# Calendar

Course calendar.
SES # | TOPICS | KEY QUESTIONS | KEY DATES
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1 | Introduction and overview | What challenges can I expect in my first job? |
2 | Work and careers: Past, present, and future | What do I want/expect from my work/career? How is this similar or different from what my parents and grandparents wanted and expected? |
3 | Leading and facilitating teams: An engineering team exercise | How can I make my team work well? |
4 | Organizations: Past, present, future | How did the modern organization evolve and where is it going? |
5 | Organizational analysis: Strategic design lens | How do I analyze and make sense of the organizational structure in which I am working? |
6 | Organizational analysis: Political lens | Who will share my interests and who won't? Who has power, and how will it affect what I do? |
7 | Putting the political lens to work: Influencing upward in organizations | How do I sell my great idea to higher authorities? | Organization selection for individual paper due
8 | Organizational analysis: Cultural lens | What traditions matter in an organization, and how do they affect what goes on? |
9 | The cultural lens in action: The Lincoln Electric case | Why has Lincoln Electric's incentive compensation system worked for decades while most others' have failed? |
10 | Applying the three lenses: BP and lessons from the Gulf Coast disaster |  |
11 | Teams in organizations |  |
12 | Team processes: Strategies for building a high performance team |  |
13 | Midterm exam |  |
14 | Introduction to negotiations | How do I negotiate when it looks like I have no power? | Topic selection for group paper due
15 | Recruitment and job offer negotiation | What should I ask for? What should I offer? | Individual paper draft due
16 | Interest-based bargaining in action: Riggs Engineering case study | Can I put the internet-based tools of Fisher and Ury to work in a real life negotiation? How do I sell this agreement to my "constituents" or superiors? |
17 | Leadership and change: Introductions |  |
18 | Leadership and change (cont.) |  |
19 | Leadership continued: The Big Dig, Part 1 |  |
20 | Leadership continued: The Big Dig, Part 2 |  |
21 | Organizational change: MassDOT case | What structural, political, and cultural challenges have to be addressed to integrate multiple agencies into a single efficient transportation organization and system? |
22 | Managing the innovation process | How do ideas move from the laboratory through the organization to the marketplace? |
23 | Corporate responsibility in global supply chain | What purpose(s) should corporations serve? Should Nike and other global corporations be held responsible for the practices of their suppliers? If so, how? |
24 | Team reports on change project |  | Individual paper due
25 | Inventing the future: Wrap-up |  | Team paper due