About this course: 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-wining 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.
Who is this class for: This class is designed for anyone who has to manage people, or who would like to start managing people.
Taught by: Michael Useem, Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management
The Wharton School
Taught by: Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management, Director, Center for Human Resources
The Wharton School
| Basic Info |
Course 3 of 6 in the
Business Foundations Specialization.
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| Level | Beginner |
| Commitment | 2-3 hours per week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings |
- Video: Professor Cappelli and Professor Useem Introductions
- Video: Course Overview
- Video: Introduction
- Video: Motivation
- Video: Motivation: The Agency Theory Examples
- Video: Designing Incentive Systems
- Video: Hiring
- Video: Managing Performance
- Reading: PDF's of Module 1 Slides
- Discussion Prompt: Introduce yourselves!
- Video: Tasks vs Jobs
- Video: How to Design Jobs
- Video: Drawbacks and Rethinking Job Design
- Video: Engineers and Psychologists: A Battle for Designing Jobs
- Video: Lessons from the Japanese and US Auto Industries
- Video: Systems of Work
- Reading: PDF's of Module 2 slides
- Video: Good and Timely Decisions
- Video: Making a Good and Timely Decision
- Video: US Examples
- Video: Fighting a Fire
- Video: After Action Review and Summary
- Reading: PDF's of Module 3 slides
- Video: Designing and Changing Architecture
- Video: Performance: Pay and Promotion
- Video: Organizational Design
- Video: David Pottruck and Charles Schwab Example
- Video: Managing People
- Video: Manager's Template for Human and Social Capital
- Reading: PDF's of Module 4 slides
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I used this course as a quick review of my previously learned lessons in college
great course.. thoroughly enjoyed it.. completed in a day
Pretty good course. A little bit too much on the academic side (similar to other courses in this specialization). The reason this is a problem is that this course is supposed to be able to be taken by individuals with no previous business experience. High level business concepts and terminology at times will confuse lay people. All in all a good course though, many insightful stories. Strategic intent... amazing concept.
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It was a well structured course. The professors and their explanations plus the materials used to explain the theory were simple yet powerful. I wished some of the slides were more clear, it was hard to see specially the charts.I enjoyed it thoroughly.