Comportamento Organizacional

Código:

1MOB01

Sigla:

MOB_OB

Áreas Científicas
Classificação	Área Científica
OFICIAL	Estudos de Gestão

Ocorrência: 2023/2024 - 1S

Ativa?	Sim
Instituição Responsável:	Faculdade de Economia

Língua de trabalho

Inglês

Objetivos

This course aims to improve students' understanding of human behavior in organizations and the ability to lead people to achieve more effectively increased organizational performance. After completing this course, students should be able to:

- To understand organizational behavior as a heterogeneous domain, with a great diversity of themes and approaches, in which different areas of knowledge come together;
- To think critically about the modes of thinking and organizing, and how these translate into different ways of approaching management;
- To critically assess how management has attempted to regulate the behavior of individuals and groups in the daily life of organizations;
- To confront mainstream and critical approaches regarding behavioral themes.

Resultados de aprendizagem e competências

- A procedural understanding of the organization and its implications for the analysis of the behaviors of people in organizations;
- A critical understanding of how the behaviors of managers and managers are shaped by power relations;
- A critical understanding of the production of knowledge in organizational behavior.

- Understand individual behavior in organizations, including diversity, attitudes, job satisfaction, emotions, moods, personality, values, perception, decision-making, and motivational theories.

- Understand group behavior in organizations, including communication, leadership, power and politics, conflict, and negotiations.

- Understand the organizational system, including organizational structures, culture, human resources, and change.

Modo de trabalho

Presencial

Programa

1.The nature of organizational behavior
     1.1 The heterogeneity of themes and approaches
    1.2 Mainstream and critical approaches
2. Organizations and behavioral dynamics
     2.1 Modes of thinking: substance, process and critical thinking 
    2.2 Modes of organizing: images of organization and behavioral dynamics
I - INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS
3. Individual differences and social influence

    3.1 Intelligence, personality, and identity 
    3.2 Types of social influence
    3.3 Behaviors of normalization, conformism and obedience to authority

4. Motivation at work
       4.1 Content approaches
       4.2 Process approaches
       4.3 Critical perceptions
   5. Groups and work teams
       5.1 Typologies, properties, cohesion, and group processes
       5.2 Team conflicts 
       5.3 Case Study
   II - THE ORGANIZATION
5. 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 Bounded rationality, garbage can, the political model
     7.3 Alternative Explanations & critical perception
8. Organizational culture, identity, and control

    8.1 The evolution of control in organizations
    8.2 The power phenomenon: traditional, radical and Foucault 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. Organizational change - 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      

       critical perceptions

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

Bibliografia Obrigatória

Mullins Laurie J.; Management and organisational behaviour, Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc., 2016

Bibliografia Complementar

DuBrin; Fundamentals of organizational behavior: An applied perspective, Elsevier., 2013
Luthans, F., Luthans, BC, & Luthans, KW; Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-based Approach - Fourteenth Edition, IAP, 2021

Métodos de ensino e atividades de aprendizagem

The course enhances learning through lectures, discussions, articles, cases, and movies. Students are expected to participate in group discussions, assignments, presentations, and individual tests to demonstrate their understanding of the OB course. Email is the most effective communication tool. Therefore, make sure to give your correct email address to your Lecturer.

Software

Slido

Tipo de avaliação

Avaliação distribuída com exame final

Componentes de Avaliação

Designação	Peso (%)
Participação presencial	25,00
Exame	75,00
Total:	100,00

Componentes de Ocupação

Designação	Tempo (Horas)
Frequência das aulas	1,15
Total:	1,15

Obtenção de frequência

• Students are eligible to take the exam of OB if they attend 70% of the course

Fórmula de cálculo da classificação final

There are two options of evaluation the student can choose:

• Final exam: 75% + Class activities 25% (two assignments) = 100%
• Final Exam 100% : The minimum mark for the exam is 10/20 points to pass.