Time Schedule:
Robert Sarkie
MGMT 403
Seattle Campus
Various strategies for influencing employee motivation and performance. Reward systems, goal-setting procedures, and various techniques to enlarge and enrich ones job. Effects of these formal and informal strategies on job attitudes.
Class description
As a former Fortune 500 executive, I had the opportunity to interact with graduates of top business schools across the country. By far the biggest weakness for most students is basic people management skills. This class will provide a practical, real world approach to maximizing performance of employees at all levels of the organization. Main topics include: the leading theories on motivation, the latest research from behavioral science, climate surveys, basic workplace requirements, compensation strategies, termination process, factors that differentiate the great from the average workplaces, hiring process, and corporate culture.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
The class is highly participative. The first half of each class is lecture; the second half is team case studies and exercises.
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
Team project, two book reports, two tests, and in-class case studies.
In-class case studies = 20% Book reports = 10% Tests = 20% Team project = 30% Peer review = 20%
