Description

Theory
2

Laboratory
2

Instructors

Maria João Raposo

Contents

1. Introduction to Organizational Behaviour: defining the field of study
1.1. The importance of the study of Organizational Behaviour
 

2. The organizations e the VUCA world.
2.1. Organizational Culture
2.2. Organizational Change
2..3.1. Planned Vs Mudança Emergente
2.3.2. The leader's role in Organizational Change
2.3.3. Kurt Lewin Model
2.3.4. Kotter's Model of Management Change
2.4. Motivation: Maslow, Herzberg and Vroom Theories
 

3. The connection of Person-Organization
3.1. Stages and strategies of organizational socialization
 

4. Individual behaviour in organization
4.1. Self-awareness: awareness of their own knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes? Balance of powers
4.2. Proactive career
4.2.1. Personal Marketing
4.2.2. Job search
4.2.3. Training for job interviews
4.3. Management of emotions: Emotional intelligence
4.4. Leadership and team coordination.
4.5. Organizational Change
4.5.1. Planned Change vs Emerging Change
4.5.2. The leader's role in the Organizacional

Learning Outcomes

Based on the above considerations, the subject of CORGA will target the development of personal and relational skills to enable future engineers to integrate themselves into teams and develop skills to meet the CDIO objectives - Conceive, design, implement and operate complex engineering systems in business and social context.
With this SUBJECT we aim to prepare students to understand the functioning of organizational structures and enhance their current or future membership in organizations. Therefore, organizational socialization strategies will be developed; it will be specially reinforced the proactive career management behaviours; Finally, leadership skills and team's coordination will be fostered.
At the end of this Curriculum Unit, students should be able to:
Obj1. Define Organizational Behavior as an object of study (Bloom level 1)
Obj2. Understand and reflect on organizations in the context of change (Bloom level 3)
Obj3. Understand the concept of organizational culture and its implications (Bloom level 3)
Obj4. Reflect on diversity in an organizational context (Bloom level 3)
Obj5. Define leadership and reflect and understand different leadership models in an organizational context (Bloom level 4)
Obj6. Make a self-diagnosis of skills and define a set of skills that will enable them to succeed in their professional future (Bloom level 6)