Organizational Behaviour

  • Credits: 4
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2P + 2C
  • Semester: summer
  • Year: 1
  • Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice

Teachers

Included in study programs

Corporate Financial Management

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- to define the interrelationships among three analytical levels: individual, group, organization
- to characterize the behaviour of individuals and working groups and to know competencies of knowledge worker
- to understand organizational processes - leadership, motivation, delegation, coaching
Skills:
- to lead a work team
- to apply an effective leadership style
- to motivate to work performance
- to delegate work tasks
- to coach
Competences:
- to be able to solve different problems in the field of leadership and employee motivation
- to assess the level of individual areas of organizational behaviour in practice and formulate recommendations
- to create and lead teams in virtual organization
- ability to lead and motivate subordinates, including change management

Indicative content

Lectures:
1. Organizational behaviour – the introduction.
2. Individual in the organization – person's personality in terms of the demands of the job. Competences of knowledge workers.
3. Working groups and work teams in the organization. Efficiency of teamwork.
4. Leadership. Leadership styles. Global managers. Alternatives to leadership.
5. Work motivation.
6. Power, influence, authority.
7. Delegation and participation. Decision making.
8. Coaching.
9. Organizational culture.
10. Knowledge management.
11. Organizational design. Digitalization and automatization. Virtual organization.
12. Management of organizational dynamics.
13. International dimensions of the study of organizational behaviour.

Seminars:
1. Introduction. Requirements. Content of organizational behaviour.
2. Application of organizational behaviour. Personality in the organization.
3. Creation of working groups and teams, work organization and group efficiency – role play.
4. Choice of leadership styles for specific conditions – teamwork.
5. Specifics of motivation of talents in an organization – case study, teamwork.
6. Classification of types of power and their analysis of application in practice – model situation.
7. Model situations focused on delegation, participation, decision making.
8. Coaching – role play.
9. Semester test.
10. The elements of organizational culture – case study.
11. Knowledge management – teamwork. Virtual organization – case study.
12. Change management – discussion.
13. Assessment of students' work during the semester.

Support literature

Elementary literature:
1. Buchanan, D. A. – Huczynski, A. A.: Organizational Behavior. 10th ed. Pearson, 2020. ISBN 978-80-1352-2680-3.
2. Griffin, R.W. – Phillips, J. M. – Gully, S. M.: Organizational Behavior. Cengage, 2019. 640 s. ISBN 978- 03-5704-250-2.
3. King, D. – Lawley, S.: Organizational Behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 690 s. 3rd ed. ISBN 978-0-19-880778-0.
4. Přívara, A. Organizačné správanie a jeho osobitosti v 21. storočí. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2015. 97 s. ISBN 978-80-225-4066-7.
5. Stacho, Z. – Stachová, K.: Organizácia manažérskej práce. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2017. ISBN 978-80-8168-719-8.
Supplementary literature:
6. Alexy, J.: Manažment znalostí a organizačné správanie. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2013. 2. prep. vyd. 286 s. ISBN 978-80-225-3643-1.
7. Koning, P.: Agile Leadership Toolkit: Learning to Thrive with Self-Managing Teams. Pearson, 2019.
8. Buchanan, D. A. – Badham, R. J. Power, Politics, and Organizational Change. 3rd ed. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020. ISBN 978-1-5264-5890-2.
9. Lussier, R. N. – Achua, Ch. F. Leadership : Theory, Application & Skill Development. 6th Edition. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2018. 496 s. ISBN 978-1-285-8663-52.
10. Olexová, C.: Organizačné správanie. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2012. 121 s. ISBN 978-80-225-3395-9.

Syllabus

The course introduces the theory and practice of organizational behavior in modern organizations. Students will understand the organizational process, leadership and leadership style, motivation, negotiation, delegation, coaching, understand the aspects of power in management and selected problems of organizational dynamics during the study. Lectures: 1. Organizational behaviour – the introduction. 2. Individual in the organization – person's personality in terms of the demands of the job. Competences of knowledge workers. 3. Working groups and work teams in the organization. Efficiency of teamwork. 4. Leadership. Leadership styles. Global managers. Alternatives to leadership. 5. Work motivation. 6. Power, influence, authority. 7. Delegation and participation. Decision making. 8. Coaching. 9. Organizational culture. 10. Knowledge management. 11. Organizational design. Digitalization and automatization. Virtual organization. 12. Management of organizational dynamics. 13. International dimensions of the study of organizational behaviour. Seminars: 1. Introduction. Requirements. Content of organizational behaviour. 2. Application of organizational behaviour. Personality in the organization. 3. Creation of working groups and teams, work organization and group efficiency – role play. 4. Choice of leadership styles for specific conditions – teamwork. 5. Specifics of motivation of talents in an organization – case study, teamwork. 6. Classification of types of power and their analysis of application in practice – model situation. 7. Model situations focused on delegation, participation, decision making. 8. Coaching – role play. 9. Semester test. 10. The elements of organizational culture – case study. 11. Knowledge management – teamwork. Virtual organization – case study. 12. Change management – discussion. 13. Assessment of students' work during the semester.

Requirements to complete the course

• elaboration and presentation of written assignement – 25 %
• result of semester test – 10 %
• activity – 5 %
• final written exam – 60 %

Student workload

• Participation at lectures: 26 hours
• Participation at seminars: 26 hours
• Written assignment: 13 hours
• Preparation for test: 13 hours
• Preparation for final exam: 26 hours
Total: 104

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak

Date of approval: 15.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 17.12.2022