Organizational Behavior
This course is an introduction to individual and group processes involved in management-employee relationships, leadership, group dynamics, management, communications, motivation, culture, and conflict resolution. Modern topics of participatory management, emotional intelligence, organizational change, and theories of leadership will be explored.
Prerequisite
None.
Credit Units/Hours
Upon successful completion of this course, you will earn 3 semester hours of college credit. This course represents the equivalent of learning outcomes normally achieved through 45 hours of student classroom study or through distance learning instruction.
Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Define, discuss, and recognize important terminology, facts, concepts, principles, analytic techniques, and theories of organizations and organizational behavior.
- Identify and apply appropriate terminology, facts, concepts, principles, analytic techniques, and theories when analyzing factual situations with organizational behavior problems.
- Develop reasonable solutions to organizational behavior problems using appropriate facts, concepts, principles, analytic techniques, and theories from this organizational behavior course.
- Evaluate the quality of proposed solutions to organizational behavior problems against appropriate criteria, including organizational constraints.
- Discuss the relevance and application of the concepts, principles, and theories used in organizational theory and organizational behavior to contemporary events.
- Identify and discuss the interrelationships among the concepts, principles, and theories used in the different areas of organizational theory and organizational behavior.
Textbook | |
Text Title: | Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations |
Publisher: | South-Western |
Author(s): | Griffin, R. W., & Moorhead, G. |
Edition: | 11th (2013) |
ISBN: | 978-1133626695 |
Certificate: By Canadian Professional Academy