printer friendly pageOB 325: Understanding Diversity in Organizations
This course will equip you to better understand and navigate issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations. We will delve beneath the surface of what is usually taught in diversity training to confront the complex factors that create faultlines in organizations. This course will provide you a framework for analyzing how broader macro factors such as law, institutions, culture, and social movements influence organizations¿ DEI decision-making and workplace dynamics. Using this framework, we will examine the effects of common practices in organization design, hiring, training, promotion, and compensation on workplace composition and cohesion. Emphasizing the role of context, we will consider how dynamics differ by industry, geography, and organizational form. Finally, we will discuss how to overcome challenges in order to harness the opportunities brought forth by diversity. This course will feature exercises, cases, and guest lectures.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Xu, J. (PI)
OB 331: Leadership Fellows II
This course is the continuation of Leadership Fellows I, an 8-unit course that begins in Autumn Quarter. During this quarter Fellows will continue to deepen their coaching and mentoring skills, and will focus exclusively on in-depth 1:1 coaching with three MBA1 coachees (who were not members of their MBA1 squad.) Classes and clinics continue as in Autumn Quarter.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
OB 374: Interpersonal Dynamics
PRE-QUALIFICATION IS REQUIRED BY THE DEADLINE (APPROXIMATELY FIVE WEEKS BEFORE THE QUARTER BEGINS). The focus of this course is to increase one's competencies in building more effective relationships. Learning is primarily through interactions with other T-group members. This course is very involving, and, at times, can be quite emotional. However, this course is not a substitute for therapy. If you are in therapy, please talk this over with your therapist and get their advice before enrolling in this course. T-groups meet during part of class-time as well as in the evening. T-groups for all sections will meet for 3 hours in the evening. For 1-day/week sections groups will meet the same evening as class. For 2-day/week sections, please see course details. The class has a weekend retreat toward the end of the quarter (check section details for specific dates). It is very important to note that when you decide to take this course, you make an explicit contract to be actively involved. AT
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PRE-QUALIFICATION IS REQUIRED BY THE DEADLINE (APPROXIMATELY FIVE WEEKS BEFORE THE QUARTER BEGINS). The focus of this course is to increase one's competencies in building more effective relationships. Learning is primarily through interactions with other T-group members. This course is very involving, and, at times, can be quite emotional. However, this course is not a substitute for therapy. If you are in therapy, please talk this over with your therapist and get their advice before enrolling in this course. T-groups meet during part of class-time as well as in the evening. T-groups for all sections will meet for 3 hours in the evening. For 1-day/week sections groups will meet the same evening as class. For 2-day/week sections, please see course details. The class has a weekend retreat toward the end of the quarter (check section details for specific dates). It is very important to note that when you decide to take this course, you make an explicit contract to be actively involved. ATTENDANCE: Because of the highly interactive nature of this course, it is very important that all students attend all sessions. Missing class, class T-group, evening T-group, or any portion of the weekend for an unexcused absence will negatively influence your grade and may result in your grade being dropped one grade level (for each absence). Attendance to the first class is required for all sections and failure to attend the first class will result in an automatic drop. Some sections of the 2-day/week version of the course also require attendance at the second or third class to remain enrolled. See individual instructor for details. Students who are waitlisted must attend the first meeting of each section they are waitlisted for in order to secure a place in the course should space open up. It is the student's responsibility to notify respective
OB 374 faculty of your attendance and wish to fulfill your waitlist requirement. PRE-QUALIFICATION: Students must pre-qualify before taking the class through an assignment on Canvas (due approximately five weeks prior to the quarter). Go to
https://canvas.stanford.edu/enroll/H8WJ8X, then select "Enroll in Course". In addition to the Pre-Qualification assignment, you will also be asked to complete a Demographic Survey for each section in which you are enrolled or waitlisted. The survey(s) will be sent to you by email prior to the start of the quarter.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Carmel-Hurwitz, D. (PI)
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Chin, L. (PI)
;
Dobbs, C. (PI)
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Instructors:
Carmel-Hurwitz, D. (PI)
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Chin, L. (PI)
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Dobbs, C. (PI)
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Frank, G. (PI)
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Jones, P. (PI)
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Lam, L. (PI)
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Most, H. (PI)
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Sharabi Levine, Y. (PI)
OB 377: The Paths to Power
Having a keen understanding of power and influence is critical if one aims to become a leader of consequence. This course has three objectives: 1) increasing students' ability to diagnose and analyze power and politics in organizational situations; 2) enhancing students' ability to acquire and exercise power successfully; and 3) helping students come to terms with their own ambivalence toward having and using power. In short, the goal of this course is to enable you to be agentic and still remain authentic. Topics covered include: the primary sources of power, including individual attributes and structural position; dealing with resistance and conflict; obtaining allies and supporters; maintaining influence; how and why power is lost; and the use of strong communication and body language in exercising power. The class involves a large number of written, self-reflective assignments and an individual project--a personal plan for developing your own path to power. To wit, the class focuses both on learning conceptual material and applying it to catalyze your career.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Flynn, F. (PI)
;
Pfeffer, J. (PI)
OB 581: Negotiations
