AMGT 376
Course Syllabus Course Schedule Course Requirements
Project Information:
Oral Presentations
Behavior Management
Learning Objectives

Organization Behavior is a required course for students in the management concentration. The general objective of the course is for students to understand work behavior within organizations: its genesis, character, dynamic, and affect; and an enhanced understanding of how to manage it.

More specific objectives of the course are for students to explain:

    Social systems;
    Personality, and the following concepts The dynamics of individual, interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup behavior;

    Context factors including stress, conflict, politics, power, and diversity in the workforce;

    Leadership and management styles;

    How to objectively observe and analyze organization behavior and its contextual situations;

    The management of organization behavior through communication, leadership and management styles, and such approaches as work design, participative management, and incentive systems.

The Organization Behavior course is directed particularly toward the enhanced development within the student of all four of the skills and capacities referred to in the mission of the School of Business Administration. These are the skills of analysis and decision making, communication, technical knowledge, leadership, global perspective, and business ethics and social responsibility.

Projects are used to facilitate an understanding of organization behavior and how it is managed. Individual and group activities lead to opportunities to develop analysis and decision making skills, plus presentations requiring oral skills. Open-ended tests will help develop written communication skills.


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