Organizational Behaviour

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures and active methods (Work on texts, debates, case studies, practical exercises, workgroups).

Learning Outcomes

General goal

Investigate the impact that individual, group and systemic processes have on behavior within organizations to develop capacity for analysis and intervention in the organizational context.

specific objectives

Students should:

- Predict, explain and understand the key processes that influence behavior in a changing world;

- Reflect and identify, in a critical way, the relationship between the processes - individual, of groups and systemic - and organizational effectiveness;

- Understand the dynamics between different levels of analysis of organizational behavior;

- Devellop intervention skills, in terms of processes in order to gain competitive advantage and value creation in organizations;

- Awakening to the human side of organizations.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Fundamentals of Organizational Behavior;

- Processes of Organizational Behavior:

       - Individual processes;

       - Group processes;

       - Systemic processes.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Luísa Sousa Pinto

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Frequency: 70.0%

Bibliography

- Gonçalves, S. (2014). Psicossociologia do trabalho e das organizações. Lisboa: Pactor.

- Kondalkar, V.G. (2007). Organizational behavior. New Age International Publishers

- Miguel Pinha et al. (2007). Manual de comportamento organizacional e gestão. Lisboa: RH Editora.

- Robbins, S. & Jugde, T. (2012). Organizational behavior. Pearson.