John Molson School of Business Department of Management Comm 222: Organizational Behaviour and Theory Winter 2013 General Information Comm 222 Section E Class times: Monday & Wednesday 8:45 – 10:00 Class location: MB 3.430 Credits: 3 Instructor: Michel Greiche Telephone: (514) 848-‐2424 Ext. 5492 Email: mgreiche@jmsb.concordia.ca Course Information: Firstclass Course Description This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to study individual behaviour in formal organizations. Through theoretical, case and experiential …show more content…
4 Course Materials Textbook: Johns, G. & Saks, A. M. (2011). Organizational Behaviour: Understanding and Managing Life at Work: CUSTOM
Buchanan, A. H. (2001). Organizational Behaviour:An Introductory Text (4 ed.). (F. T. Hall, Ed.) Pearson Education.
Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2015). Organizational behavior (16th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. (Note: Refer to Chapter 3)
Kreitner, R., & Kinicki, A. (2013). Organizational behavior (10th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Retrieved from
Questionnaires are “a series of questions asked to individuals to obtain statistically useful information about a given topic” (Bryant, L, 2014). There are different types of questionnaires that include face to face, phone, post and online.
Examine the financial characteristics of health care delivery along with managing costs, revenues, and human resources
To be able to load qualitative data such as interview transcripts, start clicking in the “New Project” button. Give the project a name, and select where to save the project, for example, My Documents folder. This will create a file with the extension .rqda. Note that it is possible to transfer this file to a different computer and open the project given that R and RQDA are installed in that computer. After creating a project, files can be imported to the project. These files can be the interview files after transcription. Files can be imported by clicking the “Import” button under the “Files” tab. It is recommended that the file should be plain text with an ASCII encoding (Huang, 2014). If it is necessary to open a file and read it, the user
2 of Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior: Exhibit 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7 MGT 312 WEEK 2 Personality Impact Paper
Improving System Performance: The Evolution of Concepts Designed to Optimize System Performance Over the Past 25 Years
Knights, D. & Willmott, H. 2007. Introducing organisational behaviour and management. Australia : Thomson, 2007, pp. 344-372.
The above model draws form ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Understanding and Managing Life at Work, EIGHTH EDITION by Gary Johns and Alan Saks and has been trifurcated stage wise in relation to the game, Forbidden Island.
Colquitt, J., Lepine, J., & Wesson, M. (2013). Organizational behavior: Improving performance and commitment in the workpla
Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2011). Organizational Behavior (14th Edition). Boston, MA: Prentice Hall.
Bloisi, W., Cook, C. & Hunsaker, P.(2003). Management and Organisational Behavior: European Edition. Berkshire: McGraw-Hill Education
References:Huczynski, A. A. and Buchanan, D. A. (2007) Organizational behaviour: An introductory text. 6th ed., Harlow: Financial Times Prentice Hall.
Organizational behavior is the behavior of individuals, either one or a group. It is not the behavior of an organization, but rather the behavior of the people in an organization. This can be anywhere from a family at home to a church to a work group within a company. Some of the challenges that make behaviors challenging in today’s workplace are high performance, ethical behavior, productivity improvement, technology utilization, quality, diversity, work-life balance, and the global economy, (Schermerhorn, 2003, P. 1).