This course outline describes an Organizational Behavior course that examines how individual, group, and organizational factors influence workplace behavior and performance, covering topics like organizational culture, leadership, change management, and design. The course will help students understand and apply organizational behavior theories to improve productivity, job satisfaction, and effectiveness through a variety of teaching methods including lectures, group work, and presentations, with assessments consisting of participation, assignments, tests, and a final exam.
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This course outline describes an Organizational Behavior course that examines how individual, group, and organizational factors influence workplace behavior and performance, covering topics like organizational culture, leadership, change management, and design. The course will help students understand and apply organizational behavior theories to improve productivity, job satisfaction, and effectiveness through a variety of teaching methods including lectures, group work, and presentations, with assessments consisting of participation, assignments, tests, and a final exam.
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MEKANE YESUS MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
COLLEGE
MASTERS OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Course outline for Organizational Behavior
By Tesfaye Hirphasa (PhD)
Organizational Behavior: Design and Development
Course code MOL 741
Course title Organizational Behavior: Design and Development Credit hours 2 Course description This course investigates the impact of individuals, groups and organization structure on behavior within organizations; and the application of this knowledge to improve performance, productivity and job satisfaction in an organization. The course deals with theories of organizations, environment and organizational goal setting, organizational behavior, individual attitude and perceptions, individual and group attributes in organizational behaviors, group dynamics, power and politics, organizational design and organizational development. Course objectives The objective of this course is to provide the students basic skills that help them to better explain, predict, influence and manage human behavior in various organizational structures and designs. Learning outcomes On successful completion of the course the students will be able to: • recognize and understand theoretical approaches of organizational behavior and organizational design • apply theoretical knowledge to improve organizational performance and productivity together with job satisfaction and employee commitment • evaluate the impact of organizational structures and design on decision making process • organize the input of individual employees and groups to contribute to common effectiveness • recognize the sources and challenges of organizational power and politics
Delivery time Second year, first semester
Status of the course Core Teaching and Class lectures, working in learning and development learning methods groups, practical cases and Q&D sessionsand presentation Attendance requirements 80% and above to sit for the final examination Assessment scheme Class participation attendance 10%, term paper/project and presentation 30%, quizzes and tests 20% and final exam 40%
Course contents
Chapter One: An Overview of Organizational Behavior
1.1 What is Organizational Behavior? 1.2 Three Basic Units of Analysis in Organizational Behavior 1.3 A Review of a Manager’s Job and itsRelation to the Study of Organizational Behavior 1.4 The Characteristics of Organizational Behavior 1.5The Development of the Study on Organizational Behavior 1.6Management and Organizational Behavior in the 21st Century
Chapter Two: Individual Behavior
2.1 Biographical Characteristics 2.2. Personality and perception 2.3.Improving Individual Effectiveness through Learning and Capacity Building 2.4. Values, Attitudes and Job Satisfaction
Chapter Three: Group Behavior
3.1 Understanding working Teams 3.2. Interpersonal behavior 3.3. Managing group behavior (formal and informal) 3.4. Power, politics and influence in groups 3.5 Group Norm and Decision Making
Chapter Four: Organizational behavior
4.1. Organizational culture 4.2. Human resources policy and practice 4.3. Organizational change and stress management 4.4. Organizational structure and design
Chapter Five: Organizational Development
5.1. The Need for Organizational Development 5.2. The Models of Organizational Development 5.3. The Process of Organizational Development 5.4. The Role of Leadership in Organizational Development 5.5. Impact of Authority and Control on Individual Behavior
Chapter Six: Design of Service Culture
6.1 Foundations of Organizational Culture 6.2 From Hierarchical Systems to Service Oriented Systems 6.3 Organization Design and Strategic Planning
Chapter Seven: Innovation and Transformation by Design
7.1 Innovative Organization – Innovative Employees 7.2 Forces of Change and Transformation 7.3 Implementation of Organizational Design Process
Text-Books (Required Readings)
Robbins, Stephen P. (2013), Organizational behavior / Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge. — 15th ed. References(Soft Copies Available in MLC Library) Ancona D, K. Thomas A., Scully M., Van Maannen J., &Westney, E. D., 2009.Managing for the Future – Organizational Behaviour& Processes, 3rd Ed.,
Foundations of Individual Behavior-2 (Video Available in MLC mini-Library )
Schermerhon, J. R. (Jr), Hunt, J. G., Osborn R. N. 2002.Organizational Behavior, 7th Ed
KondalkarV.G.. 2007, Organizational Behavior, New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers
George J. M., Jones G. 2012.Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior