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SCHEDULE
Week #	Topic - Readings	Assignments Due:
WEEK 1 Aug 29th	Intro to Course Finding the WWW Team Etiquette Policies Team Project Options Grading Expectations SEAM 4 Leaf Clover Model Intro SEAM study guide   S&F - Chap 1: why Study Spectacle?  Project Ideas (press here)	THINGS TO DO (1)Print out syllabus and THIS schedule & Log into Boje Web Site (see LOG IN instructions) and set up your Web CT account and password. Please write it down. DO NOT SET UP MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS ---> AFTER YOUR ACCOUNT IS SET UP USE THIS REGULAR LOG IN ENTRY PORT.  (2) Then Post your QUESTION ANSWER to the Bulletin answering question 1 in Week 2.   VALUE of (1) & (2)  25 POINTS IF DONE BY WEEK 2 (Late add seedboje@nmsu.edu) I KEEP LECTURE NOTES ON WWW Tonight's class will be an introduction to SEAM (Socio Economic Analysis of Management). There is a SEAM study guide for you on the web. It is basis for your TEAM Project Analysis (be it service or business project). What is difference between Spectacle and Ahimsa Paradigm of M/OB? CHART YOUR COURSE Overview the M/OB/ OT 4 quadrants (press here).  Blank map for you to chart your M/OB course (press here) Map with books in M/OB at 24% size (press here). This is a Map of the readings in the class to help you decide what you want in your OT course. Propose what you want more of. Suggest removal of what you want less of. Help make this an awesome course in your MBA program (press here). Same map but bigger (takes longer to load) (press here). NOT YET - The Nietzsche Super-MBA and 7 Ss M/OB/OT perspectives (press here) Caution: You may want to save this reading until later in the term. Not for beginners who do not know Critical Thinking or Critical Theory.
NOTE: ALL READINGS SHOULD BE DONE BY WEEK THEY ARE POSTED. ALL WEB POSTINGS ARE DUE 24 HOURS BEFORE THE CLASS TIME WHERE THE QUESTION IS LISTED AS DUE. NO LATE WORK WILL BE SCORED.  dboje@nmsu.edu  2 Requirements: (1) Please post answers to all assigned questions to the BULLETIN FORUM and also (2) please post a response to one other student's answer. Thank you. If you have read anything before in a prior course, please skip it and choose something different to read.  I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT IF THE TEAM LEADING PARTICULAR SEGMENTS OF THE TERM, FOCUSES THE READING ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE CLASS (SUGGEST SECTIONS, PAGES, AND SOME INSTEAD OF OTHERS).  PLEASE DO NOT READ EVERYTHING - PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT IS BEST FOR EACH TEAM MEMBER! That is why it is management. It is your education, please manage it. Suggestion: pick a number of hours each week, read away until the alarm goes off. If you want to read more, call it value added MBA education.  You must make choices in life and in choosing what to read.  Choose wisely.  dboje@nmsu.edu  RULES OF THE GAME--> Question answer - POSTING DUE 24 HOURS BEFORE EACH SCHEDULED CLASS TIME -- Each person please come to class having answered Question and responded (posted) to one other person's answer (reply directly to their message to keep forum TIDY). NOTE: Person with most responses does not have to answer the next week's question. FOR WEB DISCUSSION (Posting for CREDIT is Due 24 hrs before  this Week 2 class time) Please consult SAMPLE Great and Weak answers before beginning.  There is no credit given or taken away for opinions, but you will need CRITICAL reflection and citation to get points.
WEEK 2 5 Sep	More Intro Come to class having read (pick "SEAM -" and couple other items in this list):  What is postmod?  4-LEAF CLOVER MODEL THREE SEAMS OF IMPLEMENTATION Ch 1 MPW *Ch 2 PMOT Gephart *Intro ROT SEAM - Socio Economic Analysis of Management What is Postmod Org Theory?  NOTE: We will assign teams today.	Q1: What is managing and organizing after MODERN?  more points if you dialogue with texts (i.e. quote something in MPW, PMOT, SEAM &/or ROT, and interpret to your experience).  OPTION to Q1: (For a more narrow question 1, try --> Contrast KWKM Spectacle with Follett (MPW Plan Chapter)?  Please respond to at least one other student's posting. Again Focus on Critical Thinking Skills. Boje, Chap. 2 S&F Spectacle View One -Knowledge Work & Knowledge Management)   In your answer please speak from your experience and use the guidelines for Critical Thinking below: GUIDELINES -Please see SAMPLE Great and Weak answers before answering. -- Use the http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/514stoguide.html Story Guide to learn how to score highly by using your personal stories in a CRITICAL THINKING way in your response.  As term progresses, considerADVANCED CRITICAL THINKING is deconstruction (press here) and critical theory (press here) study guide modules. http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/514webeval.html  if you are using WEB SITES in your answer  Enjoy your learning.
