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MGMT-551 Organizational Behavior
MBA Core
According to an influential study conducted by McKinsey & Co., talented: smart, sophisticated businesspeople who are technologically literate, globally astute, and operationally agile will comprise the most important corporate resources over the next 20 years. Although proficiency in technical skills is essential for success in the workplace, your ability to understand and manage the human side of an enterprise will be what ultimately allows you to distinguish yourself as someone who can produce significant, positive change in a work environment. This course will provide you with concepts and tools to help you understand human behavior while you enhance your capacity to direct the development and use of human and social capital in organizations. Through your work in this course, you will increase your capacity to make decisions with abundant yet imperfect information, work more effectively in teams, leverage workforce diversity, manage interpersonal conflicts, foster creativity, motivate and influence others to achieve goals, and navigate complex and dynamic organizational structures and cultures.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
1. Understand the factors that influence behavior in organizations and behavior of organizational units
2. Apply behavioral theory in organizational settings to diagnose critical management issues.
3. Analyze the contributing factors of complex and ill-defined organizational problems
4. Communicate theoretically sound, yet practical, recommendations in a persuasive and timely manner.
Credits: 1.75
Prerequisites: 1st yr MBA Students Only
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