EDM7103Organisational Behaviour in Education

The course focuses on organizational behavioural analysis at various levels i.e., the individual, the group, and the organisational levels. It is interdisciplinary in nature, with major inputs coming from psychology, administrative science, medicine, sociology and philosophy. Students explore the nature of organizational behaviour, motivation and behaviour, models of organizational behaviour, individual and group aspects of behaviour, culture as a determinant of behaviour, conflict in organisations, organisational change and key organisational processes that determine organizational behaviour such as leadership, communication, and decision making

Course Objectives

The course aims at:

•  Equipping students with the knowledge of the nature of organisational behaviour
• Enabling students know Individual differences in terms of personality, attitudes, abilities, perception, values and emotions and their impact on behaviour at the work place
• Exposing students to the process of group formation and groups’ impact on behaviour in schools 
• Enabling students appreciate the importance of studying organisational behaviour in education
• Enabling students apply the models of Organizational Behaviour to different school related contexts 
• Exposing students to the major influences on Behaviour in educational organizations 
• Exposing students to the major motivation theories and how these explain organisational behaviour
• Enabling students explain how leaders behave in educational institutions 
• Exposing students to the nature of political behaviour in school organisations
• Enabling students to appreciate the key social processes that inform behaviour in school organisation

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students should be able to;

•  Apply organizational policies on puzzling human behaviours that influence the quality and aggregate output of organizations 
• Discuss the fundamental factors that underpin behaviour in organizations
• Demonstrate knowledge of how various individual factors inform behaviour in educational institutions
• Explain the key social processes inform behaviour in school organisations
• Describe how social process inform behaviour in school organisations