This course on Management and Organizational Behavior is comprehensive, covering various aspects of management and its impact on organizational dynamics across 19 chapters:
- Management and Organizational Behavior: Introduces the nature of work, the changing workplace, management, and a model of organizational behavior.
- Individual and Cultural Differences: Discusses individual and cultural factors in performance, employee abilities, personality, work behavior, personal values, ethics, and cultural differences.
- Perception and Job Attitudes: Covers the perceptual process, barriers to social perception, attributions, attitudes, and work-related attitudes.
- Learning and Reinforcement: Explores basic models of learning, reinforcement, behavior modification in organizations, and behavioral self-management.
- Diversity in Organizations: Introduces workplace diversity, its impact on companies, challenges, key theories, benefits, and managing diversity.
- Perception and Managerial Decision Making: Discusses managerial decision-making, brain processes, types of decisions, barriers, and improving decision quality.
- Work Motivation for Performance: Covers motivation theories, content and process theories of motivation, and recent research.
- Performance Appraisal and Rewards: Discusses performance appraisal systems, techniques, feedback, reward systems, and incentive plans.
- Group and Intergroup Relations: Explores work group considerations, structure, managing effective groups, and intergroup behavior.
- Understanding and Managing Work Teams: Focuses on teamwork, team development, managing teams, challenges, team diversity, and multicultural teams.
- Communication: Covers managerial communication processes, types, factors affecting communication, and corporate reputation.
- Leadership: Discusses the nature of leadership, the leadership process, leader emergence, various approaches to leadership, and leadership in the 21st century.
- Organizational Power and Politics: Explores power in interpersonal relations, uses of power, political behavior, and limiting political behavior.
- Conflict and Negotiations: Covers conflict in organizations, causes, resolution, and negotiation behavior.
- External and Internal Organizational Environments and Corporate Culture: Discusses the organization's external environment, external environments and industries, organizational designs, structures, corporate cultures, and organizing for change.
- Organizational Structure and Change: Focuses on organizational structures and design, organizational change, and managing change.
- Human Resource Management: Covers human resource management, compliance, performance management, influencing employee performance, talent development, and succession planning.
- Stress and Well Being: Discusses work adjustment, organizational influences on stress, buffering effects, and coping with work-related stress.
- Entrepreneurship: Explores entrepreneurship, characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, business model canvas, new venture financing, design thinking, and optimal support for entrepreneurship.
Each chapter includes an introduction, key terms, a summary of learning outcomes, review questions, critical thinking cases, management skills application exercises, managerial decision exercises, and case studies, providing a thorough understanding of management principles and their application in organizational settings.