1. Bratton
William with Peter Knobler, Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the
Crime Epidemic. New York: Random House, 1998.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679452516/o/qid=966617971/sr=2-3/103-5646095-2698247 Assigned to:
6. Buckingham
Marcus, Kurt Coffman. First, Break All The Rules: What the World's Greatest
Managers Do Differently. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684852861/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_4/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to:
15.
Deal Terrence, Kent Peterson. Shaping School Culture: The
Heart of Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787943428/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_2/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to: ZZZZ
17. Sparrow
Kenneth. The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and
Managing Compliance. Washington: Brookings, 2000. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815780656/qid=1013978452/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5471442-5573505 Assigned to:
18. Bethune, Gordon, Scott Huler. From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback. Wiley, 1998. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471248355/ref=pd_sim_books_2/103-3888685-3290255?v=glance&s=books Assigned to:
19. Gerstner, Louis. Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance: Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround. Harper Business, 2002 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060523794/qid=1044401738/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-3888685-3290255?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Assigned to:
20. Gittell, Jody Hoffer. The Southwest Airlines Way: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve High Performance McGraw Hill, 2002 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0071396837/ref=bxgy_cc_text_b/103-3888685-3290255?v=glance&s=books Assigned to:
21. Bossidy, Larry. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Crown Publishing, 2002 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0609610570/ref=pd_sim_books_1/103-3888685-3290255?v=glance&s=books#product-details Assigned to:
22.
Charan, Ram.
Boards At Work : How Corporate Boards Create Competitive Advantage. Jossey Bass, 1998 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787910600/103-3888685-3290255#product-details Assigned to:
23.
Porter,
Michael, On Competition. Harvard Business School Press, 1998 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0875847951/qid=1044405363/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/103-3888685-3290255?v=glance&s=books Assigned to:
24. Phillips, Donald T. Lincoln on Leadership: Executive
Strategies for Tough Times. Warner
Books, 1993 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446394599/ref=pd_sim_books_1/103-3888685-3290255?v=glance&s=books#product-details Assigned to:
25. Barrows,
Peter. Backfire: Carly Fiorina's
High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard. Wiley, 2003. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471267651/qid=1044471573/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-3149937-9975864 Assigned to:
Term Paper Instructions:
1.Begin your paper by giving an overview of your book. Who are the authors? What does the book
set out to do? What are the major overall themes? What are its conclusions, if any? (no more
than 2 pages--this is also the basis for your March 5th or earlier submission to the "Book
Preview/Overview" Forum.)
2.Next, tell us where YOUR paper is going. What are you going to cover? Whether your book's
focus is an individual, organization or a management policy area, tell the reader in advance how
you will link any of these three things to particular concepts from organization theory. (1-2 pages)
3.Relate your book carefully and methodically to relevant concepts that appear in Daft and/or
Wilson. The best way to do this is to identify those items in the table of contents from either text
that provide a framework for the things being talked about in your assigned book. You should
keep a copy of the table of contents "TC" at hand so that you can systematically connect "TC"
headings with the organizational situations covered by your book.
4.After you have identified ALL of the connections--and few, if any, of the assigned books connect
to fewer than 50% of the 100+ item subheadings in Daft's Table of Contents--carefully organize
these items in a way that coherently tells the story of your book in terms of organization theory
concepts. This then becomes your outline for your paper--and your PowerPoint presentation (see
below). In creating this outline, your may group different concepts together or treat one concept
as a subhead of another. The purpose of this organizing is to create an outline that makes the
writing of your paper easier.
5.Finally, write your paper following the outline (which should be a part of your final submission)
devoting as much space as you need to convey the full story of your book's relevance to
organization theory.
6.End your paper, with a short piece summing up where your paper, overall, has just taken the
reader.
7.Add a bibliography including, at a minimum, your assigned book and any other references you
used in your paper. Your paper should also use APA style to identify the source and page of any
references to particular statements, stories and ideas from your primary book or any other
supplemental documents that you utilize.
8.Your PowerPoint presentation should, in approximately ten slides, of three to five short items
each, convey the story of your paper, and the book upon which it is based, in a way that will grab
the attention of, and inform, your classmates. Since your PowerPoint presentation needs to be
submitted before your paper is complete, basing the presentation on your outline is an
economical and, hopefully, informative approach.
A Final Word
Students should get and start reading their books as soon as possible. Your discussion forum and chat
class contributions should, when appropriate, make reference to the policies and practices of the
organizations, individuals or policies you are studying. I will, on or after March 9, occasionally query
students when "their organization," or "their executive," or their "organizational policy area" reflects
issues that we are discussing in forums and chat classes.