17 Feb 2021
Book Manager’s Bookshelf
https://reader.yuzu.com/#/books/9780133560251/cfi/…
Username:Dbrinson@troy.edu
Password: Brinson!2
Assigned readings:
From Manager’s Bookshelf
Part 3
- Reading 2: Big Winners and Big Losers, Alfred A. Marcus, summarized by Allen Harmon 71
- Reading 3: How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins, summarized by Tanya Pietz 78
Part 4
- Reading 2: Responsible Restructuring, Wayne F. Cascio, summarized by Stephen Rubenfeld 90
Part 5
- Reading 1: Coming to a New Awareness of Organizational Culture, Edgar H. Schein 97
Part 7
- Reading 1: Positive Leadership, Kim Cameron, summarized by Jodi Nelson 141
- Reading 2: Bad Leadership, Barbara Kellerman, summarized by Warren Candy 144
- Reading 3: Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, summarized by Kristie J. Loescher 148
Part 9
- Reading 1: Building the Bridge as You Walk on It, Robert E. Quinn, summarized by Peter Stark 165
Part 11
- Reading 2: Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres, summarized by Brian Russell 199
- Reading 3: Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, Gerd Gigerenzer, summarized by Rebecca M. C. Boll 205
From Helpful Resources
- Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
- POMS web site
- APICS web site
From The Troy Global Campus Library
https://trojan.troy.edu/library/online/
Username: dbrinson@troy.edu
Password: Evangel2015
Murphy, Jerome T. (March, 2006). An interview with Henry Mintzberg. Phi Delta Kappan,
87(7), 527-528.
and
find articles written 2010 and after that discuss
- Operations management
- cultural and demographic diversity
Complete the following research assignment:
- Using the assigned readings in the text,
- Using the assigned readings from the Troy Global Campus Library
- Using the Helpful Resources web sites, and
- Using the additional research from the Troy Global Campus Library
Prepare a 3 to 5 page critical essay that addresses all of the following topics:
- How can managers adapt to a culturally diverse workforce in the US and globally?
- How can managers adapt to a demographically diverse workforce (including but not limited to age diversity)?
- Discuss how or if leadership moderates the effects of culture and demographics on operations productivity.