Organisational Behaviour

Scholar Year: 2023/2024 - 1S

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Lina Maria Fortes Ferreira Head Daniela Rossana de Almeida Santos Lima Co-Responsável

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL L TC E OT OT/PL TPL O S Type of classes 1 2 Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Theoretical Totals 1 1,00 Daniela Lima   1,00 Practices Totals 2 4,00 Daniela Lima   2,00

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

The learning objectives aim to understand individuals’ and groups’ behavior within the organization and their influence on organizational behavior. Conversely, they also aim to identify intervention strategies related to those factors that explain individual and group behaviors at the workplace.
With this purpose, it is expected that students will develop competences that will enable them:
• To describe the socio-psychological dimensions that influences individuals’ behavior and their performance in the workplace.
• Analyze and intervene on factors explaining individuals’ and group behaviors at the workplace

Syllabus

1. Work motivation
2. Job attitudes: job satisfaction; organizational commitment
3. Stress and wellbeing in the work context
4. The relationship between the worker and the organization: The importance of the psychological contract
5. Organizational climate
6. Work teams within the Organization
7. Organizational leadership

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

This course focuses on core topics for organizational behavior, such as work motivation and attitudes, stress and wellbeing within the Organization, as well as those variables explaining these relevant issues for the employees’ wellbeing and organizational effectiveness (such as psychological contract, organizational climate, leadership and working groups). Thus, is intended the students acquire the theoretical knowledge and skills needed to characterize the socio-psychological dimensions that influence the individuals’ behaviors and performance at the workplace, enabling them to identify intervention strategies explaining individual and group behaviors at the workplace.

Teaching methodologies

The teaching methodology on lectures is based on a combination of lecture method and questioning for the introduction of theoretical concepts. In practical sessions, active methods are used, using situation simulations that illustrate the theoretical approaches as well as the analysis and discussion of case studies and scientific papers related to contents of the Curricular Unit.
This teaching methodology seeks to create complementary training situations so that the student plays an active role in their own training: individual work founded on a set of materials that stimulate group discussions during classes, as well as team work.

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

These teaching methodologies draw from the learning objectives of the course, which call for knowledge regarding the understanding of human behavior in organizations, but also entail objectives and skills regarding knowhow and savoir faire.
In the classroom, through a combination of lecture and Q&A methods, one seeks mainly the development of the students’ conceptual domain and the aptitude to elaborate on the multiple dimensions of organizational behavior (knowledge). By incentivize reading prior to lectures of a set of background texts, one aims to provide students with greater capacity for critical reflection on the themes addressed in the course.
In practical classes, through the use of active teaching methods, we intend to focus on the operationalization of concepts, analysis and resolution of practical cases, together with the development of skills of teamwork and effective communication (both oral and written).
By linking these two types of classes built on diverse but complementary teaching methodologies, one achieves the above mentioned desired objectives and skills regarding knowledge, knowhow and savoir faire.

Assement and Attendance registers

Bibliography

Cunha, M.P., Rego, A. Cunha R.C. e Cabral Cardoso, C. (2016). Manual de Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão. Lisboa: Editora RH.

Gonçalves, S.P. (2014). Psicossociologia do Trabalho e das Organizações: Princípios e Práticas. Lisboa: Pactor.