Organizational Behaviour

Code:

P709

Acronym:

CO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2015/2016 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	39	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

It is intended that students acquire skills necessary for the understanding, explanation and prediction of human behavior in organizations.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the frequency of this course, students must:
- Show knowledge about:
• the organizational phenomena and how they are influenced and influence the psychological factors and processes related to individual and group behavior, and,
• on the foundations of individual, group and organizational behavior;
- Develop and demonstrate the following competencies in organizational behavior research:
• selection of the theme;
• literature review;
• writing of a scientific report according to the APA style and,
• oral presentation.

By the completion, with tutorial support, of a research work dealing one of the topics covered in the curricular unit, it is intended that students build knowledge up to date on thematic approached and develop research skills that enable them to design and develop a research project under the Organizational Behavior. It is intended that students develop appropriate skills for the selection of an interesting subject for study, review of literature, writing scientific report in accordance with the APA norms, and oral presentation.

 

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable.

Program

1. The field study of organizational behavior
1.1. Foundations of individual behavior, group and organizational
1.2. Recent developments in Organizational Behavior.
2. Individual behavior in organizations
2.1. Work motivation;
2.2. Job satisfaction;
3. Organizational processes
3.1. Culture
3.2. Leadership
3.3. Occupational Stress

Mandatory literature

Cunha Miguel Pina e 070; Manual de comportamento organizacional e gestão. ISBN: 978-972-8871-16-1
Robbins Stephen P.; Fundamentos do comportamento organizacional. ISBN: 85-87918-64-8
Robbins, S. P.; Comportamento Organizacional , Rio de Janeiro: Livros Técnicos e Científicos Editora S.A., 1999
Kreitner, R. & Kinicki, A.; Organizational behavior, Boston, Massachusetts: Irwin McGraw-Hill, 1998

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Exposure of contents by the teacher and students;
- Analysis of cases - small group work followed by discussion;
- Visualization of videos and exercises oriented;
- Research work;
- Tutorial lessons for monitoring of research;
- Autonomous study.

Software

Não aplicável.

keywords

Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology > Applied psychology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	15,00
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	28,00
Estudo autónomo	40,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	40,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Classes are subject to verification of attendance.
Safeguarding the special cases covered by the law, students who miss more than 25% of classes provided will not get approval in the course (according to Regulation Assessment of students FPCEUP - Article 9A, point 2.).

Calculation formula of final grade

Component 1 - Group work (50%):
a) Evaluation of group and students participation in tutorial meetings (10%);
b) Evaluation of oral presentations (15%);
c) Evaluation of written report (25%);
Component 2 - Final exam (50%) - test with multiple choice and little development questions.

To obtain approval in the course, students must:
1) to obtain a final mark of 8 values in each of the components of assessment and,
2) obtain a final mark of 10 points (point 2, Art 4 of the General Regulation for the assessment of students FPCEUP).

Examinations or Special Assignments

See Special Assessment.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who are legally exempt from verification of the conditions of attendance to classes, have to perform the two assessment components defined above.
They have to contact early in the semester (and NEVER after the 2nd class) the teacher responsible for the course unit (Filomena Jordão).

Classification improvement

"Students can make improvement in classification of test performed once for a course in one of two final exam periods immediately following that in which received approval and that the course has provided examination." (point 1, article 11 of the "General Rules for the assessment of students FPCEUP").
The improvement of the final classification in this course is possible by carrying out a further exam while maintaining valid assessment obtained within the "group work" and the weights assigned to the three assessment components considered in the final evaluation.