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OB-I-P07
(PGP 2007-09 : Term-I)

XIM
Bhubaneswar

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR - I
(INDIVIDUALS IN ORGANISATION)




Instructors : Fr. E. Abraham, SJ and Fr. George Joseph, SJ Phone (O) : Extn. 231 & 213
Secretary : A. N. Nayak Phone (O) : Extn. 252

I. SCOPE :

The study of Organisational Behaviour covers three broad areas. The first is the study of individuals in the organisation - their personalities, attitudes, motivations and interaction patterns, which are the basic raw material in the functioning of social organisations. This raw material undergoes considerable change in the process of interaction with other variables in the organisation. Leadership, power and group dynamics are some of the key variables which have immediate consequences for individual behaviour and performance in work organisations. The study of these factors constitutes the second area of OB. A third area is concerned with the study of broader contextual factors such as the formal structures, systems, culture and processes of work organisations.

The first of the above mentioned areas of OB will be covered in the OB-I course. The OB-II course will focus on the second area and OB-III will cover the third area.

II. COURSE OBJECTIVES :

1. Understanding the dynamics of individual and interpersonal behaviour in organisational setting.
2. Developing students’ knowledge and competence to deal with human problems of management.
3. Developing students’ awareness and insight for personal and professional growth.

III. PEDAGOGY :

A mix of lectures, case analyses, group discussions, simulation exercises and student presentations will be used. The session outline lists the readings and cases prescribed for each session. The readings are intended to provide basic conceptual inputs or raise issues for discussion in class. Classroom sessions will not necessarily be confined to the content of the prescribed readings.

IV. COURSE MATERIAL :

Basic readings and cases are distributed at the beginning of the course.
Apart from these readings, the following books will be used as basic texts.

1. Stephen P. Robbins : Organisational Behaviour : Concepts, Controversies and
Application (12th Ed.).

2. Fred Luthans : Organisational Behaviour (10th Ed.)
While the suggested readings in the session outline are from Robbins/Luthans, students are encouraged to refer to any other appropriate books for each topic. There are many good books on OB in the library.

V. COURSE INVOLVEMENT AND ATTENDANCE :

Involvement in the course is an essential requirement and carries a weightage of 10% in the evaluation. Attendance and preparation of class will be used as the indices of your involvement. For every class you miss, whatever be the reason, you lose one mark from the total given for course involvement.

VI. PERSONAL LEARNING PAPER (PLP) :

Students are expected to keep a diary of their learning about themselves, others and organisational behaviour in general, as a result of classes, readings and personal reflection. The PLP is a report of one’s own knowledge, skills and attitude change and is essentially knowledge applied to oneself. These jottings must be incorporated into a paper (not more than 10 typed pages) to be handed on the day of the final exam.

VII. ASSIGNMENT : See attached page.

VIII. EVALUATION :
Component
Weightage
1. Course Involvement : 10%
2. Presentation: Authors : 10%
3. Assignment: Review of Literature : 10%
4. Personal Learning Paper : 20%
5. Quizzes : 20%
6. End-Term Examination : 30%

IX. CONSULTATION: X. TOPICS :

* Perception * Creativity
* Learning * Job Satisfaction
* Attitudes * Personal Growth
* Values * Interpersonal Communication
* Self-Awareness * Interpersonal Traits
* Emotional Intelligence * Interpersonal Relations
* Sensitivity * Interpersonal Conflict
* Motivation * Transactional Analysis
* Stress * Goal Setting
* Personality
ASSIGNMENT

One effective approach to the study of organisation behaviour is to acquaint ourselves with the thinking of the more important authors who have studied human behaviour in organisations and have formulated generalisations applicable to all organisations. When we consider generalisations, we are in the realm of theory. But every act of a manager rests on assumptions based on past experience and conjectures about what will happen, that is to say, it rests on theory. Theory and practice are inseparable.

As a student of this course you must be well acquainted with at least the following authors:

A. SIGMUND FREUD is the founding father of Psycho-analytic Theories. He used Psycho-analytic Therapy to cure his patients by using methods such as free association, dreams analysis and analysis of transference.

