ISM 280S - Winter 2007

ISM 280S - Winter 2007

ISM 280S – Technology and Information Management

MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

IN HIGH-TECH ORGANIZATIONS

Seminar

Winter 2007

Seminar Times:

Thursdays, 6:00 to 7:30 PM

UCSC Silicon Valley Center in Mountain View, CA [map]

UCSC Students are highly encouraged to enroll in ISM 280S-01 for credit (44236)

Seminar Description:

This (2-unit) seminar will provide an introduction to important contributors and ideas in high-tech management. It will begin with some basics of human personality types, needs, values and motivations (drawing on the literature and on the instructors experience in management), and then move to management topics based on this perspective. This will lead to examination of management and leadership topics in organizations, organizational behavior, and specific issues facing high-tech companies in their creation, growth, and survival. (Guest speakers may participate as available.)

Seminar Schedule (tentative):

Thursday, January 4: Introduction and Overview

Thursday, January 11: Personalities and Self-Management (Jung, Myers-Briggs)

Thursday, January 18: Learning Styles (Kolb) / Time Management (Mackenzie)

Thursday, January 25: Motivational Theory (Herzberg)

Thursday, February 1: Needs (Maslow, McClelland)

Thursday, February 8: Management Theory (McGregor)

Thursday, February 15: (Demming, Azides)

Thursday, February 22: (Drucker)

Thursday, March 1: (Brooks, Peters)

Thursday, March 8: (Christensen, Grove, Davidow)

Thursday, March 15 (Moore, Collins, etc.)

Instructor:

Patrick Mantey

http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~mantey/

Office: E2 Room 595J

email: mantey@soe.ucsc.edu

Phone: 831-459-2720

References:

Myers-Briggs (Jung – personality types)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers_briggs

http://www.myersbriggs.org/

http://web.tickle.com/personality/?sid=2005&supp=search_personality_mbriggs&test=personality

(free on-line test, scoring)

David Kolb (learning)

http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm

http://www.businessballs.com/kolblearningstyles.htm

Alec Mackenzie (The Time Trap)

http://www.abanet.org/careercounsel/prelaw/5timeprelawtips.pdf

http://www.amanet.org/books/catalog/081447926X.htm

Frederick Herzberg (motivational theory)

http://www.work911.com/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=4723

http://www.work911.com/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=4722

Abraham Maslow (hierarchy of needs)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow

http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/maslow.html

http://www.xenodochy.org/ex/lists/maslow.html

http://www.maslow.com/

http://www.businessballs.com/maslowtest.pdf

David McClelland (acquired needs theory)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McClelland

http://www.businessballs.com/davidmcclelland.htm

MANAGEMENT OF OTHERS

Douglas McGregor (Theory X/ Y)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McGregor

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/business/dougmcgregor.html

http://www.businessballs.com/mcgregor.htm

http://www.accel-team.com/human_relations/hrels_03_mcgregor.html

W. Edwards Deming (Quality, 14 Points for Continual Improvement)

http://www.lii.net/deming.html

http://www.businessballs.com/qualitymanagement.htm

http://www.deming.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

Ichak Adizes (corporate life-cycle model)

http://www.businessballs.com/adizeslifecycle.htm

http://www.adizes.com/

http://www.inc.com/magazine/19961001/1847.html

Fred Brooks

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

ORGANIZATIONS

Peter Drucker (Organizational Behavior)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=35313

Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence, etc.)

http://tompeters.com/

http://www.businessballs.com/tompetersinsearchofexcellence.htm

HIGH-TECH MANAGEMENT

Clayton Christensen (Disruptive Technologies)

Book: The Innovator's Dilemma. Harvard Business School Press. ISBN 0-87584-585

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology#Books_and_papers

Andrew Grove (Only the Paranoid Survive)

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/grove/paranoid.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove

William Davidow (Virtual Corporation)

http://www.mdv.com/team_davidow.htm

http://www.bookcloseouts.com/default.asp?R=0887306578B

Geoffrey Moore (Inside the Tornado, Crossing the Chasm)

http://www.mdv.com/team_moore.htm

Jim Collins (Good to Great, etc.)

http://www.jimcollins.com/index.html

http://www.jimcollins.com/lab/index.html