GEST-D-461

Dernière mise à jour: 22 février 2010

Course content: This is a course about social behaviour in organisations. We will focus on the “micro” aspects of organisational behaviour rooted in psychology and social psychology concerning attitudes, emotions and behaviours within organizational contexts. Topics vary from year to year, but may include: leadership, motivation, emotion, group and intergroup processes, diversity and demography issues among others.

Papers and discussion will focus on theory development processes, critical analysis of methods and writing journal articles.

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The Organizational Behaviour Research Topics PhD class is a highly interactive class that relies on very active participation from students. A big part of the class involves directly discussing your PhD in progress and working on making links to OB research topics.

This is why I make it a requirement to joint my class to submit a short description of your PhD topic (one page max) at the latest one week before the first class.

In this note you should describe:

- What is the title and subject of your thesis? Please give the title and a concise description of the phenomena that interest you.

- What OB topics (see list below) do you think are the most pertinent to your PhD work?

- Major topics include:

·        individual characteristics such as beliefs, values, and personality

·        individual processes such as perception, motivation, emotions, decision making, judgment, commitment and control

·        group characteristics such as size, composition and structural properties;

·        group processes such as decision making and leadership;

·        organizational processes and practices such as goal setting, work design, appraisal, feedback, and rewards; and the influence of all of these on such individual, group, and organizational outcomes as performance, organizational citizenship behaviors, turnover, justice, absenteeism, stress, and deviance.

You can find a list of OB topics as defined by the Academy of Management OB division http://www.obweb.org/index.php

Students must attend all the sessions!

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Language: English

ECTS: 5

Schedule:

Wednesdays from 12.00 to 04.00 pm

April 21 , 2010

April 28, 2010

May 5, 2010

May 12, 2010

May 19, 2010  

May 26, 2010

Location: Seminar room 21, av. F.D. Roosevelt - 1050 Bruxelles - Université Libre de Bruxelles