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Organizational Behavior Syllabus

This document provides information about an Organizational Behavior course offered at a university. The 3 credit course is taught over 3 lecture hours and 3 tutorial hours per week. The course aims to help students understand how organizational structure, culture, and change impact individual behavior in the workplace. It covers topics like interpersonal skills, motivation, groups, leadership, conflict, and managing stress. The course objectives are to demonstrate how organizational behavior can be used to understand individual and group dynamics and integrate concepts like motivation and culture. Assessment is based on 5 course outcomes related to applying OB concepts to analyze workplace behavior and dynamics.

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Organizational Behavior Syllabus

This document provides information about an Organizational Behavior course offered at a university. The 3 credit course is taught over 3 lecture hours and 3 tutorial hours per week. The course aims to help students understand how organizational structure, culture, and change impact individual behavior in the workplace. It covers topics like interpersonal skills, motivation, groups, leadership, conflict, and managing stress. The course objectives are to demonstrate how organizational behavior can be used to understand individual and group dynamics and integrate concepts like motivation and culture. Assessment is based on 5 course outcomes related to applying OB concepts to analyze workplace behavior and dynamics.

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Course Code:MMB707 Organizational Behavior L T P S J C

SDG No.: 8 3 3 0 0 0 3
Pre-requisite: None
Co-requisite:Coursera

Course Description:Practicing managers have long understood the importance of interpersonal


skills to managerial effectiveness. Till about three decades ago, most business schools focused
on the functional aspects of management – specifically finance, accounting, and quantitative
techniques. Though Organizational Behaviour was a core course right from the inception of the
MBA program, the focus was essentially on gaining a psychological understanding of human
behavior, and not on acquiring usable skills. In the last two decades, academia has come to
realize the importance of human behavior to managerial effectiveness. This course’s essential
focus is on gaining an in-depth understanding of the impact of the organization structure,
organizational culture, and change on individual behavior at the workplace. Gaining an
understanding and a perspective on these global implications should result in beneficial results
in terms of managerial effectiveness and performance.

CourseEducational Objectives:
1. To Demonstrate the applicability of organizational behavior to understand the behavior of
people in the organization.
2. To Demonstrate the applicability of analysing the complexities associated with the
management of individual behavior in the organization.
3. To Analyse the complexities associated with the management of group behavior (Group
Dynamics) in the organization.
4. To Demonstrate how organizational behavior can integrate into understanding the
motivation, Organisational culture, organizational change, and managing stress for creating
positive work culture.

UNIT 1 9 hours
Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace - Manager’s Functions, Roles & Skills - Effective versus
Successful Managerial Activities
Definition of Organizational Behaviour - The Individual: Nature of Organizational Behaviour -
Workforce Diversity - Biographical Characteristics - Ability – physical ability, intelligence.
Attitude – Three Components of an Attitude - Major Job Attitudes - Job Satisfaction - Job
Involvement - Psychological Empowerment - Organizational Commitment - Perceived
Organizational Support - Employee Engagement.

UNIT 2 10hours
Personality - Definition - Measurement - Determinants - Personality Traits - Myers-
Briggs Type Indicator - Big Five Personality Model.
Perception - Factors of Perception - Attribution Theory - Perceptual Errors.
Motivation - Theories of Motivation – Maslow, Herzberg, Vroom, Goal-Setting Theory, And
Equity Theory
Applications of Motivation - Job Characteristics Model - Job Rotation - Job Enlargement -
Job Enrichment - Alternative Work Arrangements - Job Involvement Measures - Types of
Variables Pay Programs - Flexible Benefits.

UNIT 3 9 hours
Nature of Groups - Types of Groups - Stages of Group Development - Group properties - Norms
- Status - Group Size - Cohesiveness.
Leadership – Trait Theories - Behavioural Theories - Fiedler Contingency Model -
Transformational Leadership.
Conflict – Traditional versus Interactionist view of Conflict - Types of Conflict - Three Loci of
Conflict - The Conflict Process

UNIT 4 9 hours
Organizational Structure - Six Elements - Work Specialization - Departmentalization - Chain of
Command - Span of Control - Centralization and Decentralization - Formalization - Bureaucracy
- Matrix - Boundaryless Organization - Virtual Organization
Organizational Culture - Common Characteristics - Functional and Dysfunctional Aspects of
Organizational Culture on People - Creating a culture - How employees learn the culture.

UNIT 5 9 hours
Organizational Change - Forces for change - Planned change - Unplanned Change - Sources of
Resistance to change
Managing organizational change - Lewin’s Three-Step Model - Kotter’s Eight-Step Plan for
Implementing Change - Action Research - Organization Development
Work stress and its management - Sources of Stress - Consequences of Stress - Individual and
Organizational Approaches to Managing Stress
Textbooks:
Robbins, SP, Judge, T, & Vohra, N, “Organizational Behavior”, 19th Ed.,
Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2020

References:
1.Sushma Khanna (editor), “Udai Pareek’s Understanding Organizational
Behaviour” 3rdEdition, Oxford University Press, 2013.
2. Nelson, Quick & Khandelwal, “ORGB – An Innovative Approach to
Organizational Behaviour, A South Asian Perspective”, CENGAGE Learning,
New Delhi, 2013. 3. McShane & Von Glinow, “Organizational Behaviour” 4thEd.,
McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2012

Course Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the applicability of the concept of organizational behavior to understand the behavior
of people in the organization.
2.Demonstrate the applicability of analysing the complexities associated with management of
individual behavior in the organization
3.Analyze the complexities associated with management of the group behavior (Group Dynamics) in
the organization.
4.Demonstrate how the organizational behavior can integrate in understanding the motivation, and
organisational culture.
5. Analyze and understandorganizational change and managing stress for creating positive work
culture.

CO-PO Mapping:

PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PSO1 PSO2


CO1 1 3 2 2 1 1 3
CO2 1 2 1 2 3 1 2
CO3 1 2 1 2 1 1 2
CO4 2 1 1 2 1 2 2
CO5 2 1 0 1 0 1 2
Note: 1 - Low Correlation 2 - Medium Correlation 3 - High Correlation
APPROVED IN:
BOS :<< date >> ACADEMIC COUNCIL: <<date>>

SDG No. & Statement: 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

SDG Justification:
Promote sustained, inclusive economic growth; full and productive employment and decent work for
all

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