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Organizational Behavior
BUS120 | 3 Credits
Organizational Behavior gives you the chance to explore how people, teams, and companies function in the workplace. You’ll cover topics like communication, motivation, leadership, and more.
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What You’ll Learn
Our Organizational Behavior online course provides a tailored opportunity to explore the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations within today's dynamic work environment.
- Correlate self-concept, personality, emotions, and values to work performance.
- Correlate intelligence, ability, attitudes, job satisfaction, and learning to work 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 and also explain why communication is important in organizations while discussing four influences on effective communication encoding and decoding
- Differentiate functional and dysfunctional conflict and apply conflict management techniques.
- Select elements of organizational structure to optimize employee motivation.
- Apply leadership theories and styles to improve employee motivation.
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In Organizational Behavior, you will learn about communications, motivations, leadership, power structure, and organizational culture.
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Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Course Text
The required eTextbook for this course is included with your course purchase at no additional cost.
- McShane, S. L., & Young, M. V. (2024). Organizational Behavior, 10th edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education
Course Checkpoints
Checkpoint 1: Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behavior
- Chapter 1 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 1 Presentation
- Textbook Reading Chapter 1: Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behavior
Checkpoint 2: Personality and Values
- Chapter 2 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 2 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 2: Individual Differences: Personality and Values
Checkpoint 3: Perceiving Ourselves and Others in Organizations
- Chapter 3 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 3 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 3: Perceiving Ourselves and Others in Organizations
Checkpoint 4: Workplace Emotions, Attitudes, and Stress
- Chapter 4 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 4 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 4: Workplace Emotions, Attitudes, and Stress
Checkpoint 5: Foundations of Employee Motivation
- Chapter 5 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 5 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 5: Foundations of Employee Motivation
Checkpoint 6: Applied Performance Practices
- Chapter 6 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 6 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 6: Applied Performance Practices
Checkpoint 7: Decision Making and Creativity
- Chapter 7 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 7 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 7: Decision Making and Creativity
Checkpoint 8: Team Dynamics
- Chapter 8 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 8 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 8: Team Dynamics
Checkpoint 9: Communicating in Teams and Organizations
- Chapter 9 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 9 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 9: Communicating in Teams and Organizations
- Optional Assignment: Organizational Structure Plan
- Example Optional Assignment: Organizational Structure Plan
Checkpoint 10: Power and Influence in the Workplace
- Chapter 10 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 10 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 10: Power and Influence in the Workplace
Checkpoint 11: Conflict and Negotiation in the Workplace
- Chapter 11 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 11 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 11: Conflict and Negotiation in the Workplace
Checkpoint 12: Leadership in Organizational Settings
- Chapter 12 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 12 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 12: Leadership in Organizational Settings
Checkpoint 13: Designing Organizational Structures
- Chapter 13 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 13 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 13: Designing Organizational Structures
Checkpoint 14: Organizational Culture
- Chapter 14 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 14 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 14: Organizational Culture
- Optional Writing Assignment: Forms of Leadership
Checkpoint 15: Organizational Change
- Chapter 15 Pre-Reading: What Do You Think?
- Chapter 15 Presentation
- Textbook Chapter 15: Organizational Change
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- 15 Checkpoints
- 12 Benchmarks
This course has an open-book book Final Exam. Scientific and/or graphing calculators are allowed throughout the course.
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Launch Your Business Career with Organizational Behavior
Success in business is not just products and profits — it’s also about people. Organizational Behavior helps you understand how individuals and teams function within a company. You’ll explore motivation, leadership, culture, and group dynamics to better navigate workplace challenges. This is a foundation you’ll carry with you throughout your business career.
Why it matters:
- Nearly 1 in 4 employed professionals with a university degree studied business.
- Organizational behavior is central to careers focused on leadership or people management.
How this course sets you up for success:
Human Resources Specialist, Talent Development Manager, Management Consultant, Organizational Development Analyst, Team Leader, Operations Manager, Change Management Specialist, Business Coach
How this course sets you up for success:
You’ll learn how to build stronger teams and lead with emotional intelligence — key skills for any leadership or management role.
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