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This document outlines the course details for an organizational behaviour course, including aims, learning outcomes, contents, grading and references. The course aims to provide understanding of individual and group behavior in organizations and its impact on effectiveness. It will cover topics such as motivation, teams, leadership and culture through case studies and a group project.

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Organizational Behavior

This document outlines the course details for an organizational behaviour course, including aims, learning outcomes, contents, grading and references. The course aims to provide understanding of individual and group behavior in organizations and its impact on effectiveness. It will cover topics such as motivation, teams, leadership and culture through case studies and a group project.

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Ho Chi Minh City Open University

School of Graduate Studies

Course Outline

1. Course title: Organisational behaviour


2. Course aims:
All students undertaking graduate studies in Business need to appreciate and understand
the nature of organisational behaviour. They should also be able to articulate behavioural
issues in business situations. This course provides a framework in which students are
exposed to a range of theories and experiences within the field of organisational behaviour
which will allow them to further develop insights, attitudes and skills to a level consistent
with the expectations for senior management. The course aims to provide an
understanding of the behaviour of people at work. It analyses behaviour at the individual,
group and organisational levels. Managers must understand the complex interactions that
influence the effectiveness of different management strategies and organisational
structures under different environmental and technological conditions. As well as
reviewing the current theories and research in the area, the course uses case studies to
examine the implications for practising managers.

3. Learning outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. describe and critically analyse the foundations of individual behaviour and its
impact upon work organisations
2. critique employee satisfaction and motivation as determinant of work performance
3. explain and critically analyse how communication, negotiation and conflict
management could be utilised to enhance work performance and employee
outcomes
4. critically evaluate how groups and teams develop and function, and how group
dynamics affect performance
5. critically evaluate and apply the various leadership approaches

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6. critically analyse how organisational effectiveness is influenced by factors such as
power, organisational design and organisational culture
7. describe and critically evaluate the process of organisational change and
identify and apply change to achieve positive organisational outcomes.

4. Course length: 3 credits (directed study: 45 periods with 50 minutes for a period)

5. Course contents:

Session Focu
s
1 Introduction to Organizational Behavior
 Foundations of individual behavior
 Personality & Values
2 Emotions and Moods

Cases of the previous chapter:


 Case Incident 1 (pp. 90-91)
 Case Incident 2 (pp. 91-92)
3 Decision Making

Cases of the previous chapter:


 Case Incident 1 (p. 124)
 Case Incident 2 (pp. 124-125)
4 Motivation

Cases of the previous chapter:


 Ethical Dilemma: Do Unethical Decisions Come from Bad
Character? (pp. 193-194)
 Case Incident 1 (p. 194)
5 Foundations of Team Dynamics
Cases of the previous chapter:
 Case Incident 1 (p. 231)
 Case Incident 2 (pp. 231-232)

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6 Communication

Cases of the previous chapter:


 Case Incident 1 (p. 328)
 Case Incident 2 (p. 329)
7 Leadership

Cases of the previous chapter:


 Case Incident 1 (p. 362)
 Case Incident 2 (pp. 362-363)
8 Conflict and negotiation

Cases of the previous chapter:


 Case Incident 1 (pp. 438-439)
 Case Incident 2 (p. 439)
9 Organizational Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility

Cases of the previous chapter:


 Ethical Dilemma: The Lowball Applicant (p. 473)
 Case Incident 1 (p. 473)
10 Organizational Change

Cases of the previous chapter:


 Ethical Dilemma (p. 536)
 Case Incident 1 (pp. 536-537)
11 Presenting team projects (20%)

Team Project:
 Find an organization in Vietnam context and investigate at least
two behaviors in that organization such as motivation, team
performance, communication, leadership, or organizational culture and
their impacts on organizational effectiveness. Data can be collected
through questionnaire survey, interviews, or observations. Interviews
and observations should be recorded (with permission). The research
should be presented in powerpoint slides and comprise such sections as
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Introduction, Literature Review, Research Methodology, Findings and
Discussion, Conclusion and Implications.
 Form of work: Teamwork
 Submission deadline: The last day of the course

6. Grading system:
Case presentation (in teams) 25%
Team project 25%
Two-hour examination 50%
Total 100%

7. Course materials:
Robbins, S.P., & Judge, T.A. (2013). Organizational behavior (15th edition). Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

8. References:

Borkowski, N. (2016). Organizational behavior in health care (3rd ed.). Burlington,


MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Colarelli, S.M., & Arvey, R.D. (Eds.). (2015). The biological foundations of
organizational behavior. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Dipboye, R.L. (2014). Bridging the gap in organizational behavior: A review of Jone
Pearce’s Organizational Behavior: Real Research for Real Managers. Academy of
Management Learning & Education, 13(3), 487-491.

Griffin, R., & Moorhead, G. (2012). Organizational behavior (10th ed.). Mason, OH:
Cengage Learning.

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Miner, J.B. (2015). Organizational behavior 1: Essential theories of motivation and
nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
leadership (2

Miner, J.B. (2015). Organizational Behavior 2: Essential theories of process and

structure (2nded.). New York, NY: Routledge.

Nahavandi, A., Denhardt, R.B., Denhardt, J.V., & Aristigueta, M.P. (2014).
Organizational behavior. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications.

Neck, C.P., Houghton, J.D., & Murray, E. (2016). Organizational Behavior: A Critical-
Thinking Approach. SAGE.

Pinder, C.C. (2008). Work motivation in organizational behavior (2nd ed.). New
York, NY: Psychology Press

Scandura, T.A. (2016). Essentials of Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based


Approach. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications.

Wagner III, J.A., & Hollenbeck, J.R. (2015). Organizational behavior: Securing

competitive advantage (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.

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