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TCO: Motivation, Values and Commitment (18BBA10831)

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

Prerequisites



Teamwork is a key element of this course. Attendance is therefore very important since students are expected to contribute to their team projects over the course. Students must attend at least 80% of the sessions to pass the course and attendance is obligatory for sessions 1, 9 and 10.

Workload distribution


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

The course has 4 ECTS, equivalent to 100 hours. Of those, 30 are face-to-face in the classroom, (11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.). Work outside class (included in the 100 hours corresponding to the 4 ECTS) is required for individual reading, thinking, writing, and individual and / or teamwork preparation.

Over the course participants are expected to reflect on several questions, and upload these reflections to the Moodle.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

Motivation, Values and Commitment contributes to the BBA program by developing students' entrepreneurial qualities from a people management perspective.

Entrepreneurship programs often emphasize the importance of consumer markets (Is our business idea a response to 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. It is necessary, then, that we dedicate some time to reflect on individual and group dynamics: what matters to individuals, what moves them, what they commit to. This course contributes to this often neglected perspective.

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

Course Learning Objectives


Students will become familiar with theories related to motivation, values and commitment, reflect on them, and apply them to specific projects.

Therefore, after completion of this course, participants will be able to:

- Define what values are. Learn the different uses of this concept, at individual, corporate and social level.
- 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.
- Identify the most relevant values for team members, and design an entrepreneurial project coherent with these values. Discuss coherence between values in discourse and values in action.
- Discuss commitment in the organizational context

Competences developed:

Students will develop individual self-awareness and their sense of social responsibility to put creativity at the service of an entrepreneurial society.


CONTENT

1. Course description

This course offers an 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 into realities. And this is very much linked to what matters to individuals, what moves them, what they want to commit to.

This course will contribute to developing your entrepreneurial qualities not by asking you to look at the market (which is very important) or to think about resources to finance your project (again, key for success), but to focus on yourself and those working on the project with you. The course should help you to think about what will keep you moving during the project, about the values involved in your project and about the commitment you need to persist.

We never do projects alone. We always, in some way, do things with others. This is why you will be asked to listen to others, to what they like and dislike, to what moves them, to the values that are meaningful to them, to the roots of their commitment.

You will develop your projects in teams over ten 3-hour sessions. You will be exposed to the experiences of other entrepreneurs and find out about their motivation, values, and how they stay committed to their projects. You will learn about theoretical foundations and concepts (motivation, values, commitment) and will be expected to use these concepts in your class activities and team projects.

Content:
1. Introduction to the seminar. Students as future managers, as individuals and as team members in the organizational context.
2. Values. Individual and collective values. Values and cultures. Values and organizational cultures.
3. Theories of motivation. Their use in people management.
4. Commitment in time and space. Commitment to develop an entrepreneurial idea.
5. Individual and team projects in the organizational context.

Methodology

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

Team project:

The course is built on teamwork. One of the main team activities will consist in designing an entrepreneurial project that starts from individual ideas provided by team members. The project is an opportunity to build on the different ideas and design a project that integrates them all.
Readings:

The list of readings provides the theoretical framework for the seminar. Not all papers listed below have to be read during the course. Students will be told which specific readings to work with at the beginning of the course.

Assessment criteria

Both individual and teamwork are required and assessed. Teamwork is essential and attendance is therefore important, especially on the first day, when teams are created, and for the last two sessions, when projects are presented.

Final grades are obtained as follows:

- 50%: Teamwork (team activities over the course including final presentation)
- 50%: Brief individual reflections over the course (Moodle), a test (reading) and final individual assignment

Bibliography


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)

Timetable and sections

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

Timetable Ed: 1

From 2019/2/8 to 2019/5/3:
Each Friday from 11:00 to 14:00. (Except: 2019/3/1, 2019/3/22, 2019/4/5 and 2019/4/19)

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

Timetable Ed: 2

From 2019/6/3 to 2019/6/14:
From Monday to Friday from 11:00 to 14:00. (Except: 2019/6/10)

Saturday 2019/7/6 from 10:30 to 13:00.