ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2017/2018
- Teacher
- GIOVANNI MASINO
- Credits
- 8
- Curriculum
- Small and medium enterprises(SMEs) in international markets
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- SECS-P/10
Training objectives
- The goal of the course is to provide students the main concepts and tools needed to understand human behavior in organizational contexts, with a specific focus on managerial decision making and some elements of human resource management.
At the end of the course students will be able to critically analyze the way organizational practices influence the choices and the behavior of manager and employees in the workplace. Prerequisites
- It is helpful, for a successful learning experience in this course, to know and understand the fundamental of organization theory and design.
Course programme
- First part (about 4 hours)
- Introduction to bounded rationality
Second part (about 12 hours)
- Decision making
- Choice and preferences
- Heuristics and cognitive biases
Third part (about 12 hours)
- Classic motivation theories
- Intrinsic motivation and goal setting
- The relationship between incentives and motivation
Fourth part (about 12 hours)
- Creativity at the individual level
- Creativity in groups
- Creativity in organizations
Fifth part (about 12 hours)
- Social influence
- Group decision making and group dynamics
- Pathologies in group processes
- Leadership in groups
Sixth part (about 12 hours)
- Group exercises with presentations and collective discussion Didactic methods
- Classic lectures in the first section of the course. In the final part of the course students, divided in groups, offer presentations in which they develop and discuss in depth specific themes and issues.
Learning assessment procedures
- The course exam is aimed at testing the level of achievement of the learning objectives as indicated above.
For the students attending the classes, the exam consists in the group works that students present in the final part of the course, plus a non mandatory oral exam.
Students who do not attend the classes have to pass a written exam with three open ended questions.
In both cases, the purpose of all tests is to verify the knowledge that the students have acquired about the topics of the course.
To pass the exam the student must obtain a minimum score of 18 out of 30. Reference texts
- All required reading materials will be available online
