Course Unit Title: MAN 602 Organizational Behavior Semester Lecture Department: Management Organization Doctoral Program Education Methods (hours) ECTS Credit Project Recitation/ /Field Homework Other Total Etude 10 Study Spring 42-208 250 Language English Compulsory/Optional Compulsory Pre-Requisites None Course Description This course offers an introduction to selected theory and research in the field of organizational behavior. Traditionally, the field has taken a relatively narrow perspective in examining the behaviors of individuals in organizations. However, contemporary perspectives have widened this lens to offer a more complete and thorough understanding of the role of individuals in organizational life by incorporating the effects of context on these relationships. In particular, current perspectives seek to explore, understand and articulate the behaviors, thoughts and emotions of individuals within the context of work relationships, teams, and organizational settings. In essence, while the focus is still on the individual, the field acknowledges the embedded nature of organizational behavior. Individuals are nested within relationships and groups, and these relationships exist within and outside organizational boundaries. In this course, we will explore psychological theories of human behavior in order to understand the mechanisms driving human behavior within organizational contexts. While doing so we will embrace a critical perspective to the mainstream literature and question its assumptions through a cultural lens. Course Purposes Learning Outcomes Required Textbook and Additional References Assessment Methods Lecturer o To offer you an introduction to the selected topics and research in the field of organizational behavior. o To provide an opportunity for you to engage in reflective dialogue that deepens your analytical skills and enriches your understanding of the theoretical frameworks, challenges and dilemmas facing the field. The students who succeeded in this course; Will be able to understand the development of the field as an academic discipline in the American context Will be able to explore connections among theories Will be able to highlight research gaps in the literature Will be able to propose alternative approaches to the mainstream American tradition Will develop academic competence as a management scholar Will have a better sense of the temporal and geographical embeddedness of selected topics in organizational behavior, and develop meaningful research agendas for the Turkish context The course uses various resources. Weekly course readings are indicated in the program. Frequency Contribution to Overall Grade (%) In-class quizzes 4 20 Class Participation (reaction papers, 12 50 presentations) Final Exam 1 30 Assist. Prof. Dr. Selin Erdil
ATTENDANCE As this is an applied course, attendance is compulsory. Students who miss more than two classes will fail. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY As a matter of personal integrity, you should only represent your own work as yours. Any work that is submitted to be evaluated in this class should be an original piece of writing, presenting your ideas in your own words. Everything you borrow from books, articles, or web sites (including those in the syllabus) should be properly cited.* Plagiarism, one of the gravest forms of academic dishonesty in university life, whether intended or not, is academic fraud. In a community of scholars, whose members are teaching, learning and discovering knowledge, plagiarism cannot be tolerated. Plagiarism is failure to properly assign authorship to a paper, a document, an oral presentation and/or other materials, which are not your original work. Hence the following are different forms of plagiarism unless the sources are properly acknowledged: Copying verbatim from a book, an article or other media; Downloading documents from the Internet; Purchasing documents; Reporting from other s oral work; Paraphrasing or restating someone else s facts, analysis and/or conclusions Copying from others or providing answers or information, written or oral, to others is cheating. Unauthorized help from another person or having someone else write one s paper or assignment is collusion. Cheating, plagiarism and collusion are serious offenses that could result in disciplinary action. Please pay utmost attention to avoid such accusations. *For this course s requirements you are expected to use APA style guidelines. For further information about proper citation using APA please refer to the following sources: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ http://www.apastyle.org/
Course Content Week Topic Readings 1 Introduction to the seminar and organization of the class Porter, L. (1996). Forty years of organization studies: Reflections from a micro perspective. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41: 262-269. 2 3 Introduction to Organizational Behavior Generalizability of Mainstream OB Research Katzell, R. A., & Austin, J. T. (1992). From then to now: The development of industrial-organizational psychology in the United States. Journal of Applied Psychology, 77, 803 835. [Please do not get lost in details such as names, specific dates; focus on the overall picture] Kepir-Sinangil, H. (1996). The development of I/O psychology in Turkey. http://www.siop.org/tip/backissues/tipapr96/sinangil.aspx Rousseau, D. M. (1997). Organizational behavior in the new organizational era. Annual Review of Psychology, 48, 515-546. Gelfand, M.J., Leslie, L. M. & Fehr, R. (2008). To prosper, organizational psychology should adopt a global perspective. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29, 493-517. Pearce, J. L., Dibble, R. & Klein, K. (2009): The effects of governments on management and organization. The Academy of Management Annals, 3, 503-541. Tsui, A. S. (2004). Contributing to global management knowledge: A case for high quality indigenous research. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 21, 491-513. Optional Readings: Markus, H. R. and Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224-253. Gelfand, M. J., Erez, M. & Aycan, Z. (2007). Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavior, Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 479-514.
