MIT OpenCourseWare
People and Organizations
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- Instructor
- Prof. Thomas A. Kochan
- Term
- Fall 2010
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 18 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 15.668 People and Organizations, Fall 2010, Prof. Thomas A. Kochan — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
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- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (6 items)
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Readings
- “Navigating the World of Work.” September 2010. (Courtesy of Thomas Kochan, John Paul Ferguson, Helen Hsi, and Ryan Hammond. Used with permission.) Download
- This resource contains information related to negotiation simulation ground rules (MIT15_668F10_read14.pdf) Download
- Case: An Alarming Night. (Courtesy of Mary P. Rowe. Used with permission.) Download
- “Where do High Tech Commercial Innovations Come From?” (Courtesy of Lewis M. Branscomb. Used with permission.) Download
- Take Aways Download
Lecture Notes
12 files
- Session 1 · Introduction and overview Download
- Session 2 · Work and careers: Past, present, and future Download
- Session 3 · Leading and facilitating teams: An engineering team exercise Download
- Session 4 · Organizations: Past, present, future Download
- Session 5 · Organizational analysis: Strategic design lens Download
- Session 6 · Organizational analysis: Political lens Download
- Session 8 · Organizational analysis: Cultural lens Download
- Session 12 · Team processes: Strategies for building a high performance team Download
- Session 14 · Introduction to negotiations Download
- Session 15 · Recruitment and job offer negotiation Download
- Session 17 · Leadership and change: Introductions Download
- Leadership: Building Your Personal Development Plan! Download
Assignments
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Thomas A. Kochan, 15.668 People and Organizations, Fall 2010.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2010 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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