Christ University Institute of Management

COURSE PLAN 2014-15

Subject: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR (MBA ) 2014-2015
MBA Class: I MBA
Faculty: Prof. Vilas B Annigeri- Sec. A, Sec. B.

Trimester: I
Hours / Week: 4 Hours / Week (45 hours in total)
Total Credits: 3 Credits

Course objectives:
1. To enhance the students understanding of ones own behavior and its impact on others in the organization.
2. To develop a meaningful insight to diagnose and effectively deal with human behavior at the workplace.
3. To develop students skills for influencing & managing groups, thereby enhancing personal and interpersonal skills.
Pedagogy:
The course is designed to introduce the field of Organizational Behavior, giving special attention to the major challenges and the paradigm shift facing
today's management - to present the organizational behavior perspective for management through exercises, activities and simulations. An experiential
learning methodology is adopted through the use of Case Studies, Group Discussions, Games, Role-Plays & the administration of Psychological
Instruments. Group tasks and presentations are compulsory.
Core Text Books:
Book 1 Luthans, F. (2009). Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-based Approach(12thed.) India: McGraw Hill Education Private Limited.
Book 2 Robbins,S.P, Judge,T.A & Vohra,N.(2013) Organizational Behaviour(15th ed.) Pearson

Reference Books:
1.
2.
3.
3.

Greenberg, J. & Baron, R. A. (2009). Behavior in Organizations. Prentice Hall of India.

Helriegel, D., Slocum, J.N., & Woodman, R. W. (2009). Organizational behavior. McGraw Hill.
Hodegetts, R. M. (2009). Organizational Behavior. Macmillan.
Kreitner, R. and Kinicki, A. (2009). Organizational Behavior. McGraw Hill.

4. Quick, J.C., Nelson,D.L. & Khandelwal.P (2011). ORGB, Organizational Behavior.(2nd ed). South Asian Perspective, Cengage Learning.
5. Udai Pareek.(2012). Understanding Organizational Behavior. (Revised and updated by Sushma Khanna ).Oxford University Press.

Syllabus
Unit
UNIT 1

W
UNIT 2

Topic- Break up

Hrs

Date

Introduction
to
Organizational
Behavior, Expectations
Level of Knowledge : basic
3
Historical Development, Behavioral
sciences and Organizational behavior,
Meaning, Importance Basic concepts,
Organizational Behaviour (OB )in the
global context, Managing diversity

1 Week : 2-7 June 2014

Individual Behavior Personality, 7

Perception and Learning

3rd June,
2Week :9th-14June 2014
3 Week: 16th June 2014

Level of Knowledge : Conceptual &

Application
Personality: Foundations of individual
behavior, Personality, Meaning and
Importance, Development of Personality
Determinants of Personality Theories of
personality, Relevance of personality to
managers.
Perception:
Nature, Importance and
Definition of Perception, The Perceptual

Teaching
Method

Assignments

Readings

Interactive
/
Lecture
/
Discussion
/
Case
StudyLarge retail
chain
OB
issues

Book 1: Non Jobs

or Telecommuting
Pg
27)Book1:
Changing
with
times
Book2 : Workforce
Diversity (Pg 35)
End of chapter
review questions

Book 1-Ch 1,2

Book 2 Ch 1,2,3
Allentown marerials
corporation-Harvard
Business
School
article.

Interactive
Lecture
Discussion
Case Study

/ Book
1
Same Book 1 Ch. ,5
/ Accident, Different Book 2 Ch 5,6,
/ Perception(Pg154)
Book2
:
Case
incident 1Pg166
Case
Incident2
Pg167
End of chapter
review questions

Process, Perceptual selectivity and

Organization,
Applications
in
Organization
Learning: Definition and importance
Theories of learning, Principles of
learning,
Shaping as a managerial tool

UNIT 3

Attitudes, Values & Job Satisfaction

3Week: 16 -21June
4 Week 23-28 June

Level of Knowledge: Conceptual &

Application.
Attitudes, Values and Job Satisfaction:
Sources and types of attitudes, Attitude
formation and change, Cognitive
Dissonance Theory
Values: meaning, importance, source and
types Applications in organizations.,
Effects of employee attitude, Job related
attitudes.

