Undergraduate - UnitMGW2230 - Organisational behaviour

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Management
Offered	Malaysia First semester 2014 (Day) South Africa Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Mr Mazanai Musara (South Africa); Dr Patricia Lau (Malaysia)

Synopsis

Students gain an understanding of factors affecting the behaviour of people in work settings. The unit focuses on individual, group, and total organisational human factors influencing the effectiveness of organisations, including: the nature of organisations in the global context; individual behaviour including perception, attitudes, values and personality, motivation and performance; group behaviour in organisations -- the properties and management of groups, leaders and leadership, organisational power, influence, communication, conflict and decision making; organisational structure; organisational culture; change; the formal and informal organisation.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

examine theories of organisational behaviour (OB) to develop fundamental knowledge of OB as an area of management
analyse OB issues from multiple workplace perspectives
examine how managers can use knowledge of OB to manage individual employees and teams
apply theoretical OB concepts to organisational situations using the case study method
demonstrate skills in evaluation and analysis of OB concepts.

Assessment

On-campus: Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%

Off-campus: Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Lau Yin Yin

Workload requirements

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

It is recommended that students complete MGW1010 before undertaking this unit

Prohibitions

MGB2230, MGC2230, MGF2111, MGG2230