Each student will be responsible for xeroxing and for presenting a brief summary of assigned readings and leading discussion about that reading. You may find it useful to prepare a handout with discussion questions. This will be due at the end of the semester and will be part of your overall participation grade. I will not assign a priori weights for the three components above. A particularly brilliant essay may compensate somewhat for lackluster in-class discussion or vice versa.
Exams See Grading Policy above.
Below I outline some specific subtopics on organization dysfunction that students may want to investigate in their papers, or that, given interest, we can dedicate special attention to in class. If you are interested in one of these areas, contact me, and we can discuss possibilities further. I am also amenable to the inclusion of topics that I have not thought of but that fall within the general purview of this course. Dysfunctions of Culture . When Deal and Kennedy and Peters and Waterman launched the culture fad in the early 80s, it was generally assumed that culture is a good thing that helps organizations to compete.