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Course Introduction
Organizational Behavior (OB) is a relatively new area of study that investigates the behavior of the employees within an organization to make them effective. The focus is often on improving productivity, reducing absenteeism, reducing turnover, improving job satisfaction and improving organizational commitment. These has shown to impact the bottom line of any organization for a long term. The area studies the behavior of individuals, groups and the structure (organizational rules and policies) with the aim to modify certain aspects. OB is an interdisciplinary field with profound contribution from sociology, psychology, communication, and management among others
Course Objectives
Through reading, experience, reflection, and dialogue this course will help you better understand the theories which explain why people behave the way they do- particularly in an organizational setting. This will include identifying factors contributing the behavior and dealing with them. It will also provide you with a self-awareness, self-sufficiency, and self-leadership skill to assess and change your own attitude and behavior as well as those of others. The course relies heavily on experiential learning as a means of teaching students how to apply lesson in organizations setting.
Teaching Approach
The course contains readings from textbooks, journals and various web-sources, class lectures, individual and group assignments, online quizzes and a term project. The group assignments and the term project will require group work including meetings, conducting research at various organizations, preparing reports and delivering presentations. A textbook is assigned for the course. The lectures will be delivered in English using PowerPoint slides (from the textbook and other sources). A course website is going to be used to provide participant with relevant information including course policies, guidelines, online quizzes and the related.
Required Text
Organizational Behavior 13th Edition by Stephan P. Robbins and Timothy A Publisher: Prentice Hall
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