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Course Outline and Learning Plan

Faculty: Vella V. Villar

Course Title: Human Behavior in Organizations

Course Code: HHUMBEHV

Number of Units: 3 UNITS

Contact Hours per Week: 3 HOURS Pre-requisite subject/s: HPRINMGMT Course Content:

Timetable

Course Content/Subject Matter Resource Materials

1 Orientation

 Course requirements in HHUMBEHV

 Expectations for the entire semester

 Classroom Policies

Course Outline Student Manual

2 Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behavior

 Perspective of Organizational Effectiveness

 Contemporary Challenges for Organizations

 Anchors of Organizational behavior Knowledge

Organizational Behavior:

Emerging Knowledge, Global Reality. 7th ed.McGraw-Hill

3 Individual Behavior, Personality, and Values

 MARS Model of Individual Behavior and Performance

 Types of Individual Behavior

 Personality in Organizations

 Values in the Workplace

 Ethical Values and Behavior

 Values Across Cultures

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4 Perceiving Ourselves and Others in Organizations

 Self-Concept: how we Perceive Ourselves

 Perceiving the World Around Us

 Specific Perceptual Processes and Problems

 Improving Perceptions

 Global Mindset: Developing Perceptions Across Borders

5 Workplace Emotions, Attitudes, and Stress

 Emotions in the Workplace

 Managing Emotions at Work

 Emotional Intelligence

 Job Satisfaction

 Organizational Commitment

 Work-Related Stress and Its Management

6 Foundation of Employee Motivation

 Employee Engagement

 Employee Drive and Needs

 Expectancy Theory of Motivation

 Organizational behavior Modification and Social

Cognitive Theory

 Goal Setting and Feedback

 Organizational Justice

7 Applied Performance Practices

 The Meaning of Money in the Workplace

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 Financial Reward Practices

 Job Design Practices

 Empowerment Practices

 Self-Leadership Practice 8 Decision Making and Creativity

 Rational Choice Paradigm of Decision Making

 Evaluating and Choosing Alternatives

 Implementing Decisions

 Evaluating Decision Outcomes

 Employee Involvement in Decision Making

 Creativity

MIDTERM EXAM 10 Team Dynamics

 Teams and Informal Groups

 Advantages and Disadvantages of Teams

 A Model of Team Effectiveness

 Team Design Elements

 Team Processes

 Self-Directed Teams

 Virtual Teams

 Team Decision Making

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Communicating in Teams and Organizations

 The Importance of Communication

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 A model of Communication

 Communication Channels

 Choosing the Best Communication Channel

 Communication Barriers (Noise)

 Cross-cultural and gender communication

 Improving communication throughout the hierarchy

 Communicating through the grapevine 13 Power and Influence in the Workplace

 The Meaning of Power

 Source of Power in Organizations

 Contingencies of Power

 The Power of Social Networks

 Consequences of Power

 Influencing Others

 Influence and Organizational Politics

14 Conflict and Negotiation in the Workplace

 The Meaning and Consequences of Conflict

 Conflict Process model

 Structural Sources of Conflict in Organizations

 Interpersonal Conflict Handling Styles

 Structural Approaches to Conflict Management

 Third Party Conflict Resolution

 Resolving Conflict through Negotiation

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5 15 Leadership in Organizational Settings

 What is Leadership?

 Competency Perspective of Leadership

 Behavioral Perspective of Leadership

 Contingency Perspective of Leadership

 Transformational Perspective of Leadership

 Implicit Leadership Perspective

 Cross-Cultural and Gender Issues in Leadership

16 Designing Organizational Structures

 Division of Labor and Coordination

 Elements of Organizational Structure

 Forms of Departmentalization

 Contingencies of organizational Design

17 Organizational Culture

 Elements of Organizational Culture

 Deciphering Organizational Culture Through Artifacts

 Importance of Organizational Culture

 Merging Organizational Cultures

 Changing and Strengthening Organizational Culture

 Organizational Socialization

FINAL EXAM