•Introduce you to the basic principles and concepts of 
organizational behavior 
•Provide you with hands-on research experience that develops 
the skills that enable you to implement these principles in 
ways that benefit you and your company down the line
•Encourage introspection and help you gain a better 
understanding of yourself

In addition to traditional course expectations (reading, 
assignments, test, etc.), students enrolled in this course will 
create, design, build, implement, interpret, and report a 
research project designed to answer real-world questions that 
employees face when working in organizations. Small groups of 
students will act as consulting groups and independently design 
and execute their project with full-time working individuals.  
As part of this process, students will: (1) recruit a set of 
current employees and conduct interviews about their work 
experiences, (2) develop theory and hypotheses based on this 
set of interviews, (3) create a survey instrument designed to 
test their hypotheses, (4) recruit a new set of employees to be 
surveyed, (5) compile the data and analyze the statistical 
results, (6) interpret and synthesize the results to provide 
practical feedback with workplace implications. Students will 
relay the findings and feedback to participants (clients) in an 
effort to help enhance their everyday working experiences. 
Depending on the direction of the project, it can provide, for 
example, actionable steps to improve their satisfaction, the 
quality of their work relationships, job engagement, and 
contribute to the overall environment of the business community 
to which they belong. This project is designed to give students 
hands-on experience with how to apply research methods in 
management to practical questions that arise in the workplace.

The following topics are covered in this course:
-	Job performance 
-	Organizational commitment
-	Employee satisfaction and emotions
-	Motivating employees
-	Organizational justice and trust
-	Individual differences: personality, ability
-	Team structure and processes
-	Leadership style and theories

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.