Principles of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management (N1062)
15 credits, Level 4
Spring teaching
This module explores the causes and effects of human interaction in an organisation and how humans at individual, group and organisational level influence organisations. Organisational performance depends on appropriate incentives to individuals, developing effective teams, designing an attractive job environment and managing organisational structure.
Focusing on these issues, the module is divided into four themes based on the level of analysis:
- individual – we will look at the individual's contribution to organisation and the factors affecting their behaviour
- group – the nature and significance of groups in organisations will be discussed and the range of skills required for effective team work and factors affecting working in groups will also be explored
- organisational – organisational design and culture, inspiring workers through norms, beliefs and behaviour, and management in the work place will be explained
- human resource management – we will examine the aspects of developing human capital through recruitment, training, development and reward, which will create a sustainable commitment to organisational goals and to ensure high performance.
There will be two forms of assessment for this module with an equal weighting for coursework and an unseen exam. The coursework component will invovle a G