Organizational Behavior
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This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to explore the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations within today’s dynamic work environment. Specific topics include communications, motivations, leadership, power structure, and organizational culture.
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Make sure you study and use the practice pieces in the lessons!
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I found a lot of the information very useful in my current job. My husband and I enjoyed discussing the topics and how they relate in both personal and professional areas of our lives.
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I found a lot of the information very useful in my current job. My husband and I enjoyed discussing the topics and how they relate in both personal and professional areas of our lives.
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The textbook is easy to understand.
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must get book
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harder than principles of management
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get the book
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It was great because it was self-paced and not challenging at all.
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Needed for most business degrees or minors, it's a core class basically about sociology and psychology and it's application to business.
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Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Correlate self-concept, personality, emotions, and values to work performance.
- Correlate intelligence, ability, attitudes, job satisfaction, and learning to work performance.
- Illustrate strategies to overcome social perception and attribution, diversity, and stress to improve performance.
- Compare and contrast content and process theories of motivation.
- Explain the use of goal-setting, feedback, rewards, and reinforcement, in improving performance.
- Examine the structure, size, and design of teams, and the effect of norms and roles on behavior.
- Examine techniques for effective team work, especially in problem-solving and decision-making.
- Examine barriers to communication and apply techniques of effective communication.
- Differentiate functional and dysfunctional conflict and apply conflict management techniques.
- Apply influence, power, and political tactics to achieve performance-related goals, consistent with ethical principles.
- Select elements of organizational structure to optimize employee motivation.
- Correlate organizational culture to employee motivation.
- Examine employee responses to organizational change and apply strategies to overcome resistance to change.
- Apply leadership theories and styles to improve employee motivation.
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Issues in Individual Behavior |
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Determinants of Individual Behavior |
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Determinants of Individual Task Performance |
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Theories of Motivation |
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Motivation: Performance Management |
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Teams in the Workplace |
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Team Building |
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Communication |
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Organizational Politics |
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Conflict and Negotiation |
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Leadership |
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Organizational Structure and Design |
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Organizational Culture |
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Change Management |
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Review Topic |
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There are no prerequisites to take Organizational Behavior.
The required eTextbook for this course is included with your course purchase at no additional cost. More information on StraighterLine eTextbooks
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Organizational Behavior, 8e by McShane / Von Glinow helps everyone make sense of Organizational Behavior, and provides the conceptual tools to work more effectively in the workplace. This author duo continue the trailblazing innovations that made the previous editions of Organizational Behavior recognized and adopted by the new generation organizational behavior instructor.
StraighterLine provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
If you have chosen a Partner College to award credit for this course, your final grade will be based upon that college's grading scale. Only passing scores will be considered by Partner Colleges for an award of credit.
There are a total of 1000 points in the course:
Topic |
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3 |
Graded Exam 1 |
125 |
6 |
Graded Exam 2 |
125 |
6 |
Midterm Exam |
250 |
10 |
Graded Exam 3 |
125 |
14 |
Graded Exam 4 |
125 |
15 |
Final Exam |
250 |
Total |
1000 |
Final Proctored Exam
The final exam is developed to assess the knowledge you learned taking this course. All students are required to take an online proctored final exam in order complete the course and be eligible for transfer credit.
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to explore the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations within today’s dynamic work environment. Specific topics include communications, motivations, leadership, power structure, and organizational culture.