HS 401 MANAGEMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR (3 0 0 6)

Organizations: Formal - Informal; Scientific Management and Human Relation Era: Hawthorne Studies;
Classical Organization Theory and Design; Modern Organization Theory: Organization as an OpenSystem; Motivation: Content theories; Process theories; Reinforcement Theories; Group Dynamics and
Team Development: Types of Groups and their attributes; Quality Circles and their role in Total Quality
Management (TQM); Leadership & Influence Strategies: The Classical Theories of leadership: Iowa,
Ohio and Michigan Leadership studies. Trait theory of leadership; Group and Exchange theory of
leadership; Charishmatic and Transformational leadership theories; Indian Researches on Leadership
and Influence strategies; Organizational Culture and Climate: Recent Developments in the area; Indian
studies on Organizational culture; Work Culture; Stress in work settings: Organizational stressors,
extraorganizational stressors and group stressors; Effect of occupational stress, and individual
dispositions and their role in work stress; Decision Making: Contemporary models of Behavioural DM; The
Delphi Technique and the Nominal Group Technique.
Text:
1. L. N. Jewell & M. Siegall, Contemporary Industrial/Organizational Psychology, West Publishing
Company, 1990.
2. D. Katz and R. L. Kahn, The Social Psychology of Organizations, Wiley, 1966.
3. S. P. Robbins, Organizational Behaviour, 1995.
4. F. Luthans, Organizational Behaviour, McGraw-Hill, 1995.
5. U. Sekarn, Organizational Behaviour: Text and Cases, Tata McGraw Hill, 1996.
6. K. H. Blanchard and P. Hersey, Management of Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Human
Resources, Prentice-Hall India, 1993.
References:
1. M. D. Dunnett, Handbook of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Jaico Press, 1990.
2. M. A. Ansari, Managing people at work: Leadership styles and influence strategies, Sage, 1990.
3. J. B. P. Sinha, Work Culture in Indian Context, Sage, 1990.