This course is designed to improve students' skills in all phases of a negotiation: understanding prescriptive and descriptive negotiation theory as it applies to dyadic and multiparty negotiations, to buyer-seller transactions and the resolution of disputes, to the development of negotiation strategy and to the management of integrative and distributive aspects of the negotiation process. The course is based on a series of simulated negotiations in a variety of contexts including one-on-one, multi-party, and team negotiations. When playing a role in a simulated conflict, you will be free to try out tactics that might feel uncomfortable in a real one. You will get feedback from your classmates about how you come across. You will have an opportunity to reflect on your experience in your negotiation paper. In sum, you can use this course to expand your repertoire of conflict management and negotiation skills, to hone your skills, and to become more adept in choosing when to apply each skill. This course represents a shorter, more intense version of
OB 381-Conflict Management and Negotiations. Students should not take both courses, as there is considerable overlap in course content. Attendance and participation in the negotiation exercises is mandatory.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Gelfand, M. (PI)
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Halevy, N. (PI)
OB 626: Strategy and Organizations
Why are some organizations more competitive than others? This is the defining question of the interdisciplinary research field known as "strategic management". In this PhD seminar, we will survey the field of strategic management as seen from the perspective of 'macro' organizational behavior. The course takes a broad view of the field of strategic management, reflecting the diversity of perspectives that is seen in this field worldwide. Across this diversity, however, it is possible to identify four distinct theoretical approaches by noting the mechanisms that researchers think are generating outcomes. The course is structured around these four theoretical approaches, and one of the main objectives of the course is to help you identify, critique, and improve these theoretical approaches. Most work in strategic management pays less attention to particular theoretical perspectives, and is organized more by the topic - the phenomenon being studied - such as market exit, growth, performan
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Why are some organizations more competitive than others? This is the defining question of the interdisciplinary research field known as "strategic management". In this PhD seminar, we will survey the field of strategic management as seen from the perspective of 'macro' organizational behavior. The course takes a broad view of the field of strategic management, reflecting the diversity of perspectives that is seen in this field worldwide. Across this diversity, however, it is possible to identify four distinct theoretical approaches by noting the mechanisms that researchers think are generating outcomes. The course is structured around these four theoretical approaches, and one of the main objectives of the course is to help you identify, critique, and improve these theoretical approaches. Most work in strategic management pays less attention to particular theoretical perspectives, and is organized more by the topic - the phenomenon being studied - such as market exit, growth, performance, mergers and acquisitions, innovation, and the like. I have catalogued the research in strategic management both according to theoretical perspective and topic, and the skeleton of that structure can be seen in this syllabus. I encourage you to use a similar structure as you try to make sense out of the strategy field.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Clement, J. (PI)
OB 654: Organizational Behavior Pro Seminar
This pro-seminar is designed for incoming first-year OB PhD students to meet faculty across the OB group and learn about their current research. Every week a different OB professor will present. Students will read some of their work in advance and come ready to engage with the research. First-year OB PhD students are required to take the pro-seminar in the fall and winter of their first year.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Monin, B. (PI)
OB 662: Topics in Organizational Behavior: Intergroup Processes
The primary objective of this course is to provide an overview and organizing framework of the micro-organizational behavior literature. This entails reading many foundational pieces that will cover the classic areas of research in the field. We will also read more cutting-edge papers that reanalyze and reframe many of the classic variables of micro-OB, trying to alter the dominant perspective, bring in new theory, and integrate conflicting approaches.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Flynn, F. (PI)
OB 678: The Design and Process of Experimental Research
This year-long course takes a hands-on approach to learning about experimental research. It will cover the entire process of experimental research from idea and hypothesis generation to study design, analysis, and publication. The topical content will be customized to the specific interests of the enrolled students, but generally will be concerned with questions about behavioral phenomena in organizational contexts.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
15 times
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors:
Melnikoff, D. (PI)
OB 691: PhD Directed Reading (ACCT 691, FINANCE 691, GSBGEN 691, HRMGT 691, MGTECON 691, MKTG 691, OIT 691, POLECON 691, STRAMGT 691)
This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Atwell, J. (PI)
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Barnett, W. (PI)
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Berg, J. (PI)
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Burgelman, R. (PI)
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Carroll, G. (PI)
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Clement, J. (PI)
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Eberhardt, J. (PI)
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Flynn, F. (PI)
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Gelfand, M. (PI)
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Goldberg, A. (PI)
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Gruenfeld, D. (PI)
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Guilbeault, D. (PI)
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Halevy, N. (PI)
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Kosinski, M. (PI)
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Lowery, B. (PI)
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Martin, A. (PI)
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Melnikoff, D. (PI)
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Miller, D. (PI)
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Miton, H. (PI)
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Monin, B. (PI)
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O'Reilly, C. (PI)
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Pfeffer, J. (PI)
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Rao, H. (PI)
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Sorensen, J. (PI)
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Soule, S. (PI)
;
Xu, J. (PI)
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