knowledge about a topic related to this course, that you consider of value and interest to you.
Find a topic that you consider valuable and interesting, and that is reasonably related to the
course. Discuss your topic with me if you have any doubts or questions. Then, work on the topic
in a way that helps you learn about it. You can design any of numerous different types of
projects, as long as you pursue the general objective stated above. Some examples:
• Read about the topic and prepare a paper that reports what you learned about it. You should
plan to read about 150 difficult pages or 300 less-difficult pages for such a project. For
example, about 5 twenty page complex professional journal articles.
• You can also read books or sections of books. Reading and reporting on one complex book,
such as Albert Bandura's Self-Efficacy, Craig C. Pinder's Work Motivation in Organization
Behavior, or Bernard Bass' Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations together with
his Transformational Leadership will fulfill the requirement, and would be a good project.
• Do a set of readings such as described above and prepare an analytical/critical review of
them, like a book review in a professional journal.
• Conduct an inquiry into a topic, using interviews that you will conduct or official,
organizational or archival documents from an organization. For example, how are they
implementing a particular policy in state government? What is the structure and process of a
particular state, federal, or local agency or a particular government? Describe and analyze the
"human capital" movement in the federal government.
• Do readings or other research and apply it to a particular problem or situation you know
about in an agency. For example, there is sharp conflict between my unit and another; I will
read about conflict management andpropose a course of action for resolving the conflict. Or,
the unit in which you work has poor morale; read about motivation and related topics and
analyze the problem.
Sources of Material for Project. See the bibliographic references in the books assigned for the
course. The following sources are high-quality publications usually oriented toward practicing
managers and readability: Harvard Business Review; Sloan Management Review; Business
Horizons; Public Management; California Management Review; Academy of Management
Perspectives (formerly the Academy of Management Executive); Organizational Dynamics;
Public Administration Review; The Journal of Management; Review of Public Personnel
Administration; Governing (The States and Localities); Government Executive (visit
www.govexec.com); U.S. General Accounting Office reports (www.gao.com); U.S. Office of
Personnel Management reports (www.opm.gov); reports by the IBM Endowment for the
Business of Government (visit www.businessofgovernment.org). In addition, the library has
many books on the topics listed on this syllabus.
Doctoral students should consider more scholarly or research-based articles in academic journals
such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied
Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
At the fifth class session (February 19), submit a one-page proposal of the topic you will cover,
and a brief description of your objectives. You can change these plans, but you need to have
gotten to work on deciding what to do well before this date.
I would like you prefer this subject.
Organization Goals, Strategic Capabilities, and Design.
• SHO, (Schermerhom, Hunt, and Osborne)Chapters, 17 and 18.
• Shafritz et al., 24, 25, 26, 27
• Additional Reading
o Gary L. Walmsley and Meyer N. Zald, "The Political Economy of Public Organizations.
Public Administration Review 33. 1 (January-February 1973): 62-73.
o William Stanbury and Fred Thompson, "Toward a Political Economy of Government
Waste: First Step, Definitions," Public Administration Review 55, 5 (September-October
1995): 418-25.
o Barry Bozeman, "Public-Value Failure: When Efficient Markets May NotDo," Public
Administration Review 62, 2 (March-April 2002): 145-61.
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