49-767 Organizational Behavior for High Tech Knowledge Industry
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course is about "organizational behavior" for high tech knowledge workers. Organizations are essentially human institutions. They are created by people, populated by people, managed by people, developed by people and operated by people. Understanding the fundamentals of human behavior is crucial for success. But people need to be grouped together and "organized" in order to make things happen, often under tight time and budgetary constraints. This course will focus on high tech organizational design and team effectivenessin other words, on the "execution" capability of a knowledge enterprise. Specifically, we will discuss how to organize a team, a business unit, or a company (including start-ups) that are operating in dynamic, global high tech ecosystems. The focus is on agility, flexibility, and the capacity to adapt to new business realities or crisis situations. High tech companies need innovative capabilities, entrepreneurial approaches, cross-silo collaboration, and resilient dispositions. A major challenge is to devise collaborative teams & organizational structures capable of making "sudden turns" and accommodating changing realities.
Prerequisites: none listed
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