Individual and Group Behaviour in Organizations: Group report: The career or occupation

Course Description

Theoretical ideas and practical applications concerning individual and group behaviour in organizations. We explore relevant problems confronting management: motivation, influence, communication, supervision, decision-making, and work force diversity. [24L]

 

Exclusion: CCT324H5; ERI260H5; MGM300H5; MGIB02H3; PSY332H1; RSM260H1; WDW260H1 (SSc)

Distribution Requirement: SSc

 

Course Objective

This course aims to help you understand and apply research in organizational behavior theory. It will help you to develop a variety of analytic and behavioural skills that are necessary for understanding and managing behaviour in modern organizations. The development and practice of these skills will be achieved through a series of in-class lectures, cases various individual and group exercises, and a major group project. The course is aimed at being very interactive, where students will be able to learn from each other’s inputs during class discussions. Student initiative is expected.

 

Textbooks and Other Materials

Organizational Behaviour Understanding and Managing Life at Work (9th Edition), by Gary Johns & Alan Saks. Pearson Ed.

 

Requirements and Criteria

We will use a variety of individual and group assignments. You should be careful not to confuse the two!

 

The midterm will be closed book with one single-sided letter-size reference sheet allowed; it will cover the material covered up until the midterm. The midterm will cover material from the classes, and assigned readings in the textbook and those listed in the outline.

 

 

The final exam will be closed book with one single-sided letter-size reference sheet allowed; it will cover the entire course. The exam will cover material from the classes, and assigned readings in the textbook and those listed in the outline.

 

The Career Project has a group component as well as an individual one. It is explained in full in a separate handout, which is available on Blackboard.

 

There are often difficulties in coordinating group activity. To help your group stay on track you need a good plan, but it is also important that each group member should share in the work throughout the term. If you assign someone to do the theoretical work, someone else to do the interviews you have planned, a third person to write sections of your results, and yet another person to put the whole package together, you can get into trouble. You can tell how well the first few people are working out, but you can’t tell how the final person is doing until it is much too late!

 

Furthermore, you cannot benefit fully from the project if you, personally, have not participated in the field research. As you will

see from the project description, you will need to really understand the information you collect in the group part of the project when you come to work on your individual report and answer questions in the final exam. It is therefore essential that everyone in the group works on the group project. Your grade will suffer if it becomes evident that this has not happened.

 

Groups are responsible for their internal management, but the instructor is always available for consultation if difficulties persist, and will be conducting regular reviews with the groups throughout the term during the tutorials. In cases where it is clear that an individual has made little or no contribution to the group work, the instructor reserves the right to adjust that individual’s mark on the group part of the project grade to a mark less than that given to the group as a whole. For example, if no contribution has been made, a mark of zero will be given.

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