TCO: Motivation, Values and Commitment (BBA10831)

General information

Type:	OP	Curs:	2,3	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	4 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Ed: 1	Conxita Folguera Bellmunt	Dirección de Personas y Organización	ENG

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Ed: 2	Conxita Folguera Bellmunt	Dirección de Personas y Organización	ENG

This course offers and approach to Motivation, Values and Commitment linked to entrepreneurship projects. Entrepreneurial qualities are relevant in today's society and organizations. Organizations need innovative ideas and people committed to transform these ideas in realities. And teamwork is essential to do it. Attendance is therefore very important since students are expected to contribute to their group projects over the two weeks.

The course consists of ten daily, face to face, three hour sessions. These sessions include professor lectures, group activities and discussion. Guest speakers will be invited to share their experiences with you.

The course has 4 ECTS, equivalent to 100 hours of dedication. Of those, 30 are face to face classroom, (11:00 to 14:00). Work outside class (included in the 100 hours corresponding to the 4 ECTS) is required for individual reading, thinking, writing, and to individual and /or group work preparation.

Over the seminar participants are expected to reflect on several questions, and elaborate these reflections in brief reflection (uploading them in the moodle). Individual evaluation will also include a test on concepts from in a required reading.

Motivation, Values and commitment contributes to the BBA program by developing entrepreneurial qualities of students from perspective of people management.

Entrepreneurship programs often emphasize the importance of consumer markets (is our business idea an answer of an existing need in the market?) and financial markets (where do we find the resources to finance the development of our project?). However, entrepreneurial projects result from individuals working together. Is then, natural, that some time is given to reflect on individual and group dynamics: what matters to individuals, what moves them, to what they commit. This course contributes to this often neglected perspective.

The course aims to provide the opportunity to design entrepreneurial projects that are meaningful to construct better societies, both through profit and non-profit organizations. In that sense, it contributes to develop participants' individual awareness and sense of social responsibility.

After completion of this course, participants will be able to:

- Describe main theories of motivation (content and process theories) and apply them to their own individual reflection and to the development of an entrepreneurial project.
- Define what values are. Learn the different uses of this concept, at individual, corporate and social level.
- Identify the most relevant values for group members, and design an entrepreneurial project coherent with these values. Discuss the coherence among exposed values and practiced values.
- Recognize and discuss different approaches to the study of "Commitment? in the organizational context, and discuss them in relationship with the group project.

Competences developed:

Individual self-awareness and sense of social responsibility will be enhanced to put creativity at the service of an entrepreneurial society.

1. Course description Contents 1. Introduction to the seminar. We as future managers, we as individuals and team members in the organizational context. 2. Theories of Motivation 3. Values. Individual and collective dimensions. Values and cultures. Values and organizational cultures 4. Commitment. Personal and organizational dimensions. 5. Individual and team projects in the organizational context.

We will use different types of activities to generate data that allow for personal and group reflection. Group work will be an important part of the seminar. Newspaper articles, readings, entrepreneurial cases and experiences will be used in class activities. Participants are expected to prepare individually. Complementary readings will be provided for optional analysis of specific topics. Guest speakers will share their experiences with the students.

Group project:

The course is built on group work. One of the main group activities will consist on designing an entrepreneurial project that intends to bring together some of the individual ideas or of the group members into a joint project. The project is an opportunity to build on each group member ideas and design a project that integrates them all.

Readings:

The list of readings provides the theoretical framework of the seminar. It does not indicate that all the papers listed below have to be read during the seminar, although some will be required. The specific readings that students are expected to work with will be decided by the professor according with the development of the seminar.

Filella, J. "Positive psychology in search of its identity? 2006.
Filella, J. "Commitment: an option for reviving the company?, Alta dirección, núm. 208, noviembre-diciembre 1999.
Herzberg, F, ?One more time: How do you motivate your employees?', Best of Harvard Business Review, 2003.
Judge, T. A., & Kammeyer-Mueller, J. D. (2011). Happiness as a societal value. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 25(1), 30-41.
Knights, D.; Willmott, Hugh, ?Introducing organizational behaviour and management' London : Thomson Learning, cop. 2012.
Levinson, Harry. Management by whose objectives? , Best of Harvard Business Review, 2003.
Meyerson, Debra E.(2001); ?Who tempered radicals are and what they do'; In: Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work.
Meyerson, Debra E. Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work. http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/2538.html Access on July 6th 2015
Novak, Michael "What is a calling?? Business as a calling, The free press, 1996.
Permanyer, Lluís. Miró. The life of a passion. Edicions de 1984, S.L. Barcelona 2003.
Roberts, John. "Motivation and the Self". In Knights, D.; Willmott, Hugh, ?Introducing organizational behaviour and management' London : Thomson Learning, cop. 2007. (pages 42-57)
Robbins, Stephen P., ?Organizational Behaviour', Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, cop. 2012
Wasserman, Noam. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) (2013)

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 1	Conxita Folguera Bellmunt	Dirección de Personas y Organización

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 2	Conxita Folguera Bellmunt	Dirección de Personas y Organización