Course Objectives:

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 & Attitudes
	
Part II	
        Motivation--Principles, Applications, & Job Design	
	Group Behavior
	Work Teams
	
Part III 
        Communication
	Leadership
	Power & Politics
	Conflict & 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.