ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

(MPA 613)

TOPICS FOR REPORTING

CHAPTER 1 – INDIVIDUAL IN THE ORGANIZATION

1.1 What Is Organizational Behavior?
1.2 Understanding Behavior in Organizations
a. Values
b. Attitudes
c. Personality and Perceptions
d. Decision Making
e. Job Satisfaction
f. Work Stress Frustration
g. Stress and Burnout
h. Mental Health and Mental Hygiene
i. Social System
1.3 Human Organization – Status and Roles
1.4 Organization as Social System
1.5 Human Elements in Organization: Its Importance
1.6 Informal Groups in Organization
1.7 Organizational Culture
1.8 Worker Motivation an Performance
1.9 Classification of Worker’s Motives
1.10 Behavioral Patterns of Work Group

CHAPTER 2 – THE GROUP IN THE ORGANIZATION

2.1 Autonomous Work Groups: Employee Teams
2.2 Culturally Diverse Groups
2.3 Communication Processes Leadership
a. Theories of Leadership
b. Functional Roles of Leaders
c. Behavioral Styles of Leadership
d. Leadership Skills to Develop
e. Leadership of Management
2.4 Conflict Resolution,
2.5 Change and the Social System: Social Equilibrium
2.6 Process of Change
2.7 Attitudes and Change
2.8 Factors that Causes Change
2.9 Sources of Resistance to Change

CHAPTER 3 – THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE WORK PLACE

3.1 The Global Context of Organizations
3.2 The Diversified Work Force:
a. Work and Work Attitudes
b. Attitudes: Formation and Change
 c. Work: Concepts, Classifications, Elements, Dimensions, Ethics and Work Efficiency
3.3 Power and Politics within Organizations

CHAPTER 4 – THE PROCESS

4.1 Organizations
4.2 Organizational Structure and Design
4.3 Organizational Culture
4.4 Organizational Change and Development
4.5 Quality and Innovations within Organizations

REQUIREMENTS:
1. Class Attendance
2. Individual Oral Report on Assigned Topic
3. Make Reaction Papers on the Following:
MID - TERM
a. Organization Behavior?
b. Role of Values, Attitudes, and Personality of the Individual in the Organization
c. Different Theories of Leadership and Functional Roles of Leaders in an
Organization
FINALS
d. The Inter-Play of Power and Politics within the Organization
e. Skills and Abilities in the Development and Design of Organizational Structure
f. The Concepts of Organizational Culture, Work and Work Attitudes, Formation
and Change.
Make a Cover Page:
a. Complete School Addresss: CTU
b. Subject
c. Term: Mid or Finals
d. Professor
e. Student Name

GOODLUCK AND GOD BLESS

MEETING: CTU Main Campus on November 4, 2017

DR. AUGUSTA C. URBIZTONDO

Professor