When do teams begin and end? We see team membership change all the time, whether we’re talking about sports or a workgroup. My favorite baseball team is the Pittsburgh Pirates. As anyone that follows the team knows, they have had quite a bit of turnover in players (for example the recent unfortunate trade of Andrew McCutchen, one of my favorites), yet they remain the Pirates. This team did not end when McCutchen left. Nor did it begin when he joined their ranks. In other words, the existence of a team can and likely will continue even when membership changes. I can think of several work teams that I’ve been a part of, including in my role as director of the Master of Science in Management: Operational Excellence program here at Saint Vincent, where members leave the team and new members come on board, all while the team continues along in its purpose.
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Topics:
Operational Excellence,
organizational culture,
management,
saint vincent professor,
st. vincent professor,
Dr. Mike Urick,
Andrew McCutchen,
organizational behavior,
Jethro Tull,
Master of Science in Management
As we approach the end of the semester, final exams week and concluding class projects, a lot of students (and likely professors) are feeling a high level of stress, which can be defined as difficulty in coping with some aspect of one’s environment. Such timeliness is one of the reasons that I decided to write about stress and balance in this month’s blog.
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Topics:
Michael Urick,
blog,
Faculty Blog,
Dr. Mike Urick,
stress
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been working on co-editing a three-book series on leadership. The first book focuses on leadership theory. Thus, I’ve recently been reflecting on the importance of theory in academia.
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Topics:
professor,
saint vincent professor,
st. vincent professor,
Faculty Blog,
Dr. Mike Urick,
theory,
academia
In my last blog, I asked the question “what makes a good manager/boss?” and received a lot of great feedback. In fact, I received the most comments and responses to that post than any others that I have written.
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Topics:
SVC,
SVC faculty,
saint vincent professor,
Faculty Blog,
Dr. Mike Urick,
good employee
As a management professor, I am sometimes guilty of getting caught up in academic theories and big-picture issues of management (such as how organizations compete with each other or decide what products/services they will provide) as I prep for my courses.
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Topics:
Saint Vincent College,
saint vincent faculty,
management,
managers,
saint vincent professor,
Faculty Blog,
Dr. Mike Urick
In my May blog, I shared with you one way in which students in the McKenna School systematically examine the ethicality of decisions on the basis of various moral frameworks. While students have many other assignments in which they further refine their own moral principles throughout their studies at Saint Vincent, analyzing decisions made by others is useful in shaping a student’s viewpoint.
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Topics:
leadership,
leadership in college,
effective leadership,
professor,
lifelong learning,
blog,
saint vincent professor,
st. vincent professor,
Faculty Blog,
mike urick,
Dr. Mike Urick,
decision making
So many great movies are coming out this summer! As a big Star Wars and Marvel fan, I’m (of course) excited for the new Han Solo and Avengers movies. But I’m perhaps even more excited about the new Jurassic World movie. I loved the last film that came out a few years ago and am a fan of the entire Jurassic series.
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Topics:
Michael Urick,
business ethics,
Faculty Blog,
Jurassic World,
Dr. Mike Urick
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