UGBA 105 Syllabus Spring 2019 PDF

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UGBA 105: Leading People Spring 2019 University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Class Sessions: UGBA 105 - 01 T/Th UGBA 105 - 02 T/Th

11:00 - 12:30 Cheit 230 12:30 - 2:00 Cheit 230

Instructor: Edward Kass Email: [email protected] Office F502J Office Hours: Wed 2-4 (with appointment) and by appointment

GSI: Jen Richard GSI: Kelly Murphy

UGBA 105 - 01 UGBA 105 - 02

Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Course Overview Although you may need certain content knowledge to do your job e.g., accounting, finance, operations, engineering, intra and interpersonal skills are increasingly essential for success as one moves through one’s career. This is because we work for and with others and our own performance typically depends on others’ behaviors as well as our own. Leadership skills are a strong source of sustainable competitive advantage. We will draw on Social Psychology and Cognition, Economics, Sociology, and Behavioral Decision Making to provide frameworks for organizing and making sense of your experiences, guiding your choices, and developing a foundation for your learning to continue even after the course is complete. In addition to learning the frameworks themselves, you will also learn how to apply frameworks. This meta-skill will help you in this course and beyond and is itself a sustainable competitive advantage.

Course Format This course uses a mix of exercises, cases, videos, lecture and class discussion. Typically we will discuss basic theory and scientific findings in one session and engage in a case or exercise on the other. You can learn a lot through structured experiences and cases. Therefore, please do not seek out nor share information about exercises, cases, or simulations. If you have some past experience with one of them, please do not share this information. Let both the GSI and I know your past experience with the material.

Course Materials To keep our material costs down, we are using George and Jones’ Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior as our core textbook. This is a good text and can be obtained rather cheaply as a used text. Additional readings will be posted on bcourses or available through the harvard business school website. I will provide you with links and purchasing information for those. Lecture Slides will typically be posted to bcourses each Friday for the previous week.

Assignments and Grading Your grade is composed of the following components: Attendance and citizenship

20%

Case quizes

10%

Exam 1

20%

Exam 2

20%

Cumulative final exam

20%

Social science experiment participation (Four hours)

5%

Ted talk

5%

Attendance and citizenship Timely arrival and attendance in both Lecture and Section are mandatory. Attendance will be taken multiple times, at random. If you fail to provide the requested information for whatever reason, are not present when attendance is taken, or do not have a valid university-sanctioned excused absence pre-determined by academic affairs, you will not receive credit for attending class that day.! Case Quizes On the days we have a case discussion, there will be a brief quiz before the discussion to encourage you to do the readings. Exams There will be 2 exams given during the regular semester meeting times and also a cumulative final exam given on the Final Exam date assigned by the registrar. Exams will consist of multiple choice, true false, and short answer/short essay questions. Experiment participation Each class session will highlight cutting-edge science in leadership, psychology, and organizational behavior. This will give you a rich foundation in which to lay roots as you begin to think about how to use the scientific method to better yourself, your workgroups, and organizations to which you currently belong and those which you may one day build. A critical piece of the scientific process is participating in experiments so that you can begin to understand first- hand how hypotheses are developed and tested. You will be expected to participate in four (5) hours worth of experiments. As new studies are available, they will be announced via bcourses email to everyone. Note: students find participating in experiments more interesting and more beneficial to their learning than other alternatives.! Ted talk Pairing up with one classmate, you will have the chance to film a mini-TED talk about a new idea in OB. The video should include (1) a story or example, (2) a finding from OB or psychology research that this course does not cover, and (3) a call to action highlighting the practical implication of

your idea. Please also submit a works cited list for the research that informed your talk. You can search for relevant studies in Google Scholar, PsycInfo, EBSCO. The talk should focus on a surprising or counterintuitive insight about behavior at work—advocate for an idea that goes against the grain of conventional wisdom, question a fad, or tell us something we would not have expected. You are welcome to challenge principles that we have covered in class, provided that you can back up your argument with evidence. It is up to you whether both members of the pair appear in the video or one person is on camera. The video must be 4-5 minutes in total. The talk will be evaluated on the rigor of the evidence, the interestingness of the idea, the relevance of the story, the practicality of the! recommendation, and how engaging the overall delivery is (which is about the emotion you evoke, not the technical skills you bring to video production). Be bold: I applaud originality in content and delivery. High quality journals include: Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review,Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and! Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology,!Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science,!Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review

Grading policies Personally, I do not support the idea of having a forced curve. However, Haas requires a forced curve such that the mean for the class grade cannot exceed 3.5. Consideration for classmates & the class environment A large class requires careful attention to fairness and respect for one another. In particular, case discussions are a way for you to learn from one another, and the myriad of experiences each of you bring. I expect class discussion to be lively and engaging. Therefore, I propose the following simple code of conduct: Attend class on time. It enhances the value of the class not only for you but for everyone when you are present and you participate. If you have an unavoidable conflict, please do not disturb your classmates when arriving late, leaving early, or by asking to have information you missed repeated during the class.

Recording class: The syllabus and class material are copyrighted. Recording is prohibited. If you have a disability that requires some recording, recording permission may be granted by the instructor. However, any recordings are for personal and private use only. Sharing or posting material is prohibited. Any administrative questions/scheduling issues (e.g., adds, drops, exams) need to be directed toward the administration. I have zero influence over these matters. There are no unexcused absences. Attendance will be taken multiple times during lecture and sections, at random. If you email me or the GSIs about missing a class, the only response you will get (if any) is: “see the syllabus.” The only exceptions are university- sanctioned excused absence pre-determined by academic affairs, personal illness, or death of a family member. Contact your GSI with the appropriate certification. No late work will be accepted. This applies to in-class assignments, online assignments, or other classrelated work. Do not ask. No exceptions will be made for late work ever (because you will have had the assignments and due-dates in advance). There are no make-ups for missed in-class exercises. If you need to know what happened in class on a day you missed, you will need to ask a student/friend/colleague. If you email me about this, the only response you will get (if any) is: “see the syllabus.”

There are too many wonderful causes to support and we simply do not have time for them all to be announced. To be fair to all, the answer needs to be “no” to all. If you email me about this, the only response you will get (if any) is: “see the syllabus.” This course adheres to the guidelines established in the Berkeley Code of Conduct, which can be found at http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/academic_guidelines.html.

Students with disabilities Students with disabilities seeking academic accommodation in this course need to promptly notify the instructor by providing a Letter of Accommodation from the Disabled Students Program. Notice of accommodation later than three weeks may result in an inability to timely provide accommodations....