Organizational Behaviour (5cr)

Materials

Guide Book
Mullins L.J. 2011. Management & Organisational Behaviour 11th Edition. Pearson

+ Teacher presentations & audiobook keynotes

Evaluation scale

0-5

Virtual portion

5

Student workload

Grades: from 0 to 5
Workload :

10% Live Webinars Attendance

60% => 15% x 4 = Individual assignments ( explained and launched from the platform after the live webinar)

30% Final Exam online

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Please refer to the Welcome page of the course

Content scheduling

The aims of the course:

- to study the organizational behavior in relation to management and leadership;

- to recognize Theories & Practice

- to apply of social science and cultural influences, and implications for Management and Leadership action;-

- to indicate ways and tools in which organizational performance may be improved through a better understanding of effective management and leadership of people;

- to increase the self- awareness of the students to develop their personal skills to be transferrable to be employable in the working life.

Exam schedules

Online

Teaching language

en

Teaching methods

Knowledge through lectures

For the pedagogical approach:

Zoccoli, M 2019. Connectivism, the pedagogical social fabric and the pipe as a knowledge and skills conductor in the professional identity formation of the student in higher education in the 21st century.
https://verkkolehdet.jamk.fi/ev-peda/2019/11/02/connectivism-the-pedagogical-social-fabric-and-the-pipe-as-a-knowledge-and-skills-conductor-in-the-professional-identity-formation-of-the-student-in-higher-education-in-the-21st-century/

Location and time

5 WEBINARS of 90 min each
(https://zoom.us/ & https://virtual-jamk.neolms.com/ platform):

(Calendar to be decided)

The Organizational Setting
The Individual
Groups Leadership and Management
Structure Strategy an Effectiveness
Wrap-up + Final Exam

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5

Qualifications

Not Applicable

Content

Management and Organisational Behaviour
- The Organisational setting
- The Individual
- Groups, leadership and management
- Structure, strategy and effectiveness

Objective

The student will learn:
- to identify the relation of organisational behaviour and management
- to frame the subject between theory and practice
- to identify the cultural influences and implications for management and leadership actions
- to learn the ways in which organisational performance maybe improved through better understanding of effective management ( and leadership) of people
- to increase the awareness, the sensitivity, personal skills and employability