Perrewé, P. L. & Spector, P. E. (2002) Personality research in the organizational sciences. In Gerald R. Ferris & Joseph J. Martocchio (Eds.), Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, (pp. 1-64), Oxford: JAI Press, Elsevier Science, Inc. 4 The Individual Barsade, S. G., Brief A. P., & Spataro, S.E. (2003). The affective revolution organizational behavior: The emergence of a paradigm. In J. Greenberg (Ed.) Organizational Behavior: The State of the Science (pp. 3-29). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. Staw, B. M. & Cohen-Charash, Y. (2005). The dispositional approach to job satisfaction: more than a mirage, but not yet an oasis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26, 59-78. Meyer, R. D., Dalal, R. S., & Hermida, R. (2010). A review and synthesis of situational strength in organizations. Journal of Management, 36, 121-140. Schein, Edgar H. (1990). Organizational culture. American Psychologist, 45, 109-119. 5 The Organization Denison, D. R. (1996). What is the difference between organizational culture and organizational climate? A native s point of view on a decade of paradigm wars. Academy of Management Review, 21, 619-655. 6 Relationship to the Organization Kristof, A. L. (1996). Person-organization fit: An integrative review of its conceptualizations, measurement, and implications. Personnel Psychology, 49, 1-49. Rousseau, D. M. (2001). Schema, promise, and mutuality: Building blocks of the psychological contract. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 74, 511-541. Rhoades, L., & Eisenberger, R. (2002). Perceived organizational support: A review of the literature. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 698-714. Aselage, J., & Eisenberger, R. (2003). Perceived organizational support and psychological contracts: A theoretical integration. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 24, 491-509. Judge, T. A., Thoreson, C. J., Bono, J. E., & Patton, G. K. (2001). The job satisfaction-job performance relationship: A qualitative and quantitative review. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 376-407. 7 Attitudes and Attachments Meyer, J.P., & Allen, N.J. (1991). A three-component conceptualization of organizational commitment. Human Resource Management Review, 1, 61-89. Meyer, J.P., Becker, T.E., & van Dick, R. (2006). Social identities at work: Toward an integrative model. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27, 665-683.
8 Relationships within the Organization Ferris, G.R., Liden, R.C., Munyon, T.P., Summers, J.K., Basik, K.J. & Buckley, M.R. (2009). Relationships at work: Toward a multidimensional conceptualization of dyadic work relationships Journal of Management, 35, 1379-1403. Lewicki, R. J., Tomlinson, E. C., & Gillespie, N. (2006). Models of interpersonal trust development: Theoretical approaches, empirical evidence, and future directions. Journal of Management, 32, 991-1022. Morris, M.W., Podolny, J. & Sullivan, B. N. (2008). Culture and coworker relations: Interpersonal patterns in American, Chinese, German, and Spanish divisions of a global retail bank. Organization Science, 19, 517-532. Optional Reading: Ingram, P. & Zou, X. (2008). Business friendships. Research in Organizational Behavior, 28, 167-184. Steers, R. M., Mowday, R. T. & Shapiro, D. L. (2004). The future of work motivation theory. Academy of Management Review, 29, 379-387. 9 Motivation Gagné, M., & Deci, E. L. (2005). Self-determination theory and work motivation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26, 331-362. Colquitt, J.A., Conlon, D.E., Wesson, M.J., Porter, C., & Ng, K.Y. (2001). Justice at the millennium: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research, Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 425-445. Fried, Y. & Slowik, L. H. (2004). Enriching goal-setting theory with time: An integrated approach. Academy of Management Review, 29, 404-422. 10 Motivation Ellemers, N., De Gilder, D., & Haslam, S. A. (2004). Motivating individuals and groups at work: A social identity perspective on leadership and group performance. Academy of Management Review, 29, 459-478. Optional Reading Seo, M-G., Barrett, L. F., & Bartunek, J. M. (2004). The role of affective experience in work motivation. Academy of Management Review, 29, 423-439.
11 Motivation 12 Teams 13 Leadership Kehr, H. M.(2004). Integrating implicit motives, explicit motives, and perceived abilities: The compensatory model of work motivation and volition. Academy of Management Review, 29, 479-499. Heine, S. J. (2007). Culture and motivation: What motivates people to act in the ways that they do. Handbook of Cultural Psychology. [copy to be obtained by the instructor] Mathieu, J., Maynard, M.T., Rapp, T. & Gilson, L. (2008). Team effectiveness 1997-2007: A review of recent advancements and a glimpse into the future. Journal of Management, 34, 410-478. Allen, N. J. and Hecht, T. D. (2004). The romance of teams : Toward an understanding of its psychological underpinnings. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 77, 439-461. House, R. J. and Aditya, R. N. (1997). The social scientific study of leadership: Quo vadis? Journal of Management, 23, 409-473. Avolio, B.J., Walumbwa, F. O. & Weber, T. J. (2009). Leadership: Current theories, research, and future direction. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 421-449. Pellegrini, E.K. & Scandura, T. A. (2008). Paternalistic leadership: A review and agenda for future research. Journal of Management, 34, 566-593. Podsakoff, P. M., MacKenzie, S. B., Paine, J. B., & Bachrach, D. G. (2000). Organizational citizenship behaviors: A critical review of the theoretical and empirical literature and suggestions for future research. Journal of Management, 26, 513-563 14 Selected Outcomes Griffeth, R. W., Hom, P. W. & Gaertner, S. (2000). A metaanalysis of antecedents and correlates of employee turnover: Update, moderator tests, and implications for research for the next millennium. Journal of Management, 26, 463-489. Spector, P.E., Fox, S., Penney, L.M., Bruursema, K., Goh, A., & Kessler, S. (2006). The dimensionality of counterproductivity: area all counterproductive behaviors created equal? Journal of Vocational Behavior, 68, 446-460. Luthans, F. & Youssef, C. M. (2007). Emerging positive organizational behavior. Journal of Management, 33, 321-349. 15 Emerging Topics Byron, K. (2005). A meta-analytic review of work-family conflict and its antecedents. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 67, 169-198. Shalley, C. E., Zhou, J., & Oldham, G.R. (2004). The effects of personal and contextual characteristics on creativity: Where should we go from here? Journal of Management, 30, 933-958.