B6BU117 Assignment: Organisational Behaviour: Understanding People at Work

1. Module Description:

The module gives learners an opportunity to focus on being better people managers,
and colleagues, and team players by helping them understand why people behave the
way they do in organisations / in the workplace. The module will offer the
Organisational Behaviour theory underpinning modern management practice. It will
highlight individual, group and contextual/organisational influences on employees’
performance and satisfaction in organisations, and the relation of those influences to
certain metrics or outcomes or behaviours in which the organisation is interested, and
by which it measures success. It will highlight practical uses and applications of this
knowledge which can be brought to the workplace, e.g. diagnostic and solution design
skills

2. Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module, learners will be able to:

1. Recognise the Individual, Group and Contextual /Organisational influences on
performance and satisfaction of employees and groups.

2. Use organisational behaviour theory to inform their analysis/diagnosis of peoplebased organisational issues.

3. Design/redesign practices and systems as solutions to organisational people-based
issues.

4. Recognise individual differences and value diversity.

5. Better manage work relationships and teams and groups.

3. Learning Activities:

Each week will consist of a number of different activities: including some of:
lectures, full group discussions and debrief, small group discussions and debrief,
brainstorming, research activity, independent reading , application tasks etc.

4. Module Learning Plan:

5. Core Texts:

Robbins, S.P. and Judge, T.A. (2019). Essentials of Organizational Behavior.
15th edn.

6. Further Reading

Buchanan, D.A. and Huczynski, A.A. (2019). Organizational Behaviour. 10th edn.

Pearson Mullins, L.J. and McLean, J. (2019). Organisational Behaviour in the Workplace. 12th
edn. Pearson
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7. Resources:

Normal classroom resources, student handbooks, Moodle page contents etc.

5. Academic Integrity

“Academic Integrity is important to maintain in every assessment.”
(QAH, 2019, no pagination). To maintain academic integrity you must quote
and cite your sources for ideas, words, code, data, illustrations, images,
media and any other material found in your sources.

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6. Referencing Style

Harvard Referencing Style / Author –Date Style Harvard Referencing – How to:
Reference: LibGuides at Dublin Business School (dbs.ie)

Please use the correct referencing style for your discipline.

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The full reading list will be on the ‘library reading list’ link on each Moodle
page.