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Syllabus for Organizational Behavior

**Module 1: Introduction to Organizational Behavior**

- Key Concepts: Definition of organization, manager, and their roles.

- Managerial functions: Planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.

- Management Roles: Interpersonal, informational, and decisional (Mintzberg's framework).

- Management Skills: Technical, human (interpersonal), and conceptual.

- Importance of interpersonal and networking skills in management.

- Introduction to OB: Meaning and historical perspective.

- Challenges and opportunities in applying OB in dynamic business environments.

**Module 2: Individual Differences**

- Personality: Frameworks (Big Five, MBTI), determinants, and theories (Freud, Erickson).

- Abilities: Intellectual, physical, and social abilities.

- Values and Attitudes: Importance of values, types, components of attitudes.

- Job Attitudes: Job satisfaction, involvement, and organizational commitment.

**Module 3: Learning and Behavior**

- Learning: Concepts and theories (Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Social Learning).

- Methods of reinforcement: Positive, negative, punishment, extinction.

- Schedules of reinforcement: Continuous vs. intermittent.

- Shaping Behavior: Techniques for molding behavior in workplace settings.

**Module 4: Perception and Decision Making**


- Perception: Definition, factors influencing perception, and attribution theory.

- Decision Making: Biases and errors in decision making.

**Module 5: Emotions and Moods**

- Concepts of emotions and moods in the workplace.

- Managing emotions: Emotional labor, Affective Events Theory, emotional intelligence, and

regulation strategies.

**Module 6: Motivation**

- Early Theories: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory, McClelland's Theory

of Needs.

- Contemporary Theories: Expectancy theory, goal-setting theory, and equity theory.

**Module 7: Foundations of Group Behavior**

- Reasons for group formation: Social Identity Theory, ingroups, and outgroups.

- Stages of group development: Forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning.

- Group dynamics: Roles, norms, status, size, cohesiveness, diversity.

- Individual performance in groups: Social loafing.

- Group decision-making issues: Groupthink, group shift.

**Module 8: Work Teams**

- Differences between groups and teams.

- Types of teams: Problem-solving, self-managed, cross-functional, virtual teams.

- Creating effective teams: Factors of context, composition, and processes.

**Module 9: Power and Influence**

- Concepts of power and leadership differences.

- Bases of power: Legitimate, reward, coercive, expert, and referent.


- Dependence and power.

- Power tactics and their applications.

**Module 10: Conflict and Negotiation**

- Types and loci of conflict: Intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup.

- Conflict process and resolution techniques.

- Negotiation process and bargaining strategies: Distributive and integrative approaches.

**Module 11: Organizational Dynamics**

- Organizational Change: Forces for change, strategies for planned change.

- Resistance to change: Causes and overcoming techniques.

- Change models: Lewin's three-step model, organizational development interventions.

- Creating a learning organization.

- Change and Stress: Sources of workplace stress, individual and organizational stress

management approaches.

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