BSA 131 - HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IN ORGANIZATIONS
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This course provides a broad introduction to the structure and function of organizations and the behaviour of the people in them. The primary purpose of the course is to equip students with an understanding of organizational concepts and practical techniques for managing effectively in challenging environments.
Course Description:
This course provides a broad introduction to the structure and function of organizations and the behaviour of the people in them. The primary purpose of the course is to equip students with an understanding of organizational concepts and practical techniques for managing effectively in challenging environments.
This deals with the theories, concepts, models, and dynamics of human behaviour in organizations. It describes work organization, the worker and the tools of each and explains the interplay between these primary components. It looks into the various organizational behaviours and relates the individual worker’s values, attitudes and adjustment patterns to work, with emphasis on the local setting as well as on the emerging ideas on global aspects, workforce diversity, reengineering, advanced technology and corporate ethics.
Credits: 3 units
Pre-requisite: BSA-31 (Management and Business Organization)
Objectives:
General:
This course is designed to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skill in employee motivation and specific topics of human behaviour in a business organization. Structured learning exercises and self-assessment activities are employed to simulate the various scenarios, problems and situations encountered by a management decision-maker.
Specific:
Industrial Sociology (Human Behaviour in Organizations) is designed in a simple but effective building block manner. At the end of the course, the student is expected to:
1. Be familiar with the organizational behaviour and nature of organizations;
2. Be able to discuss the organizational and managerial context in which managers function;
3. Have a better understanding of self through the module on individual processes in
organizations, including differences, motivations and performance;
4. Possess a deeper level of knowledge about the interpersonal processes, including
communication, groups, leadership and decision making;
5. Possess a wider view of the total organization via the topics on processes, structure, design,
environment and technology.
Teaching Materials:
Traditional teaching aids such as textbook and references prescribed by the instructor, visual aids, and materials on current events and trends in the local and global business environment as well as technological teaching aids such as video supplements and information and other data from the internet as the instructor requires.
Course Requirements:
SLE and SLA reports
Periodic Quizzes
Recitation
Class Participation and Reporting
Long Exams
Papers
Final Project
The student is also required to be a member of the class e-group http://groups.yahoo.comm/group/bsa131 (bsa131@yahoogroups.com). This would be the means of communication of the class should there be materials or information that need to be disseminated from the professor to the class or vice-versa. Please ensure that you have signed up no later than the second week of class.
Allowable Number of Cuts:
Maximum of 2 for the weekend schedule, any cut in excess of these is automatically given a grade of FA. Tardiness beyond 30 minutes for the first term is considered an absence. You are held responsible for your cuts!! Do not wait for your professor to update you of this! She won’t!
Expectations from Each Student:
The student’s responsibility is to come to each class prepared. She is also expected to take all examinations on the dates scheduled. She should read the assigned materials and solve assigned problem materials prior to class. She is expected to attend each class and participate actively in the discussions.
Academic Dishonesty:
All BSA students are expected to be academically honest. Cheating, lying and other forms of immoral and unethical behaviour will not be tolerated. Any student found guilty of cheating in examinations or plagiarism in submitted course requirements will (at a minimum) receive an F (or 0.00) or failure in the course. Plagiarism and cheating refer to use of unauthorized books, notes or otherwise; securing help in a test, copying tests, assignments, reports, or term papers; representing the work of another person as one’s own collaborating, without authority, with another student during an examination or in preparing academic work; signing another student’s name on attendance sheet; or otherwise practicing scholastic dishonesty.
Transmutation Table of Grades:
0 – 49% = F 74 – 78% = 3.0
50 – 55% = 1.0 79 – 84% = 3.5
56 – 61% = 1.5 85 – 90% = 4.0
62 – 67% = 2.0 91 – 95% = 4.5
68 – 73% = 2.5 96 – 100% = 5.0
Text:
Robbin, Stephen. Organizational Behaviour, 10thEdition. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall International, Inc. 2003. (Or the latest edition)
Other materials found on the reserve section of the library.