Course Description from Catalog: Organizational Behavior explores individual behavior, group behavior, and organizational systems from both theoretical and practical perspectives so students can understand people, motivations, group dynamics, communication, diversity and inclusion, leadership, power, politics, conflict management, culture, decision making, change, and organizational structures.
Course Overview: This course focuses on the ways that leadership, processes, and structures and how they influence organizational performance. The class examines leader behaviors and their application to your life and leadership roles. This practical course will provide a framework for personal development and developing team members as leaders to shape organizational structures. We will draw upon the diverse and collective experience of class colleagues, texts, articles, and weekly personal development assessment tools to frame how an individual impacts overall business performance.
Course Outcomes: In addition to the School of Business Learning Outcomes, Goals, and Proficiencies outlined for the Strand I and J courses and Core Capacities, students who participate and engage fully in this course will be able to:
· Demonstrate knowledge of how organizations are designed and structured to support teamwork and
understand community issues of teams and individuals inside institutions.
· Challenge students' complex personal and professional experiences, assumptions, and roles that are culturally constructed and maintained through belief systems that affect working teams and organizations.
· Analyze personal and institutional cultural meanings, beliefs, and cultural practices in society and organizations.
· Evaluate power, leadership, decision-making, and ethical issues in organizational structures.
- Teacher: Rebecca Williams