About this Course
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
What You'll Learn
- Apply techniques for motivating individual performance
- Design appropriate reward systems
- Organize work to enhance high performance
- Make data-driven managerial decisions
- Develop organizational structure aligned with change
Prerequisites
- No deep prior experience required, basic computer and internet skills helpful
- Ability to follow course instructions in English and complete short activities
Instructors
Michael Useem
Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management
Peter Cappelli
Professor of Management, Director, Center for Human Resources