People in Organizations

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KADIR HAS UNIVERSITY

Department of Business Administration

M.A. in Business Administration

MBAD 524 ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS

COURSE SYLLABUS

2016-2017

Instructor                : Dr. Ceyda Maden Eyiusta

                                E-mail: ceyda.maden@gmail.com

Course Schedule        :Wednesdays, 19.00-22.00

Text Book        : Robbins, S. P. and Judge, T. (2014). Essentials of Organizational Behavior,

12thEdition, Boston: Pearson.

Course Objectives:

People in organizations don’t always behave the way you think they will. As a result, your ability to understand, explain, and predict human behavior within organizations is a valuable skill whether you are a new employee, a middle manager, or a top level executive. This course is designed to expose you to important theories and conceptual models for analyzing, understanding, and managing human behavior within organizations. In this seminar, we will study a wide range of organizational situations and examples of human behavior, and connect them to foundational theories and effective practical management methods.

This course has four objectives:

• To impart a theoretical understanding of the nature of individual and group behavior within organizations, such that you possess mastery of this knowledge
• To increase your ability to draw conclusions and develop inferences about attitudes and behavior, when confronted with different situations that are common in modern organizations
• To increase your skill in identifying motives and in discriminating between different behavioral and attitudinal mechanisms that affect members of organizations
• To cultivate your abilities and skills in critical thinking, written communications, verbal discussion and debate, teamwork, and decision making.

Course Plan:

Week                        Date                        Topic(s)        

Week 1                        February 8                Introduction to Organizational Behavior

Week 2                        February 15                Personality and Values

Week 3                        February 22                Moods, Emotions, and Organizational Behavior

Week 4                        March 1                Individual Perception and Decision Making        

Week 5                        March 8                Motivation Concepts

                                                Motivation: From Concepts to Applications

Week 6                        March 15                Group Behavior

Week 7                        March 22                Understanding Work Teams

Week 8                        March 29                Midterm

Week 9                        April 5                        Communication

Week 10                April 12                Leadership

Week 11                April 19                Power and Politics                

Week 12                April 26                Conflict and Negotiations

Week 13                May 3                        Organization Culture

Week 14                May 10                        Term Project Presentations        

The instructor reserves the right to change the lecture topics shown in this syllabus. If changes deemed necessary, the students will be informed in a timely manner.

This course will adopt participative class lectures and in class discussions as methods of learning. Course material, readings, and announcements can be found in www.ceydamadeneyiusta.com. The access code for the course material will be provided by the instructor.