85612 - SEMINARIO "ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR"

Contenuti

Topics discussed during the seminar will be the followings:

1. Introduction to organizational behaviors;
2. Positive leadership and positive deviant behaviors;
3. Individual motivation at work;
4. Team dynamics;
5. Diversity management;
6. Power and organizational politics;
7. Supportive communication at work.

Testi/Bibliografia

Journal Articles:

• Cameron, K., & Plews, E. (2012). Positive leadership in action. Organizational Dynamics, 41(2), 99–105.
• Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2014). The underlying psychology of office politics. Harvard Business Review, December.
• Dobbin, F., & Kalev, A. (2016). Why diversity program fails. Harvard Business Review, 94(7).
• Goleman, D. (1998). What makes a leader? Harvard Business Review, 82-91.
• Katzenbach, J.R. & Smith, D.K. (1993). The discipline of teams. Harvard Business Review, March-April, 111-120.
• Livingston, J. S. (2003). Pygmalion in management. 1969. Harvard Business Review, 81(1), 97–106. Manzoni, J. F., & Barsoux, J. L. (1998). The set-up-to-fail syndrome. Harvard Business Review, 76 (2), 101–113.
• Manzoni, J. F., & Barsoux, J. L. (1998). The set-up-to-fail syndrome. Harvard Business Review, 76 (2), 101–113.
• Parikh, J. (2016). How Facebook tries to prevent office politics. Harvard Business Review, June.
• Spretizer G.M. & Sonenshein, S. (2003). Positive deviance and extraordinary organizing. In K. Cameron, J. Dutton, & R. Quinn (Eds.), Positive organizational scholarship: Foundations of a new discipline (pp. 207-224). San Francisco: Berrett-Kohler.
• Thomas, D. A. 2004. Diversity as Strategy. Harvard Business Review, 82(9), 98–108.

Metodi didattici

Teaching methods consist of face-to-face lecturing, role plays, case studies, video analysis and simulations.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Students will be required to write a position paper (5-6 pages maximum) on a real workplace case wherein they can find trace of concepts and theories discussed in the classroom.

I encourage students to search the Internet or to look into newspaper about relevant and recent cases in which they can see the application (or the bad application) of organizational behaviors concepts and theories analyzed in the seminar. Examples might be the case of organizations that are able to develop and make their employees thrive, best practices in team management, cases of employee discriminated at work, cases of effective diversity management, etc.

Then, I would require each student to present the case, explain why he or she chose it, analyze it by highlighting what in their opinion worked or did not work about the way the situation was handled by both employers and organizations, and detailed explanation of what concepts and theories they can find mentioned in the case.

The case will be then evaluated for clarity, accurateness of the information and match of the topic chosen with concepts explained in the class.

 

Orario di ricevimento

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