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.

Managing Social and Human Capital
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Managing Social and Human Capital
This course is part of Business Foundations Specialization


Instructors: Michael Useem
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Skills you'll gain
- Change Management
- Organizational Leadership
- Performance Appraisal
- Human Relations Movement
- Organizational Structure
- Staff Management
- Human Resource Strategy
- People Management
- Decision Making
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Employee Performance Management
- Team Motivation
- Compensation and Benefits
- Human Capital
- Organizational Change
- Leadership and Management
- Organizational Development
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Team Performance Management
- Leadership Studies
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Reviewed on Feb 28, 2018
Very Informative and Helpful course and most important is the way the course is presented and live examples given make it very important and straightforward to understand.
Reviewed on Oct 14, 2017
This course is very simply presented and easy to follow, whilst at the same time giving great insights into organisations, people behaviour and what motivates them. Highly recommended.
Reviewed on Nov 23, 2017
The introduction may seem a little slow, but you swiftly take us deep into the real life of managing people and the trip is a great big 8. Thank you professors for your amazing insights !!




