Organizational Behavior

Rules, Leadership, and Power

Lecture

  • strategy and rules
    • zeroing
    • simplicity, boundaries, priority, timing, and exiting
    • number of rules
    • creation
  • leadership
    • focus
    • behaviors and processes for successful change
      • sense-making
      • visioning
      • sense giving
      • aligning
      • enabling
      • supporting
      • maintaining momentum and sustaining
    • leadership styles
      • the collective nature of leadership
  • power
    • organizational politics
    • ethics-based theories
    • instrumental theories
    • resource dependence theory
    • prospect theory
    • stakeholder theory

Seminar

  • presentation of the assigned project
  • discussion

Assigned Reading

Reading

  • Textbook: pp.  47–52.
  • Hayes, J. (2014). The theory and practice of change management: pp. 167–211.
  • Eisenhardt, K. M., & Sull, D. N. (2001). Strategy as simple rules. Harvard business review, 79(1), 106-119.