This course on organizational behavior explores the actions of individual members and groups within organizations, as well as the wide range of organizational processes, dynamics, and conditions as a whole, and how all these factors interconnect. The course aims to help students build conceptual, diagnostic, and personal skills necessary for managing human interactions in complex organizations with diverse workforces. We will adopt a systems approach, using systems theories as a unifying framework to connect organizational processes and dynamics at the individual, group, and organizational levels. The course will involve comparing and contrasting various behavioral theories and addressing topics such as individual development and motivation, group and team development and dynamics, communication, leadership, conflict, power/politics, culture, diversity, creativity, ethics, decision-making, and the organizational psyche. Students will develop the ability to apply these concepts and theories by analyzing realistic organizational cases and engaging in discussions with peers and the professor. These skills will be applicable in assessing current management practices and making recommendations for improvement within their own organizations
- Teacher: ARMIE LEILA MORDENO