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Overview

Duration

7 hours

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Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate after completion of the course
  • Financial aid available
  • Assessments and projects for real world scenarios
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What are the course deliverables?

Learn new concepts from industry experts

Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool

Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects

 

More about this course

This course to introduce you to the key elements of managing people

Based on their popular course at Wharton, this course will teach you how to motivate individual performance and design reward systems, how to design jobs and organize work for high performance, how to make good and timely management decisions, and how to design and change your organization’s architecture

Fee of this course varies according to duration in month

Fee for one month is 6693/-

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Curriculum

Week 1: Motivation and Reward

Professor Cappelli and Professor Useem Introductions

Course Overview

Introduction

Motivation

Motivation: The Agency Theory Example

Designing Incentive Systems

Hiring

Managing Performance

Week 2: Tasks, Jobs, and Systems of Work

Tasks vs. Jobs

How to Design Jobs

Drawbacks and Rethinking Job Design

Engineers and Psychologists: A Battle for Designing Jobs

Lessons from the Japanese and US Auto Industries

Systems of Work

Week 3: Making Good and Timely Management Decisions

Good and Timely Decisions

Making a Good and Timely Decision

US Examples

Fighting a Fire

After Action Review and Summary

Week 4: Designing and Changing the Organization's Architecture

Designing and Changing Architecture

Performance: Pay and Promotion

Organizational Design

David Pottruck and Charles Schwab Example

Managing People

Manager's Template for Human and Social Capital

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Faculty details

Michael Useem
Michael Useem is a Professor of Management and the Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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