The objective of this subject is to acquaint the students with the basic concepts of organization behaviour.
Concept, Nature, Disciplines Contributing to OB, Challenges in OB, Hawthorne Experiments and Human Relations.
Personality: Concept, Determinants, Theories
Perception: Concept, Perceptual Process, Interpersonal Perception
Learning: Concept, Theories of Learning.
Concept, McClelland’s need theory, Alderfer’s ERG theory, Vroom’s Expectancy theory, Porter-Lawler Model, Equity theory
Organizational Power: Meaning, classification of power, contingency approaches to power.
Politics: Meaning, reasons of politics, Political implications of power.
Conflicts: Meaning, Reasons of conflict, Management of Conflict.
Stress: Meaning, reasons of stress, types of stress, effect of stress, strategies for coping
stress.
Meaning, reasons, types, process of change, resistance to
change, management of change.
1. Johns, Gary and Saks, Michael, Organizational Behaviour: Understanding and Managing Life at work, Pearson Prentice Hall, Toronto, 2005
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.