Cursos / 2º Ciclo / Faculty of Economy and Business Management :: Management

COMPORTAMENTO ORGANIZACIONAL - 2017/2018

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 7.5

Teachers

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

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 1 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 behavior has in Organizations.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Describe and relate:
a) the main disciplinary bases of OB as well as its object of study; b) the relationship between Motivation, Satisfaction and Performance; c) the approaches of leadership and its relationship to the promotion of Creativity; d) Climate, Culture and Strategic Management; e) Change, Learning and Health in Work.

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.
1.4. Metaphors of Organizations.
 
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. Leadership and Management.
3.3. Theoretical Approaches of Leadership.
3.4. Charismatic Leadership and Transformational Leadership.
3.5. Positive Leadership and Creativity.

4. Culture and Organizational Climate.
4.1. Distinction and connection concepts.
4.2. Organizational Climate - dimensions and diagnosis.
4.3. Levels of Analysis of Culture.
4.4. The link between Culture and Strategic Management.
4.5. Elements of Culture and its Diagnosis.

5. Change, Learning and Health of People and Organizations
5.1. The Current Context of Change in Organizations.
5.2. Types of Change.
5.3. Projects of Cultural Change.
5.4. The Management of Change Process to Individual, group and organizational levels.
5.5. Change, Uncertainty and Resistance.
5.6. Change, Flexibility and Psychosocial Risks.

Evaluation Type

Students will be evaluated by a empirical work.

Teaching Resources

Audiovisual: computer, projector and board.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Organization, structure, leadership, motivation, communication, organizational culture and climate, organizational change, psychosocial risks, organizational ethics and citizenship.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography