Course: Organizational Behaviour

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Course title Organizational Behaviour
Course code KSA/ORGCH
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 7
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kubátová Jaroslava, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
  • Gigalová Veronika, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1.Definition of the organizational behaviour. Definition of the term "organizational behaviour". The relationship between theory and practice in organizational behaviour. Defining organizational behaviour as a scientific discipline. 2. Development of the notions about organization. Individual developmental periods of the notions about human management in organizations in the frame the modern society development. From the beginning of modernity and basic principles of industrialization and post-industrialization to late modernity or postmodernity. 3. Human personality in an organization. Abilities, knowledge, skills, dispositions, motives, attitudes, values, special dimensions, applications into management practice, personal features of a manager, the competencies. 4. Mission and goals of an organization. Mission and vision, types of goals, sharing goals, goal management, assessing goals, setting tasks. There are bunches, bonds in organizations which connect individual parts of an organization into one peace in various ways (work, communication, persons and so on). There are different typologies of organizations. According to the mission there is e.g. productive organization, economical, non-productive, directing, cultural, interest, sport, political, army and so on. 5. Organizational structures and workplaces. Types of structures, people in various organizational structures, workplaces and work descriptions. To choose appropriate organizational structure is not an arbitrary process, it must come out of mane criteria: extend of manufacturing cells, product, kinds of vertical stages of management, number of management cells, creation of economical centres, extent of horizontal management apparatus, activity of individual departments, labour diversification between departments, rational assessment of the number of management cells, need and possibility to measure the activity of individual departments and so on. 6. Organizational culture. Creating and maintaining organizational culture, elements of culture, types of cultures, organizational cultures in different countries, transformation of an organizational culture. Organizational culture is a set of the influence of values (accepted, respected and developed), images (about own work, its meaning, success of a company, benefits, company organization, its position in the public), and approaches (to work, to colleagues, goals and mission of a company). 7. Dynamics of organizational relationships. Role, power, conflicts, organizational politics. Ability to deal with uncertainty that comes from the outside (e.g. from changing market) or from the inside (e.g. from uncertain effect of new technologies) creates the impression of competency and trustworthiness about its bearer; other people seeks support in such personality. 8. Group dynamics. Types of groups, group development, functions in a group, team roles, synergic effect, negative consequences of the group work. Inconsistency of individual definitions from different definers puts the bearer into an unpleasant position in the middle of power interests. Traditionally it is the role of master which is seen as conflicting - it is the person from whom it is expected to support the management politics, in the same time his/her subordinates expect him/her to support the interests of a working group. 9. Motives of working activity. Basic terminology, hierarchy of needs, ERG theory, satisfactory´ and dissatisfactory´ theories, facetisation of working values. 10. Procedure of motivation, motivating. 11. Leadership and management. 12. Counselling in the sphere of organizational behaviour.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
The discipline is focused on psychological and sociological aspects of administrative environment. Particularly, it deals with an individual adaptation to an organization system, the motivation of the workers on the basis of motivational theories, career in an organization terms demarcation, the administrative structure, the organization structure, organization relationships dynamics. Psychological and sociological use of theoretical arguments for organization personnel management.
- Student can define basic principles of organizational behaviour as a scientific discipline. - Student can describe and interpret the periods of development of managing people in the modern society history. - Student can use basic principles of human resources technology within an organization. - Student is equipped with terminology of the discipline and is able to explain and argue its individual categories. - Student can use individual steps into the sphere of a real organizational milieu and is able to argue the application according to present trends and in regard of theoretical aspects of organizational behaviour. - Student can assess which personal activities are to be used in real types of organization and organizational spheres. - Student is ready to find the mistakes in human resources in organization and suggest some solutions leading to their elimination. - Student can analyse a real organizational milieu. - Student can suggest and construct a workplace according to the analysis and to present demands which are set on the process of workplace designing. - Student is competent then to realize and argue the failures which lead to unwanted organizational events (such as e.g. high fluctuation or low work efficiency). - Student can construct and suggest correctional system based on the gained knowledge and skills.
Prerequisites
KSA/ANSPM, KSA/ZAKMA, KSA/ŘLZPM, KSA/UPPM, KSA/USPM

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark

To get the credit a student must work out a model situation which is set as a correspondence task. Model situation must be of demanded quality which is common for this kind of text. To get the credit is a necessary condition to attend the exam. The exam has an oral test form. Student must show adequate knowledge of the discipline Organizational behaviour and argue according to theoretical authorities of the scientific discipline.
Recommended literature
  • Bakešová, M., a kol. Základy organizačního chování. Olomouc: 2005.
  • Bělohlávek, F. (2005). Jak vést a řídit lidi: testy, případové studie, styly řízení, motivace a hodnocení. Brno: CP Books.
  • Bělohlávek, F., Košťan, P., Šuleř, O. Management. Olomouc: RUBICO, 2001.
  • Bělohlávek, F. Organizační chování. Olomouc: RUBICO, 1996 (kap. 2 - 11).
  • Koudelka, F., Bakešová, M. Vybrané techniky v procesu organizování pro vedoucí úředníky úřadů veřejné správy. Jihlava: Reprostředisko VOŠ, 2003.
  • Koudelka, F., Bakešová, M. Vybrané techniky v procesu řízení pro vedoucí úředníky úřadů veřejné správy. Jihlava: Reprostředisko VOŠ, 2003.
  • Kubr, M. a kol. Poradenství pro podnikatele a manažery. I. a II. díl. Praha: CAPA,1991.


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