Course Code: MGMT317
Synopsis
This course provides an overview and analysis of various behavioral concepts affecting human behaviour in business organisations, with emphasis on research, theory, and practice.
Level: 3
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: Every semester
Topics
- Introducing Organizational Behavior
- Values, Personality and Individual Differences
- Motivation and Job Design
- Rewards, Performance Management and How Groups Work
- Teamwork, Team Performance, Power and Politics
- Leadership Theories and Emerging Leadership Perspectives
- Decision Making and Communication
- Organizational Conflict, Negotiation, Culture and Development
- Organization Goals, Structures, Strategic Capabilities and Design
Learning Outcome
- Explain the origins and foundations of organizational behavior, including processes and consequences of those processes.
- Examine the various theories of leadership, comparing and contrasting them, showing similarities and differences.
- Assess the process of individual and group decision making, and demonstrate when each should be used.
- Examine group dynamics, power and influence in organizations, and explain how they are interrelated.
- Explain how the process of perception and diversity influences the management processes and contributes to individual differences.
- Describe sources of conflict and stress in organizations and illustrate ways of effectively managing them.
- Compare the various theories of motivation and describe how managers can best use them with employees.
- Evaluate the various types of performance appraisals and analyze how they relate to organizations’ development.
- Describe the process of job design and explore the steps taken in organizational design and structure.
- Analyze how organizations adapt to and confront change, both internal and external, in the larger society.