Course Description:
This course will help students understand how organizations in which people work have an effect on their thoughts, feelings and actions and how these thoughts, feelings, and actions, in turn, affect the organization itself. It will discuss the mechanisms governing these interactions and how to identify and foster behaviors conducive to the survival and effectiveness of the organization. This Organization Behavior course will help students understand the fundamental concepts which revolve around the nature of people and organizations including Individual Differences; Perception; Motivated Behavior; Mutuality of Interest; Group and Team Behavior; Power; Conflict; Negotiation, Organizational Culture, Structure and Design and Change. The main objectives of this course is help students understand how to use the study of Organizational Behavior to find ways of managing people, groups and teams that yield most productivity. It serves as a practical guide to managing workplace behavior – self, co-workers, teams and organization – in order to create a more efficient organization. Through a combination of academic concepts, industry case studies, real examples from the business world and practical application of the theoretical concepts of OB, this course will be a powerful learning experience.
Course Contents:
- Introduction to Organizational Behaviour: Interdisciplinary Subject, Application of OB as Managers
- Personality
- Attitudes and organizational behavior
- EI and Managing Stress
- Relationship between moods and behavior
- Perception and individual decision making
- Motivation and application of motivation theories
- Group and Team Behavior- stages of group development, Conflict and negotiation
- Organizational Communication
- Leadership, Power & Politics
- Organizational Design, culture & change
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