Week 3 12 Sept	PLANNING - "Beer Drinkers Team" Review TEAM ASSIGNMENTS  - send Boje corrections Pick a couple of the following Fathers and Mothers of Management Ch 2 MPW Ch 1 ROT S&F - Ch 6: Postmod Organization.  Deconstruct This Boje's Top 10 List You can read more about deconstruction at Storytelling Organization Gameboard	Q2: As A TEAM Deconstruct a modernist OB/M textbook? Be sure to "resituate" in your answer. HOW: 1. Pick any textbook on management or organizational behavior (not one of our course texts). 2. Make a list of terms and issues to check in the book (i.e. how they cover race, ethnicity, gender, labor, sweatshops, globalization; see how they cover Fathers and Mothers of Management -- most will have a paragraph -- most reverse Weber's position on key items)  3. You might look at my top 10 words list and see if they use any of these. 4. The purpose of the assignment is to give you a feel for the point of view (see managerialism) that is taken (i.e. in contrast to S&F or ROT, etc.). 5. Try a little deconstruction (for example, where did they NOT tell the Other Side of the Story? How can they resituate to be more multi-perspective?) Hint: Could use SEAM  as Well as ROT ideas in your answer. How does the book treat Fathers and Mother of Management? Does it mention labor, ecology, postmodernism, race, gender, ethnicity,? How are Fathers and Mother of Management? Rules: MUST BE POSTED 24 HOURS BEFORE THIS WEEK 3 CLASS TIME FOR CREDIT AND MUST ALSO POST SOMETHING TO ANOTHER TEAM'S ANSWER. Tonight's CASE DISCUSSION - Please Read up on it - This way to the Nickerson Live Case that is still very much  Under Construction. Explore this "Postmodern Détournement Analysis of the Popular Mechanics Spectacle using  Stories and Photos of the Festive Community Life of Nickerson Gardens"  September 2nd, 1999 (press here). We will also discuss Fathers and Mothers of Management.
Week 4 19 Sept	Plan - A look at Scientific Management.  Pick a few of the following Richard Young, MBA *LMC - Ch 5 of Braverman S&F - Ch. 2: Spectacle View One - Knowledge Work & Mgt. Chapter 1 Quotes (press here) Chapter 1 Tables (press here) The Fathers and Mother of Management (pre, mod and post).  Festivalism at Work Labor Process Chart Stakeholder Enabling PMOT Ch 8 *PMOT Ch 19	TWO TASKS THIS WEEK TASK ONE Q3: What is Post-Scientific Management? Please look at several items in left column to compose your answer. Contrast with some of the other readings, i.e. KWKM or Labor Process, or another. See Fathers and Mothers (Pre and post Taylor), more options. You pick. BE SURE TO RESITUATE. Option to Q3 for Extra Credit - Enter the debate over Deskilling and Technology (Read some LMC Braverman then read counter-point, and a counter to that point, another by me, and a counter to both these & another, an economist's view, an historian's view, grave diggers of communism view, a marketer's view, a computer science view, how Braverman connects to Scientific Management & Taylorism & Toyotaism, a Resituations per Korten & Wilber).  Your turn...  BE SURE TO RESITUATE.
Week 5  26 Sept	Plan (Beer Drinkers) team presents tonight Expatriate Case  International HR Practices US HR Law Outline Ch 2 MPW S&F - Ch 6 *LMC - Ch 20	Q4: What is move from MOD to POST planning?  Please apply  to Expatriate Case? (NOTE: Plan Team is welcome to adjust and redefine this question to FORUM - How? Just restate question in an earlier post and let it happen.).   TASK TWO: From each team: Post to BULLETIN FORUM your team project outline (Each team will give a 5 minute overview. Please be sure to cover SEAM - approach you are taking in your project).
