Organisational Behaviour

Paper Code: 
GBBA 202A
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 

Course Objectives:                       

This course will enable the students to -

  • Understand the field of organizational behavior and discuss its relevance to the workplace and to develop insight with different theories of motivations and strategies to improve motivation in the workplace.

Course Outcomes (COs):

 

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GBBA 202A

Organisational Behaviour

 

CO 90: To understand the field of organizational behaviour and discuss its relevance to the workplace.

CO 91: To analyse themselves with different personality traits

CO 92: To understand different theories of motivations and strategies to improve motivation in the workplace

CO 93: To understand strategies for managing conflict and negotiation in the workplace

CO 94: Recognize good and bad leadership styles and learn how to apply at workplace.

CO 95: Understand the impact of organizational change has on individuals and the workplace.

Interactive Hours, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration

Class test, Semester end examinations, Presentation, Individual and group projects, Task-based practical exercises to assess students’ software  understanding & technical skills

 

 

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to Organizational Behaviour and Personality:

Introduction to Organizational Behaviour and Personality: Concept of Organization Behaviour. Disciplines contributing to the field of organizational behaviour. Personality: Meaning, Determinants of personality, personality development theories- Psychoanalytic theory, Trait theory, Self theory.

12.00
Unit II: 
Learning and Perception:

Learning and Perception: Concept, Nature, Components, factors affecting learning, Theories of learning-Conditioning theory, Cognitive learning1 theory, Social learning theory, Reinforcement and its application in behaviour modification. Perception: Nature, Importance, difference between sensation and perception, perceptual process perceptual selectivity, perceptual organization

12.00
Unit III: 
Motivation:

Motivation: Concept, Primary and secondary motives, Financial and Non Financial Motives. Theories of motivation: Maslow’s Need hierarchy theory, Herzberg’s Motivation Hygiene theory, Vroom's Expectancy theory, Equity theory of work motivation. Alderfer’s ERG theory

12.00
Unit IV: 
Leadership and Organisational Power:

Leadership and Organisational Power:
Concept, Leaders versus Managers, Theories of leadership, Leadership styles
Organizational Power: Concept, Source of power, use of power

12.00
Unit V: 
Stress Management and Conflict:

Stress Management and Conflict:
Concept, reasons of stress, Strategies of overcoming stress.
Conflict: Meaning, features, causes of conflict, types and consequences of conflict. Managing conflict

Essential Readings: 

• Robbins, Stephen P., Organizational behavior:Concepts, Controversies, Applications, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi
• Prasad, L.M., Organizational behaviour, S.Chand, New Delhi
• Aswathappa k, Organisational Behaiviour , Himalaya Publishing House, New Delhi
• Subba Rao. P, Organisational Behaviour, Himalaya Publishing House, New Delhi

References: 

• Buchanan, David, Organizational behaviour, Prentice Hall
• Johns, Gary and Saks, Michael, Organizational Behaviour: Understanding and Managing Life at work, Pearson Prentice Hall, Toronto
• Davis, Keith and Newstrom, John W., Human behaviour at work: Organization behaviour, McGraw-Hill International Editions Management Series, New York.

E-Resources:
http://Community.WorldLibrary.In/?AffiliateKey=NDL-FL1773
https://old.mu.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Management-PAPER-II-Orga...
https://2012books.lardbucket.org/pdfs/an-introduction-to-organizational-...
https://bdpad.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/fred-luthans-organizational-be...

Journals:
• Journal of organisational Behaviour
• Research in Organisational Behaviour
• Annual Review of Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behaviour
• Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes

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