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People are the most valuable asset of any business, but they are also the most unpredictable, and the most difficult asset to manage. And although managing people well is critical to the health of any organization, most managers don't get the training they need to make good management decisions. Now, award-winning authors and renowned management Professors Mike Useem and Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School have designed this course to introduce you to the key elements of managing people. Based on their popular course at Wharton, this course will teach you how to motivate individual performance and design reward systems, how to design jobs and organize work for high performance, how to make good and timely management decisions, and how to design and change your organization’s architecture. By the end of this course, you'll have developed the skills you need to start motivating, organizing, and rewarding people in your organization so that you can thrive as a business and as a social organization.
In this module, you'll learn how motivation affects an individual's performance and how to use that motivation to drive performance. You'll explore how incentive systems are designed and how psychological concepts such as behavior modification, imitation, conformity, and compliance influence and shape these systems. You’ll also examine the current process of hiring employees using technology, tracking systems, and outsourcing. And you’ll learn how you can provide valuable feedback to your employees, and make performance appraisals productive. By the end of this module, you’ll be able to apply what you've learned to best motivate, hire, and evaluate your employees.
What's included
8 videos1 reading2 assignments1 discussion prompt
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8 videos•Total 87 minutes
Professor Cappelli and Professor Useem Introductions•4 minutes
Course Overview•20 minutes
Introduction•5 minutes
Motivation•11 minutes
Motivation: The Agency Theory Examples•7 minutes
Designing Incentive Systems•17 minutes
Hiring•10 minutes
Managing Performance•14 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
PDFs of Module 1 Slides•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Practice Quiz #1•30 minutes
Managing Performance, Motivation and Hiring Quiz •30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Introduce yourselves!•10 minutes
Tasks, Jobs, and Systems of Work
Module 2•2 hours to complete
Module details
This module is designed to teach you the difference between a task and a job. You'll learn how jobs are historically designed, and you'll explore some of the drawbacks related to past work systems. You'll also learn how job design has been influenced by engineering and psychology. Finally, you'll look at real world examples from the GM and Toyota to compare their respective approaches. By the end of this module, you'll understand how jobs and systems of work have evolved to improve employee performance and productivity.
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6 videos1 reading2 assignments
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6 videos•Total 55 minutes
Tasks vs. Jobs•3 minutes
How to Design Jobs•12 minutes
Drawbacks and Rethinking Job Design•12 minutes
Engineers and Psychologists: A Battle for Designing Jobs•8 minutes
Lessons from the Japanese and US Auto Industries•14 minutes
Systems of Work•6 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
PDFs of Module 2 Slides•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Practice Quiz #2•30 minutes
Tasks and Designing Jobs Quiz •30 minutes
Making Good and Timely Management Decisions
Module 3•2 hours to complete
Module details
In this module, you'll learn how to make good and timely management decisions. Through several real-world examples, you'll see how leaders create and build a decision making mindset. You'll also learn how leaders can make costly decisions that affect their team or their entire company negatively. By the end of this module, you will be able to apply key concepts to making good and timely management decisions and build a higher performing team.
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5 videos1 reading2 assignments
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5 videos•Total 53 minutes
Good and Timely Decisions•13 minutes
Making a Good and Timely Decision•7 minutes
US Examples•10 minutes
Fighting a Fire•16 minutes
After Action Review and Summary•7 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
PDFs of Module 3 Slides•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Practice Quiz #3•30 minutes
Decision Making Quiz •30 minutes
Designing and Changing the Organization's Architecture
Module 4•2 hours to complete
Module details
This module was created to describe the influence of an organization's architecture on management and its team's performance. You'll explore how inequity fosters disparity among employees and can inhibit a company's success. You'll also look at two real-world examples of leaders who tackled problems within their organizational structures to effect change. By the end of this module you will be able to identify key steps in which you can lead change within your organization.
What's included
6 videos1 reading2 assignments
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6 videos•Total 61 minutes
Designing and Changing Architecture•19 minutes
Performance: Pay and Promotion•7 minutes
Organizational Design•6 minutes
David Pottruck and Charles Schwab Example•10 minutes
Managing People•15 minutes
Manager's Template for Human and Social Capital•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
PDFs of Module 4 Slides•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Practice Quiz #4•30 minutes
Organization Design, Architecture, and Managing Quiz •30 minutes
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Amazing course led by both Professor Cappelli and Professor Useem! This has helped me so much in learning more about human resources and human capital management.
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I really recommend this course because the instructors bring the real examples and analyse them. That really helps to understand the concepts. I enjoy taking this course.
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