B. ALFRED ADLER proposed an Individual Psychology Theory of Personality which looked at people as holistic : single, indivisible, self consistent and unified entity.

C. GORDON ALLPORT : Proponent of Trait Theory of Personality. This represents a blend of humanistic and personalistic approaches to the study of human behaviour.

D. B. F. SKINNER : Much of our behaviour is either learned or modified by learning. Through learning we acquire knowledge, language, attitudes, values, fears, personality traits and insights into ourselves. Accordingly, the discovery of the laws of learning can be viewed as one of the key avenues to understanding the reasons for our actions. One of the most prolific of all Psychologists who have devoted themselves to the goal of explaining, predicting and controlling human behaviour is B.F. Skinner.

E. CARL ROGERS : Father of Client-Centred Therapy. His name is associated with widely acclaimed innovations in Counselling Technique, Personality Theory, Encounter Groups, Student-Centred Teaching and Psychotherapy.

F. ERIC FROMM : Core of personality is seen as one’s attempt to express one’s human nature. The content of human nature is expressed as the need for relatedness, transcendence, rootedness, identity and frame of reference.

G. ERIK ERIKSON : He has focused his attention on Psychosocial Theory of Personality and the “Eight Ages of Man”.

H. DOUGLAS McGREGOR rejected the underlying assumptions about human behaviour on which formal organisations were built, and proposed new methods of management based on a more adequate understanding of human motivation.


I. GEORGE KELLY is closely associated with Cognitive Theory of Personality. According to his theoretical systems, the Psychology of Personal Constructs, a person is basically a scientist, striving to understand, interpret, anticipate and control the personal world of experience for the purpose of dealing effectively with it.

J. ABRAHAM MASLOW is well known for his “hierarchy of needs” for use in the motivation of people at work, and it has been widely accepted as an important contribution to modern motivational theory.

K. FREDERICK HERZBERG has described how the characteristically human needs of man for growth and development may be satisfied in work.

L. DAVID McCLELLAND has pointed out that the “need for power” separates good managers from poor managers, and makes them successful in running a large organisations.

M. VICTOR H. VROOM studied the effects of personality on participation in decision-making, and showed that the size of these effects was a function of certain personality characteristics of the participants.

N. CHRIS ARGYRIS has been concerned to examine and control the inevitable conflict between the needs of the individual and those of the organisation.

O. ELTON MAYO, the founding father of the Human Relations Movement which brought into prominence the view that workers and managers must be first understood as human persons.



For purpose of this course you are expected to work in groups. Each group will study the author indicated by the group letter and will make a short presentation in the class. The date of the presentation will be July 24 & 26, 2007 for PGDM-I and July 25 & 27, 2007 for PGDM (RM)-I. You will have to submit a soft copy of the slides of the presentation to: <fr.abrahamsj@gmail.com> and <jgeorge@ximb.ac.in>.



XIM PGDM-I & PGDM (RM)-I (2007 - 2009)
Bhubaneswar
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR - I
(Individuals in Organisation)
Course Outline

INTRODUCTION TO OB

Readings : 1. An Overview of Organizational Behaviour

2. Chapter 1 & 2 and Appendix A (Robbins)

3. Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact

PERCEPTION

Readings : 1. Robbins or Luthans

2. The Perceptual World

3. Perception: Implication for Administration

ATTITUDES AND VALUES

Readings : 1. Robbins or Luthans

2. Values: The silent power


3. Attitudes and Values : Motherhood, Old Glory and off the pigs.

4. Case : Tapash

5. Case : Sayyed

CREATIVITY

Readings : 1. The Khandwalla : Fourth Eye : Chapter-3

LEARNING

Readings : 1. Robbins or Luthans

2. Case : Senor Payroll

3. Planning on the left side and managing on the right side


EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Readings : 1. Daniel Goleman : Emotional Intelligence
2. Chapter 6 : The Master Aptitude

