Organizational Behavior

Overview

The course is designed to be a challenging and practical academic experience. The Aim of this course is to provide you with an understanding of the behavior of people (including your own!) in relation to their work and organizations.  Various theoretical perspectives are covered to give you different frameworks from which to consider the management role in organizations.  Both classic research and the most recent findings are discussed.  Emphasis is given to the management function because of the importance that management and leadership plays in every organization.

Syllabus

• Chapter 1 Introduction to OB
1.1 What are organizations? & 1.2 What is Organizational Behavior?
1.3 Characteristics of OB
• Chapter 2 Diversity in organizations
2.1 Diversity in organizations
2.2 Biographical Characteristics
2.3 Ability and Ability-Job Fit
2.4 Diversity management
• Chapter 3 Attitudes
3.1 Definition and Components
3.2 Attitudes and Behavior
• Chapter 4 Emotions and Mood
4.1 What are emotions and moods?
4.2 Emotional labor and AET
4.3 Emotional intelligence
4.4 OB Applications of emotions and moods
• Chapter 5 Perception and Individual Decision Making
5.1 Perception
5.2 Attribution
5.3 Decision making in organizations
5.4 Ethic in decision making and creative models
• Chapter 6 Motivation Concepts
6.1 Motivation and early theories
6.2 Contemporary theories of motivation
6.3 Other contemporary theories of motivation
6.4 Expectancy theory and job engagement
• Chapter 7 Motivation: From connects to applications
7.1 Job characteristics model
7.2 Alternative work arrangements
7.3 Using rewards and benefits to motivate employees
7.4 Using benefits and intrinsic rewards to motivate employees
• Chapter 8 Understanding Group Behavior
8.1 The importance of Group
8.2 Formal group and informal group
8.3 Playing a role in the group
8.4 Social loafing
8.5 Social conformity
• Chapter 9 Making a high-performance group
9.1 Group decision making
9.2 Transforming groups into teams
9.3 Types of teams
9.4 Creating effective teams
• Chapter 10 Leadership: Born or Made?
10.1 Leadership and power
10.2 Leadership and management
10.3 Leaders are born? Trait theories of Leadership
10.4 Leaders are made? Behavioral theories of Leadership
• Chapter 11 Organizational structure
11.1 What is organizational structure?
11.2 Common Organizational Structures
11.3 Why Do Structures Differ?
11.4 Organizational Designs and Employee Behavior
• Chapter 12 Organizational culture
12.1 What is organizational culture?
12.2 What do organizational cultures do?
12.3 Creating and sustaining organizational culture
• Final Exam

Taught by

Ning Nan, Xiang Shuting, Liu Yuanyuan, and Xiao Mengtian

Subjects

Business