the Enterprise." 1957 Sloan Convocation lecture introducing Theory X and Theory Y. "New Realities in Today's Workforce." In The Towers Perrin Report 2001. (www.towersperrin.com) Herman, Alexis M. "Futurework: Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century." Executive Summary, Labor Day 1999 -- A Report of the United States Department of Labor. (PDF)


	2				Ehrenfeld, John R. "Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously: Is the Emergence of "Sustainable" Practices Meaningful?" Reflections 1, 4 (Summer 2000): 34-47. Senge, Peter. "From the Chair." Reflections 1, 4 (Summer 2000): 74-75. The MIT 21st Century Manifesto Working Group.* "What do we really want? A manifesto for the organizations of the 21st Century." MIT Initiative on Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century -- Discussion Paper. November 1999. (PDF) *The MIT 21st Century Manifesto Working Group includes the following MIT faculty members: Deborah Ancona, Lotte Bailyn, Erik Brynjolfsson, John Carroll, Tom Kochan, Don Lessard, Thomas Malone (chair), Wanda Orlikowski, Jack Rockart, Michael Scott Morton, Peter Senge, John Sterman, and JoAnne Yates.


	3				Deakin, Simon, Maria Hudson, Suzanne Konzelmann, and Frank Wilkinson. "Phoenix from the Ashes: Labor Management Partnerships in Britain." Kochan, Thomas, and Saul Rubinstein. Learning from Saturn: Possibilities for Corporate Governance and Employee Relations. ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London. Chaps. 1 and 6. Kochan, Thomas, Robert McKersie, and Susan Eaton. "Taking Stock of the Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership: A Mid Course Assessment." Kaiser Draft Case Study. Deakin, Simon, Richard Hobbs, Suzanne Konzelmann, and Frank Wilkinson. "Partnership, Ownership and Control: The Impact of Corporate Governance on Employment Relations."


	4				Bailyn, Lotte, Robert Drago, and Thomas Kochan. "Integrating Work and Family: Toward a Holistic Perspective." Executive Summary and Personal Vignettes. A Report of the Sloan Work-Family Policy Network -- Executive Summary. Kochan, Thomas. "Part-Time Partner Redux." Draft case. "More than Part-Time: The Effect of Reduced-Hours Arrangements on the Retention, Recruitment, and Success of Women Attorneys in Law Firms." A Report of the Employment Issues Committee of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts, 2000 (Read the Executive Summary). The full report is available at www.womensbar.org


	5				Blair, Margaret M., and Thomas Kochan. "Human Capital and the American Corporation: Perspectives from Industry." Perspectives on Work 2, 1 (1998): 7-12. "IAM-Boeing Joint Programs: A Decade of Learning." Report. 2001. Prusak, Laurence, and Salvatore Parise. "Information Systems as a Conduit for the Transfer of Knowledge." Leaders for the Total Enterprise. "A Strategic Vision: Building on and Strengthening the Success of the LFM and SDM Programs." Orlikowski, Wanda. "Managing Use Not Technology: A View from the Trenches." Financial Times (22 Mar. 1999): 10-11. (Mastering Information Management Section) Report of the 21st Century Workforce Commission. (Read the Executive Summary and Chapter 1 and the Conclusions. Skim through the rest. It can be found at: www.workforce21.org)


	6				Cohen, Hirsh. "Studying Industries and Their People." Perspectives on Work 2, 1 (1998): 13-17. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel, and Thomas Kochan. "Integrating Social and Technical Systems: Lessons from the Auto Industry." (PDF) Instructions for the Auto Industry "Brownfield" Transformation Simulation. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel. "Passing the Point of No Return: Accelerated Implementation of a Lean Manufacturing System." (PDF)


	7				Batt, Rosemary, Susan Christopherson, Ned Rightor, and Dannielle Van Jaarsveld. "Net Working: Work Patterns and Workforce Policies for the New Media Industry." Report. Economic Policy Institute, 2001. Talent Wars excerpt no. 2 (Found at the following websites) www.winningthetalentwars.com www.aquent.com (Skim their website) www.monster.com (Skim their website) www.workingtoday.org (Skim their website)


	8				Fannie Mae Diversity Workbook. (Skim and consider using as a benchmark against practices in your company.) It can be found at: http://www.fanniemae.com/company/responsibility/pdf/diversity_workbook.pdf


	9				Kochan, Thomas, et al. "The Effects of Diversity on Business Performance: Report of the Feasibility Study of the Diversity Research Network." February 2002.


	10				Bennis, Warren, and Robert J. Thomas. "The Right Stuff." Outlook, 2 (2001): 30-37. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel, et al. "Building a 21st Century Aerospace Workforce: Policy White Paper for the Commission on the Future of the Aerospace Industry." Kochan, Thomas A. "Jump-Starting a New Debate: How to Update Employment and Labor Policies for the 21st Century." Perspectives on Work 3, 2 (1999): 12-17.