Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
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means of achieving those results do change and sometimes change
very significantly.
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Course Materials
Book
1. Thomas W. Malone, The Future of Work, Harvard Business
School Press, 2004.
Articles
1. Peter F. Drucker, “The Coming of the New Organization,”
Harvard Business Review, January-February 1988.
2. Karen L. Higgins and Joseph A. Maciariello, “Leading Complex
Collaboration in Network Organizations: A Multidisciplinary
Approach,” in Complex Collaboration: Building Capabilities for
Working Across Boundaries, Advances in Interdisciplinary
Studies of Work Teams, Volume 10, 2004, pp. 203-241.
Book Chapters
1. Chapter 6, “The Power and Purpose of Objectives,” Peter F.
Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
(MTRP), Abridged Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1988.
2. Chapter 26, “Management by Objectives and Self-Control,”
Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities,
Practices (MTRP), Abridged Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann,
1988.
3. Chapter 28, “The Spirit of Performance,” Peter F. Drucker’s
book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (MTRP),
Abridged Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1988.
4. Chapter 31, “Controls, Control and Management,” Peter F.
Drucker Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
(MTRP), Abridged Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1988.
5. Chapter 32, “The Manager and the Budget,” Peter F. Drucker’s
book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (MTRP),
Abridged Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1988.
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Cases
1. Nucor Corporation (A), in Robert N. Anthony and Vijay
Govindarajan, Management Control Systems, Twelfth Edition,
McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2007, pp. 19-30.
2. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in Robert N. Anthony and Vijay
Govindarajan, Management Control Systems, Twelfth Edition,
McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2007, pp. 31-33.
3. Read only as background for Lincoln Electric (B)—Lincoln
Electric Company (A) in Robert N. Anthony and Vijay
Govindarajan, Management Control Systems, Twelfth Edition,
McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2007, pp. 536-553.
4. Lincoln Electric Company (B) in Robert N. Anthony and Vijay
Govindarajan, Management Control Systems, Twelfth Edition,
McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2007, pp. 712-716.
5. “The Performance Development System,” adapted from
Joseph A. Maciariello, Lasting Value, John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
6. “Who is the brightest hamster in the laboratory,” Case Number
36, Peter F. Drucker, Management Cases, HarperCollins, 1977,
Revisied, 2006, pp149-153.”
7. “The corporate control panel,” Case Number 39, Peter F.
Drucker, Management Cases, HarperCollins, 1977, Revised,
2006, pp.161-163.
Module Format
There are questions assigned for each case. Your participation in
class discussions with examples of application of these topics to your
experiences will help to bring these topics to life for all of us.
Please note each class will meet for 3.5 hours. We will not meet on
April 14. Four of the five case assignments are due after April 14 thus
providing extra time to complete cases on schedule.
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Computation of Grades
Module Syllabus
March 24 Introduction: Trends in the Assignment for
Class
Design of Contrtol Systems Read, The Future
of Work
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May 5 Cultural Differences: Adapting Read, Lincoln
the design of systems to Electric (A)
Cultural Differences Prepare, Lincoln
Electric (B),
Question at end of
case