The objective of this subject is to acquaint the students with the basic concepts of organization behaviour.
Organization Behaviour: Concept, Nature, Disciplines Contributing to OB, Challenges in OB, Hawthorne Experiments and Human Relations.
Individual Dimension:
Personality: Concept, Determinants, Theories
Perception: Concept, Perceptual Process, Interpersonal Perception
Learning: Concept, Theories of Learning.
Motivation: Concept, McClelland’s need theory, Alderfer’s ERG theory, Vroom’s Expectancy theory, Porter-Lawler Model, Equity theory.
Group Dimensions:
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 copingstress.
Organizational Change; Meaning, reasons, types, process of change, resistance to change, management of change.
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