Courses Bachelor Display 2024-2025

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Course title Organisational Behaviour
Course code EBC2048
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
4 3-2-2025 30-3-2025 X X
Level Intermediate
Coordinator Hannes Günter
For more information: h.guenter@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
This course on Organisational Behaviour is meant to provide students with solid, evidence-based, and actionable knowledge on organisational behaviour. Organisational Behaviour, in a nutshell, investigates why people in organisations behave the way they do. After the completion of the course, students should be familiar with Organisational Behaviour theories; be able to read, understand, and critically evaluate Organisational Behaviour research findings including conceptual and empirical work; and be able to apply Organisational Behaviour concepts when diagnosing and solving business problems.
Description
Organisational Behaviour focuses on what people do in an organisation and how their behaviour affects organisational performance. An organisation may be designed to fit its institutional environment, but organisational performance may still suffer because of low employee morale, high stress levels, and conflicts at the workplace. Issues discussed in the course cover a wide range of important topics from motivation, emotions, personality, and job satisfaction to work teams, power, communication, and organizational culture.
Literature
* Robbins, S.P. and Judge, T.A. (2024). Organizational Behavior (Global edition, Updated 19th edition). Essex: Pearson Education Limited.
* Academic articles from top-tier journals (e.g., Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology).
Prerequisites
This course has been cancelled for the pre-master International Business specialisation Organisation: Management, Change and Consultancy.
See the Bachelor Education and Examination Regulations for more information.

The following rule applies to pre-master students who started the programme prior to academic year 2023-2024.
Specifically:
* Pre-master International Business specialisation Organisation: Management, Change and Consultancy
TRANSITIONAL REGULATION (EBC2048):
Students who have not been able to successfully complete "Organisational Behaviour" (EBC2048) before 2024-2025, do not comply with the requirement to successfully complete the pre-master in two academic years. Therefore, no additional examination options will be available.


PREREQUISITES:
* Students should have basic knowledge of organisational theory. Prior courses in the field of organisation and management are advantageous.
* An advanced level of English
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Assignment / Papers / Groupwork
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Final Paper / Participation / Presentation
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
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