The objective of this subject is to acquaint the students with the basic concepts of organization behaviour.
Organizational Behaviour: Definition, Importance , Disciplines contributing to Organization Behaviour.
Foundations of Individual Behaviour: Perception-Meaning,charactersitcs,perceptual process Perceptual selectivity ,Perceptual Organization
Personality-Meaning, theories of personality-psychoanalytical theory,socio-psychological theory, trait theory and self theory
Foundations of Group Behaviour: Meaning, Importance, Process of Group Formation, Types of Groups, Factors influencing group behaviour, Group cohesiveness, factors affecting group cohesiveness
Team: Meaning, difference between team and group, Types of teams, techniques of effective team building.
Organizational Power: Meaning, characteristics, classification of power, contingency approaches to power.
Politics: Meaning, Reasons of politics
Conflicts: Meaning, Reasons of conflict, types of conflict, Process of conflict, merits and demerits, management of conflict.
Stress: Meaning, reasons of stress, types of stress, effect of stress, strategies for coping stress.
Organizational Change; Meaning, reasons, types, process of change, résistance to change, management of change.
*Case studies related to entire topics are to be taught.
• Stephen P. Robins, Organizational Behaviour, Prentice-Hall of Indian Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.11th edition
• Mehta Anil &ChouhanBhumija., “Organizational Behaviour”, RBD Publications, Jaipur.
• Prasad L M., “Organization Behaviour”, Sultan Chand and Sons, New Delhi.2nd edition
• John W. Newstrom and Kilth Davis, OrganisationalBehaviour, (Human behaviour at work) Tata McGraw – Hill, New Delhi:9th edition
• Luthans, Fred, OrganisationalBehaviour McGraw-Hill Inc., New Delhi: 1992 9th edition
• Davies, Keth, OrganisationalBehaviour (Human Behaviour at work), Tata McGrawHill, NewDelhi