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HU Credits:
3
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Business Administration
Semester:
1st and/or 2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Aya Navon
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Ms. Limor Borut,
Ms. Aya Navon
Course/Module description:
This course is an introduction to the field of Organizational Behavior and Organizational Theory. As such, it deals with theories about the organization as a whole and with major issues that engage managers and consultants in their work: organizational culture, organizational change and leadership, selection practices, group processes and team building, and power in organizations.
Course/Module aims:
- Developing understanding of social and emotional processes in the organization.
- Getting to know major organizational issues that engage organization researchers, organizational consultants, human resources managers and managers in general.
- Getting to know the diverse points of view that different organizational theories offer, and to develop thinking and analytic skills in the organizational context.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Diagnose the implicit theory that managers, employees and the organization as a whole hold about the organization, and to offer people additional prisms through which they can understand their organization.
2. Diagnose organizational culture – including its revealed and concealed dimensions.
3. Be sensitive to emotional processes that people in organizations go through in times of change.
4. Recognize unconscious group processes in organizations that influence both employees and organizational outcomes.
5. Distinguish between different sorts of leadership styles and develop awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
6. Develop a more nuanced understanding about how power and power relations influence organizations and the people in them.
Attendance requirements(%):
80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
• Recorded frontal lecture
• Classroom thinking tasks
• Study units
• Short exams
• Team assignments
Course/Module Content:
•Group processes
•Organizational culture
•Open System and complexity theories
•Leadership
•Organizational change
•Power in Organizations
Required Reading:
For elaboration please see the syllabus at course's website at: https://moodle2.cs.huji.ac.il/nu19/course/view.php?id&eq;5568701#section-1
Additional Reading Material:
For elaboration please see the syllabus at course's website at: https://moodle2.cs.huji.ac.il/nu19/course/view.php?id&eq;5568701#section-1
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 66 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 24 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 10 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Students may be able to accumulate up to a 4 points bonus for call assignments.
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