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Most 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