Contemporary Topics in Organizational Behavior

Introduction

Research on organizational behavior focuses on the understanding of employee motivation, behaviors and attitudes that ultimately contribute to organizational success or failure. The study of organizational behavior seeks to identify factors that influence employees, the processes by which these factors exert their influence and ways of applying this knowledge within organizations.

Course content

• The field of organizational behavior
• Motivation and job design
• Learning
• Different theories on the employee-organization relationship
• Other topics may be included based on the availabilty of professors with different research interests within organizational behavior.