ORGB 2811 - Organizational Behaviour

Course Description

Students examine the behaviour of individuals and how they interact with each other in different workplace organizations. Topics include: defining organizational behaviour; perception, personality, and emotions; values, attitudes, and their effects in the workplace; motivating self and others; working in teams; communication, conflict and negotiation; power and politics; leadership; decision making, creativity, ethics; and organizational culture and change.

Learning outcomes

• Explain the organizational behavioural challenges in the Canadian work environment.
• Illustrate the impact of perception, personality, and emotions.
• Articulate the impact of values, attitudes, and the influence of diversity.
• Describe the major motivational theories that affect the workplace.
• Discuss the difference between work groups and work teams and the models of team development.
• Summarize the communication channels and their barriers.
• Explain interpersonal conflict and conflict resolution.
• Critique the most popular bases of power in organizations.
• Interpret contemporary leadership theories.
• Identify major leadership issues in contemporary organizations.
• Describe individual and group creative and ethical decision making.
• Define organizational culture and elaborate on its impact on performance.

Course topics

• Module 1: Orientation to Organizational Behaviour
• Module 2: Individual Behaviour and Organizational Behaviour
• Module 3: Processes Motivation for Performance
• Module 4: Team Processes, continued
• Module 5: Managerial Decision Making and Communication
• Module 6: Organizational Change and Diversity

Required text and materials

The following Open Education Resources (OER) textbooks are required for this course:

1. Black, J. S., & Bright, D. S. (2019). Organizational Behavior. OpenStax. Rice University. ISBN-13: 978-1-947172-72-2
   Digital Access for free at https://openstax.org/details/books/organizational-behavior
2. [Anonymous]. (2012). Organizational Behavior. LibreTexts. 
   Access for free at 
   https://biz.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Management/Organizational_Behavior
   

Assessments

To successfully complete this course, students must achieve a passing grade of 50% or higher on the overall course, and 50% or higher on the final mandatory exam.

Recommended requisite(s)

ENGL 1101

Exclusions

• TMGT 1160
• ORGB 2810
• BBUS 2720
• BBUS 2721