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ORG 501 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3 Credits
Organizational behavior is the study of people in organizations-how and why they think, feel and act the way they do. The field, which borrows extensively from the social sciences, includes but is not limited to, topics such as motivation, decision making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure and change. This course is based on a belief that social science has much to offer the practicing manager and that becoming an effective manager of others requires increasing our own self-awareness and a portfolio of managerial skills. Thus, the course combines traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects and experiential exercises.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2022-2023 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2021-2022 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2020-2021 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2019-2020 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2018-2019 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2017-2018 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2016-2017 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2015-2016 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Spring 2014-2015 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Spring 2013-2014 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2012-2013 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2011-2012 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2010-2011 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2009-2010 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Spring 2008-2009 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2007-2008 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2006-2007 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2005-2006 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2004-2005 Organizational Behavior 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 521 Strategy Implementation and Organization Design 1.5 Credits
In this course, students learn about the basic tools of organization design (structure, human resource systems, organizational culture) and how a manager can use them to achieve an organization's srtategic goals. Student teams apply the frameworks taught in class to propose a plan to improve the design of the company/department they work with for their Company Action Projects.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 3 ECTS (3 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 522 Strategic Human Resources Management (HRM) 3 Credits
The main objective of this course is to introduce the basic concepts, theoretical perspectives, and techniques that are useful for understanding and designing human resources systems. Human resources issues to be covered include staffing, training and development, performance appraisal and reward systems. Specific emphasis is given to an understanding of the relationship between human resources functions and organizational effectiveness. Emergent issues such as downsizing and international human resources management (IHRM) are also discussed.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 551 Organization Theory 3 Credits
Historical review of organizational forms and perspectives on management and organizing; organizational goals and effectiveness; the environment of organizations; core features of organizations: strategy, technology, structure, and culture; key organizational processes: decision-making, conflict, power, and control; emerging organizational forms and new perspectives on organizing.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2014-2015 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2013-2014 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2010-2011 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2009-2010 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2008-2009 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2007-2008 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2006-2007 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2005-2006 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2004-2005 Organization Theory (GSM513) 3
Fall 2003-2004 Organization Theory (GSM513) 3
Fall 2002-2003 Organization Theory (GSM513) 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 552 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3 Credits
Organizational behavior is the study of people in organizations-how and why they think, feel and act the way they do. The field, which borrows extensively from the social sciences, includes but is not limited to, topics such as motivation, decision making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure and change. This course is based on a belief that social science has much to offer the practicing manager and that becoming an effective manager of others requires increasing our own self-awareness and a portfolio of managerial skills. Thus, the course combines traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects and experiential exercises.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2013-2014 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2009-2010 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Spring 2008-2009 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2007-2008 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2006-2007 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2005-2006 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2004-2005 Organizational Behavior 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 601 Economics of Organization 3 Credits
This course introduces the economic perspective to organisations. The course starts with a review of micro-economics and game theory, providing the basic tools for economic analysis. Following this introduction, the course focuses on transaction cost theory and the agency theory of the firm. While the emphasis will be on these two research streams, the two other main streams, strategy- conduct-performance paradigm and resource-based view of organisations will also be covered.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2006-2007 Economics of Organization 3
Fall 2004-2005 Economics of Organization 3
Fall 2002-2003 Economics of Organization (GSM681) 3
Fall 2001-2002 Economics of Organization (GSM681) 3
Fall 2000-2001 Economics of Organization (GSM681) 3
Fall 1999-2000 Economics of Organization (GSM681) 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 612 Organizational Behavior 3 Credits
This seminar is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the major topics in the field of organizational behavior (OB). The course starts off with a critical introduction to the field of OB, followed by an orientation to research on individual differences, job attitudes such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment, motivation theories, psychological contracts and interorganizational trust. The course then proceeds to cover other OB topics like group dynamics, leadership, and organizational culture, and the literature on the relationship between these variables and processes and various job outcomes such as citizenship behaviors, and various job outcomes such as citizenship behaviors,
