Required Materials Robbins, Stephen P. 1996. Essentials of Organizational Behavior. This course provides a broad overview of issues that govern managerial effectiveness. Specific topics include the manager's role, motivations and behavior of individuals in organizations, group processes, conflict management, leadership, power and influence, organization structure, organization change and development, and ethics.
Classes combine lectures, discussions, case studies, exercises, and role plays.
The purpose of the readings is to introduce students to theory and research relevant to a topic area. The cases, exercises, and role plays are designed to apply theoretical guidelines to the real-world management problems and to develop and practice management skills. Communications E-mail will be used for course communication. Students e-mail addresses will be collected the first week of classes. High quality participation entails thoughtful questioning about the validity of concepts and premises in the readings, cogent analyses of the cases, raising relevant experiences a student has had, etc.