MPA7106 Organizational Behaviour

Although organizations are complex social systems that are not easily understood without conscious intensions, efforts have been evolved over time to try as much as possible to appreciate them probably in totality by way of examining the particular behavior of individuals, groups and organizations themselves as a whole. 

It is the wish of the management scholars that this endeavor be studied in what is now referred to as Organizational Behavior. The essence is to aid the student to appreciate organizations themselves and the behavior of the people in them so that he/she can be in position to determine the overall effect of these on aggregate productivity of the social system that is a common good.

This course therefore, introduces the students to many of the basic principles of human behavior that effective managers use when managing individuals and groups in organizations. 

Course objectives
By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Understand the role what organizations are, and why they do exist as social systems in society
• Understand human behavior and effects on the overall productivity of organizations.
• Appreciate the behavior of an organization and how it can impact on the performance of an individual in an organization.
• Understand the effects that both individual and organization behavior can cause on the overall productivity of a social system.

Learning outcomes

• Demonstrate an appreciation of the essence of organizing as an inevitable human activity. 
• Demonstrate an appreciation of human behavior and how it can affect organizational productivity
• Demonstrate an appreciation of how an organization’s behavior can affect the productivity of an individual or group workers