436060 VU Organizational Behavior
summer semester 2019 | Last update: 04.03.2019 | Place course on memo listMost adults spend a good portion of their waking hours at work, interacting with co-workers, subordinates, bosses, customers and others. A number of questions arise about this important sphere of life such as: What are the factors that make this an interesting and pleasant experience? What are some potential pitfalls? What can I do to be a success? What situational and environmental factors influence my work experience?
The objective of this course is to provide students with a good understanding of the basic principles of human behavior that effective managers use when managing individuals and groups in organizations. After completing this course students should be able to:
- Recognize, define, and discuss the terminology, concepts, principles, and theories covered.
- Identify and apply appropriate terminology, concepts, principles, and theories from the course when analyzing factual situations with organizational behavior problems.
- Develop reasonable solutions to organizational behavior problems using appropriate terminology, concepts, principles, and theories from the course.
- Evaluate the quality of their proposed solutions to organizational behavior problems against appropriate criteria, including organizational constraints.
- Discuss the relevance and application of the concepts, principles, and theories used in organizational behavior to contemporary events.
- Identify and discuss the interrelationships among the concepts, principles, and theories used in the different areas of organizational behavior, and
- Will have produced a group paper on an OB topic.
- Approaches for understanding and managing the behavior of people in the workplace
- Basics of and trends impacting OB
- Organizational justice and ethics
- Processes of perception and learning
- Individual differences and personality
- Emotions, stress, attitudes, and motivation in the workplace
- Groups and team work
- Communication
- Decision making
- Conflict, negotiation, power
- Leadership
Lectures, in-class exercises (e.g., case analyses, debates, simulations), short presentations by students.
Group Paper on Employee Engagement (due 1. April)
Group Video on Leadership (due 8. April)
(50% each)
Greenberg, J. (10th edition, 2011) Behavior in Organizations, Upper Saddle River, NJ, Pearson - Prentice Hall.
(there are 20 copies in the library)
Positive completion of the mandatory modules according to § 7 Z 2 and 3
Group 0
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Fri 2019-03-15
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09.00 - 16.45 | HS 3 (Sowi) HS 3 (Sowi) | Barrier-free | |
Sat 2019-03-16
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09.00 - 16.45 | HS 3 (Sowi) HS 3 (Sowi) | Barrier-free | |
Mon 2019-03-18
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08.00 - 13.45 | MS (Theologie) MS (Theologie) | Barrier-free |