DPGD-P09

DPGD-P09
PGDM 2009-11: Term VI

Dynamics of Personal Growth and Development

Faculty: Prof. F.M. Sahoo

I. Scope

Personal and professional growth is an essential element of corporate excellence. This requires an effective management of negative forces operating in organization. It also requires the promotion of positive resources within the individual. The objective of the present course is to help participants to acquire the skills of controlling negative forces such as helplessness and debilitating emotion. The other goal is to assist participants to develop the skills of self-efficacy, resilience and self-healing personality. The basic goal is to foster cognitive, affective and psychomotor development.

II. Objectives
· To provide an overview of the field
· To develop one's skills to understand dynamics of individual growth and development.
· To develop one’s skills to appreciate various theoretical generalizations relating to positive work behavior.
· To help participants to objectively observe and analyze their own parameters of growth behaviour.
· To help participants to deal with problems arising out negative environment.

III. Class Format

A combination of lectures, assessment sessions, group discussion, simulation sessions and students presentations would be used. The session outline lists the reading materials. Participants of the programmes are expected to see through the materials prior to class sessions. The materials are intended to provide conceptual inputs.

IV. Evaluation Scheme

The following would be weightage of the specific evaluation modality:

A. Quiz 10 + 10 = 20%

B. Group Presentation = 15%

C. Personal Learning Paper = 25%

D. Class Involvement = 10%

E. End-Term Examination = 30%

V. Quiz

There would be two quizzes, each one consisting of objective type of questions.

Dates: Session 6 & 12.

VI. Group Presentation

Group presentation is scheduled during the last session.

Vll. Personal Learning Paper

A 10 to 20 typed pages individual write-up is required. The topic should pertain to any aspect of positive organizational behaviour including themes covered in the course outline. A captivating ease analysis or critical analysis of a concept or an interesting observation may be reported. The review of a book relevant to POB is also acceptable. Course participants are encouraged to carry out a small scale empirical study involving any of the parameter (s) discussed.

VIII. Course Involvement

Credit would be given on the basis of regularity of class attendance, participation and initiative.

IX. End-Term Exam

A multiple choice format of exam carrying 20 marks plus case analysis carrying 10 marks would be given to assess conceptual clarity.

X. Texts

A list of reading materials is supplied with respect to the themes.

In addition to the recommended books, participants are expected to see through some journals such as Harvard Business Review. An additional list of supplementary reading materials would also be supplied from time to time.

Dynamics of Personal Growth & Development
Suggested Readings

Sessions

Theme

Sub-theme

Reading

1

2 & 3

4 & 5

6 & 7

8 & 9

10 & 11

12 & 13

14 & 15

16 & 17

18

19

20

· Introduction :
Positive Organizational Behaviour (POB)

· Combating helplessness

· Building Self-Efficacy (SE)

· Optimism

· Resiliency

· Androgyny

· Emotional Intelligence (EI)

· Work-Life Integration

· Happiness / Well-Being

· Workplace Spirituality

Group Presentation

· Integration

· Frontiers of POB

· Sociocultural antecedents of helplessness
· Faulty explanatory (attribution) styles
· Helplessness in organization
· Combating helplessness

· Definition and forms of SE
· Measurement
· Sources of SE
· Mediating mechanism
· Building (Training) SE

· Optimistic explanatory (attribution) style
· Optimism and work
· Downside of optimism
· Promoting optimism

· Background
· Characteristics of resilient persons
· Developing resiliency

· Androgyny as a confluence of positive masculine and positive feminine traits
· Measurement
· Androgynous socialization at work place

· Inadequacy of rational intelligence
· Significance of emotional intelligence
· Operationalization
· EI and work

· Work-Family Conflict
· Work-Family Balance
· Work-Life Integration
· Operationalization
· Determinants of Well-being
· Work-life integration

· Operational definition
· Distinction between religion and spirituality
· Construct of spiritual intelligence
· Promotion of workplace spirituality at individual and organizational levels
· Spiritually-based leadership

· Current empirical research in POB
· Unsolved issues
· Future directions

Luthans Chapter 9 : Organizational Behavior

F.M. Sahoo
Chapter 6
Book: Dynamics of human helplessness

Albert Bandura (1997): Relevant chapter of the book Self-efficacy

Martin Seligman (1990) Relevant chapter of the book: Learned Optimism

Collected papers from Harvard Business Review

F.M. Sahoo
Relevant chapter of the book: Sex roles in transition

Daniel Goleman
Relevant chapter of the book: Emotional Intelligence

Jones,
Burke & Westman

Seligman
Relevant chapter of the book: Authentic happiness

Dana Zohar and Inn Marshall:
Relevant chapter of the book Spiritual intelligence

Created By: Debasis Mohanty on 11/15/2010 at 11:20 AM
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