Organization Behaviour

Paper Code: 
BSG 417
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Managers as well as the entrepreneurs today have to deal with the complex intra-organizational environment and deal with the group dynamics. This course aims at equipping them with the empirical knowledge of various behavioral aspects prevalent within an organization.  

12.00

Organization Behavior: concepts, scope and  importance of studying Organization Behavior, disciplines contributing organization behavior

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

Motivation: Meaning, theories of Motivation-maslow theory, herzbergs theory, McGregor theory, Alderfer theory.

10.00

Group behavior: 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.

8.00

Organizational Power: Meaning, characteristics, classification of power, contingency approaches to power.

Politics: Meaning, Reasons of politics

9.00

Conflicts: Meaning, Reasons of conflict, types of conflict, Process of conflict, management of conflict.

Stress: Meaning, reasons of stress, types of stress, effect of stress, strategies for coping stress

6.00

Organizational change: Meaning, reasons, types, process of change, résistance to change, management of change.

Essential Readings: 
  1. Robbins, Stephen P., Organizational behavior:Concepts, Controversies, Applications, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi  (Latest edition)
  2. Prasad, L.M., Organizational behaviour, S.Chand, New Delhi
  3. Buchanan, David, Organizational behaviour, Prentice Hall.
References: 
  1. Johns, Gary and Saks, Michael, Organizational Behaviour: Understanding and Managing Life at work, Pearson Prentice Hall, Toronto
  2. Davis, Keith and Newstrom, John W., Human behaviour at work: Organization behaviour, McGraw-Hill International Editions Management Series, New York.
  3. Luthans, Fred, Organizational behaviour¸ McGraw Hill Series in Management
  4. Rao, V. S. P., and Narayana, D. S., Organization theory and behaviour, Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
Academic Year: 
2019-2020
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