Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 174302 | Subject title: ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND BEHAVIOR | ||||
| Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Mandatory | Year: 2 | Period: 1º S | ||
| Department: Gestión de Empresas | |||||
| Lecturers: | |||||
| NUÑEZ ALDAZ, IMANOL (Resp) [Mentoring ] | BARRENECHEA MENDEZ, MARCO ANTONIO [Mentoring ] | ||||
Contents
This course aims to bring students to the study of human behavior within organizations, as well as of the knowledge of the main variables related to the design of the organization. This general objective implies that the student knows the problems faced by organizations in this field, the main theoretical developments in the discipline, his personal position on these issues and developing the ability to translate knowledge into practice.
The course aims to provide the basic theoretical foundation for effective leadership at any level in any function within organizations. Therefore, its contents are very useful to perform management tasks that involve responsibility for people.
The course content is structured in three blocks. The first one is aimed at analyzing the elements that define and shape the organization as a set of relationships and people. The second one takes the individual as the basic unit of analysis, studying the relevant dimensions related to her behavior within organizations. The third section identifies the relationship between individuals within groups in organizations.
Learning outcomes
RA01: Identify relevant economic information sources for the company and their content.
RA02: Understand economic institutions as the result and application of theoretical or formal representations of how the economy works.
RA03: Derive relevant information for the company from data that cannot be recognized by non-professionals.
RA04: Understand the nature of the company as an organization with different interdependent functional areas interacting with agents with different interests.
RA18: Evaluate, based on relevant information records, the situation and foreseeable evolution of a company.
RA20: Plan, organize, and control global management projects or those of the different functional areas of the company.
RA21: Apply policies and practices aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of business management.
RA25: Use personal, social, and methodological knowledge, skills, and abilities to issue advisory reports on specific situations of companies and markets.
Methodology
| Classroom hours | Out of classrooms hours | |
| A-1 Large group sessions-theory and practice (includes final exam) | 46 | |
| A-2 Medium-sized group sessions-practice | 14 | |
| A-3 Essays and exercises | 24 | |
| A-4 Individual study | 40 | |
| A-5 Prepare for exams and quizzes | 18 | |
| A-6 Tutorials | 08 | |
| Total | 60 | 90 |
Evaluation
| Learning outcome |
Assessment activity |
Weight (%) | It allows test resit |
Minimum required grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final evaluation test, which will coincide with the regular exam. | 50 | Yes, in the retake exam. | 4/10 | |
| Partial evaluation test. | 35 | Yes, in the retake exam. | ||
| Exercises and papers carried out in groups. | 10 | Yes, in the retake exam. |
The minimum grade to pass the course is a 4 on the evaluation tests.
Agenda
THE INDIVIDUAL
Topic 1. Individual decision making
Topic 2. The theory of the expected utility.
Topic 3. The agency model.
THE TEAMS
Topic 4. Teams
Topic 5. The coalition model.
THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Topic 6. Transaction costs and the employment relationship.
Topic 7. Information systems and hierarchies.
Bibliography
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
Robbins, S.P., y Judge, T.A. (2016): Essentials of organizational behavior, 13th ed. Pearson Education.
Robbins S. P., & Judge T. A. (2019). Organizational Behaviour, enhanced eBook, Global Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf]. Retrieved from https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781292289151/
Buchanan D. A., & Huczynski A. A. (2019). Buchanan: Organizational Behaviour pdf e-book_10. [VitalSource Bookshelf]. Retrieved from https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781292251585/
Mullins, L. J. (2019). Mullins: OB in the Workplace EEB_12. [VitalSource Bookshelf]. Retrieved from https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781292245508/
Kuhn, P. (2018). Personnel Economics, Oxford University Press.
Lazear, E.P., Gibbs, M. (2011). Economía de los recursos humanos en la práctica, Antoni Bosch.