3. Chapter 10 : Managing with Heart


PRESENTATION OF GROUP ASSIGNMENT


PERSONALITY

Readings : 1. Robbins or Luthans

2. Characteristics of a fully functioning or Self
achieving person : Maslow’s Research

3. The Effective Executive: What qualities make the difference?

MOTIVATION

Readings : 1. Robbins or Luthans

2. Guidelines for Managing Motivation

3. One more time : How do you motivate employees

4. Who are your Motivated Workers?

5. Pygmalion in Management

6. That urge to achieve


PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Readings : 1. Johari Window


INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

Readings : 1. Barriers and gateways to communication
2. Robbins or Luthans

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS

Readings : 1. Interpersonal Behaviour

2. Case : Bob Knowlton

INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT

Readings : 1. Robbins or Luthans

2. Management of Differences

STRESS IN ORGANISATIONS

Readings : 1. Robbins or Luthans

2. On Executive Suicide

TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS

Readings : 1. Transactions in Management

PERSONAL GOAL SETTING

Readings: 1. Should you manage your own career?

Assignment: Review of Literature

Students are expected to select 10 or more articles, starting from the year 2000, from the list of journals on the topic given to each group. You will have to submit a two-page write-up based on the findings of these articles and the current thinking on the subject. The annexure should contain a list of all the referred articles.

The Topics

1. Perception

2. Learning

3. Attitudes

4. Values

5. Emotional Intelligence

6. Motivation

7. Stress

8. Personality

9. Creativity

10. Job Satisfaction

11. Interpersonal Communication

12. Interpersonal Conflict



This assignment will have to be submitted by August 11, 2007.
List of Journals

1. Academy of Management Executive
2. Academy of Management Journal
3. Academy of Management Review
4. Administrative Science Quarterly
5. American Business Law Journal
6. Asia Pacific Journal of Management
7. Australian Journal of Management
8. Behavioural Science
9. British Journal of Management
10. Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication
11. Business Communication Quarterly
12. Business Communication Review
13. California Management Review
14. Columbia Journal of World Business
15. European Business Journal
16. European Business Review
17. European Journal of Innovation Management
18. Harvard Business Review
19. Harvard International Review
20. Harvard Management Update
21. HR Focus
22. HR Magazine
23. Human Communication Research
24. Human Organization
25. Human Relations
26. Human Resource Development Quarterly
27. Human Resource Management
28. Human Resource Management Journal
29. Human Resource Management Review
30. Human Resource Planning
31. Human Resource Professional
32. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences
33. Insight
34. International Journal of Commerce and Management
35. International Journal of Conflict
36. International Journal of Management
37. International Journal of Organizational Analysis
38. International Management
39. International Organization
40. International Social Science Review
41. Journal of Applied Behaviour Analysis
42. Journal of Applied Behavioural Science
43. Journal of Applied Management Studies
44. Journal of Applied Psychology
45. Journal of Applied Social Psychology
46. Journal of Business & Psychology
47. Journal of Communication
48. Journal of Conflict Resolution
49. Journal of Counseling and Development
50. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology
51. Journal of General Psychology
52. Journal of Human Resources
53. Journal of Management
54. Journal of Management Education
55. Journal of Management Studies
56. Journal of Manufacturing Systems
57. Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology
58. Journal of Organizational Behaviour
59. Journal of Organizational Behaviour Management
60. Journal of Organizational Change Management
61. Journal of Psychology Interdisciplinary and Applied
62. Journal of Social Psychology
63. Leadership and Organization Development Journal
64. Leadership Quarterly
65. Management Review
66. Organization Science: A Journal of the Institute of Management Sciences
67. Organization Studies
68. Organizational Behaviour & Human Decision Processes
69. Organizational Dynamics
70. People Management
71. Personnel Journal
72. Personnel Management
73. Personnel Psychology
74. Personnel Review
75. Psychological Bulletin
76. Psychological Reports
77. Psychology Today
78. Review of Industrial Organization
79. Singapore Management Review
80. Sloan Management Review
81. Social Science Journal
82. Social Science Quarterly
83. Supervision
84. Supervisory Management
85. Training
86. Training & Development
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