Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Course

ACE ID:

OOSL-0042

Organization's ID:

BUS120

Organization:

StraighterLine

Location:

Online

Length:

14 weeks (75 hours)

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	Organizational Behavior

Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide students with an opportunity to explore the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations within today's dynamic work environment. Specific topics include communications, motivations, leadership, power structure, and organizational culture.

Learning Outcomes:

Correlate intelligence, ability, attitudes, job satisfaction, and learning to work performa nee.
Compare and contrast content and process theories of motivation.
Examine the structure, size, and design of teams, and the effect of norms and roles on behavior.
Examine techniques for effective team work, especially in problem-solving and decision-making.
Differentiate functional and dysfunctional conflict and apply conflict management techniques.
Select elements of organizational structure to optimize employee motivation.
Correlate self-concept, personality, emotions, and values to work performance.
Explain the use of goal-setting, feedback, rewards, and reinforcement, in improving performance.
Examine barriers to communication and apply techniques of effective communication and also explain why communication is important in organizations while discussing four influences on effective communication encoding and decoding.
Apply leadership theories and styles to improve employee motivation.