3235: Organizational Behavior ( efterår 2011 - 10 ECTS )
Rammer for udbud
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Uddannelsessprog:
dansk
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Niveau:
Compulsory course in the 3rd semester of the Business Administration programme. Elective course for bachelor's (3rd year) and master's levels. (8035)
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Semester/kvarter:
Autumn 2011
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Timer per uge:
2+2 lectures per week or equivalent. Timetables can be found at: http://econ.au.dk/studies/teaching-and-examination/teaching/timetables/
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Deltagerbegrænsning:
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Undervisningssted:
Århus
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Hovedområde:
Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
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Udbud ID:
28777
Formål
These skills will be documented by the student's ability to
1. Identify, describe, explain and analyze essential parts of selected classic and modern theories of organizational behavior regarding individual, group and social, and organizational processes.
2. Compare and contrast theories and concepts at and between the individual, group and organizational levels.
3. Argue for selection of the appropriate theory and concept when analyzing known as well as unknown problems and cases.
4. Argue for strengths and weaknesses of concepts and theories when applying them in different situations.
5. Argue for strengths and weaknesses of concepts and theories when considering the strength of support that research has provided for the usage of the given concepts and theories.
6. Reflect on consequences for real life situations and for theory development in organizational behavior.
Indhold
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this course is to increase your ability to understand and improve the organizations within which you will work. It is a course in applied behavioral science. By this I mean that we will explore some fundamental behavioral science concepts and illustrate how they can be effectively used in organizations. You will work with the concepts in groups and the group assignments are compulsory, which are due in the beginning of class on the day indicated in the syllabus. They are designed to 1) give you experience with working in groups, 2) provide a forum for you to discuss and review course material with others and in the context of problem situations, and 3) offer opportunities to practice writing the kind of short, precise communications that are demanded in the business and professional worlds. We will consider individuals, groups and organizations.
Faglige forudsætninger
Organization, Strategy and Marketing
Underviser
LECTURER: Karina Skovvang Christensen
Undervisnings- og arbejdsform
TEACHING METHOD: Mostly lectures. The lectures are supported by four compulsory group assignments.
Danish
Litteratur
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Barro, Jason, Kevin J. Bozic &Aaron M.G. Zimmerman. 2005.
Performance Pay for MGOA Physicians (A). Harvard Business School Case
#9-904-028, pp. 1-12.
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Buelens, Marc, Knud Sinding, Christian Waldstrøm, Robert Kreitner and Angelo Kinicki. 2011.
Organisational Behaviour
, 4. udgave,
Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, side 1 - 428;503-544; 588-593;
611-693.
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Burton, Diane M., Thomas DeLong & Katherine Lawrence. 2000. Morgan
Stanley: Becoming a "One-Firm" Firm. Harvard Business School Case #9-400-043, pp. 1-13.
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Ely, Robin J. 2006. Managing Diversity at Spencer Owens & Co. Harvard Business School Case #9-405-048, pp. 1-5.
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Goffee, Robert & Gareth Jones. 2000. Why Should Anyone Be Led by
You?
Harvard Business Review
, Vol. 78, No. 5 (September-October), side 63-70.
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Goffee, Robert & Gareth Jones. 2007. Leading Clever People. Harvard
Business Review, Vol. 85, No. 3 (Marts), side 72-79.
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Hansen, Morten T. 2009. When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company.
Harvard Business Review
, Vol. 87, No. 4 (April), pp. 83-88.
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Hansen, Morten T. & Bolko von Oetinger. 2001. Introducting T-Shaped Managemers: Knowledge Managements's Next Generation.
Harvard Business Review
, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 106-116.
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Hansen, Morten T. and Nitin Nohria. 2004. How to Build Collaborative Advantage. MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol. 46, No. 1,
pp. 22-30.
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Hansen, Morten T., Nitin Nohria and Thomas Tierney. 1999. What's your strategy for managing knowledge?
Harvard Business Review
, Vol. 77, No. 2
(March-April), pp. 106-116.
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Heckhausen, Jutta & Hans Heckhausen. 2008. Motivation and Action:
Introduction and Overview. In Jutta Heckhausen & Hans Heckhausen (eds.).
Motivation and Action
, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-9.
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Hofstede, Geert. 1980. Motivation, Leadership,and Organization: Do American Theories Apply Abroad?
Organizational Dynamics
, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Summer), pp. 42-63.
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Kotter, John P. 1995. Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail. Harvard Business Review, Vol. 73, No. 2 (March-April), pp. 59-67.
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Leonard, Dorothy and Walter Swap. 2004. Deep Smarts.
Harvard
Business Review
, Vol. 82, No. 9, pp. 89-97.
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London, Manuel & Richard W. Beatty. 1993. 360-Degree Feedback as a
Competitive Advantage.
Human Resource Management
, Vol. 32, No. 2/3, s. 353-372.
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Nonaka, Ikujiro. 1991. The Knowledge-Creating Company.
Harvard
Business Review
. Vol. 69, No. 6 (November-December), pp. 96-104.
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Roberto, Michael A. & Gina M. Carioggia. 2003. Mount Everest - 1996.
Harvard Business School case #9-303-061, pp. 1-22.
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Roos, Johan and Georg von Krogh. 1994. What you see depends on who you are - Think about epistemology. IMD Perspectives of Managers. No. 7. September, pp. 1-4.
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Thomas, David A. and Robin J. Ely. 1996. Making Differences Matter: A
New Paradigm for Managing Diversity.
Harvard Business Review
, Vol. 74, No. 5 (September-October), pp. 79-90.
Required
readings........................................................................ approx. 715 pages
+ Lecture materials (e.g. power points)
Note that, in relation to the textbook by Buelens
et al.
(2011) "Personal awareness and growth exercise" and "group exercise" at the end of each chapter are
not required readings
, which account for approx. 50 of the announced pages, which means that the required readings in practice is approx. 665 pages.
Studieordning og bedømmelse
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Skriftlig, bedømt efter 7-skala med intern censur
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Skriftlig, bedømt efter 7-skala med intern censur
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Skriftlig, bedømt efter 7-skala med ekstern censur
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Skriftlig, bedømt efter 7-skala med intern censur
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Skriftlig, bedømt efter 7-skala med intern censur
FORM OF ASSESSMENT: 4 hour written exam
It is a prerequisite that the four assignments are approved.
EXAMINATION AIDS ALLOWED: None
