Unit information: Organisational Behaviour in 2009/10

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Unit name Organisational Behaviour
Unit code MGRCM2409
Credit points 10
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52)
Unit director Dr. Doherty
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

For those students currently enrolled on the MSc in Strategic Management, none. For students enrolling on the programme from October 2007: MGRCM1401 - The Context of Strategic Management & MGRCM1402 - Strategy and Strategic Management

Co-requisites

None

School/department School of Economics, Finance and Management
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Description including Unit Aims

The field of organisational behaviour (OB) draws primarily from the behavioural science disciplines of psychology, social psychology, and cultural anthropology. The areas that OB focuses on are individuals, who will often be working within groups, which themselves work within organisations, as well as all the inter-relationships between them. Some of the specific themes embraced by OB are personality theory, attitudes and values, motivation and learning, interpersonal behaviour, group dynamics, leadership and teamwork, organizational structure and design, decision-making, power, conflict, and negotiation. We will also examine the view that behaviour within the organisation has to be considered in the wider context of the outside world&�s effect on the organisation and its people.