NTU Nanyang Business School Common Cores
Module:
AB1601 Organisational Behaviour & Design
Description:
Organizations are an integral part of many people's lives. This course provides a strong theoretical foundation that you can use to build a grounded understanding of organizational phenomena. In your study of organizational behavior, you will learn more about yourself, how to interact effectively with others, and how to thrive in organizations. You will gain insights about your personality, emotions, values, perceptions, and motivations. You will learn about being an effective collaborator, and how you can gain greater self-efficacy in managing conflict, negotiating, influencing, and leading others. You will also build skills in areas such as self-leadership, avoiding groupthink, coping with organizational politics, and managing stress. This course is designed to enable students to acquire a strong body of foundational knowledge about organizational behavior and develop key managerial competencies needed to work well with people.
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Module:
AB1601 Organisational Behaviour & Design
Description:
Organizations are an integral part of many people's lives. This course provides a strong theoretical foundation that you can use to build a grounded understanding of organizational phenomena. In your study of organizational behavior, you will learn more about yourself, how to interact effectively with others, and how to thrive in organizations. You will gain insights about your personality, emotions, values, perceptions, and motivations. You will learn about being an effective collaborator, and how you can gain greater self-efficacy in managing conflict, negotiating, influencing, and leading others. You will also build skills in areas such as self-leadership, avoiding groupthink, coping with organizational politics, and managing stress. This course is designed to enable students to acquire a strong body of foundational knowledge about organizational behavior and develop key managerial competencies needed to work well with people.
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Course Assessments:
ReplyDeleteCreative Thinking Assignment - 20%
Critical Thinking Assignment - 20%
Team Presentation- 10%
Finals - 50%
Total - 100%
Recommended Tutors:
Koh Cheng Boon, Don Willis, Stuart Lloyd Arnold
Need textbook for bible.
Remarks:
OB and marketing are pretty similar - you need to do up your own bible, understand concepts and theories and apply them during examinations. Exam is open book - thus the bible will help you a lot. Heard that the course coordinator prof Koh Cheng Boon is pretty good. OB has no lectures - they are all 3 hour seminars. I've also heard Prof Don Willis is pretty good. My prof was SLA. Extremely fun, nice and patient prof. Seminars were made very enjoyable by him and I looked forward to my Friday seminars :)
AB1601 Organisational Behaviour & Design
ReplyDeleteLectures attended: 100%. Only 1. It's a review lecture, and it's important.
Seminars attended: 100%. (Ms Shan Wen)
Textbook(s): Customized version of Kreitner, R. & Kinicki, A. 2013. Organizational Behavior. 10th Edition. McGraw-Hill Irwin.
Assessment: Creative Thinking Individual Assignment (20%), Critical Thinking Individual Assignment (20%), Team Presentation including Peer Appraisal (10%), Final Examination, Open Book (50%)
Recommended Tutors: by seniors: Don Willis, Cheryl Tay Lee
Comment(s):
Think HR, think Psychology. Fun subject to learn, not easy to score.
There are a number of components that make up your final grade for this module. I would recommend putting in effort for the assignments as they play a large part to your grades.
First, the Creative Thinking Individual Assignment. This is generally unrelated to the module as a whole. Let loose your creativity and critically analyse a given document/file. Take care to not write the same things as your classmates, this is a creative thinking assignment after all. Think of novel ideas and insights and you should do fine.
Second, the Critical Thinking Assignment. This has more relevance to the module. The nature of this assignment is similar to the first but without the creativity component. It can be easier and more difficult at the same time. You will be expected to go more in-depth and critique the article given.
There's nothing special about the Team Presentation unless your tutor decides otherwise. Do take note of the Peer Appraisal, do not forget to do it!
My tutor was a PHD student and she is a very motivated tutor. She offered consultation slots for us to clarify any queries regarding the concepts or doubts regarding the assignment. She also took the time and effort to do up her own slides for the seminars. That is no mean feat.
This is a open book final examinations format, buying the textbook is highly recommended. This is a content-heavy module, you would be thankful for it being open book. :P