Description
Organizational Behavior course;is ACE recommended for college credit transfer!
The Understanding Organizational Behavior course studies the scholarly foundations upon which the science of organizational behavior is built. You will learn how to transform business challenges into personal opportunities and organizational advantages. This course builds upon a powerful theme of change to clearly demonstrate how change not only affects attitudes and behaviors within an organization, but also offers new opportunities and experiences for those who can learn how to profit from its potential. This course addresses timeless organizational behavior topics, such as motivation, leadership, teamwork and communication, as well as some of the emerging issues shaping the field of organizational behavior today. Supporting themes focus on the challenges and opportunities within globalization, diversity, and ethics today. You learn not only the concepts and theories that help enhance the management of human behavior at work, but also learn how to practice these skills.
Topics include:
- Organizational Behavior
- Managing Diversity: Releasing Every Employees Potential
- Organizational Culture, Socialization, and Mentoring
- International Organizational Behavior: Managing across Cultures
- Key Individual Differences and the Road to Success
- Values, Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, and Counterproductive Work Behaviors
- Social Perception and Attributions
- Foundations of Motivation
- Improving Job Performance with Goals, Feedback, Rewards, and Positive Reinforcement
- Group Dynamics
- Developing and Leading Effective Teams
- Individual and Group Decision Making
- Managing Conflict and Negotiating
- Communicating in the Digital Age
- Influence, Empowerment, and Politics
- Leadership
- Organizational Design, Effectiveness, and Innovation
- Managing Change and Stress
