Course Description
This course is required for all business majors, but it’s really a course for anyone who works (or will work) in an organization. In fact, the general goal of this course is to show students how an understanding of human behavior is critical for the effective management of organizations. Understanding organizational behavior can help make you a better employee and lay the ground work for your success as a corporate leader, if that’s what you aspire to. It can also help you develop greater ­self-insight and the analytical skills needed to diagnose and address people problems in organizations.

The approach we take in this course is to start with the most “micro” topics and work our way up from there. In the first part of the course we’ll examine the most basic building blocks of organizational behavior (e.g., perceptions, employee attitudes). Next, we’ll turn our attention to topics that focus on behavior in the social context of work (e.g., work group dynamics, leadership). Finally, as we move into the last part of the course, we will address more “macro” topics. For instance, we’ll investigate how things like organizational culture impact employee behavior.

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