Maryam Kouchaki

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Management & Organizations

Professor of Management & Organizations
Department Chair, Management and Organizations

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m-kouchaki@kellogg.northwestern.edu
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Ethics and Leadership (PACT-460-0)
This course focuses on the ways in which leaders must recognize and respond to a variety of competing value propositions both within and outside their organizations. Whereas management typically involves the creation of incentive systems leadership motivates through the creation of norms, by example and inspiration. Leadership ultimately involves the ability to take the disparate value propositions of various stakeholders and integrate them into a coherent vision. The course is built on the three foundations: basic ethics; behavioral economics; and insights from social psychology. Class sessions typically involve a mix of lecture, in-class discussion of cases and student papers and group projects. Students will write short reflection papers that serve as the basis for class discussion. There will also be two group projects and a final exam.

Leading and Managing Teams (MORS-460-5)
This course examines the design, management, and leadership of teams in organizational settings. The focus is on the interpersonal processes and structural characteristics that influence the effectiveness of teams, the dynamics of intra-team relationships, and sharing of knowledge and information in teams. This class is very practical and hands-on. Each week, students engage in an experiential team challenge (activity or case) pertaining to a key aspect of team and group dynamics. Students are assigned to a group at the beginning of the quarter. This group complete a group project studying and analyzing dynamics and processes of a real client team. There is no final exam, and each group delivers a case study of their client team at the end of quarter.

Leading and Managing Teams (MORS-460-0)
This course examines the design, management, and leadership of teams in organizational settings. The focus is on the interpersonal processes and structural characteristics that influence the effectiveness of teams, the dynamics of intra-team relationships, and sharing of knowledge and information in teams. This class is very practical and hands-on. Each week, students engage in an experiential team challenge (activity or case) pertaining to a key aspect of team and group dynamics. Students are assigned to a group at the beginning of the quarter. This group complete a group project studying and analyzing dynamics and processes of a real client team. There is no final exam, and each group delivers a case study of their client team at the end of quarter.

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