Organisational Behaviour - ZBUS8102
Faculty: UNSW Canberra at ADFA
School: School of Business @ UNSW Canberra at ADFA
Course Outline: ZBUS8102 Course Outline
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
Learning Outcomes
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
Topics
- Class Test
- Learning: how do students behave?
- Psychometrics
- Individual differences
- 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
Course Texts
Robbins SP, Judge TA, Millett B & Boyle M (2010). Organisational Behaviour (7th Ed). Pearson,
Australia. ISBN13: 931-4-994-24400-7
Recommended Texts:
Bratton J, Sawchuk P, Forshaw C, Callinan M & Corbett M. Work and Organisational Behaviour (2nd Ed) 2010
Osland JS & Turner ME (2011). The Organizational Behavior Reader (9th Ed) Pearson, Australia ISBN: 9780136125518
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