MBA Semester –II SYLLABUS | Paper 1: Organisation Behavior & Development SYLLABUS

Paper 1: Organisation Behavior & Development SYLLABUS

Organisation Behavior & Development

SECTION A

Unit I: Organizational Behaviour - The nature of organisations: Why do organisations

exist? Components of organisations; Organisations as open systems, Managers in organisations,

Productivity and managerial performance, Value-added managers,

The manager's challenge,

Organisational behaviour and the new workplace, Managing the globalisation of work, Managing

human rights in the workplace, Managing developments in information technologies, Managing

organisational transitions, Managing new forms of Organisation.

Unit II: Foundations of Individual Behaviour - biographical characteristics, ability, and learning

Unit III: Perception: Introduction, Halo effect, Stereotyping, pigeonholing and compartmentalisation;

Self-fulfilling prophecy; Perceptual mythology; other influences on perception.

Unit IV: Attitudes and values - Attitudes, Components of attitudes, Attitudes and behaviour, Attitudes

and cognitive consistency, Job satisfaction as an attitude; development Values, Sources and types of

values, Patterns and trends in values, Managing values and attitudes.

Unit V: Motivation- Concepts, Theories of Maslow, Herzberg, McClelland, Porter & Lawler Model,

Application of Motivation concept, Individual motivation and motivation in the organization, Cultural

Differences in Motivation, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation, Social Motivation, Motivation and Health,

Role of motivation in human behaviour.

SECTION B

Unit VI: Foundations of group behaviour - The nature of groups: groups and teams, informal and

formal groups, purpose of teams, Teams and team building: selecting team members, team roles, stages

in team development, team building, team identity, team loyalty, commitment to shared beliefs, multi-

disciplinary teams, Team Dynamics: group norms, decision-making behaviour, dysfunctional teams,

Cohesiveness.

Unit VII: Conflict - Substantive and emotional conflicts, Levels of conflict, Sources of conflict in

organisations, Symptoms of conflict Causes of conflict, Strategies for the management of conflict.

Unit VIII: Organizational Change - Nature, levels and dilemmas of change, Pressures for change, The

Domino effect, Responses to change, Force field analysis, Change process, Resistance to change,

Dynamics of change.

Unit IX: Organizational Development - Goals of organisational development: Principles underlying

organisational development, Ethical aspects of organisational development, The process of organisational

development: Action research and organisational development, Organisational development

interventions: Organisation-wide interventions, Smaller group and inter-group interventions,

Individual interventions.

Unit X: OD Techniques - Traditional: Grid Training, Survey Method; Modern: Process Consultation

Method, Third Party, Team Building, Transactional Analysis.

Learning and Teaching Strategy

Although the 'lecture' will provide a formal framework for each topic area, debate, discussion and participation shall

be encouraged together with case study work and group activities.

Suggested Readings:

1.

Organisation Behaviour, Luthans 8th Tata McGraw Hill

2.

Organisation Behaviour, Robbins, 9th Pearson Education Asia

3.

Principal of Organizational Behaviour 4th Ed. By R. Fincham –Oxford

4.

Prentice Hall India Organisational Behaviour: Human Behaviour at Work Newstrom & Davis, 10th, Tata McGraw Hill

5.

Brooks I — Organisational Behaviour: Individuals, Groups and Organisation Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 2002