Organizational Behaviour

Paper Code: 
MTM 221
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
4.00
Max. Marks: 
60.00
Objective: 

The objective of this subject is to acquaint the students with the basic concepts of organization behaviour.

 

10.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

Organizational Behaviour: Definition, Importance , Disciplines contributing to Organization Behaviour.

Foundations of Individual Behaviour: Perception-Meaning,charactersitcs,perceptual process Perceptual selectivity ,Perceptual Organization

 Personality-Meaning, theories of personality-psychoanalytical  theory,socio-psychological theory, trait theory and self theory

13.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

Foundations of Group Behaviour: Meaning, Importance, Process of Group Formation, Types of Groups, Factors influencing group behaviour, Group cohesiveness, factors affecting group cohesiveness

Team: Meaning, difference between team and group, Types of teams, techniques of effective team building.

13.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III

Organizational Power: Meaning, characteristics, classification of power, contingency approaches to power.

Politics: Meaning, Reasons of politics 

12.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

Conflicts: Meaning, Reasons of conflict, types of conflict, Process of conflict, merits and demerits, management of conflict.

12.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V

Stress: Meaning, reasons of stress, types of stress, effect of stress, strategies for coping stress.

Organizational Change; Meaning, reasons, types, process of change, résistance to change, management of change.

Essential Readings: 

Stephen P. Robins, Organizational Behaviour, Prentice-Hall of Indian Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.11th edition

Mehta Anil &ChouhanBhumija., “Organizational Behaviour”, RBD Publications, Jaipur.

Prasad L M., “Organization Behaviour”, Sultan Chand and Sons, New Delhi.2nd edition

References: 

John W. Newstrom and Kilth Davis, OrganisationalBehaviour, (Human behaviour at work) Tata McGraw – Hill, New Delhi:9th edition

Luthans, Fred, OrganisationalBehaviour McGraw-Hill Inc., New Delhi: 1992 9th edition

Davies, Keth, OrganisationalBehaviour (Human Behaviour at work), Tata McGrawHill, NewDelhi.

 

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