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Organisational Behaviour - ZBUS8102

Faculty: UNSW Canberra at ADFA

School: School of Business @ UNSW Canberra at ADFA

Course Outline: https://gateway.unsw.adfa.edu.au/isas/current_students/outlines/index.html

Campus: UNSW Canberra at ADFA

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Restricted to students enrolled in Graduate Diploma or Masters programs.

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course analyses the behaviour of individuals and groups within organisational structures and the interactions that occur between the individual, the group and the organisation. Students will analyse the relationships between patterns of human behaviour and management concepts and practices, and will develop the conceptual framework required to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of those practices.

Learning Outcomes

This thread is developed through three course themes:

1. collection and interpretation of information to achieve managerial outcomes (e.g. motivating employees);

2. assessing and managing performance of groups (e.g. conflict management); and

3. understanding and using the relationship between the individual, the group and the organisation to improve personal management practice (e.g. how selection practices can alter organisational culture)

Delivery Modes

Intensive Mode Only

Topics

  • Class Test
  • Learning: how do students behave?
  • Psycometrics
  • Individual differances
  • Perception: abusing the MBTI & ethics
  • Motivating the right behaviour
  • Class test
  • Communication: rhetoric vs reality
  • Power & politics
  • Conflict management: aikido at work
  • the relationship between structure and strategy
  • Organisational culture: emergent or created?

Assesments

Class Test - 10%
Report - 30%
Class Test - 10%
Reflection or Case Study - 50%

Course Texts

Prescribed Texts:

Robbins SP, Judge TA, Millett B & Boyle M (2010). Organisational Behaviour (6th Ed). Pearson,
Australia. ISBN13: 931-4-994-24400-7

Recommended Texts:

Bratton J, Sawchuk P, Forshaw C, Callinan M & Corbett M (2010). Work and Organizational Behaviour (2nd Ed). Palgrave-MacMillan, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-230-23061-3
Osland JS & Turner ME (2011). The Organizational Behavior Reader (9th Ed.). Pearson, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-13-612551-8
Cottrell S (2011). Critical Thinking Skills (2nd Ed). Palgrave- MacMillan, UK. ISBN:
978-0-230-28529-3
Cottrell S (2008). The Study Skills Handbook (3rd Ed).
Palgrave MacMillan, UK. ISBN 978-0-230-57305-5
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