MB 6630 - Applied Organizational Behavior

• Know and understand organizational behavior and its impact on organizational performance, especially in today’s business environment
• Identify and assimilate the theory/practice covered in this course with real-world work situations
• Describe the impact of perception, individual approaches to learning, ability and personality, and their effect on performance
• Examine how motivation and job satisfaction are affected by leadership/management practices, policies and job characteristics
• Recognize the importance of roles, norms, status and cohesiveness within organizations
• Explain how individual performance in groups is affected by the presence of others, the cultural diversity of group membership, and the number of others with whom one works
• Describe the formal forces and informal networks that influence communication in organizations
• Distinguish between social influence, power, and organizational politics, and their application in organizations
• Explain how rising expectations about quality and ethical behavior have influenced the field of organizational behavior
• Describe how technology has led to the development of new organizational forms

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• Introduction to organizational behavior
• The field of organizational behavior: defined and differentiated fundamental assumptions, the impact of globalization, advances in technology and changes in people’s expectations
• Perception and learning
• The attribution process perception and learning: organizational applications
• Individual differences
• Personality: work-related aspects
• Ability
• Emotion and stress on the job
• Managing emotions and moods
• Managing stress on the job
• Work related attitudes
• Job satisfaction and its consequences
• Organizational commitment
• Managing diversity and prejudice
• Motivation in organizations
• Motivating by meeting needs, motivating by being fair, motivating by altering expectations motivating by structuring jobs
• Career dynamics
• Organizational socialization and mentoring
• Group dynamics, structural dynamics, and individual performance
• Teams and effective team performance
• Communications in organizations
• Types of communication: verbal and nonverbal, formal and informal, and improvement techniques
• Decision-making: factors affecting decision in organization Individual versus group decision-making techniques for improvement
• Interpersonal behavior: dynamics of pro-social behavior, cooperation, and conflict managing organizational behavior
• Influence, power, and politics, social influence, individual and group power
• Organizational politics, power in action
• Leadership approaches to identifying leadership effectiveness
• Organizational culture: identifying organizational culture, its consequences and capacity to change
• Creativity and the process of innovation
• Organizational structure and design: structures and dimensions of organizations, organizational design