Overview

You have spent most of your life in organizations (from schools, to sports and/or community activities). Your work life will involve working with, in, or for organizations, and, very likely at some point, creating your own business enterprise and/or a service organization to help your community. The purpose of this course is to help you understand how people and organizations function, based on the latest behavioral science research on work, workers, and organizations.

About this course

The course is designed to be a challenging and practical academic experience. The Aim of this course is to provide you with an understanding of the behavior of people (including your own!) in relation to their work and organizations.  Various theoretical perspectives are covered to give you different frameworks from which to consider the management role in organizations.  Both classic research and the most recent findings are discussed.  Emphasis is given to the management function because of the importance that management and leadership plays in every organization.

Objectives

On completion of this course students should have acquired:

•    an understanding of theory and research related to current issues and future trends in organizational Behavior;

•    an understanding of the links between behavior and its social and organizational context;

•    the ability to apply major OB concepts, models and theories to enhance organizational effectiveness through insightful analysis and discussion of case studies, scenarios and examples used throughout the course.  

Reference Materials

Robins SP, Judge TA. Organizational Behavior (Eng. 17e), China Renmin University Press, 2019. (斯蒂芬·罗宾斯，蒂莫西·贾奇. 组织行为学（英文版·第17版）. 人大出版社, 2019.)

Sun Jianmin, Zhang de, Organizational Behavior, Higher Education Press, 2019. (孙健敏, 张德. 组织行为学. 高等教育出版社, 2019.)

Syllabus

• Chapter 1 Introduction to OB
• Chapter 2 Diversity in organizations
• Chapter 3 Attitudes
• Chapter 4 Emotions and Mood
• Chapter 5 Perception and Individual Decision Making
• Chapter 6 Motivation Concepts
• Chapter 7 Motivation: From connects to applications
• Chapter 8 Understanding Group Behavior
• Chapter 9 Making a high-performance group
• Chapter 10 Leadership: Born or Made?
• Chapter 11 Organizational structure
• Chapter 12 Organizational culture

Lecturer

	Ning Nan Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Associate Professor Associate Professor & Head of International Business Department, School of International Business, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
	Xiang Shuting Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Associate Professor Associate Professor, School of International Business, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
	Liu Yuanyuan Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Associate Professor Associate Professor, School of International Business, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
	Xiao Mengtian Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Lecturer Lecturer, School of International Business, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics