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Economics and business administration (Academic Year 2020/2021) - Culture, Tourism and Corporate Value

Organizational Dynamics and Behavior



Slides

Lesson n. 1: Organizational Behavior: An Overview
   A definition of OB

   The framework

   The roadmap of the course

   Historical Evolution of Management Thought
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Lesson n. 2: Expectations And Learning
   Why and what is learning?

   Theories of learning: classical conditioning

   Theories of learning: operant conditioning

   Theories of learning: a technology of behavior

   Cognitive approaches to learning

   Learning from training
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Lesson n. 3: Leadership Dynamics
   Leadership traits: leadership as an attribute to the individual

   Leadership behaviours & styles (1° theory)

   Situational leadership (2° theory)

   Charismatic or transformational leadership: the return of the ‘great man’ (3° theory)

   From theory to practice
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Lesson n. 4: Team Problem, Decision Making, And Effectiveness Part I
   Basic assumption

   Dramaturgy & impression management

   Social Skills
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Lesson n. 5: Team Problem, Decision Making, And Effectiveness Part II
   Decisions in organizations
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Lesson n. 6: Group Dynamics And Performance Part I
   Why do groups form?

   Group structure

   Group processes
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Lesson n. 7: Group Dynamics And Performance Part II
   The Hawthorn Studies - Where it all began

   Intergroup behaviour
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Lesson n. 8: Appreciating Individual Differences Part I
   Personality

   The Big Five

   Freud & the dynamics of personality
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Lesson n. 9: Appreciating Individual Differences Part II
   Social Learning

   Conceptions of intelligence
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Lesson n. 10: Motivation Part I
   Needs at work

   Knowledge of results & goal-setting
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Lesson n. 11: Motivation Part II
   Job satisfaction & well-being

   Theories of job satisfaction
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Lesson n. 12: Stress And The Management Of Stress
   What is stress

   Types of stress

   Individual differences
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Lesson n. 13: Organization And Work Design Part I
   Bureaucracy

   Weber’s legacy

   Managerial work and control

   The critical management studies debate
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Lesson n. 14: Organization And Work Design Part II
   Organizations as systems

   Contingency theory

   Organizational design
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Lesson n. 15: Organization And Work Design Part III
   Basic charts: elementary

   Basic charts: functional

   Basic charts: divisional
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Lesson n. 16: Organization And Work Design Part IV
   Modified charts: products

   Modified charts: projects

   Modified charts: matrix
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Lesson n. 17: Creativity And Innovation
   The nature of management knowledge

   Ideas as fashions

   The spread of ideas

   Agents of dissemination
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Lesson n. 18: Organizational Culture
   Organizational culture & strategic management

   Organizazional culture and the management of change

   Exploring organizational culture

   Contrasting concepts of culture
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Lesson n. 19: Organizational Change, Development And Learning Part I
   The management of change
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Lesson n. 20: Organizational Change, Development And Learning Part II
   Models of change management
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