Week 6 3 Oct	ORGANIZING - Lorenzo Team presents tonight A look at bureaucracy and alternatives (press here). Pick several and  SEAM. Ch 3 MPW Ch 2 ROT Bur Reengineering Intro Restorying Reengineering What Did Weber say about Bureaucracy, Charisma, Feudal organizing? Fathers and Mother Restorying Intro Guide More Advanced Restorying  PMOT Ch 11 PMOT Ch 1	Q5: After filling out the Narrative Frames Survey, discuss the balance of frames in your organization? To prepare, first Please fill out the Narrative Frames Survey on your own organization (or if unemployed the last one you worked in) and return survey by 2 October, 2000 (5PM)- If Lorenzo or La Casa wants the results, I will forward them for their presentation. You may want to study before doing survey What is Bureaucratic Frame? What is Quest Frame? What is Chaos Frame? What is Postmodern Frame?  What is Antenarrative? Background paper on Narrative Frames Five Centuries of Mechanistic/Organic debate
Week 7 10 Oct	La Casa team presents tonight MATRIX MOVIE REQUIRED READING S&F Ch 8 TAMARA analysis of Disney Disney and Chaos Theory - The Protests	Q6: What MATRIX movie  Spectacles(s) Operate In your Organization? You put in several stories in your Narrative Frames Survey -- elaborate one in this posting and tie to the assigned readings.  (NOTE:  Team is welcome to adjust and redefine this question to FORUM - How? Just restate question in an earlier post and let it happen.)
Week 8 17 Oct	INFLUENCING - Orartorio Team Something about influence and psychic prisons. Pick 1st two and either of the others. Ch 4 MPW Empowerment Debate Ch 4 ROT Ch 6 PMOT The Fathers and Mother of Management	Read and come ready to participate and talk about the Empowerment Debate also be sure to check out Ch 4 MPW, I uploaded a new version on October 14h, that has a great new section. What is the FOURTH VOICE?  How does the THIRD VOICE empower? What would Adam Smith say about paying the minimum or the living wage? Why? I finished the Nike Research Proposal it has a great answer in it on what is post-Taylorism? ANSWER: French Taylorism - what is that - read and learn!  Do you know what point both Taylor and Marx agreed upon? You will be surprised. I was.
Week 9 24 Oct	READ INFLUENCE LECTURE NOTES, then Pick Smith (any Chapter) and Marx (his Ch 10) and some others The Fathers and Mother of Management  Smith: The Wealth of Nations (Book 1, Chapters 1 & 2 only). S&F - Ch 3 Corporate Imperialism Ch5 S&F Political Economy of Smith/Marx Marx (Das Kapital is on the web) - (whole book available) See The Working Day, Ch 10..	Q7 -Resituate Smith, Taylor, & Marx and Boje? How does Marx emplot 19th century working life in Chapter 10: "The Working Day?" What is Adam Smith's view of the living wage?  In what ways does Smith and Marx and Taylor propose to deal with sweatshops? How does Boje emplot the history of capitalism in Chapter 3: Spectacle View Two - Corporate Imperialism. ?  In what ways does he hold out the promise of better factory experiments in the Nike proposal? How would you emplot it? (This could involve a resituation of Marx/Boje emplotments). Please Read Marx (Ch 10)  & Smith (Anything from The Wealth of Nations and the Moral Sentiments) on the WWW and come prepared to participate and talk about Spectators and Ethics and their role in influencing global capitalism. Here is a taxonomy of ways writers "emplot' stories.  There are four basic types of emplotment ( Source: N. Frye in "Anatomy of Criticism"): 1. Romance - Romance is a drama of self-identification symbolized by a heroine's victory over the world of experience.  The hero is redeemed and/or liberated. 2. Satire (irony) - Satire/irony is the opposite of Romance.  It is a drama of apprehension symbolized by the heroine's captivity in the world.  He/she is never able to overcome the darkness, get out of the abyss. 3. Comedy - In Comedy, there is hope for the heroes in a temporary triumph over darkness.  Reconciliations are symbolized by a festive occasion and  harmony can be achieved between conflicting parties. 4. Tragedy. In Tragedy, the hero is defeated by the experiences of the world, yet, hope exists for those left behind by their understanding of the limits of overcoming the abyss. Liberation is possible. QUESTION: How do the 4 VOICES in Ch 4 MPW relate to the Four Narrative Fames and to these Four plots?
Week 10 31 Oct  Halloween	Influence (Orartorio) team presents (Pick a few to read) S&F - Ch 8 - Inter-Spectacle movies NIKE Just In Time Gameboard  Academics Studying Nike  Boje, D. M. 1999a Is Nike Roadrunner or Wile E. Coyote? A Postmodern Organization Analysis of Double Logic, Empowerment Debate	Please Come to Class in Costume (Bonus Points of Course 10=full costume; 5 = mask).   Instead of WRITTEN Question answer, please come ready to discuss Q8 with Boje and please read: The Mark on the Wall (1917) by Virginia Woolf for the Groups' presentation AND READ INFLUENCE LECTURE NOTES by Boje/Berryman.  POSTED Nov 1, 2000 - Boje/Rosile latest paper on Influence. Q8: What is MOD and POST influencing in the the global economy- what are the plots and Voices - BE SURE TO RESITUATE AND HAVE A PERSONAL STORY TO TELL?
