From the context of individuals within organizations, to 
understand the major reasons why people do what they do 
(including individual factors, groups/teams factors, and 
organizational factors). Likewise, to understand the extent to 
which and how peoples' behavior can be influenced.

To show you and convince you that understanding how to manage 
people is (a) important and (b) more a matter of learning and 
knowledge than of common sense and intuition. 

To learn what the research literature has to teach us about 
effectively managing people.

To learn how to analyze people problems you will encounter in 
the future without sole reliance on intuition and business fads.

To become an intelligent consumer of information; to develop 
the ability to appropriately analyze, question, appropriately 
frame, and understand information and data that comes to you 
from all sources (media, school, research, friends, 
organizations, etc.).

The course will attempt to meet these objectives through 
lecture, in-class experiential exercises, class discussion, 
application exercises, exam preparation, videos, cases, etc.

The following topics are covered in this course:

Part I	
        Introduction to Organizational Behavior
	Foundations of Individual Behavior
	Personality
	Perception and Attribution
	Individual Decision Making
	Values and Attitudes
	
Part II	
        Motivation--Principles, Applications, and Job Design
	
	Group Behavior
	Work Teams
	
Part III 
        Communication
	Leadership
	Power and Politics
	Conflict and Negotiation
	Organizational Culture

All students are responsible for maintaining the highest 
standards of honesty and integrity in every phase of their 
academic careers.  The penalties for academic dishonesty are 
severe, and ignorance is not an acceptable defense.

Academic honesty means performing all academic work without 
plagiarizing, cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving 
assistance from any other person, or using any source of 
information that is not common knowledge.