Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Economy and Business Management :: Marketing

Versao Portuguesa

COMPORTAMENTO ORGANIZACIONAL - 2018/2019

2º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Isabel Torres
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Isabel Torres

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

To promote in students knowledge and skills that enable them to explain the activities undertaken by individuals, groups and organizations. It is intended that students take ownership of models, theories and concepts that foster an understanding of the behaviors that occur in the context of organizations, as well as the impact that the structure and behavior have in Organizations.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Describe and relate:
a) the main disciplinary bases of OB as well as its object of study; b) Motivation, Satisfaction and Performance; c) Approaches of Leadership, Performance and Creativity; d) Structure and Behavior in Organizations.

Skills to be acquired

The aim is that students develop an understanding some dimensions that influence the dynamics and outcomes of the Organization and the welfare of man at work. Thus aims to promote diagnostic skills and organizational intervention in conjunction with other actors present in the context of Organizations.

Teaching Procedures

This course will use active methodologies, where the student assumes a central role in the teaching / learning process. The use of roleplaying, the case studies and small group work in this course will be privileged.

Programme

1 Organizational Behavior and Organizations.
1.1. Study of behavior in organizations - who relevante?
1.2. Bases and multidisciplinarity of Organizational Behavior.
1.3. Currently central issues in Organizational Behavior.
 
2. Motivation, Satisfaction and Performance.
2.1. Distinction of concepts.
2.2. Theories of Motivation.
2.3. Motivation and Satisfaction.
2.4. Satisfaction and Performance.

3. Leadership.
3.1. Leadership, Power and Authority.
3.2. Theoretical Approaches of Leadership.
3.3. Leadership and Decision Making.
3.4. Leadership and Working Groups.
3.5. Leadership and Creativity.

4. Organizational Structures.
4.1. Structure functions.
4.2. Dimensions of the structure.
4.3. Determinants of Structure.
4.4. Structure Types.

Evaluation Type

Students will be evaluated by two written tests and by performing exercises in OT class.

Teaching Resources

Audiovisual: computer, projector and board.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Organization, structure, leadership, motivation, behavior and performance.

Main Bibliography

Author PINA E CUNHA, M., REGO, A., CAMPOS E CUNHA, R.
Title Manual de comportamento organizacional e gestão
Place Lisboa
Editor RH Editora
Year 2007
Author Nahavandi, Denhardt, Denhardt & Aristigueta
Title Organizational Behavior
Place London
Editor Sage
Year 2015
Author Rees, Gary & Smith, Paul E.
Title Strategic Human Resource Management
Place London
Editor Sage
Year 2014

Complementary Bibliography

Author ROBBINS, S.P.
Title Comportamento Organizacional