| Course ID: | MGMT 9860. 1.5 hours. |
| Course Title: | Meso Topics in Organizational Behavior |
Course
Description: | Reviews research on emergent and unit-level constructs in
organizational behavior research. Such constructs are present
in cross- and multi-level research and are used to explore
research questions that focus on group and organizational
processes and outcomes. The seminar will also review
ethodological and theoretical issues relevant to cross- and
multi-level research. |
| Oasis Title: | Meso Topics in OB |
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 unit- and cross-
level 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 unit- and cross-level constructs in
organizational behavior.
To provide the student with the methodological and theoretical
skills to conduct primary research on unit- and cross-level
constructs in organizational behavior. |
| Topical Outline: | Specific topics covered include:
• Team processes and effectiveness
• Leader emergence and effectiveness
• Organizational climate and culture
• Person-environment fit |
| 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. |