Week 11 7 Nov	LEADING - "Travelers" Team Pick readings TO GET READY FOR SPACEPORT CASE Ch 5 MPW Ch 3 ROT Ch 5 PMOT TD Gameboard  Deconstructing Las Vegas (see how leadership has changed over the years - select paper you want to read) More about Boje's Spectacle and Festival ideas on Vegas (press here) RESULTS OF 7 Nov Session with Spaceport New Mexico	Come to class well read and ready to LEAD SPACEPORT NM to victory. STEP1: You have a number assigned from 1 to 16, BECOME THE SQUARE MASTER on your TD Gameboard topic. STEP 2, be an expert on your assigned space port (NM, FL or CA)? TD square masters 1-6 TD square masters 7-12 TD square masters 13-16  SPACE PORTS: New Mexico - Our #1 Choice Slide presentation  Florida - Our #2 Choice California - Our #3 Choice  How would this method of TD Gameboard be used to develop a successful SPACEPORT NM?  LEADERSHIP issues. DISCUSSION QUESTION: How to mobilize and lead a transorganizational development initiative in NM, and win against FL and CA? HERE IS YOUR CASE:  Tonight we will have Hanson Scott and Susan Stauffer of the NM Office for Space Commercialization, Pat Hynes of NASA-NMSU, and retired General Laws, as guests. They will walk us through the initiative to bring the Inland Spaceport to NM. PLEASE STUDY THEIR WEB SITE http://spacegrant.nmsu.edu/caste  Here is the Florida Spaceport Authority website. They are a direct competitor. http://fsgc.engr.ucf.edu/  California is also competing against us, the base that is competing is  Vandenberg Air Force Base. http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/ / Florida - Spaceport The California Spaceport Commission is under the Office of Economic  Development & you may want to look at that site as well.
Week 12 14 Nov	Lead (Travelers) team presents Review - RESULTS OF 7 Nov Session with Spaceport New Mexico - be sure to email your TD Gameboard make your recommendations on Spaceport-NM to Hanson Scott hansons@edd.state.nm.us  dboje@nmsu.edu  and to Pat Hynes phynes@pathfinder,nmsu.edu Please USE a WORD file attachment. Due by 13 Nov.	RESULTS OF 7 Nov Session with Spaceport New Mexico -- (contains your assigned TD squares) and recommendations Boje made to Spaceport- NM based on last session. Q9: What is MOD and POST leading? See MPW  Include how leaders can change the world i.e. TD Gameboard  NEW- Leadership and Society - Review Ionesco and Flight of the Buffalo links
Week 13 21 Nov	CONTROL - 1st National Bank Team Sex, Race, and Control Pick 1st and some others. Ch 6 MPW Ch 5 & 6 ROT S&F - Ch 11 Postmod Theatrics Augusto Boal's Theatrics Conclusion PMOT ROT- Chapter 2 looks at Bureaucracy as CONTROL Green Accounting Gameboard	Come to class well read and ready to participate and talk about M/OB and Accounting -- read something from Green Accounting Gameboard. ASSIGNMENT: We will be doing some Augusto Boal work on Theatrics, please have your reading done.  Augusto Boal Video - Presenting team, please check this out from Boje and craft an event for your presentation next week.
Week 14 28 Nov	Control (1st national Bank) team presents S&F - Ch 12 Postmod Narrative Bank paper with some reference to Horkheimer and Matrix	INSTEAD OF Q10 The control Team invites you to read exhibit A and exhibit B.  Also please read TD-postmod theatrics- and Theatrics of Control by Boje Q10: What is MOD and POST controlling? (NOTE:  Team is welcome to adjust and redefine this question to FORUM - How? Just restate question in an earlier post and let it happen.)
FINAL 1 Week 15  5 Dec	PRESENTATIONS BY SERVICE TEAMS Note: Not Required but it sets a nice atmosphere if there is a bit of food and drink.	3 Teams Present NOTE: Be sure you have a richly done SEAM analysis to report. You can also comment on their Narrative Frame and how your project relates to the  THREE SEAMS OF IMPLEMENTATION. Note: attendance is required on both final days (deduct 50 points from your individual grade if not there).
FINAL 2  12 Dec	PRESENTATIONS BY BUSINESS TEAMS - Note: Not Required but it sets a nice atmosphere if there is a bit of food and drink.	3 Teams Present  NOTE: Be sure you have a richly done SEAM analysis to report. You can also comment on their Narrative Frame and how your project relates to the  THREE SEAMS OF IMPLEMENTATION. All written reports from all teams are due today.  Note: attendance is required on both final days (deduct 50 points from your individual grade if not there). EXTRA Credit for reports placed on WWW so future students and the world may enjoy them. Please post Web Site address to the FORUM (if you are doing this option).