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2022-2023 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2020-2021 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2017-2018 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2015-2016 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2014-2015 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2012-2013 Organizational Behavior 3
Spring 2011-2012 Organizational Behavior 3
Fall 2009-2010 Organizational Behavior 3
Spring 2005-2006 Organizational Behaviour and HR Management 3
Spring 2004-2005 Organizational Behaviour and HR Management 3
Spring 2001-2002 Organizational Behaviour and HR Management (GSM612) 3
Spring 2000-2001 Organizational Behaviour and HR Management (GSM612) 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 613 Organization Theory 3 Credits
The central objective of this course is to introduce students to perspectives on studying management and organisational phenomena. It aims to develop a critical appreciation of the historical evolution and the current state of management and organisation studies. The former part of the course is devoted to charting the domain and concerns of organisational analysis and deals with issues like organisations and their environments, goals and effectiveness, power and control, their and work, and forms and structuring of organisations. The course then proceeds to a review and discussion of major perspectives and research programmes in organisational analysis. The student is thus given an opportunity to develop an understanding of the central features of different perspectives as well as appreciating the nature of ongoing controversy and debate among competing viewpoints. The review of earlier traditions like scientific management, human relations and contingency theory are followed by critical perspectives of the time, namely Marxist and action frames of reference. More recent research traditions to be reviewed include resource dependence, institutionalist, and ecological perspectives as well as those that stem from neo-isntitutionalist economics and economic sociology. The course finally considers more recent alternative traditions like interpretive, critical realist, and postmodern approaches.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2021-2022 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2019-2020 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2016-2017 Organization Theory 3
Spring 2014-2015 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2012-2013 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2011-2012 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2009-2010 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2005-2006 Organization Theory 3
Fall 2002-2003 Organization Theory (GSM613) 3
Spring 2000-2001 Organization Theory (GSM613) 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 614 Social Theory 3 Credits
Social theory involves a proliferation of theoretical orientations and issues that renders a comprehensive presentation almost impossible. This course aims to introduce major paradigms of theory building around a thematic focus on the agency/structure problematic, an approach which effectively encompasses a fairly broad range of contemporary issues and developments. The first part of the course is devoted to the foundations of the philosophy of social science, a necessary background for grasping and analyzing the issues in contemporary debates. The second part is built upon the microsociological foundations of macrosociological theory in order to highlight different ways of incorporating agency and subjectivity into social theory. The third part is designed to address the objective (structural) dimension of social reality under the rubric of the concept of structuralism. The final part of the course is a survey of the three major contemporary theoretical programs which have contributed to the reconciliation of agency and structure: critical theory, neo-Marxism and action theories (neo-functionalism and neo-Weberian theory)
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2010-2011 Social Theory 3
Fall 2005-2006 Social Theory 3
Fall 2004-2005 Social Theory 3
Spring 2001-2002 Social Theory (GSM671) 3
Fall 2000-2001 Social Theory (GSM671) 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 615 Human Resources Management 3 Credits
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the academic literature in the field of human resource management (HRM). The course covers various topics including the historical development of HRM as a scientific field, job analysis, staffing, performance appraisal, compensation, training and development, employee stress and health, employment and industrial relations. Current issues such as the scientist-practitioner gap, strategic HRM and high commitment workplaces are also discussed. The course is designed as three modules. The first module takes a broad view and examines models and research of HR functions and their relationship with organizational strategy and performance. The second module critically reviews reviews the research on specific HR functions. The third and final module of the course deals with research on employee well-being and industrial relations.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2012-2013 Human Resources Management 3
Spring 2009-2010 Human Resources Management 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 625 Cross Cultural Organizational Psychology 3 Credits
This course focuses on cross-cultural psychology with an emphasis on behavior in organizations. This class aims to critically examine the cultural assumptions embedded in existing organizational theories, which typically have emerged from the US. Secondly, and in line with the first aim, it tries to sensitize students to the issue of contextual diversity in which organizations and their members operate as well as creating some awareness about perspectives that have something to say about societal variation. To this end, conceptualizations of culture, theoretical perspectives linking culture to behavior, methodological issues in conducting cross-cultural research, as well as the research on cross-cultural differences will be covered. Specific focus will be on understanding how culture affects basic psychological processes, including cognition, emotion, and motivation and their implications in terms of micro organizational studies.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2022-2023 Cross Cultural Organizational Psychology 3
Spring 2019-2020 Cross Cultural Organizational Psychology 3
Spring 2017-2018 Cross Cultural Organizational Psychology 3
Spring 2015-2016 Cross Cultural Organizational Psychology 3
Fall 2014-2015 Cross Cultural Organizational Psychology 3
Fall 2013-2014 Cross Cultural Organizational Psychology 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 627 Special Topics In Organizational Analysis I 3 Credits
These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2017-2018 Special Topics In Organizational Analysis I 3
Fall 2015-2016 Special Topics In Organizational Analysis I 3
Fall 2012-2013 Special Topics In Organizational Analysis I 3
