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Admas University

School of Postgraduate Studies


Course Outline

Course Title: Organization Behavior and Management

Course Code: MBA 552


Credit Hours: 2 hrs
Prerequisite: none

Course Description

This subject employs an organization theory and research to analyze the central features of contemporary
organizations, namely their structure, culture, people and processes of power. Key issues of organizational
restructuring and change, culture change and management, the management of people and personal identity,
and political and power relations are analyzed. These four areas of organizations are used to diagnose
organizational problems, and skills are developed for problem solving. The subject also develops key
managerial skills in organization analysis and design by encouraging critical thinking and reflexive practice;
synthesizing knowledge between organization theory and management practice.

Course Objective

Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:

▪ appreciate multiple-perspective approaches to the analysis of organizational situations


▪ critically understand organizational culture and structure
▪ Understand the relationship between people, identity and work in organizations.
▪ analyze the dimensions of power in organizations and identify resistance to organizational and
managerial power
▪ apply a multiple-perspective approach to diagnosing organizational problems and developing
solutions, and develop the ability to critique the practice of management

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Course Contents
Chapter One: An over View of Organization Behavior
1.1 What is organizational behavior?
1.2 The three basic units of analysis in organizational behavior
1.3 Replacing intuition with systematic study
1.4. A review of a manager’s job and it relation to the study of organizational behavior
1.5. The characteristics of organizational behavior
1.6 The development of organizational behavior
Chapter Two: Foundation of Individual Behavior and Learning in an Organization
2.1. Perception
2.2. Attitude
2.3. Personality
2.4. Learning
Chapter Three: Foundation of Group Behavior
3.1. Defining and classifying team and/or group
3.2. Why do people form and join team/groups?
3.3. Stages in team/group development
3.4. Obstacle to team/group productivity
Chapter Four: Motivation Concepts and Their Applications
4.1. What is motivation?
4.2. Early Theories of Motivation
4.3. Contemporary theories of motivation
4.4. Implication of motivation for performance and satisfaction
Chapter Five: Management of Organizational Conflict
5.1. Definition of conflict
5.2. Functional Vs dysfunctional conflict
5.3 Nature of conflict in an organization
5.4. Cause of conflict in organization
Chapter Six: Organizational Change and Stress Management
6.1. What is change?
6.2. Forces of change
6.3. Change model

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6.4. Resistance to change
6.5. Strategies for managing change resistances
6.6. What is stress?
6.7. Understanding sources of stress and its consequences
6.8. Stress management strategies
6.9. Implications for performance and satisfaction
Chapter Seven: Culture and Diversity
7.1 Culture and cultural diversity
7.2. Globalization and people at work
Chapter Eight: Power and Politics in an Organization
8.1. A definition of power
8.2. Contrasting leadership and power
8.3. Base and sources of power
8.4. Power in group coalitions
Chapter Nine: Organizational Design and Structure
9.1. The essence of organizational design and structure
9.2. Key organization design process
9.3. Types of organization structure
9.4 Technology and job design

Teaching/learning methods
• Lecture
• Case analysis
• Presentation
• Discussion

Assessment scheme

• Article review / Case Study ………………………………………. 25%


• Term Paper with presentation….…………………………………… 35%
• Final examination (cover all chapters of a course) ………………….. 40%

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Reading Materials

Text Book:

• Organizational Behavior: Stephen P. Robbins & Timothy A. Judge, 17th edition, 2017, Prentice
Hall.
Recommended Reference Materials

• Organizational Behavior, Concepts, Controversies applications, 7th Edition,2016Stephen R.


Robins

• Organizational Behavior, 15th edition, Stephen p . Robbins , 2013,pearson.


• Bolman, LG and Deal, TE(2008).Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership,
3rd edn, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
• Organizational Behavior Nelson, L. 6th 2002
• Organization and management Agrawall R.D, 2005
• Organizational Behavior Coloquitt, A etal 2009
• Organizational Behavior: key concepts, skills and best practices Angelo kinicki and Robert
Kreitness 2nd 2003
• Organizational Behavior and Management John M.Ivancevich,Robert Konopaske and Michael
T.Matteson 8th 2008

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