BUSN 208 - Organizational Behavior

1. Explain and evaluate simple and complex concepts of organizational behavior (OB); including the theoretical and practical elements.
2. Illustrate basic managerial functions, roles, and skills and how they relate to the field of OB, including implications of environmental challenges.
3. Justify the need for elements of diversity within a global organization and environment.
4. Discuss the foundations of individual behavior through exploration in psychology; including personality, perception, and interpersonal differences.
5. Compare and contrast need-based perspectives in motivation including; Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Alderfer’s ERG theory, and Hertzberg’s dual-structure theory.
6. Compose examples of process-based perspectives in motivation through the equity, expectancy, and reinforcement theories.
7. Evaluate how job design, work arrangements, and employee participation affect individual performance and job satisfaction, and explain the nature of stress, and the importance of managing stress and balancing work-life.
8. Illustrate goal setting, performance management, and reward systems as they relate to total quality management efforts.
9. Demonstrate the understanding of how individuals make up teams and teams create an organization, and organizational effectiveness is reliant on each level.

• Individual behaviors
• Individual characteristics
• Group behaviors
• Personality differences
• Organizational behaviors
• Team diversity
• Needs-based motivational models’
• Organizational success
• Process-based motivational models

 
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