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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Managing Social and Human Capital by University of Pennsylvania

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About the 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....

Top reviews

DM

Oct 19, 2018

Excellent Course. Understanding human behavior is one of the most difficult challenges in an organization. This course describes the challenges well and offers approaches to tackling those challenges.

CE

Jan 12, 2022

Really enjoyed the cases studies throught the weeks and well having the pdfs for taking notes. The final notes on management and decision making will be on my note list for work reflection for sure.

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By Sandra C

May 21, 2021

While information from one teacher was easy to understand, the other was a bit harder to figure out.

By Roman P

Jan 20, 2018

Great introduction. A bit more depth and breadth (ie. 8 week course) would be terrific!

By Gusen Y

Jan 19, 2018

Way too easy and general...I wanna learn more from the instructors.

By Gil R

Dec 19, 2016

I think more examples would have been better for the class.

By Terika R

Oct 25, 2022

Difficult to pay attention to all of the verbal lectures

By Balazs M

Aug 4, 2017

Thought provoking albeit at times vague and dragged out.

By Jordan X R

Mar 24, 2020

It started off strong but lost momentum.

By Kyle N

Sep 22, 2019

Could be a bit more interesting

By Marc T

Dec 19, 2019

Content is too anecdotal.

By Nolan S

Jul 13, 2020

Boring!

By Niwech H

Nov 19, 2016

5 points out of 5 for professor Peter. 1 point out of 5 for professor Mike. The first 2 weeks were good as professor Peter presented with very brief and sum up the ideas. On another hand, the last 2 weeks were bad, professor Mike didn't do well in term of summary. He spent 70% for introduction of each topic before reaching to the points that he want to make. Most of the time, he didn't make any points. Plus he didn't answer the questions that he asked. I am disappointed. I was expecting to learn more as the course structure was impressive BUT the actual lectures are not covered the topic.

By Steve M

Apr 21, 2020

This is a survey course. It uses several simple case studies to explain some basic points, but does not go into detail in any particular area. For example the course does not explain well different organizational models or their strengths and weaknesses (functional, regional, etc). I expected more than a cursory mention of matrix management, which is powerful but complex to implement well. There are no hands-on activities other than quizzes at the end of the week. The subtitles are broken and/or of poor quality in several of the videos.

By Q W

Nov 15, 2020

Taking this course as part of the series of courses offered by Wharton on intro to business. I'm coming from engineering background so not sure if this is true to everyone, but I feel this course does not offer much in-depth on those topics, it's just a slight touch on the surface of those. Among the series of courses I've took so far I fee the accounting course is definitely the No.1 among all others, no doubt at all.

By Janice A

May 4, 2020

I think the Professors are both great and well-knowledged, but I find that the presentation of the material could have been better. I find that case studies took too much time to present and discuss, and I also think that the quizzes do not highlight the importance of the materials. The quizzes contain too many trivial questions and those that do not have much added value to the learning experience.

By celine

Jul 15, 2019

great theory and principles but could be a little more tactical and related to real case scenarios of the working environment. such as: how to manage your bosses as well as react to peers when competition exists though team work must prevail. How to handle medium performers. How to handle politics in the offices when bosses use preferences and similarity concepts.

By Eugene Y C

Jan 18, 2020

It was a very general overview through human resource management. Hope that more insights could have been offered by providing more concrete strategies. Also, it would be a plus to offer recommended readings for the topic.

By Samantha B

Apr 22, 2020

I didn't quite feel I left with a sense of practical knowledge on how to manage or build the architecture of an organization.

By Eoghan C

Aug 22, 2017

felt a bit dated. older materials, older case studies and examples. all quizing should be a little tougher i thought.

By Keiji H

Oct 14, 2017

Explaining many abstractive things with a couple of concrete actual stories and less correct materials.

By YUN L

Sep 3, 2017

the course is poorly structured. the videos are lack of well-organization and the slides are poorly written. The lecturer teaches in a way that's so hard to follow with tedious cases. Avoid this one and seek for other alternatives.

By Mohammed J

May 20, 2020

Both the professors had a very dull and monotonous teaching style.

By Ivaylo Y

Dec 12, 2016

very low length to content ratio; basic content

By Mikhail A

Aug 11, 2017

Boring stuff