Professor Randall B. Dunham (bio)
Sample Podcasts

This page provides information about some sample Podcasts developed by Randall B. Dunham at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If you would like to subscribe to these, click on the "Subscribe" button and they will be sent to iTunes on your computer. Alternatively, you can view individual examples by clicking on the individual links.

These samples are intended to provide an idea of the kinds of Podcasts being used in Dunham's classes. Below is a brief description of each sample:

Introduction and Overview of Change Management
(4:07)

This four-minute, 7-second video Podcast introduces the "Leading Effective Change" online course and Podcast currently being finalized. This podcast is a first draft. The complete course contains over three hours of video and a series of self-assessments and projects. In addition to serving as a free-standing continuing education course, the Podcast is currently being used in Dunham's Executive MBA course and his undergraduate course on organizational change and effectiveness.

Managing Motivation
(2:38)

This two-minute, 38-second video Podcast introduces Dunham's perspective on effectively managing motivation. This Podcast is currently used in his organizational behavior course, his Executive MBA course, and The Manager's Workshop simulation developed by Dunham (Prentice-Hall).

Goal-Setting Case Study
(1:55)

This one-minute, 55-second enhanced Podcast presents a case study demonstrating how goal-setting can be used effectively in a real-world organization. This Podcast is currently used in his organizational behavior course, his Executive MBA course, and The Manager's Workshop simulation developed by Dunham (Prentice-Hall).

Interviews

Tina Chan from P&G (3:22)

Amir Farooqi from Cargill (2:01)

Dunham has conducted a series of 100 interviews of organizational members in over a dozen countries on four continents. These two video Podcasts are short examples drawn from two of those interviews. The three-minute, 22-second interview excerpt with Tina Chan was conducted in Hong Kong where she works for P & G. In the interview, Tina discusses what encouraged her to accept a job at P & G. The two-minute, one-second interview excerpt with Amir Farooqi was conducted in Singapore where he worked for Cargill. In the interview, Amir discusses organizational culture and the importance of ethics in the behavior of Cargill employees. Interview Podcasts such as these are used in a variety of Dunham's classes.

Vignettes

Leaving (0:11)

Conflict Example (0:38)

Dunham has developed a series of approximately 80 short video vignettes that are used in classes to illustrate organizational events and to elicit discussion about course content. These two video Podcasts are examples of these. The eleven-second "Leaving" vignette shows an example of an employee who has decided to quit his job in the face of ongoing organizational change. The 38-second "Conflict Example" vignette is used to introduce students to an in-class discuss of interpersonal conflict at the workplace by showing an example of an escalating conflict at work. If you are interested in free copies of the vignette series to use in your classes, contact Randi Huntsman (rhuntsman@bus.wisc.edu). The vignettes are available as Podcasts, as WMV files and as H.264 QuickTime files for easy free-standing use or embedded in PowerPoint slides.