Critical Approach to Organization

Read this article and the New York Times,

The Smear This Time


What do you think of Anita Hill has to say in light of the feminist critique of organizations?

Presentations

We are going to look at how to do GOOD PowerPoint presentations rather than those boring slides with just bullet points that put us all to sleep. No one wants to see a presentation during which the presenters just reads the slides to the audience.

The PowerPoint slides need to help tell the story the presenter is attempting to relate to the audience. Presentations need to be dynamic and sell the ideas the presenter is attempting to communicate to the audience.

Here are some resources. Use them to help make your presentations better.

Presentation Zen

Beyond Bullet Points

Really Bad PowerPoint

Tell us about your experience with managers.

Much of management or organization theory still hearkens back to what Miller writes about in Chapters 1 & 2. The classical and human relations approaches both have merits but have become accepted as fact when as you found out in your readings both approaches lack a truly strong empirical basis.

Let's keep the conversation going that we started with the introductions. I would like each of you to give a description of both good and bad organizational settings you have experienced.

In addition to posting your experiences I would like to make this more of a conversation by having you post a comment about at least one other person's experiences.

Welcome to Fall 2007

Please read any of the blog entries from last spring there is some good stuff there. I will be adding more entries as the semester goes along.

What I would like each of you to do at this time is to post a comment to this item giving a brief introduction of yourself. I know we did it in class bu this is a more permanent record of such. In your postings use you real name (first and last) so we can get to know each other.

Let's work together to make this a great class and have a wonderful experience this semester.

Here is your chance to prove how good you are!

Silde Share a website for sharing Power Point slides is having a contest. The contest is for the World's Best Presentation. I certainly would be proud if one of my students won. Even if you don't win this is yet another web site for getting some ideas.

Presentations

This web site about how to do great presentations.

Go there. Read it. Learn from it.

Presentation Zen.

Be sure and check out: Top Ten Slide Tips.

Your conflict style

Here is an online inventory that helps you determine your conflict management style.

Personal Conflict Style Inventory

Take the inventory and report your results.