Fall 2008-2009 Special Topics In Organizational Analysis I 3
Fall 2006-2007 Special Topics In Organizational Analysis I 3
Fall 2001-2002 Special Topics In Organizational Analysis (GSM617) 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 628 Special Topics in Organizational Analysis II 3 Credits
These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2018-2019 Special Topics in Organizational Analysis II 3
Spring 2011-2012 Special Topics in Organizational Analysis II 3
Spring 2010-2011 Special Topics in Organizational Analysis II 3
Spring 2009-2010 Special Topics in Organizational Analysis II 3
Spring 2007-2008 Special Topics in Organizational Analysis II 3
Spring 2000-2001 Selected Topics in Organizational Behavior (GSM618) 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 629 Special Topics in Organizational Behaviour I 3 Credits
These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Fall 2019-2020 Special Topics in Organizational Behaviour I 3
Fall 2018-2019 Special Topics in Organizational Behaviour I 3
Spring 2010-2011 Special Topics in Organizational Behaviour I 3
Fall 2010-2011 Special Topics in Organizational Behaviour I 3
Spring 2006-2007 Special Topics in Organizational Behaviour I 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 630 Special Topics in Organizational Behavior II 3 Credits
These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2010-2011 Special Topics in Organizational Behavior II 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 631 Special Topics in HRM I 3 Credits
These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
 
ORG 632 Special Topics in HRM II 3 Credits
These courses focus on particular topics and / or perspectives within their respective domains. The aim is to provide an in-depth review and assessment of the research and conceptual literature within chosen topics and / or theoretical perspectives. Students are expected to gain a thorough appreciation of the past developments in and the current state of research within the central foci of the course and be able to develop research agendas to motivate and guide their future work.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 801 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3 Credits
Organizational Behavior and Leadership Organizational behavior is the study of people in organizations- how and why they think, feel and act the way they do. The field, which borrows extensively from the social sciences, includes but is not limited to, topics such as motivation, decision making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure and change. This course is based on a belief that social science has much to offer the practicing manager and that becoming an effective manager of others requires increasing our own self-awareness and a portfolio of managerial skills. Thus, the course combines traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects and experiential exercises.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2022-2023 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2021-2022 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2020-2021 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2019-2020 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2018-2019 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Fall 2017-2018 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 822 Strategic Human Resources Management (HRM) 3 Credits
The main objective of this course is to introduce the basic concepts, theoretical perspectives, and techniques that are useful for understanding and designing human resources systems. Human resources issues to be covered include staffing, training and development, performance appraisal and reward systems. Specific emphasis is given to an understanding of the relationship between human resources functions and organizational effectiveness. Emergent issues such as downsizing and international human resources management (IHRM) are also discussed.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2022-2023 Strategic Human Resources Management (HRM) 3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 902 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 3 Credits
Organizational behavior studies people in organizations' how and why they think, feel, and act. Topics include motivation, decision-making, leadership, organizational culture, communication, organizational conflict, power and negotiation, team processes, organization change, structure and change, covered in traditional lectures with the use of cases, group projects and experiential exercises.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Spring 2023-2024 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 3
Spring 2022-2023 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 3
Spring 2021-2022 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 3
Spring 2020-2021 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 2
Spring 2019-2020 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 2
Fall 2019-2020 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 2
Spring 2018-2019 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 2
Spring 2017-2018 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 2
Fall 2017-2018 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 2
Spring 2016-2017 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 2
Spring 2015-2016 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 4.5
Spring 2014-2015 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 4.5
Spring 2013-2014 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 4.5
Fall 2013-2014 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 4.5
Summer 2012-2013 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 4.5
Spring 2012-2013 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 4.5
Summer 2011-2012 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 4.5
Spring 2011-2012 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 4.5
Fall 2011-2012 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 3
Fall 2010-2011 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 3
Fall 2009-2010 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 3
Fall 2008-2009 Organizational Behaviour and Leadership 3
Spring 2006-2007 Organizational Behavior 3
Spring 2005-2006 Organizational Behavior 3
Spring 2004-2005 Organizational Behavior 3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 9 ECTS (5 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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ORG 922 Strategic Human Resources Management (HRM) 3 Credits
The main objective of this course is to introduce the basic concepts, theoretical perspectives, and techniques that are useful for understanding and designing human resources systems. Human resources issues to be covered include staffing, training and development, performance appraisal and reward systems. Specific emphasis is given to an understanding of the relationship between human resources functions and organizational effectiveness. Emergent issues such as downsizing and international human resources management (IHRM) are also discussed.
Last Offered Terms Course Name SU Credit
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
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