To develop the ability to apply abstract reasoning in the literature and analytic skills to everyday organizational experiences. To accomplish these objectives, students shall write a detailed plan for an analysis of some organizational behavior process in a natural setting of their own selection. The student will execute the planned analyses and write a formal report of those results. The specific topics include individual differences, perception, culture, attitudes, and workplace diversity. Students demonstrate critical thinking about diversity issues in the context of organizational and work life.
Students appreciate diversity as a source of organizational effectiveness.
Students understand that individual cognitive processes involve economies of perception, judgment, and evaluation. Students reflect on their cognitive processes as they apply to groups. Students understand the organization of work as a source of group formation, identity construction, valued differences, and conflict. These summaries are shared in the group. A detailed elaboration of at least one theory in the readings for sections II on.