GISDepartment of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies

In this course, students learn (1) why modern organizations behave as they do, (2) how the behavior emerges from inside the organization, and (3) how exogenous forces influence formation of the behavior. Since studies of organizations are fundamentally cross-disciplinary, this course approaches organizations from sociological, social psychological, public policy, and psychological perspectives about organizational behavior. For the same reason, examples covered in this course include organizations in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. At the end of this course, students will develop a multifaceted view of their own to explain various problems of modern organizations.

This course has three goals. First, students are expected to understand the scientific approach to study organizations. For example, what does it mean to study organizational behavior in a scientific manner? What are the objects of studying, organizational structure, performance, routines, or interactions among people and organizations? How is it possible to explain the relationship between behavior of people and organizational behavior? Second, students are expected to understand “organic aspects” of organizations. Organizations are more than machines whose structures and rules repeatedly generate intended results. Members interact with each other and in organizational contexts, from which unintended outcomes may emerge. In addition, organizations are influenced from temporal, geographical, and other environmental conditions. It is important for students to understand organizations as evolving and interactive actors with members and other organizations. Finally, students are expected to become able to explain problems caused by modern organizations in their own words. Regardless of their career after graduation, organizations are everywhere in modern life, and students may encounter minor to major issues caused both in and by organizations. It is essential for students to apply concepts that they learn in this course to organizational behavior that they observe in real life.

Will be able to gain “DP 1”, “DP 2”, “DP 3”, and “DP 4”.

英語 / English

In each class, I will assign readings to explore the topic of the next class. Finish them before class.

Active participation in class is required. In this course, we will use lectures by the instructor, audiovisual materials, discussion, and group presentations. The contents covered in class will go beyond assigned readings of the week. In the case of being unable to come to the class, send an e-mail in advance to the lecturer unless the reason is that you are sick.

In this course, students work together to study and make a presentation about organizational accidents. In the group presentation, explain the probable causes of the accidents and their implications to society using the knowledge from this course. Do not simply repeat what the internet sources, books, or other authorities say about the problems. Build your own explanation based on what you learn in this course.

Students will receive feedback on their presentations in class.

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なし / No

授業形態/methods of teaching：対面/face to face

※各回の授業形態は予定です。教員の指示に従ってください。

1[オンライン/online]：Introduction

- Syllabus
- What is OB?
- Why does OB matter?

2[対面/face to face]：Diversity in an Organization

- Diversity and its challenges

3[対面/face to face]：Individual Differences #1

- Values
- Personality

4[対面/face to face]：Individual Differences #2
Attitudes and Behaviors

- Perception
- Work attitudes and behaviors
- Psychological contract
- Relationships at work
- OCB

5[対面/face to face]：Motivating Work Environment

- Job design
- Goal setting
- Performance appraisals
- Performance incentives

6[対面/face to face]：Motivation

- Maslow's Hierarchy
- EPG theory
- Theory X, Theory Y

7[対面/face to face]：Stress and Emotion at Workplace

- Stress
- Stress process
- Workplace stressors
- Role demands
- Outcomes of stress
- Individual differences in experiences and managing stress
- Organizational approaches to managing stress
- Emotions
- Emotional contagion
- Emotions at work
- Emotional labor

8[対面/face to face]：Groups and Teams

- Groups
- Development stages
- Cohesion
- Problems of too much cohesion
- Teams
- Team roles
- Types of teams
- Designing effective teams

9[対面/face to face]：Decision Making

- Decision making
- Ideal process
- Reality
- Game plan?

10[対面/face to face]：Organizational Accident and Learning

- Organizational accident
- Risk vs. uncertainty
- Normal accident
- Organizational learning
- Barriers to organizational learning
- high-reliability organization

11[対面/face to face]：Power in an Organization
Knowledge Management

- Power
- Sources and conditions of power
- Knowledge management
- Intellectual capital
- Organizational memory

12[対面/face to face]：Leadership
Organizational Change

- Traits for leadership
- Types of leadership
- Process and forces of organizational change

13[対面/face to face]：Organizational Culture

- Organizational culture
- Types of organizational culture
- Why culture matters
- Weakness of the strong culture
- Strength of the adaptive culture
- Organizational socialization
- Outcomes

14[対面/face to face]：Group Presentations

- Presentations
- Wrap-up

In each class, I will assign readings to explore the topic of the next class. Students have to finish them before they come to the class. Students are also required to understand distributed materials in the class. Preparatory study and review time for this class are 2 hours each.

University of Minnesota Libraries. (2017). Organizational Behavior (University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing Edition). Minneapolis: online textbook available at https://open.lib.umn.edu/organizationalbehavior/. (Original author removed at request of original publisher.)

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- Class participation (15%)
- Group presentation (40%)
- Final paper (45%)

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