Kursinformation

Module content

• Develop your understanding and skills in leading and managing people and organisations
• Raise your awareness of the centrality of organisational behaviour to understanding organisational functioning and effectiveness
• Get to know how an understanding of human behaviour via the disciplinary basis of psychology profoundly deepens our analysis of organisations
• Learn the core value of an understanding of organisational behaviour to a manager‘s ability to achieve organizational goals
• Study topics such as perception, motivation, leadership, groups and teams, conflict management, and gender and leadership

Organizations consist of the people who work within them. This course therefore attempts to build the students’ understanding and skill in leading and managing people and organizations. The objectives of this course are (1) to raise the student‘s awareness of the centrality of organizational behaviour to understanding organizational functioning and effectiveness; (2) to show how an understanding of human behaviour via the disciplinary basis of psychology profoundly deepens our analysis of organizations, and (3) to demonstrate the core value of an understanding of organizational behaviour to a manager‘s ability to achieve organizational goals. We will provide an overview of organizational behaviour and we will discuss topics such as perception, motivation, leadership, groups and teams, conflict management, and gender and leadership.