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Course Title: Organizational Behavior

Course Code: MGT-321


Section: 4 Semester: Summer 2012 Class Time: MW 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Class Room: NAC 411 Instructor: Adeyl Khan (Ayn) Office: NAC 733 Office Hours ST: 01:00 PM to 04:30 PM Office Hours MW: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM e-mail: Find outside the office room NSU Ext: 1780

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

Tentative Class Topics


Week Topic 1 C1- Introduction to OB 2 C2- What Makes an Individual 3 C3- Attitudes & Job Satisfaction 4 C4- Personality & Values 5 C5- Perception & Individual Decision Making 6 C6- Motivation 7 C7- Motivation 8 C8- Emotions and Mood 9 C9- What makes a group 10 C10- Work Teams 11 C11- Communication 12 C12- Leadership

Course Organization & Grading


Lectures (Attendance 10%)
Class lectures are based on PowerPoint slides. Additional lecture sessions besides the ones designated by the NSU will be announced as appropriate.

Reading Assignment (Bonus %)


Read the respective chapter that will be taught in a class before the class.

Group Assignments (GA 10%)


Will be assigned in class.

Individual Online Assignments (IOA 15%)


Online assessments will be announced in class. See the IOA policy for details.

Exams (Mid-1 15% + Mid2 15% + Final 15%)


Midterms and final question pattern will be similar to IOAs. You can check out samples in the course website.

Term Project Proposal, Paper & Presentation (20%)


A term project proposal will be required within the first three week of the course. You will need to finish a paper based on your proposal within the 19th week of the course. There will be presentations during the 22nd to final week. The project will reflect your understanding of a real world application as per the course content.

Extra Credits (Bonus 9%)


If you find a mistake in an exam-paper, a note and similar (1% per instance, maximum 3%) Students not missing any class ~ 3% Participation bonus (up to 3%) for engaging class discussion awarded in class.

Additional guidelines & policy (Check the course website)


Faculty Contact Information Assignment submission policy General policies Grade distribution scheme Technology requirements for this course

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