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Material Type: Lab; Professor: Manning; Class: Work Teams in Organizations; Subject: MANAGEMENT; University: New Mexico State University-Main Campus; Term: Fall 2008;
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Management 454 Work Teams in Organizations Tuesday, 4:00 - 6:30, 6:30 – 8:00 PM, Business Complex, Room 204 Fall 2008
Professor:
Michael R. Manning Business Complex 321 505-646- mmanning@nmsu.edu
Course Description and Overview:
This course is designed to increase your knowledge about groups as well as increase your ability to be a member of a working unit and to manage these work teams. The primary emphasis will be placed on learning and understanding work team dynamics by actively being a member of an ongoing class group, specifically designed to explore group dynamics while being engaged in a real task.
Learning Objectives:
The goal of this course is to help you be able to more fully utilize the resources of any group or organization with which you are working. Learning objectives include:
to learn how to recognize and understand the subtleties of group processes
to learn how to build and maintain a team
to learn skills of effective group members (problem solving and decision making, communication, managing conflict, developing appropriate norms, leading and influencing others, etc.)
Course Activities and Evaluation:
The course will demand active involvement by all participants. Class sessions will not focus solely on textbook facts, but will comprise numerous activities and experiences that cannot be replicated without being in attendance. The beginning assumption regarding learning in this course is: to learn about teams and work groups requires that one be a member of an ongoing group in which course concepts and ideas exist and can be applied. The class exercises performed in these learning teams will enable us to: (1) see and experience what we read in our texts and course handouts about work groups, and (2) to use the learning groups as a laboratory
in which we can experiment with new behaviors and interactions with others.
Individual evaluation will be based on four components: