ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

1. Introduction (4 Hours)
1. Definition of Organisation Behaviour and Historical development,
2. Environmental context (Information Technology
3. Globalization, Diversity and Ethics,
4. Design and Cultural, Reward Systems
1. The Individual:
2. Foundation of individual behavior.


2. Ability Earning (6 Hours)
1. Definition,
2. Theories of Learning,
3. Individual Decision Making,
4. classical conditioning,
5. operant conditioning,
6. social making,
7. learning theory,
8. continuous and intermittent reinforcement.


3. Perception (6 Hours)
1. Definition,
2. Factors influencing perception,
3. attribution theory,
4. selective perception,
5. projection,
6. stereotyping,
7. Halo effect.


4. Value and Attitudes (6 Hours)
1. Definition – values, Attitudes:
2. Types of values,
3. job satisfaction,
4. job involvement,
5. professional Ethics,
6. Organizational commitment,
7. cognitive dissonance.


5. Motivation (7 Hours)
1. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs,
2. Gregor’s theory X and Y,
3. Herzberg’s motivation Hygiene theory,
4. David Mc Cleland three needs theory,
5. Victor Vroom’s expectancy
6. theory of motivation.


6. The Group (6 Hours)
1. Definition and classification of groups,
2. Factors affecting group formation,
3. stages of group development,
4. Norms, Hawthorne studies,
5. group processes,
6. group tasks,
7. group decision making.
8. CONFLICT MANAGEMENT:
1. Definition of conflict,
2. functional and disfunctional conflict,
3. stages of conflict process.


7. Leader Ship (6 Hours)
1. Definition,
2. Behavioural theories
3. Blake and Mounton managerial grid,
4. Contingency theories
5. Hersey
6. Blanchard’s situational theory,
7. Leadership styles
8. characteristics,
9. Transactional,
10. Transformation leaders.


8. The Organization (4 Hours)
1. Mechanistic and Organic structures,
2. Minitberg’s basic elements of organization,
3. Organizational Desings and Employee behaviour,
4. organization development
5. quality of work life (QWL),
6. Team building.

References:

1. Stephen P Robbins Organizational Behaviour –Pearson Education Publications - 9th Edn, ISBN–81–7808–561-5.
2. Schermerhorn - Organizational Behaviour –Wiley India Pvt Ltd -9th Ed
3. Paul Henry and Kenneth H. Blanchard -Management of Organizational Behavious - Prentice Hall of India - 1996.
4. Fred Luthans - Organizational Behaviour – Mc Graw Hill International Edition - 9th Edn., ISBN–0–07– 20412–1
5. Hellriegel, Srocum and woodman, Thompson Learning -Organisation Behaviour – Prentice Hall India - 9th Edition, 200
6. VSP Rao and others - Organizational Behaviour – Konark Publishers - 200

Evaluation Scheme:
The Questions will cover all the chapters in the syllabus. The evaluation scheme will be as indicated in the table below:

*There could be minor deviation in mark distribution.