TITLE: Seminar In Organizational Behaviour
 

Content Outline

Grading Procedures

Text & References

Prerequisites

1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
   MGT 651 involves the study of management as a profession, with special emphasis placed upon behavioral and organizational issues. The course examines individual, group, and organizational processes in light of the environment within which the organization functions. Special attention is given to managing in non-U.S. settings, and to the ethical problems faced in the managerial job.
2. PURPOSE:
   The course examines individual, group, and organizational processes in light of the environment within which the organization functions. Special attention is given to managing in non-U.S. settings, and to the ethical problems faced in the managerial job.
3. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
   The main objectives of MGT 651 are to assist participants:
   1. To acquire a tool bag of concepts useful in achieving a better understanding of what goes on in Organizations;
   2. To recognize important managerial behaviors and requisite managerial skills;
   3. To identify managerial approaches that appear most appropriate for the achievement of desired organizational outcomes in different organizational settings;
   4. To apply and integrate the concepts and synthesize the knowledge gained in the course;
   5. To assess personal strengths and weaknesses in managerial situations.

   It is also hoped that you will find MGT 651 to be one of the most interesting and meaningful courses you will ever have the opportunity to study at any level in any University world-wide.

4. CONTENT OUTLINE:
   TENTATIVE MGT 651 CONTENT OUTLINE:

   Date	Topic	Chapter(s) in Main Text
   Aug 25	(a) Introduction to Organizational Behavior The “ABC”
   	(b) Introduction to Organizational Behavior	1
   	(c) Managing People and Organizations	2
   Sep 1	(a) Managing Global and Workforce Diversity	3
   	(b) Foundations of Individual Behavior	4
   Sep 8	(a) Need-based Perspectives on Motivation	5
   	(b) Process-based Perspectives on Motivation	6
   Sep 15	EXAM 1: [Chapters 1—5]
   Sep 22	(a) Job Design, Participation, and Work Arrangements	7
   	(b) Goal-setting, Perf…Management, and Rewards	8
   Sep 29	(a) Managing Stress and the Work-life Balance	9
   	(b) Communication in Organizations [Read]	10
   Oct 6	EXAM 2: [Chapters 6—10]
   Oct 13	(a) Group Dynamics	11
   	(b) Using Teams in Organizations	12
   Oct 20	(a) Leadership Models and Concepts	13
   	(b) Leadership and Influence Processes	14
   Oct 27	(a) Decision Making and Negotiation	15
   	(b) Dimensions of Organizational Structure	16
   Nov 3	EXAM 3: [Chapters 11—15]
   Nov 10	(a) Organization Design	17
   	(b) Organization Culture	18
   	(c) Organization Change and Development	19
   Nov 17	(a) Discussion of Group Cases to be handed out 2 weeks earlier
   	(b) Course Recapitulation and Conclusion
   Dec 1	Final Exam : 3 hours Long
   	The Final Exam Will Cover: Chapters 16-19 + Class Notes + Any Handouts Appendix A*: Starts Page 568 of Main Textbook — Study All Of It Appendix B*: Starts Page 577 of Main Textbook — Study All Of It Appendices A and B will not be covered in class, you are to read on your own. Remember, however, that both will be part of the final examination.

   Beginning in the Fall of 1999, all students will do their MGT 651 examinations on the computer. You will use computers in the Business Building Labs for this purpose. All the examinations will have the following basic instructions (see next = last page). Take the time to be familiar with these instructions well ahead of the first exam, so that you do not lose points for not following instructions. [There may be some minor changes in instructions from exam to exam, such as on the number and choice of questions to be answered. Otherwise, the rest of the instructions will remain mostly the same].

   Within one week of the first lecture in the course, each of you should provide me with a blank, unused, diskette that I will keep for the whole Semester. Label your diskette as follows:

   MGT 651 Computer-Based Exams

   Murray State University, Kentucky

   Your Full Name

   Your E-mail Address: If you have one. [Don’t worry if you have no E-mail].

5. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES:
   Extra work outside of class is highly desirable and commendable, but will unfortunately not improve a grade that has already been awarded.
6. FIELD, CLINICAL, AND/OR LABORATORY EXPERIENCES:
   Not Applicable.
7. RESOURCES:
   N/A
8. GRADING PROCEDURES:
   EVALUATION AND GRADING SYSTEM: Final grades in MGT 651 will be determined on the basis of student performance as follows:
   

   Activities and Grading Scale
   Exam 1	100 Points:	Chaps 1—5 + Class Notes
   Exam 2	100 Points:	Chaps 6—10 + Class Notes
   Exam 3	100 Points:	Chaps 11—15 + Class Notes
   Final Exam	100 Points:	Chaps 16—19 + Class Notes + Appendices A & B + A Case
   Total	400 Points:	The 90% = an “A” grading scale is used.

9. ATTENDANCE POLICY:
   On Attendance: All students should attend scheduled classes. Roll will be taken each class session. Any MGT 651 student who is absent on more than 3 occasions—that is roughly 6 of the 19 Chapters during the course duration will have his or her final course grade automatically dropped by one letter grade, such as from an "A" to a "B". Beginning in the Fall Semester of 1997, there will be no exceptions to this rule: so plan your schedule well.
10. ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY:
    All University, College, and Departmental policies on academic honesty will be strictly enforced. The usual minimum consequences of academic dishonesty will be failure of the course and referral to the Dean of the College of Business and Public Affairs for additional disciplinary action.

    Murray State University defines academic dishonesty as follows:

    Cheating, plagiarism (submitting another person's work as one's own), or doing work for another person which will likely receive academic credit are impermissible forms of academic dishonesty and constitute unacceptable conduct. This tsmincludes the use of unauthorized books, notes, or other sources in order to secure or give help during an examination; the unauthorized copying of examinations, assignments, reports, computer files, term papers; or the presentation of unacknowledged material as if it were the student's own work.

    Plagiarism, one of the most serious forms of academic dishonesty, is defined as:

    Stealing the words or ideas of another and passing them off as one's own. Whenever a student submits a piece of writing that claims original authorship, it is understood that the student is claiming that all the ideas, opinions, facts, figures, words, revisions, and conclusions are the student's original work, unless the student explicitly indicates otherwise via footnotes, attribution in the text, and/or appropriate quotation marks. Failure to acknowledge the contribution of the original author is an act of dishonest deception for which a student can be disciplined under the University's policy on academic dishonesty.

11. TEXT AND REFERENCES:
    Moorhead, G and Griffin, R. W. (1998), Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
12. PREREQUISITES:
    MGT 350: Fundamentals of Management; and
    Graduate Standing