New Jersey Institute of Technology
School of Management
Dr. Jose C. Casal
Summer, 2009
HRM 601 Organizational Behavior (Summer)
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Class hours & place
Time:
Place:
Asynchronous (no set time but must check into course site every day)
WebCT (see below)
Course online site
The course is on WebCT (accessible from the courses list at my.njit.edu or at
webct.njit.edu). You should check every day announcements, answers to questions other
students may have asked, etc.
Contact information
Instructor’s name
Office
Office Hours
E-mail*
Voice
Fax
* Best way of contacting me
Jose C. Casal, Ph.D.
CAB 3013
By appointment only
WebCT’s e-mail (preferred) or [email protected]
973-596-3254
973-596-3074
Text and Other Materials
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There is no text in this course. If you have not had an undergraduate
organizational course (and maybe even if you have), access to any organizational
behavior textbook may be useful.
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Readings will be available on on-line.
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Recorded lectures will be available on-line.
Overview
This course is intended to give you a better understanding of human behavior in
organizations and of the behavior of organizations. The course has three primary
objectives:
1) To help you become a more effective member of your present organization. The
emphasis is on providing tools to help gain a better understanding of your valueadded activities and those of others. The course also focuses on making
meaningful contributions within the realities of organizational life.
New Jersey Institute of Technology
School of Management
Dr. Jose C. Casal
Summer, 2009
2) To prepare you to assume leadership roles or to make you better leaders. The
course places a strong emphasis on the centrality of leadership to organizational
success. It is designed to help you understand a leader's responsibilities to his or
her subordinates and to help you develop an effective leadership style.
3) To provide you with the tools and information necessary to make informed career
choices that lead to successful career paths.
Course Requirements
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There are no exams.
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Four out of five short (3 to 5 pages) papers discussing an organizational behavior
issues (20 % each).
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Posting to four bulletin board discussions (20 %).
Schedule
The course site has a calendar that will have specific due dates and that will direct you to
the specific lectures that you need to watch and articles that you need to read.
Week Topic
Introduction
1
Introduction to the Course
Introduction to Organizational Behavior
Managing the Present
Understanding Complex Organizations: Organizational structures and
processes. Bureaucracies and networked organizations. Coalitions and
coalition formation. Goals and goal formation.
2
Power & Politics: Power and powerlessness. Individual and coalitional power.
Sources of power. Dynamics of power.
3
Organizational Cultures & Employee Socialization: Definition and key
elements of organizational culture. Cultural vs. structural control of behavior
in organizations. Culture and creativity. Success cultures. Dysfunctional
cultures.
4
Decision Making and Evaluation: Decision making processes, decision
making conflict, post-decision processes.
Envisioning the Future
5
Sense-making & Strategy: Environmental scanning, sense-making,
competitive advantage, strategy formulation and evaluation.
6
Leadership: Leading vs. managing. Leadership challenges and leadership
theory. The need for leadership throughout the organization.
7
Diversity in Organizations: Demographic, cultural diversity and diversity of
thought. Responses to diversity. Global, networked organizations. Self-critical
organizations.
Making it Happen
New Jersey Institute of Technology
School of Management
Dr. Jose C. Casal
Summer, 2009
Week Topic
8
Work Motivation I: Survey of theories of work motivation. Rational and
irrational motives. Achievement motivation.
Work Motivation II: Goal setting, performance management systems,
managing poor performance.
9
Careers and Career Management: Career and life stages and career planning.
Issues in career management.
10
Managing Organizational Change: The change process. What can be
changed? Managing the change process. New organizational forms.
11
Managing Organizational Change (cont’d)
Wrap-Up
Submissions
All work must be submitted by the due date using WebCT’s assignment tool.
Make-up Work
Make-up work will only be given if there are documented, major reasons outside of your
control (e.g. illness, family tragedy, military service) for not being able to do the work on
time. Demands on your time that you should reasonably expect such as those arising from
having a job or having a family are not considered reasons for not doing coursework on
time.
Curving
The course grade will be curved at the end of the semester by adding to each grade the
number of points lost by the student with the second highest grade. For example, if the
student with the second highest grade got an 88 %, then 12 points would be added to
every course grade.
Extra-Credit and Do-Overs
No extra-credit work and no “do-overs” (submitting work, not liking the grade and
wanting to redo the work).
Incompletes
Incompletes will be given only if you cannot finish the course due to major reasons
outside of your control (e.g. illness, family tragedy, military service). The school is now
requiring documentation of the reasons for the incomplete and a description of the work
that is needed to remove it to be put into your file.
New Jersey Institute of Technology
School of Management
Dr. Jose C. Casal
Summer, 2009
Grading Scale
The conversion of percentage points to letter grade is as follows:
A
B+
B
C+
C
F
89.5 up to 100
86.5 up to 89.5
79.5 up to 86.5
76.5 up to 79.5
69.5 up to 76.5
0 up to 69.5
Honor Code
You are expected to follow NJIT’s honor code, which can be found at
http://www.njit.edu/doss/policies/honorcode/.