UNIT 4

CIA 1 Syllabus Unit 1,2,3

1
Submisssion of term paper Ist of July
(Tues)
MCQ and Term Paper
Motivation
5

Interactive
Lecture
Discussion
Case Study

/ Book 1 Assessing your

/ personalityPg153
/ It is all a matter of
personality Pg153
Book2: what factors ae
important for your job
satisfaction Pg 93
Case incident I Pg 94.
Case incident2 Pg94
End of chapter review
questions

Book 1Ch5
Book 2-Ch 3
Foxconn
Technology
group-Harvard
Business School
case study

Between 1 & 11 July,

2014
Week 5th :30-5 July
2014
7TH of July 2014

Business
study

Harvard
case
on

14 July 2014

Level of Knowledge: Conceptual &

Working Knowledge
Meaning, Theories of motivation,
(Content
and
Process
theories)
Motivation
theories
applied
in
organizations,

UNIT 5

UNIT 6

Enhancing Interpersonal Effectiveness 6

Level of Knowledge: Skill Development
& Application
Increasing Personal and Interpersonal
effectiveness through understanding and
practicing, Introduction to Transactional
Analysis and Johari Window Model
Midterm examinations
Syllabus Unit 1,2,3,4,
Groups & Teams
6
Level of Knowledge: working knowledge
& application
Groups - Meaning classification and
nature of groups, Stages of group
development, Resource structure and
Process, Tasks and effect of groups on

employee
motivationAPowerful need
model
Interactive
Lecture
Discussion
Case Study

/ , Book-1 Pg 193 what

/ types of jobs motivate Book 1: Ch5
/ you, What is the Book 2: Chap 7,8
Motivation Potential of
Jobs at Southwest
Airlines (Pg193)
Book 2: Goal Setting
Tasks Pg244
Case incident 1and 2 Pg
280

14 July 2014- 17 2014

28 July 2 On workshop mode
23 July 2014-29 July August 4 Aug
2014
2014

Handout
given

to

be

18 July-22 July 2014

4 to9 Aug 2014
11-16 Aug 2015
Interactive
Lecture
Discussion
Case Study

/
/
/

Book 1: Case study Book 1: Chap 11

Book
2 Chap
Pg 363
9,10
(EVEREST)
on
HBR
Book 2: Wilderness
Survival Pg 317

performance and satisfaction. Teams Meaning of teams, Types of teams,

characteristics
of
teams,
Team
development, Team decision making

UNIT 7

Introduction to organization structure,

16th of Aug 20 Aug 2014

Organization Structure, Common

Organizational Design, New Design
options,

UNIT 8

Managing Organizational Culture

3
Level of Knowledge: Working Knowledge
& application.
Meaning, dimensions & Types of culture,
Creating, Sustaining & Transmitting
culture, Keeping cultures alive & How
employees learn culture.

16 Aug 2014

UNIT 9

Conflict-Definition,
Process

Conflict 2

16th of Aug 20 Aug 2014

UNIT 10

Organizational change: forces for 3

change, Planned change, Resistance to
change, Approaches to managing
organizational Change

16th of Aug 20 Aug 2014

the

Case Incident 1and

2
End of chapter
review questions

Book-1-Ch-3,
Book2 Ch15
Interactive
Lecture
Discussion
Case Study

/
Book 1 Case : The
/ outdated Structure Pg86
/ Book 2: Exercise :
Dismantling
a
bureaucracy (Pg 541)
Case
incident
1,2
Pg618-619

