Organizational Behaviour

General

• Code: Β04
• Semester: Κατ/νσης Χειμ Εξάμηνο
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Course type: Specialization
• Teaching and exams language: Greek (English for Erasmus students)
• The course is offered to Erasmus students
• Teaching Methods (Hours/Week): Lectures and Practice/Exercises (3)
• ECTS Units: 5
• Course homepage: https://elearning.cm.ihu.gr/course/view.php?id=881
• Instructors: Mouza Anna-Maria

Course Contents

• Applying organizational behavior to organizations.
• Diversity in organizations.
• Attitudes and Job Satisfaction.
• Emotions and moods.
• Personality and values.
• Perception and individual decision-making.
• Urge.
• Leadership.
• Group Behavior.
• Collaborative groups.
• Intelligence, Personality, Emotional Intelligence.
• Prejudices and Stereotypes.
• Productive and counterproductive behavior in the workplace.
• Forms of occupational stress, factors affecting it and ways to deal with it.

Educational Goals

The objectives of this lesson are:

• To present and develop the basic concepts and principles of organizational behavior.
• To demonstrate the opportunities and possibilities offered by the application of the principles of organizational behavior in businesses.
• To develop the theoretical background regarding the study of the behavior of individuals and groups in the workplace.
• To present the effects of human behavior within businesses.
• To study behavior to increase efficiency and effectiveness.

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

• Present the fields of application of organizational behavior.
• Understand the concept of intelligence and its importance in the workplace.
• Recognize personality models and theories and explain the factors that determine the formation of personality.
• Understand why different people perceive the same stimulus differently, and explain how perception affects a person’s decision-making process.
• Recognize positive and negative behaviors at work and understand their importance.
• Know the effects of work stress, the factors that affect it and the ways to deal with it.
• Understand the concept of learning and human resource development through effective training.
• Describe how groups influence individual behavior and identify the main factors that influence the behavior of a group of people.
• Understand the sources and causes of conflict, as well as recognize the appropriate way to resolve them.
• To recognize the importance of communication within an organization, as well as to indicate ways to improve it.
• Describe the skills that an effective leader should have.
• Recognize the importance of trust between leadership and employees.
• Know the importance of changes in organizations, as well as the ways to deal with resistance to them.

General Skills

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Teaching Methods

• Face to face.

Use of ICT means

• Online guidance.
• Slides Projection in the classroom.
• Use of E-mail and onlne communication systems.
• Use of e-learning system (moodle).

Teaching Organization

Students Evaluation

to be filled

Recommended Bibliography

ΔΙΔΑΚΤΙΚΑ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ

1. Robbins, S. and Judge, T. (2018). Οργανωσιακή Συμπεριφορά: Βασικές Έννοιες και Σύγχρονες Προσεγγίσεις.   Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Κριτική.
2. Βακόλα Μ., Νικολάου Ι.  (2012), Οργανωσιακή Ψυχολογία και Συμπεριφορά, Εκδόσεις ROSILI.
3. Arnold J. Randall R. (2020), Ψυχολογία της Εργασίας και Οργανωσιακή Συμπεριφορά. Εκδόσεις: BROKEN HILL PUBLISHERS LTD.
4. Greenberg, J. And Baron, R . (2013). Οργανωσιακή  Ψυχολογία  και Συμπεριφορά. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Gutenberg.
5. Χυτήρης, Λ. (2001). Οργανωσιακή Συμπεριφορά: Η Ανθρώπινη Συμπεριφορά σε Οργανισμούς και Επιχειρήσεις. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Interbooks.

ΠΡΟΣΘΕΤΗ ΠΡΟΤΕΙΝΟΜΕΝΗ ΒΙΟΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ

1. Torrington D., Hall L., Taylor S., Atkinson C. (2016). Διοίκηση Ανθρώπινων Πόρων, Εκδόσεις BROKEN HILL PUBLISHERS LTD.
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Related Research Journals

1. Journal of Organizational Behavior, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
2. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, Taylor and Francis.
3. Organizational Behavior and Human Development Processes, Elsevier.
4. Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
5. Research in Organizational Behavior, Elsevier.
6. Journal of Business and Psychology, Springer.