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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management syllabus

MGT 15310 units · 40 topicsAcademic year 2083/84
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

10 units

1. Introduction to Organizational Behavior (4 LHs)

  1. Organizational behavior
    1. Organizational behavior: concept, nature, importance
  2. Challenges and opportunities of organizational behavior
    1. challenges and opportunities of organizational behavior
  3. Emerging issues in organizational behavior
    1. Emerging issues in organizational behavior
  4. Models of organizational behavior
    1. Models of organizational behavior.

2. Understanding Individual Behavior (4 LHs)

  1. Individual perception
    1. Individual perception: meaning, process, affecting factors
  2. Perceptual bias and errors
    1. perceptual bias and errors
  3. Perception and individual decision making
    1. perception and individual decision making
  4. Personality and individual differences
    1. Personality and individual differences: meaning of personality, determinants of personality, big five personality model.

3. Motivation and Leadership (7 LHs)

  1. Motivation
    1. Motivation: meaning, need, Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
  2. Theories of motivation
    1. Theories of motivation: Need theory, goal setting theory, equity theory, expectancy theory
  3. Organizational justice
    1. Organizational justice: concept, types
  4. Leaders and Leadership
    1. Leaders and Leadership: concept, leader’s traits, General understanding of leadership approaches: transformational and transactional leadership, charismatic and visionary leadership, servant leadership, contingency leadership.

4. Workforce Diversity and Inclusion (5 LHs)

  1. Organizational diversity
    1. Organizational diversity: concept, reasons, benefits, challenges
  2. Multi-generational workforce in workplace
    1. Multi-generational workforce in workplace
  3. Differences between deep level of diversity and surface level of diversity
    1. Differences between deep level of diversity and surface level of diversity
  4. Diversity practices in Nepalese organizations
    1. Diversity practices in Nepalese organizations
  5. Inclusion in Nepal
    1. Inclusion in Nepal: provisions, practice, impacts.

5. Power and Politics in Organizations (4 LHs)

  1. Power in an organization
    1. Power in an organization: Concept, bases of power, dynamism
  2. Influence tactics
    1. Influence tactics: concept, application
  3. Politics in an organization
    1. Politics in an organization: perceived organizational politics, political behavior, political skills
  4. Functional and dysfunctional organizational politics
    1. Functional and dysfunctional organizational politics.

6. Introduction (4 LHs)

  1. Human Resource Management
    1. Human Resource Management: concept, characteristics, functions, hard and soft approaches of HRM
  2. Human resource as a source of competitive advantage
    1. Human resource as a source of competitive advantage
  3. Outcomes of human resource management
    1. Outcomes of human resource management: quality of work life, productivity, readiness for change
  4. Contemporary issues in human resource management in Nepalese organizations
    1. Contemporary issues in human resource management in Nepalese organizations.

7. Organization, Management and Human Resource Planning (5 LHs)

  1. Job-related terminology
    1. Job-related terminology: task, job, position, and occupation
  2. Concept of Organization and management
    1. Concept of Organization and management, process of Organization and management, components of Organization and management and their concepts and needs, practice of organization and management survey, Human resource planning: concept, process
  3. Role of human resource information system in human resource planning
    1. Role of human resource information system in human resource planning
  4. Human resource planning practices in Nepalese business organizations
    1. Human resource planning practices in Nepalese business organizations.

8. Recruitment and Selection (4 LHs)

  1. Recruitment
    1. Recruitment: concept, methods
  2. Selection
    1. Selection: concept, process
    2. selection tests
  3. Practice of recruitment and selection in diverse Nepalese organizations
    1. Practice of recruitment and selection in diverse Nepalese organizations

9. Human Resource Development (5 LHs)

  1. Human resource development
    1. Human resource development: concept, objectives, needs
  2. Difference between training and development
    1. Difference between training and development
    2. Types of training
  3. Determining competency gap and training needs
    1. Determining competency gap and training needs
  4. Training and development practices in Nepalese business organizations
    1. Training and development practices in Nepalese business organizations.

10. Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Management (6 LHs)

  1. Emerging trends in human resource management
    1. Emerging trends in human resource management
  2. Digitalization of human resource activities, Remote work and flexible work practices
    1. Digitalization of human resource activities, Remote work and flexible work practices
    2. Gig workforce
  3. Ethical human resource management
    1. Ethical human resource management
  4. Integration of artificial intelligence in human resource management
    1. Integration of artificial intelligence in human resource management, Green human resource management and sustainability