Place and Time:  TTh, 1:30-3:20, MGH 287 

Listserv:  lis580a_sp06@u.washington.edu 

Required Text:  Dessler, Gary.  Management: Principles & Practices for Tomorrow's Leaders and Student CD, Third Edition.  Prentice Hall (March 5, 2003).  Paperback: 650 pages. ISBN: 0131044427 

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Introduction to internal and external management issues and practices in information organizations. Internal issues include organizational behavior, organizational theory, personnel, budgeting, planning. External issues include organizational environments, politics, marketing, strategic planning, funding sources.  Prerequisite:  LIS 500, which may be taken concurrently.

Course Objectives

This course is meant to give insight into the ways that information organizations work, through an examination of the literature and practice in planning, organizing, leading and controlling.  While not everyone aspires to or actually becomes a manager, we are all part of organizations in one way or another at most times in our lives; understanding better how those organizations work can help us to be more effective at whatever we are doing.  Many of the areas of critical importance to managing successful organizations also permeate institutions in our community and personal lives, and taking an analytical look at some of the issues and practices driving these institutions can help us become better participants as well as leaders. 

Upon completion of the course, students will demonstrate through written documents and class discussions the ability to:

• Apply the principles of management from a leadership perspective 
  • Understand strategic management principles
  • Apply quality management techniques to information systems
  • Understand the role of information in organizational management
  • Understand the role of information in decision making
• Cultivate a talent for innovation and leadership
  • Describe techniques for innovation and leadership
  • Apply strategic planning in information projects
• Understand and apply the information perspective
  • Articulate the ethical issues in information creation and use in organizations
  • Be able to forge the relationship between people, information, and technology for effective management of organizations

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Students with Disabilities

To request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact Disabled Student Services: 448 Schmitz, 206-543-8924 (V/TTY). If you have a letter from DSS indicating that you have a disability which requires academic accommodations, please present the letter to me so we can discuss the accommodations you might need in the class.   

Academic accommodations due to disability will not be made unless the student has a letter from DSS specifying the type and nature of accommodations needed. Acknowledgements

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Jochen Scholl, Nancy Gershenfeld, and Karine Barzilai-Nahon for providing materials, advice, ideas, and guidance in the development of this course.  All credit to them, any blame to me.