Module BUSI46V15: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR (TAUGHT)

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI46V15: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR (TAUGHT)

Tied To

• N1KY07: Entrepreneurship (Part-time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2012-2013 for details)
• N1N107: Entrepreneurship (for students entering in April 2014 only) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2017-2018 for details)
• N2K307: Management (Part-Time) (for students entering between Oct 2010 - Oct 2012) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2018-2019 for details)
• N2K507: Management (for students entering between Oct 2013 - Oct 2014) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2018-2019 for details)
• N5K107: Marketing (Part-Time) (for students entering between Oct 2010 - Oct 2012) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2017-2018 for details)
• N5K407: Marketing (for students entering in April 2013 only) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)
• N5K507: Marketing (for students entering from April 2014) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)
• N6K107: Human Resource Management (Part-time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2012-2013 for details)
• N6K207: Human Resource Management (for students entering from October 2013) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• This module aims to cover key issues concerning the behaviour of individuals in organisations.

Content

• Introduction to organisation behaviour.
• Individual differences: personal and mental ability.
• Management of attitudes and work motivation.
• Leading others.
• Organisational culture.
• Managing group dynamics and teamwork.
• Decision-making in organisations.
• Trust within organisations.
• An introduction to the management of change.

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module students should:
• Have a critical understanding of why employees display different attitudes and patterns of behaviour in the organisational environment.
• Have a critical understanding of how individual-level processes (e.g. personality) and group-level processes (e.g. culture) interact to produce organisational level outcomes.
• Have a critical understanding of the link of major processes, such as leadership, motivation and trust, with individual and organisational outcomes.
• Have a critical understanding of the importance of careful and informed planning and preparation for the success of human resource interventions.
• Have a critical awareness of the fact that appropriate design must be accompanied by careful implementation for the success of a human resource system.

• By the end of the module students should:
• Be able to use key organisational behaviour techniques (e.g. goal setting theory of motivation) to design human resource systems that improve individual (e.g. productivity, well-being) and unit (e.g. team cohesion) outcomes.
• Be able to evaluate the merit of academic and professional publications from both a scientific and a practitioner’s point of view.

• Written communication;
• planning, organising and time management;
• problem solving and analysis;
• using initiative;
• computer literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of taught input, groupwork, case studies and discussion, supported by guided reading and specially-written self-study material. 
• The summative assessment of the module is designed to test the acquisition and articulation of knowledge and critical understanding, and skills of application and interpretation within the business context.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Group-based discussions and case study exercises.