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SYLLABUS
Essentials of Organisation Behaviour

Objectives: To develop the capabilities of understanding, predicting and evaluating human behaviour in organisations at
individual, group and organisational level; To inculcate people management skills amongst budding professionals.

Sr. No. Description
1. Foundations of Organisational Behaviour: The nature and determinants of organisational behaviour, Roles & Functions of
Managers & need for knowledge of OB, contributing disciplines to the field, Hawthorne studies
2. Individual Differences: Individual characteristics, differences and significance Learning – Theories & Behaviour Modification,
Values, Attitude, Cognitive Dissonance Theory
3. Personality: Determinants, Trait Theory, MBTI, Big Five model,
Emotions: Affective events theory & Emotional Intelligence;
Perception: Perceptual process, Attribution theory, Frequently used shortcuts in judging others, Individual Decision Making &
Perceptual errors,
4. Work Motivation: Early Theories (Mc. Gregor’s Theory X & Y, Abraham Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory, Herzberg’s Two
Factor Theory), Contemporary Theories (McClellend’s 3 Needs Theory, Goal setting theory, Equity theory, Expectancy theory,
Reinforcement theory), Application of Motivation Theories.
5. Group Behaviour: Types of Groups, Stages of Group Development, Group Decision Making, Group Properties: Roles, Norms,
Status, Size and cohesiveness, Hawthorne Studies
6. Understanding Teamwork: Types of Teams, Creating Effective teams, Turning individuals into team players, Role of Emotional
Intelligence in team work
7. Current Issues in Organizational Communication: Gender and Cross cultural issues, Politically Correct Communication
8. Leadership: Basic Approaches – Trait Theories, Behavioural Theories & Contingency Theories, LMX theory, Leadership Styles,
Contemporary issues in leadership, Trust and leadership, Influence of National Culture on Leadership style.
9. Organisational Culture: Types of organisational culture, creating and sustaining culture, Changing Organizational Culture;
Change Management: overcoming resistance to change, Lewin’s three stage model;
Stress Management: Sources and consequences of stress, stress management, role of personality in stress management.
Conflict Management : types of conflict, conflict process, negotiation
10. Power and Politics: Basis of Power, Power Tactics, Responses to Organizational Politics and Ethics of Political Behaviour

DCOM401 ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR
Sr. No. Topics
1. Foundations of Organizational Behaviour: - The nature and determinants of organizational behavior , Roles & Functions of
Managers & need for knowledge of OB, contributing disciplines to the field
2. Individual Behaviour: Biographical characteristics, Ability, Learning: Theories of Learning (Classical Conditioning, Operant
Conditioning, Social Learning)
Values, attitudes & Job satisfaction
3. Personality: Determinants, Personality Testing: Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Big Five Model. Emotions, Emotional Intelligence.
Perception & Individual Decision Making
4. Work Motivation : Early Theories (Mc. Gregor’s Theory X & Y , Abraham Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory , Herzberg’s Two
Factor Theory) & Contemporary Theories (Mc. Clelland’s 3 Needs Theory , Alderfer’s ERG Theory , Adam’s Equity Theory &
Vroom’s Expectancy Theory, Goal Setting Theory) & Applications of Motivation Theories
5. Group Behaviour : Types of Groups, Stages of Group Development, Group Decision Making, Group Properties Understanding
Teamwork: Types of Teams, Creating Effective teams, Turning individuals in team players.
6. Current issues in organizational communication: Gender and Cross Cultural issues, Politically correct communications
7. Leadership: Basic Approaches (Trait Theories, Behavioral Theories & Contingency Theories), Transactional vs.
Transformational leaders, Charismatic leaders.
8. Conflict: Transition in conflict thought, the conflict process, conflict and negotiation: bargaining strategies, transactional
analysis as a tool for conflict management
Negotiation process, issues in negotiation. Power and Politics.
9. Organizational Change & Stress Management: Forces for Change, types of change, resistance to change, Lewin’s 3 step model
for managing planned change, Contemporary change issues
10. Stress management: Sources of stress, individual differences, stress management techniques