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OP | Curs: |
1 | Period: |
S semester |
ECTS Credits: |
3 ECTS |
Group | Teacher | Department | Language |
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Alfons Sauquet Rovira | Dirección de Personas y Organización | ENG |
1. Introduction to the Course. Objectives and Structure of the syllabus as well as course requirements.From Descartes to the Cognitive Revolution.Prereads. G.Miller. The Magical number of Seven J.L. Borges. "Funes the Memorius". J. Bruner. Acts of Meaning. Chapter 1. TS. Eliot. The Waste Land. Luke 24, 13-35 |
2. Some organizational consequences of our cognition model. Errors in attribution, black swans, and garbage cans in organizations.A.Smith. Excerpts from of the Wealth of NationsD. Kahneman. Thinking Fast and Slow. Excerpts. |
3. On the many faces of Knowledge: science, engineering, and management.Pre reads.Excerpts. D.Defoe, R.Crusoe. G.Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet. D.Schon, The Reflective Practitioner. Pre seen . W.de Koonig "Woman and bycycle". V.Van Gogh "Landscape at sunset" P. Picasso "Demoiselles d'Avignon" |
4. Acting. The only remaining formula: Kurt Lewin's. Why we need roles and why we should get rid of themPre reads.K. Weick. Mann Gulch: the collapse of Sense Making The organization in class exercise Pre views The Stanford experiment |
5. Learning: privilege or life sentence. The sources experience or Habit.Pre reads.E.A: Poe A Descent in the Maelstrom Case: Elting Morrison. Gunfire at the Sea. MIT Press Mid term paper |
6. Acting on identity. Institutions and decision makingIn class exercise. Life stories.Pre reads. Excerpts from M.de Cervantes. Don Quixote G.Garcia Marquez. No one writes to the Colonel |
7. The many faces of Creativity. The drive, the task and the system.Pre reads.H.Gruber. Darwin, on Man. Chicago U. Press (excerpts) M.Csiksentmihaly. (excerpts) Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social.Oxford U. Press. (excerpts) |
8. Leading: the role of rhetoric, fake and chance.In class discourse analysis.Pre seen. The Bad and the Beautiful. V.Minnelli. Pre reeads. W.Shakespeare. Henry the Vth, (excerpt) S. Zweig. Decissive Moments in History: Twelve Miniatures. (World Minute and The battle for the South) |
9. Management as We Look ahead.Pre reads.Hi Robot. Work and Life in the Age of Automation. Foreign Affairs. July/August 2015. John Gray. The Soul of a Marionette. Penguin 2016. (excerpts) Nick Bostrom. Superintelligence. Oxford University Press. 2014. (excerpts) Francisco, Interview . September 2013. (excerpts) In class final exercise (exam) |
Group | Teacher | Department |
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Alfons Sauquet Rovira | Dirección de Personas y Organización |