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

COMPORTAMENTO ORGANIZACIONAL - 2021/2022

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

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Jorge Figueiredo
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Jorge Figueiredo

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) 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 (OB) and Management.
1.1. Studying OB - what relevance to Management?
1.2. Trends in OB.
1.3. OB, Management and Ethics in Organizations.

2. Motivation, Satisfaction and Performance.
2.1. Contributions of Motivation Theories to Management.
2.2. Motivation, Satisfaction and Performance.
2.3. Positive Psychology. Engagement.
2.4. The Organizations of Authentizotic Profile.

3. Leadership.
3.1. Leadership, Management and Organizational Performance.
3.2. Strategic Leadership.
3.3. Theoretical Approaches to Leadership.
3.4. Charismatic and Transformational Leadership.
3.5. Positive Leadership and Creativity.

4. Change, Learning and Health of People and Organizations
4.1. Change in the Current Context of Organizations.
4.2. The Projects of Cultural Change.
4.3. Managing the Change Process at the Individual, Group and Organizational levels.
4.4. Management, Uncertainty and Resistances.
4.5. 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 change, psychosocial risks, organizational ethics and citizenship.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography