《Organizational Behavior》Syllabus
Course Number: 2110010802
Course Name: Organizational Behavior
Instructors: Ding Meiyue
Required Text: Organizational Behavior. Beijing: Higher Education Press,2019
Course Description: Organizational Behavior is a compulsory course for the professional platform of business administration majors. Taking the law of people's behavior in management activities as the research object, the fundamental task is to control and predict people's behavior in the organization, stimulate work enthusiasm, improve work efficiency, coordinate interpersonal relations, and improve organizational effectiveness. Through the study of this course, students will master the basic theories of employee behavior in work organizations from the three levels of individual, group and organization. Able to investigate and analyze the problems in the organization's behavior, combined with the actual operation of the organization. To cultivate students' ability to use the basic theories of organizational behavior to analyze and solve practical problems, enhance their direct feelings and experiences of various behavioral phenomena in organizational activities, learn to explain and analyze various phenomena in organizations from the perspective of behavior, and cultivate students' necessary skills (such as interpersonal communication, teamwork, etc.) for management.
Credits/Teaching Hours
Outline of UG CPC Topics Covered in this Course: (2.5 credits/40 lecture hours)
Chapter 1 Introduction 2 Teaching Hours
Section 1: Organization and Organizational Behavior
Section 2: The Historical Evolution of Organizational Behavior
Section 3: Common Research Methods in Organizational Behavior
Chapter 2 Individual Psychology and Behavior 10 Teaching Hours
Section 1: Cognition and Decision-making
Section 2: Values and Attitudes
Section 3: Capacity
Section 4: Personality
Section 5 Emotions and Stress
Chapter 3 Motivation and Incentives 6 Teaching Hours
Section 1 Basic Concepts;
Section 2: The Need Theory of Incentives.
Section 3 Process Theory of Motivation
Section 4 Comprehensive Incentive Theory
Section 5: Motivational Practices in the Context of Chinese Culture
Chapter 4 Group Psychology and Behavior 2 Teaching Hours
Section 1 Overview of the group
Section 2: The Process of Group Development
Section 3: Group Structure
Section 4: Characteristics of Group Behavior
Section 5: Group Conflict and Management
Chapter 5 Teamwork 2 Teaching Hours
Section 1 Characteristics of the team
Section 2 Types of Teams
Section 3 Team Process Management
Section 4 Team Effectiveness and Evaluation
Chapter 6 Leadership 4 Teaching Hours
Section 1: Classical Leadership Theory
Section 2: New Leadership Theories
Section 3: Leadership Practices in the Chinese Context
Chapter 7 Organizational Learning and Innovation 4 Teaching Hours
Section 1: Organizational Learning
Section 2: Learning Organizations
Section 3: Organizational Innovation
Section 4 Chinese Practice of Learning Organization and Organizational Innovation
Chapter 8 Organizational Change and Development 2 Teaching Hours
Section 1: Overview of Organizational Change and Development
Section 2 Systematic Models of Organizational Change and Development
Section 3: Resistance to Organizational Change and Its Overcoming
Section 4: Organizational Development Trends and New Organizational Trends
Total (Teaching Hours) 40
Summary of UG CPC Topics Covered in this Course: (40Teaching Hours)
a. | Marketing | 2Teaching Hours |
b. | Business Finance | 1Teaching Hours |
c. | Accounting | 1Teaching Hours |
d. | Management | 11Teaching Hours |
e. | Legal Environment of Business | 1Teaching Hours |
f. | Economics | 0 |
g. | Business Ethics | 8Teaching Hours |
h. | Global Dimensions of Business | 1Teaching Hours |
i. | Business Communications | 4Teaching Hours |
j. | Information Systems | 0 |
k. | Quantitative Techniques/Statistics | 0 |
l. | Business Policies | 2Teaching Hours |
m. | Integrating Experience | 8Teaching Hours |
| Total Number of Teaching Hours Covering CPC | 40Teaching Hours |
