Designing and Leading Teams

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

MOR 473: DESIGNING AND LEADING TEAMS

SPRING 2012

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Robert B. Turrill, PhD

Tu & Th , Noon to 1:50 pm

Bridge Hall 303D

Thursday 2:00 to 4:00 pm and by appointment

(213) 740-0732

(213) 740-3582

Required materials:

GROUP DYNAMICS FOR TEAMS, 3d ed., Daniel Levi, Sage

Publications, 2011

robert.turrill@marshall.usc.edu

DIGITAL COURSEPACK – Cases & Articles

Pearson Publishers – XanEdu (see instructions on last page

of syllabus)

INTRODUCTION

This elective course is about the design, development, and performance of teams in

business and in other formal organizations. This course is also about you – your ability

to perform within a team, including your ability to formally and informally provide

essential leadership to the team. This course is about high-performance teams and the

outcomes they produce for their major stakeholders, which includes the members of the

team. This course is about learning and practicing high-performance team fundamentals,

many of which you know at some level already, so that when it comes time for

performing, your perception and behavior for what needs to happen will be automatic.

This course is about intervening in groups – problem solving, process consulting,

facilitating, coaching and directing, etc. This course is also about having fun in teams,

fun that originates in high performance, and is an outcome of high performance, rather

than a process that precedes, or substitutes for, performance.

MOR 473 – COURSE SYLLABUS – p. 2

OBJECTIVES

1. Using self-assessment techniques, to understand and develop one’s own style and

performance capabilities in analysis, design, membership , and leadership.

2. To develop skill and knowledge in the design, development, and leadership of high

performance teams.

3. To develop interpersonal skills and effective team...