MSc Management and Information Systems: Change and Development (Distance Learning) / Course details

1. What is Organizational Behaviour? Perception, attribution and stereotyping
2. Personality, culture and gender conceptual
3. Communication
4. Motivation
5. Leadership
6. Groups and teams
7. Metaphors and organisations as machines
8. Organizational Design

' to present models of Organizational Behaviour (OB) that can be applied to the participants' own workplace

- to explore the context in which OB was developed, and the usefulness of applying
OB theories to developing and transitional countries, and to the public sector

- to discuss the interests of different stakeholders in the workplace

At the end of the course unit participants should be able to:

- describe a wide range of approaches to organizational behaviour
- discuss critically the relevance of that literature to understanding behaviour in their own organizations and countries
- analyse issues of behaviour in organizations
- apply theory usefully to their own management practice

Distance Learning Mode including weekly online tutorials

One 3,500 word essay (90%)

Tutorial participation (max 10%)

• Student must engage with minimum of 4/8 tutorials, including at least 1 synchronous tutorial  (5%)
• Student must engage with minimum of 6/8 tutorials, including at least 1 synchronous tutorial (10%)

Re-sit Assessment: One 3,500 word essay (100%)

Course unit textbooks

Andrzej A. Hucznynski and David A. Buchanan (2007) Organizational Behaviour (sixth edition), Pearce Education Ltd.

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MGDI Programmes on which course unit is offered:
MSc Human Resource Management and Development (via Distance Learning) and MSc Management and Information Systems: Change and Development (via Distance Learning)