Interactive
Lecture
Discussion
Case Study

/ Book 2 Exercise Pg 574 Book 2--Ch 16

/ Case incident 1,2 Pg
/ 576-577

Interactive
Lecture
Discussion
Case Study
Interactive
Lecture
Discussion
Case Study

/ Book 2 Exercise Pg 574 Book 1 Ch 9

/ Case incident 1,2 Pg Book-2-Ch 16
/ 576-577
/ Book2 Case incident 1,2 Book-2-Ch 17
/ Pg 618-619
/

*Topics indicated in bold and italics are self-learning modules which will have a different criteria for evaluation. Please refer to the Academic
standards Handouts for further clarifications
Additional Reading Material
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/R1401C-PDF-ENG?elq=a2a4c96a98c54c2d9049a7e67c8d2455&elqCampaignId=205
IDEOs culture of Helping

(Article entitled

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/R1405E-PDF-ENG?elq=a2a4c96a98c54c2d9049a7e67c8d2455&elqCampaignId=205 (Article entitled Get

your team to do what it says it is going to do
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-surprising-benefits-of-nonconformity Article entitled The surprising benefits of conformity
Williams, T. C., & Rains, J. (2007). Linking strategy to structure: The power of systematic organization design. Organization Development Journal, 25(2),
P163-P170. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/197982235?accountid=38885
Bacal, R. (2004). Organizational conflict-the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Journal for Quality and Participation, 27(2), 21-22. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/219147103?accountid=38885
Self learning modules and Evaluation
Unit 6: Groups and Teams: Teams - Meaning of teams, Types of teams, characteristics of teams, Team development, Team decision making
Evaluation :Presentation/ Case study/ Experiential Exercises
Unit7:Introduction to Organization Structure: Read chapter3 from Luthans (Book1) and chapter 15 Robbins (Book2 )and discuss the structure of the
organization you have studied in your Organization structure training. Keeping in mind the concepts learned in the chapters critically examine the structure
of the organization.

Continuous professional development-

Suggested- Becoming a Manager by Linda Hill, Harvard Business School

Evaluation Criteria for CIA 1 & 2:

A) MCQ containing 50 questions through Moodle 15 conceptual, 20
analytical and 15 application-oriented. That apart, 15 will be easy, 20
moderate and 15 difficult questions.
Both these components will
C.I.A 1 B) TERM PAPER- Guidelines: Min 2000 and Max 2500 words, Content and
have 20 marks absolute
scores.
Justification, Research Evidence, Address of topic fully and completely,
Critical analysis and Personal Learnings, References. List of term paper
topics will be given at the beginning of the course.
A) MCQ containing 50 questions through Moodle 15 conceptual, 20
analytical and 15 application-oriented. That apart, 15 will be easy, 20
moderate and 15 difficult questions.
B) Learning Diary Contents: Individual SWOT, Continuous Introspection, Both these components will
C.I.A 2 Reflect on concepts discussed in class, Application of OB concepts through
have 20 marks absolute
scores.
journaling incidents, experiences, events, Action Plan drawn and achieved,
periodic submission and checks (This will be in a practical record book).Also
compulsory is a 2 pg write up on emerging trends in HR which shall be
last assignment in the learning diary)

Additional Reading Material

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/R1401C-PDF-ENG?elq=a2a4c96a98c54c2d9049a7e67c8d2455&elqCampaignId=205
IDEOs culture of Helping

(Article

entitled

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/R1405E-PDF-ENG?elq=a2a4c96a98c54c2d9049a7e67c8d2455&elqCampaignId=205 (Article entitled Get

your team to do what it says it is going to do
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-surprising-benefits-of-nonconformity Article entitled The surprising benefits of conformity
Williams, T. C., & Rains, J. (2007). Linking strategy to structure: The power of systematic organization design. Organization Development Journal, 25(2),
P163-P170. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/197982235?accountid=38885
Bacal, R. (2004). Organizational conflict-the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Journal for Quality and Participation, 27(2), 21-22. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/219147103?accountid=38885