Credits: 3
Pre-requisites: None
Compulsory / Optional: Optional
Aim(s)
To provide the students with necessary organizational behaviour tools to perform effectively in different organizational situations.
Intended Learning Outcomes
- Describe organizational behaviour models and relate them to real life/industrial situations.
- Create teams and identify characteristics of teams in the processors of motivation, conflict and stress management.
- Relate leadership models to real life situations.
- Describe the elements in the human resource cycle in an organization.
- Reflect cultural characteristics in teams.
Course Content
- Organizations and Importance Towards Effective Work: Nature and scope of OB; elements and structure; need for studying OB; approaches to and models.
- The Individual: Individual behaviour; employee attitudes and job satisfaction; personality and values; motivating and motivation; theories of motivation; content and process theories; motivational process.
- Group Dynamics: Characteristics of group; advantages and disadvantages; types (formal and informal); problems of informal groups; techniques of group decision making; leadership; traits and approaches; communication; conflict and negotiation; power and politics.
- Human Resource Management: Recruitment; training and development; assessing and improving performance; compensation.
- Organizational Behaviour and Culture: Individual differences; organizational structure and culture; multinational organizations; women in industry.
- Organizational Development and Change: Developmental process; change forces and types of change; resistance to change; costs and benefits; stress and conflict management; counselling.
| Time Allocation | Hours |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 15 |
| Tutorials Small Group Discussion | 30 |
| Assessment | Percentage Marks |
|---|---|
| Small Group Activities / Case Studies / Assignments / Presentation | 60 |
| End Semester Examination | 40 |