Organizational Behaviour

Code:

1GE108

Acronym:

CO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2020/2021 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Management
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Business Administration

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LGES	250	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	1	-	6	42	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To analyse how organizational structures, processes and practices inflence and are influenced by individual, group and organizational behaviours.
- To assess the role of management in defining the behaviour of individuals and groups in the daily life of organizations.
- To confront mainstream and critical approaches regarding the behavioural themes.

Learning outcomes and competences

- To articulate the management of individual and group behaviours with the structures and dynamics of organizations.
- To think critically the role of management in relation to the behavioural dimensions.
- To think critically the production of knowledge regarding the behavioural themes in organizations.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Organizational behaviour
    1.1 Modes of thinking 
    1.2 Images of organization
    1.3 Historical contextualization of the themes
    1.4 Mainstream and critical perspectives
 

I - THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE GROUP

2. Personality, individual differences and social influence
    2.1 Personality, intelligence and perception
    2.2 Informational and normative social influence, normalization, conformism, obedience to authority
    2.3 Critical perspectives

3. Motivation at work
    3.1 Content approaches
    3.2 Process approaches
    3.3 Critical perspectives

4. Groups and work teams
    4.1 Typologies, properties, cohesion and group processes
    4.2 Team conflicts 
    4.3 Critical perspectives


II - THE ORGANIZATION

5. Decision making in organizations
    5.1 The rational decision making model
    5.2 Bounded rationality, garbage can, political model
    5.3 Critical perspectives

6. Organizational culture, identity and control
    6.1 Types of control in organizations
    6.2 Traditional, radical and Foucaldian views on power
    6.3 Organizational culture and identity: mainstream view and critical perspectives
    6.4 Culture, control of people and power relations

7. Organizational change
    7.1 Views on organization, change and strategy
    7.2 Planned and emergent appoaches 
    7.3 Sensemaking, language and change
    7.4 Communication of change
    7.5 Psychological transition and individual change
    7.6 Special case: changing organizational culture
    7.7 Critical perspectives 

8. Leadership
    8.1 Management and leadership
    8.2 Leadership as construction
    8.3 Leadership approaches centred on the leaders
    8.4 Alternative approaches

Mandatory literature

Mullins Laurie J.; Management and organisational behaviour

Comments from the literature

The full bibliographic list will be provided to students in the first lecture and made available in the webpage of the course on Sigarra, in the folder 'Documents'.

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Theoretical sessions with presentation of contents by the lecturer;
- Case analyses;
- Case presentations and discussion by the students. 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	100,00
Participação presencial	0,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	120,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

- Attendance of at least 3/4 of lectures.
- Minimum mark of 7/20 in each test.

Calculation formula of final grade

DISTRIBUTED ASSESSMENT WITHOUT FINAL EXAM:
2 tests: the first test (35%) covers themes 1 to 4; the second test (65%) covers themes 5 to 8. The minimum mark in each test is 7/20.

FINAL EXAM:
Alternatively, by final exam (100%), which covers the entire programme of the course.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Classification improvement

By final exam (in época de recurso) only.

Observations

1. The distributed assessment mode requires attending at least 3/4 of the lectures. Anyone who fails to meet this requirement, whatever the reason, should enrol in the final exam mode.

2. The final exam at época normal can be taken by all students, including those who did and handed in the first test.

3. All students can take the final exam at época de recurso.