ORGB 2811: Organizational Behaviour
Students examine the behaviour of individuals and how they interact with each other in different workplace organizations. Topics include: defining organizational behaviour; perception, personality, and emotions; values, attitudes, and their effects in the workplace; motivating self and others; working in teams; communication, conflict and negotiation; power and politics; leadership; decision making, creativity, ethics; and organizational culture and change.
Learning outcomes
- Explain the organizational behavioural challenges in the Canadian work environment.
- Illustrate the impact of perception, personality, and emotions.
- Articulate the impact of values, attitudes, and the influence of diversity.
- Describe the major motivational theories that affect the workplace.
- Discuss the difference between work groups and work teams and the models of team development.
- Summarize the communication channels and their barriers.
- Explain interpersonal conflict and conflict resolution.
- Critique the most popular bases of power in organizations.
- Interpret contemporary leadership theories.
- Identify major leadership issues in contemporary organizations.
- Describe individual and group creative and ethical decision making.
- Define organizational culture and elaborate on its impact on performance.
Course topics
- Module 1: Orientation to Organizational Behaviour
- Module 2: Individual Behaviour and Organizational Behaviour
- Module 3: Processes Motivation for Performance
- Module 4: Team Processes, continued
- Module 5: Managerial Decision Making and Communication
- Module 6: Organizational Change and Diversity
Required text and materials
The following Open Education Resources (OER) textbooks are required for this course:
- Black, J. S., & Bright, D. S. (2019). Organizational Behavior. OpenStax. Rice University. ISBN-13: 978-1-947172-72-2 Digital Access for free at https://openstax.org/details/books/organizational-behavior
- Organizational Behavior. (2010). OpenStax. University of Minnesota. CC BY-NC-SA. Access for free at https://open.lib.umn.edu/organizationalbehavior/
Assessments
Please be aware that should your course have a final exam, you are responsible for the fee to the online proctoring service, ProctorU, or to the in-person approved Testing Centre. Please contact exams@tru.ca with any questions about this.
To successfully complete this course, students must achieve a passing grade of 50% or higher on the overall course, and 50% or higher on the final mandatory exam.
| Assignment 1: Orientation to Organizational Behaviour | 10% |
| Assignment 2: Individual Personality and Behaviours | 10% |
| Assignment 3: Motivation and Rewards | 10% |
| Assignment 4: Leadership Analysis, Stories, Values, and Lessons | 10% |
| Assignment 5: Organizational Change and Diversity | 20% |
| Final Exam (mandatory) | 40% |
| Total | 100% |
Open Learning Faculty Member Information
An Open Learning Faculty Member is available to assist students. Students will receive the necessary contact information at the start of the course.
