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MGB2230
Faculty of Business and Economics
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.
6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL
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Organisational Unit
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Offered
- First semester 2016 (Day)
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 including 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 to develop fundamental knowledge of organisational behaviour as an area of management
- analyse organisational behaviour issues from multiple workplace perspectives
- examine how managers can use knowledge of organisational behaviour to manage individual employees and teams
- apply theoretical organisational behaviour concepts to organisational situations using the case study method
- demonstrate skills in evaluation and analysis of organisational behaviour concepts.
Assessment
Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%
Workload requirements
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
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