DRE 6003 Contemporary Topics in Organizational Behavior
DRE 6003 Contemporary Topics in Organizational Behavior
Research on organizational behavior focuses on the understanding of employee behaviors and attitudes that ultimately contribute to organizational success or failure. The study of organizational behavior seeks to identify factors that influence employees, the processes by which these factors exert their influence and ways of applying this knowledge within organizations.
After completion, students should:
1) Be acquainted with major perspectives and theories used to understand organizational behavior and ways to study it.
2) Be able to identify and present research frontiers within organizational behavior.
3) Be able to identify and position research opportunities within organizational behavior.
4) Be acquainted with relevant research journals, communities, and conferences.
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- The field of organizational behavior
- Motivation and job design
- Learning
- The employee-organization relationship
- Organisational justice
- Social exhange theory
- Leader-member exchange
- Perceived organisational support
- Organisational commitment
The course will be organized over 4 whole day sessions (7,5 hours each). Each session will cover main topics and will consist of three basic parts: 1) student presentations; 2) lectures; and 3) class discussions and group work.
Presentation software (e.g. Power Point) is necessary in the course.
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Enrollment in a PhD programme is a general requirement for participation in PhD courses at BI Norwegian Business School.
External candidates are kindly asked to attach confirmation of enrollment in a PhD programme when signing up for a course. Other candidates may be allowed to sit in on courses by approval of the course leader. Sitting in on a course does not permit registration for the course, handing in exams or gaining credits for the course. Course certificates or confirmation letters will not be issued for sitting in on courses.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 100 Grouping: Individual Duration: 1 Month(s) Comment: Individual paper that should contain a review of a particular topic or a proposal for an empirical study including hypotheses or propositions, consisting of 15 pages, plus references/appendices. The paper should be original work, and be written specifically for this course. Exam code: DRE60031 Grading scale: Pass/fail Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.