UIUC - Managing the Organization
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Managing the Organization at Coursera Overview
Duration | 12 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Managing the Organization at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 4 of 7 in the Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Approx. 12 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Managing the Organization at Coursera Course details
- This course is intended to help you become a better manager by helping you to more fully understand and deal with some of the complexities and challenges associated with managerial life in organizations. In this course, you will learn theories, principles, and frameworks that will help you to more effectively manage and lead the organizations that you belong to. We will view organizations from different perspectives that we will use as lenses to help us highlight common managerial challenges and point us toward solutions to those challenges. Some of these common challenges that we will explore in this course include using power effectively, implementing organizational change, understanding and managing organizational culture, decision-making including decision-making pitfalls and ethical traps, and leadership. As you learn and apply the principles from this course, you will be better prepared to navigate some of the complex challenges that you face as a manager.
Managing the Organization at Coursera Curriculum
Course Orientation
Welcome to the course
About Professor Michael Bednar
About Professor Geoffrey Love
Syllabus
Glossary
About the Discussion Forums
Updating Your Profile
Orientation Quiz
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Sources of Power
1.3 Networks and Power
1.4 Using Power
1.5 Organizational Change
1.6 Getting People to Commit to Change and Overcoming Resistance to Change
1.7 Choosing Strategies for Change
1.8 A Model for Implementing Major Change
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Module 1 Overview
Module 1 Readings
Lesson 1.2 Practice Quiz
Lesson 1.3 Practice Quiz
Lesson 1.4 Practice Quiz
Lesson 1.5 Practice Quiz
Lesson 1.6 Practice Quiz
Lesson 1.7 Practice Quiz
Lesson 1.8 Practice Quiz
Module 1 Quiz
MODULE 2: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
2.1 What is Culture
2.2 Levels of Culture
2.3 The Pros and Cons of a Strong Culture
2.4 Culture and Competitive Advantage
2.5 Sources of Culture
Module 2 Overview
Module 2 Readings
Lesson 2.1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 2.2 Practice Quiz
Lesson 2.3 Practice Quiz
Lesson 2.4 Practice Quiz
Lesson 2.5 Practice Quiz
Module 2 Quiz
MODULE 3: DECISION-MAKING AND ETHICS
3.1 Introduction to Decision Making in Organizations
Lesson 3.2 Rational, Boundedly Rational, and Intuitive Decision-Making
3.3 Biases in Human Decision-Making
3.4 Prospect Theory and How Losses Loom Larger than Gains
3.5 Ethical Decision-Making Traps
3.6 Rationalization
3.7 Ethical Decision-Making Tests
Module 3 Overview
Module 3 Readings
Lesson 3.1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 3.2 Practice Quiz
Lesson 3.3 Practice Quiz
Lesson 3.4 Practice Quiz
Lesson 3.5 Practice Quiz
Lesson 3.6 Practice Quiz
Lesson 3.7 Practice Quiz
Module 3 Quiz
MODULE 4: LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS
4.1 Introduction to Leadership
4.2 Path-Goal Model of Leadership
4.3 Transactional vs. Transformational Leadership
4.4 Leadership as Organization Building
4.5 Leadership and the Problems of Organizations
4.6 Course Recap
Gies Online Programs
Module 4 Overview
Module 4 Readings
Congratulations!
Lesson 4.1 Practice Quiz
Lesson 4.2 Practice Quiz
Lesson 4.3 Practice Quiz
Lesson 4.4 Practice Quiz
Module 4 Quiz
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