People are the most valuable asset of any business, but they are also the most unpredictable, and the most difficult asset to manage. And although managing people well is critical to the health of any organization, most managers don't get the training they need to make good management decisions. Now, award-winning authors and renowned management Professors Mike Useem and Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School have designed 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. By the end of this course, you'll have developed the skills you need to start motivating, organizing, and rewarding people in your organization so that you can thrive as a business and as a social organization.
This course is part of the Business Foundations Specialization
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Skills you will gain
- Decision-Making
- Change Management
- Human Resources (HR)
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Motivation and Reward
Tasks, Jobs, and Systems of Work
Making Good and Timely Management Decisions
Designing and Changing the Organization's Architecture
Reviews
- 5 stars68.73%
- 4 stars21.58%
- 3 stars6.86%
- 2 stars2.06%
- 1 star0.74%
TOP REVIEWS FROM MANAGING SOCIAL AND HUMAN CAPITAL
I really enjoyed learning the course. i wanna thank the instructors for the hard work they've done , to help me achieve more knowledge and skills based on managing social and human capital.
Very good quality content with a lot of real-life examples. Although I have seeked more evidence-based ideas to take away. I mean moe theory that could be jused in real life
Its basically understanding the human behavior ,yes it has some amazing examples which will make you wonder a lot . So its a sweet little course in this business foundation specialization.
A fantastic, thought provoking course. Gave us a lot of things to reflect on and be mindful of in different situations in the organization. Thank you Prof Cappelli and Prof Useem. Grateful to you.
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