Background of the Course:

 

Dee Ward Hock, the founder and former CEO of the Visa credit card association, once famously remarked “An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.”

This suggests that while working in an organization, it is very important to not only understand other people’s behavior but also make other people understand ours. This is where the understanding and knowledge of Organizational behavior (OB) becomes crucial. OB as the name suggests is about people-related issues at workplace. To be more precise, OB is the “understanding, prediction and management of human behavior both individually or in a group that occur within an organization.” The course aims to help students in appreciating and influencing a wide variety of issues related to individuals, interpersonal relationships and working in teams.

 

Course Objectives:

 

Following are the main deliverables:

 

1. A brief introduction to the different functions of management and the role of Organizational Behavior therein.

2. Develop an understanding of human behavior and how this behavior influences the effectiveness of an organization.

3. Develop an understanding of the core concepts of OB particularly individual and group dynamics by exposure to real-life organizational situations in the form of short cases/movies or role-plays.

Course Outcomes:

 

After the completion of the course, the students are expected to become adept in:

 

1. Understand the importance of contribution of Sociology, Psychology, Social- psychology, Anthropology etc. on Organizational Behavior (CO1)

2. Develop a basic understanding of individual behavior and explore issues of motivation, communication, leadership, decision‐making, careers, power and Organizational change. (CO2)

3. Analyze individual and group behavior, and understand the implications of organizational behavior on the process of management. (CO3)

4. Develop an understanding or organizational culture on its behavior. (CO4)

5. Develop an understanding of organizational change and its structure on organizational behavior. (CO5)

Course Outcomes and PEO mapping:

After the completion of the course, the students are expected to achieve following Course objectives (COs) that in turn will be mapped to following Program Educational Outcomes (PEOs).

 

TEXTBOOK

Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge, Neharika Vohra; Organizational Behavior, 15th edition: Pearson Education

DURATION:

  20 sessions of 90 minutes each

 

PEDAGOGY:

 

Teaching Pedagogy will consist of classroom teaching, use of multimedia and movies, analysis of cases and role-plays to help students connect daily life situations with the key OB concepts taught in the class.

 

COMPONENTS OF EVALUATION: