Spring 2014 Organizational Behavior MG6013
The exploration of the theories, research and practices that allow a better understanding of human behavior in organizations. Topics include motivation and job satisfaction; decision making; group dynamics; work teams; leadership; communication; power, politics and conflict; organization culture, structure and design; impact of technology; management of work stress; organizational change and development; and career management. Analysis of organizational behavior problems by self assessments, case studies and
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Read Chapter 2.
Feb. 11 Attitudes and Job Satisfaction: the relationship between attitudes and behavior; job satisfaction and how we can measure it; the main causes of job satisfaction; employee responses to dissatisfaction. Read Chapter 3.
Feb. 18 Emotions and Moods: differentiating emotions from moods; the sources of emotions and moods; the evidence for and against emotional intelligence; exploring the experience, interpretation and expression of emotions across cultures. Read Chapter 4. Read “Case Incident 1” on page 124 and answer questions 1- 4. Be prepared to discuss this case and submit your answers in class.
Feb. 25 Unit test on Chapters 1 through 4
Personality and Values: defining and measuring personality; the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality framework and its strengths and weaknesses; the Big Five personality model; comparing generational differences in values and their roles in today’s workforce; Hofstede’s five value dimensions of national culture. Read Chapter 5
March 4 Perception and Individual Decision Making: defining perception; the shortcuts
Organizational behavior studies have become more significant in today’s present years than hey were before in past years, this is due to companies realizing that in order to acclimatize to the constantly changing business cultures that have stemmed from a competitive and rapidly moving market, they must put more emphasis on the correlation between human behavior and the organization. Understanding this concept has led many several companies to put investment into behavior assessments and seminars and use them as a training tool to educate their employees and learn the reasons for each person’s behavior and
4. Briefly describe the elements of the formal and the informal organization. Give examples of each.
The literature review, explain the theories which are related to the case study’s problems in order to the motivation and satisfy employees’ needs. There are three important theories include; organizational motivation justice, Maslow’s hierarchy needs theory, and expectancy theory.
In order to understand Organisational Behaviour you must understand what organisation is. I researched definitions for organisation in order to understand them here are the example. An organisation is a tool used by people to coordinate their actions to gain something they desire or value. Organisations provide goods and services. Organisations employ people. Organisations bring together people and resources to produce products and services. Organisations basically exist to create value.
Organizational behavior is the study on how organizational structures affect behavior of its employees within the organization. Organizational systems is the structure that an organizations uses to organize its functions and assign responsibility to its employees. Organizational behavior in any criminal justice organization is how the superiors and the employees relate
The aim of this report is to analyse two companies who have significantly different organisational structures. It will analyse the relationship between an organisations structure and culture and the effects on the business performance. Also the factors which influence an individual’s behaviour at work will be looked into.
Organizational behavior is complicated and each individual has its own way, which would affect the whole organization. One of the greatest challenges of an organization is to effectively matching the employees and the tasks based on their variety behaviors. However, there are many organizational problems that will decrease the effectiveness, it is hard to create a conflict free team, managers are necessary to understand the differences between individual behaviors, then use it appropriately to solve common organizational problems.
Classical organization theory evolved during the first half of this century. It represents the merger of scientific management, bureaucratic theory, and administrative theory.
A Strong culture is very important in improving performances at organizations by emphasizing concepts like ‘being the best’, innovation, superior quality & of being open participative companies in which employees are seen as the most valuable asset. (Peters & Waterman 1982: p 285, cited in Organizational behaviour & work by Fiona M Wilson).
Hammer can use integrative negotiation to get buy-in for the cost reductions. Integrative negations involve joint problem solving to achieve results that benefit both parties involved. The first step should be to separate the people from the problem. This means, doctors and management should come to the acknowledgement they are negotiating for the greater good, and not attacking each other. No one person in the group should be considered any better than the other. The focus should always remain on cost reduction without compromising the level of healthcare patients receive. All possibilities should be looked at and all criteria should be objective.
“Organizational behavior is the study of the human aspects of organizations, including individual behavior, group behaviour, and their interaction with organizational structure, culture, and processes; with the goal of improving organizational effectiveness.”- Umstot (1984, p. 5)
The organisational organ known as the team is becoming more and more apparent in today's dynamic business world. Increasingly managers are searching for a means to improve production and keep their organisation competitive in the global market. A lot of these managers have turned to the team as a means for achieving this improvement. Quality circles were looked at to fulfil this role. However, this form of team is being phased out and may have posed as incubator for the current trend; self - managed work teams (Klein, 1995). These teams are increasingly being looked at today to solve many an organisation's production problems and inefficiencies, and in the process are both badly failing and greatly succeeding. Therefore, the discussion of
Organization behavior is the study of behaviors and attitudes of people in an organization. After all human behaviors and attitudes determine effectiveness of any organization. The approach used in studying OB is the system approach. In other words, this approach interprets people-organization relationships in terms of the whole person, whole group, whole organization, and whole social system. Its purpose is to build better relationships by achieving human objectives, organizational objectives, and social objectives. In this paper we propose to study leadership, motivation and organizational conflict, as among the most pressing issues in
The processes that account for an individual’s willingness to exert high levels of effort to reach organizational goals, conditioned by the
Organisation Behaviour is a study of a people, individuals and a group of people's thinking, feeling and behaviour in a organisation. "That is, it interprets people-organisation relationships in terms of the whole person, whole group, whole organisation, and while social system" (Nwlink.com, 2008). Because most of us work in organisations, learning organisational behaviour is able to help us understand, predict and influence the behavious of others in organisational setting, and trends in organisational behaviour.