Class Organisational Behaviour: Structures and Processes

The curricular unit Organizational Behavior Structures and Processes has as its theoretical and applied objective the explanatory models of Organizational Behavior, with a special focus on:

• Understand the importance and evolution of explanatory models of conflict and negotiation behaviors
• Understand and apply the organizational methods used by organizations to deal with conflicts
• Define and deepen the main concepts of politics, power and negotiation
• Identify and characterize the different types of organizational structure
• To clarify the concept of organizational culture and to distinguish it from organizational climate, as well as to clarify how these are articulated with it.

Description of contents:

1. Conflict and negotiation
   1. Concepts and typologies: Advantages and disadvantages
   2. How to manage
   3. Negotiation processes and dynamics
2. Power and politics
   1. Concepts and political approaches of organizations
   2. Bases and sources of power in organizations
3. Organizational structure
   1. Organizational concepts, structures and designs: Classic models
   2. Concepts, structures and organizational designs: New approaches
4. Organizational culture
   1. Definition of organizational culture
   2. Organizational culture models

In this CU, innovative practice involves diagnosing and characterizing an organization's strategy. Students are encouraged to identify an organization as well as characterize its structure, culture and climate. Students will also be encouraged to reflect and establish connections between the results of their diagnosis and aspects of the remaining subjects taught in COEP and COIG.

• Cunha, M. P., Rego, A., Cardoso, C., Cunha, R., & Neves, P. (2016). Manual de Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão . Lisboa: Editora RH, 8ª Edição.
• Caetano, A. , Neves, J. G., & Ferreira, J. M. C., (2021). Psicossociologia das Organizações: Fundamentos e Aplicações. Lisboa: Edições Silabo, 1ª Edição. 
• Neves, J. G., Simões, E., & Garrido, M. V. (2015). Manual de Competências Pessoais, Interpessoais e Instrumentais: Teoria e prática. Lisboa: Edições Silabo, 3ª Edição.