13901 Workshop: Critical Organizational Behaviors and Organizational Performance

Credits: 3 graduate credits in Business Administration / Organizational Behavior in Management

Prerequisites: 36 graduate credits in Business Administration, including Operations Research, Accounting for Managers, Marketing, Management and Organizational Behavior, Financial Management, Corporate Law for Managers. Registration for the seminar is conditional on approval of the program director.

The seminar deals with the complex relationships between organizational performance, which is reflected in the effectiveness, efficiency and viability of the organization, its economic industry and its social environment on the local and global level, on one hand, and several critical organizational behaviors, on the other. These behaviors may facilitate and enable organizational performance, or, alternately, may disrupt or hinder it.

Objectives: To understand and analyze the relationships between the concept of work motivation in organizational behavior and several organizational behaviors: Job Satisfaction (JS), Organizational Commitment (OC) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB); To acquaint students with the new theoretical framework of Positive Organizational Behavior (POB), which proposes a new and interesting integration of organizational behaviors in general and the above behaviors in particular; To apply models and research methods for measuring organizational performance, JS, OC and OCB, and to provide students with tools to assess the strengths and weaknesses of these concepts in the world of management.

Structure: Each tutorial session is devoted to a survey of the literature and a discussion of issues relevant to topics of the seminar; Each student formulates a topic to analyze and proposes a specific seminar topic; Each proposal is discussed at the sessions; Students determine a schedule with the seminar coordinator for the presentation and submission of the paper; Students present their papers to the group and the seminar coordinator for discussion and critique.