Case Study Assignment

ORGB 2110 Course Outline

ORGB 2200 Course Outline

HRMG 3050 Course Outline

Timetable 2004

Introduction to Organizational Behavior

• Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management
• Hawthorne Studies (Powerpoint Slides)

Personality

• Employing the Whole Man by Peter Drucker.

The Prisoner's Dilemma

Motivation

• Maslow's Theory of Motivation
• Alderfer's ERG Theory of Motivation
• McClelland's Achievement Motivation
• Herzberg's Theory of Motivation
  • Interview with Frederick Herzberg
• Hackman & Oldham's Motivating Potential Score (MPS) of Jobs
• Motivation as a Function of Fairness and Equity
• Expectancy Theory of Motivation
• On the Folly of Rewarding A While Hoping for B

Leadership Defined

• An Overview of the Leadership Process
• A Trait Approach to Leadership
• A Behavior Approach to Leadership
• Blake and Mouton's Model of Leadership
• A Situational Approach to Leadership
• Blanchard's Situational Leadership Model
• Vroom's Normative Leadership Model
• Substitutes for Leadership
• Evolution of Ledership Theory

Power in Organizations

• Power Defined
• The Dependency Theory of Power
• Dependency, Power, and Bargaining Strategies and Outcomes
• How to recognize negotiations

• Bases and Sources of Power
• Power and Compliance
• Power in the video "Final Offer"

Organizational Politics

Groups -- An Introduction

• Reasons for Joining Groups
• Groups and the Larger Organizational Culture
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Groups
• Group Development
• An Alternate Model of Team Development
• Group Roles and Norms
• Role Ambiguity
• Role Conflict
• Types of Norms
• How Norms are Developed
• Why Norms are Established
• Group Norms and Group Conflict
• Conformity
• Norms, Deviance, and Nonconformity
• Social Loafing
• Free Riding
• Group Cohesiveness
• Groupthink
• The Abilene Paradox
• Team Effectiveness and Awareness of Conflict
• Strategies for Team Effectiveness

• Team effectiveness: Meeting Evaluation Form

• Risky Shift

Conflict

• Conflict Defined
• Causes of Conflict
• Types of Conflict
• Team Effectiveness and Cognitive Conflict
• Team Effectiveness and Affective Conflict
• Intergroup Conflict
• Intragroup Conflict
• Conflict and Decision-making
• Team Effectiveness and Conflict Management
• Dealing with Conflict and Conflict Resolution
  • Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument

FINAL EXAM (ORGB 2110)

FINAL EXAM (HRMG 3050)