| Course ID: | MGMT 9850. 1.5 hours. |
| Course Title: | Job Affect |
Course
Description: | Reviews research on state and trait affect variables that tend
to serve as independent, mediating, and moderating variables in
organizational behavior research. These dispositions,
temperaments, moods, and emotions impact the cognitions,
attitudes, and behaviors of employees in a number of respects.
The seminar will also review methodological and theoretical
issues relevant to the study of affect. |
| Oasis Title: | JOB AFFECT |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | To enable the student to understand the major affect-based
constructs in organizational behavior through in-depth
discussions of the literature.
To enable the student to assess the strengths and limitations
of existing work on affect-based constructs in organizational
behavior.
To provide the student with the methodological and theoretical
skills to conduct primary research on affect-based constructs
in organizational behavior. |
| Topical Outline: | Specific topics covered include:
• Personality
• Affect structure
• Moods
• Emotions |
| Honor Code Reference: | 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. |