Leadership & Organisational Behaviour

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Year 1	Conxita Folguera Bellmunt	Dirección de Personas y Organización	CAT, ENG, ESP

CONTENT

1. Content 1. INTRODUCTION: LEADERSHIP AND ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Social psychology and its application in the organisational realm: organisational behaviour. Executive roles and the responsibility of leading. 2. MOTIVATION People's motivation at work in the organisational context. Different perspectives on motivation. 3. PERCEPTION AND STEREOTYPES IN ORGANISATIONS How do we form our first impressions of others? Applications in the organizational realm. 4. LEADERSHIP, POWER AND EMPOWERMENT What is leadership? Different approaches to leadership in organisations. Leadership, competencies and leadership roles. Power and influence. Different sources of power. Empowerment and shared power. Leadership styles. 5. GROUPS AND TEAMS What is a group? How does a group function? Different types of groups at work and their traits. Group decision-making. Teams at work and teamwork. Stages groups go through. Conditions to ensure efficacy when managing teams at work. 6. CONFLICTS What are conflicts? Conflict functionality and dysfunctionality. Diagnosing conflicts. Conflict-resolution strategies. 7. ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE What is it? Why is it important for it to be known? Types of culture. What effect does culture have on people and dynamics within organisations? 8. ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE Change processes within organisations. Change process stages and their management. Basic conditions for change to work. Resistance to change. Strategies to overcome that resistance.

1. Content

1. INTRODUCTION: LEADERSHIP AND ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Social psychology and its application in the organisational realm: organisational behaviour. Executive roles and the responsibility of leading.
2. MOTIVATION
People's motivation at work in the organisational context. Different perspectives on motivation.
3. PERCEPTION AND STEREOTYPES IN ORGANISATIONS
How do we form our first impressions of others? Applications in the organizational realm.
4. LEADERSHIP, POWER AND EMPOWERMENT
What is leadership? Different approaches to leadership in organisations. Leadership, competencies and leadership roles. Power and influence. Different sources of power. Empowerment and shared power. Leadership styles.
5. GROUPS AND TEAMS
What is a group? How does a group function? Different types of groups at work and their traits. Group decision-making. Teams at work and teamwork. Stages groups go through. Conditions to ensure efficacy when managing teams at work.
6. CONFLICTS
What are conflicts? Conflict functionality and dysfunctionality. Diagnosing conflicts. Conflict-resolution strategies.
7. ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
What is it? Why is it important for it to be known? Types of culture. What effect does culture have on people and dynamics within organisations?
8. ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE
Change processes within organisations. Change process stages and their management. Basic conditions for change to work. Resistance to change. Strategies to overcome that resistance.

Methodology

This subject combines lectures and participatory sessions. Throughout the subject, students will also carry out a group assignment that they will present at the end of the semester.

Faculty will introduce the different concepts, normally as lectures in the first part of the different sessions. These explanations may also include videos, case studies, short exercises, questions and debates in groups or with the entire class.

The second part corresponds to participatory sessions. In these, smaller groups of students will make use of business case studies, interactive techniques, videos and simulations to:
1. Connect theory with its application in organisations and
2. Help students to further their self-awareness and skills.

Faculty will detail and describe the learning objectives for each session as well as the proposed readings for each topic.

Teamwork
Students will work in teams to analyse and reflect on a company or organisation of their choosing or more than one if so indicated by faculty.

Teams will choose the specific topics, companies or organisations in question with faculty supervision and approval and apply the concepts and theories seen in class in their analyses. Faculty will provide tutorials to guide students through this process. Students will be required to dedicate time to these assignments outside of class. At the end of the semester, students will have to turn in these assignments in writing and then present them orally.

Specific objectives of this assignment:
1. Experiential learning in groups. Students have to look for information about the organisation or organisations they choose (documents, websites, news items, etc.) and establish contacts with the organisation/s (interviews with executives or employees, direct observation, etc.).
2. Apply the leadership and organisational behaviour concepts addressed in class to analyse people's behaviour in the organizational context.
3. Within-group observation: Students will also observe how they work as a team. Students will need to include this meta-learning component in their final presentations in class.

Assessment criteria

Assessment for this subject comprises the following:
1) Final exam: 35% of their final marks for this subject
2) Team assignment: 35%
3) Essay/reflection and theoretical analysis midway through the semester: 30%

1) Final exam: 35%
Students will be required to sit a final exam at the end of the subject. The exam will consist of multiple-choice questions related to the topics addressed in class and in the proposed readings. Marks on this exam represent 35% of final marks. Students have to successfully pass the final exam to pass the subject.

2) Team assignment: 35%
This assignment will be carried out by pre-defined groups. The assignment includes a conceptual component and the latter's practical application. The aim is for teams to relate the conceptual concepts with specific organisational situations. For this, they will have to actively seek out information, analyse and reflect on the latter.

All the members of the team will receive the same marks on this assignment if they all work equally. That notwithstanding, marks will be adjusted if there are members who do not participate or who do not actively contribute to the assignment. In this case, these team members will receive lower marks than the others and may even fail this component. All team members are required to attend and take part in the final presentation of their work. Team members will also evaluate each other throughout the semester. Failing to complete these evaluations within the established timeframes will imply subtracting 0.5 points from their marks on this assignment. All students have to participate in their respective team presentations and individually pass this team assignment to pass the subject as a whole.

3) Essay/reflection and theoretical analysis midway through the semester: 30%
The aim is for students to use and apply the motivation and leadership concepts addressed in class to analyse their own motivation and describe how they expect to develop their roles as future executives.

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS TO PASS THIS SUBJECT
To pass this subject, students need to pass the final exam (minimum mark of 5 out of 10) and individually pass the team assignment (minimum mark of 5 out of 10).

To calculate final marks, faculty will compute the marks students earn on the final exam and on the other assessment components (essay and individual team assignment marks), weighted as indicated above. Students need to earn a mark of 5 (out of 10) to be able to pass the subject.

Students who fail the subject will have to re-sit the final exam. In addition, students whose individual marks on the team assignment are lower than a 5 (out of 10) will be required to complete an additional individual assignment in keeping with faculty instructions. Students will need to pass the re-sit exam (minimum mark of 5 out of 10) and individual assignment (minimum mark of 5 out of 10) in order to pass the subject in the second sitting.

Timetable and sections

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

Timetable Year 1

From 2023/2/15 to 2023/3/8:
From Tuesday to Wednesday from 18:45 to 20:00. (Except: 2023/3/1)
Each Friday from 10:00 to 11:00. (Except: 2023/2/17 and 2023/2/24)
From Tuesday to Wednesday from 17:30 to 18:45. (Except: 2023/3/1)

From 2023/3/3 to 2023/3/8:
Each Friday from 10:30 to 11:30.
Each Wednesday from 13:30 to 14:30.

From 2023/3/22 to 2023/4/18:
From Tuesday to Wednesday from 18:45 to 20:00. (Except: 2023/4/4 and 2023/4/5)
From Tuesday to Wednesday from 17:30 to 18:45. (Except: 2023/4/4 and 2023/4/5)

Tuesday 2023/4/25 from 17:30 to 20:00.

Tuesday 2023/5/16 from 14:45 to 16:00.

Type:	OBL	Curs:	1	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	4 ECTS

Leadership & Organisational Behaviour (2225.YR.006090.1)

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