Leadership and Organisational Behaviour (M22804)

General information

Type:	OB	Curs:	1	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	2 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Sec: A	Katharina Schmid	Dirección de Personas y Organización	ENG

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Sec: B	Katharina Schmid	Dirección de Personas y Organización	ENG

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Sec: C	Katharina Schmid	Dirección de Personas y Organización	ENG

The workload distribution is distributed into 70% classroom activities and 30% autonomous individual and team work.

The Leadership & Organizational Behavior course addresses the human side of enterprise. This course focuses on understanding the multi-dimensional facets and key processes underlying human behavior, how they affect key organizational outcomes and how knowledge thereof can maximize one's leadership effectiveness. By synergizing and applying knowledge about the processes underlying individual and group behavior, students will be provided with vital insights into the drivers of effective leadership.

The course focuses on some of the key issues that students, as future managers and leaders, will face, and the decisions and actions that are required to successfully manage individuals and teams in a variety of organizational contexts. To that end, particular emphasis will be placed on the factors underlying individual and group decision making processes, since these form a key component of leadership effectiveness and success.

To develop students' leadership skills, the course will provide students with a set of frameworks, skills and resources that help lead individuals, teams and organizations effectively.

1. To gain in-depth knowledge into the complex and multi-faceted nature of human behavioral processes in organizational settings, with a particular focus on human decision making processes and their relevance for leadership effectiveness.
2. To obtain vital insights into how to maximise one's own leadership potential and effectiveness, and thereby also successfully manage one's own career.
3. To aquire resources, skills and techniques that help lead individuals, groups and organizations successfully, based on the aquired knowledge about fundamental human behavioral processes.

Hackman, J. R., & Coutu, D. (2009). Why teams don't work. Harvard Business Review.
Kahnemann et al. (2011). Before you make that big decision. HBR.
Robbins, S. R., Judge, T. A., & Campbell, T. T. (2010). Organizational Behaviour. Pearson.

Additional readings and material will be provided in the sessions.

Group	Teacher	Department
Sec: A	Katharina Schmid	Dirección de Personas y Organización

Group	Teacher	Department
Sec: B	Katharina Schmid	Dirección de Personas y Organización

Group	Teacher	Department
Sec: C	Katharina Schmid	Dirección de Personas y Organización