Organizational Behaviour

Code:

1GE108

Acronym:

CO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2022/2023 - 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	383	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	1	-	6	42	162

Teaching language

Portuguese and english

Objectives

- To understand organizational beahaviour as a heterogeneous domain, with a great diversity of themes and approaches, in which different areas of knowledge come together;
- To think critically the modes of thinking and organizing, and how these translate in different ways of approaching management;
- To critically assess how management has attempted to regulate 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

- A processual understanding of organization and its implications for the analysis of the behaviours of people in organizations;
- A critical understanding of how the behaviours of managers and managed are shaped by power relations;
- A critical understanding of the production of knowledge in organizational behaviour.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. The nature of organizational behaviour
    1.1 The heterogeneity of themes and approaches
    1.2 Mainstream and critical approaches

2. Organizations and behavioural dynamics
    2.1 Modes of thinking: substance, process and critical thinking 
    2.2 Modes of organizing: images of organization and behavioural dynamics


I - THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE GROUP

3. Individual differences and social influence
    3.1 Intelligences, personality and identity 
    3.2 Types of social influence
    3.3 Behaviours of normalization, conformism and obedience to authority

4. Motivation at work
    4.1 Content approaches
    4.2 Process approaches
    4.3 Critical perspectives

5. Groups and work teams
    5.1 Typologies, properties, cohesion and group processes
    5.2 Team conflicts 
    5.3 Critical perspectives


II - THE ORGANIZATION

6. Organizational structure and design
    6.1 Mainstream perspectives
    6.2 Critical perspectives

7. Decision making in organizations
    7.1 The rational decision making model
    7.2 Alternative explanations

8. Organizational culture, identity and control
    8.1 The evolution of control in organizations
    8.2 The power phenomenon: traditional, radical and Foucaldian views
    8.3 Organizational culture and identity: mainstream view and critical perspectives
    8.4 The role of human resource management: mainstream and critical views

9. Strategy and organizational innovation and change
    9.1 Strategy, strategic change and strategic decision making
    9.2 New organizational forms and associated changes
    9.3 Mainstream, process and critical approaches to organizational change
    9.4 Sensemaking, communication and resistance to change

10. Leadership
    10.1 Management and leadership
    10.2 Leadership as a construction
    10.3 Heroic perspectives
    10.4 Post-heroic and critical approaches

11. Contemporary challenges and new organizational practices
    11.1 Globalization
    11.2 Knowledge, learning and creativity in organizations
    11.3 Ethics, social responsibility and sustainability

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.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
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.

Calculation formula of final grade

NORMAL:
a) through distributed assessment: Final exam (70%) + Participation in classroom (20%) + Group assignment (10%)
The minimum mark in the exam is 7/20.

b) through final exam: Final exam (100%)

RECURSO: Final exam (100%)

Examinations or Special Assignments

Classification improvement

By final exam (in época de recurso) only.

Observations

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.