Organisational Behaviour: Structures and Processes

Presentation

The curricular unit - Organizational Behavior Structures and Processes - aims to theoretically master and know how to use the explanatory models. -To understand the importance and evolution of the explanatory models of the behaviors of conflict, negotiation and power - Understand the organizational methods used by organizations to deal with conflicts - Define and deepen the main concepts of politics, power and leadership, as well as explain how they articulate each other - Identify and characterize the different levels of organizational culture and explain where it is located (locus), the respective focus and reason for being. - To clarify the concept of organizational culture and to distinguish it from organizational climate, as well as to clarify how these articulate with it.

Part of this Programme

Human Resources Management

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 7

Year | Type of course unit | Language

2 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULHT38-7132

Recommended complementary curricular units

Não aplicavel

Prerequisites and co-requisites

n/a

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

1. The Conflict and Negotiation Process

1.1 - The Conflict Process: phases and development;

1.2 - Conflict and inter-group relations;

1.3 - Negotiation: roles, dynamics and results;

1.4 - Conflict management.

2. Power and Politics

2.1 - Key concepts: politics, power and leadership;

2.2 - Political approach of organizations: coalitions, strategies and tactics;

2.3 - Bases and sources of power: implications for performance and satisfaction.

3. Organizational Structures and Processes

3.1 -  Structures and organizational design. Mechanisms of coordination. The Mintzberg

optics.

4. Organizational Culture

4.1 - The value of culture in the process of intervention and organizational development;

4.2 - Change and management by culture and its implications in the management of human resources;

4.3 - The model of the contrasting values of Quinn and Cameron.

Objectives

The curricular unit - Organizational Behavior Structures and Processes - aims to theoretically master and know how to use the explanatory models of conflict, negotiation and power behavior, as well as the structural factors and the individual, group and organizational processes that condition them; Identify the main concepts inherent to these same phenomena in professional contexts.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The classes will be theoretical and practical, using an expository methodology for the presentation of the subject, later supported on a methodology of student work in the application of the concepts acquired in case studies with the purpose of consolidating knowledge. In practical classes: - simulation of conflict and negotiation situations and their analysis and critical comment; - elaboration by the students of organigrams of some organizations existing in our country, based on the criteria underlying the graphic presentation of them; - case studies that show organizational culture, power, leadership, and political behaviors considered appropriate and those to be avoided according to the guidelines of each organization. 

The process of continuous assessment - two tests (70%) and Practical Work (30%).
 

References

Cunha, M. P.; Rego, A. ; Cardoso, Carlos; Cunha, R; Neves, P. (2016). Manual de Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão . Lisboa: Editora RH, 8ª Edição.

Robbins, S. (2011). Comportamento Organizacional . São Paulo: Pearson Prentice Hall, 14ª Edição.

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