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Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management syllabus

MGT 2412 units · 43 topicsAcademic year 2083/84
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Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

2 units

1. Part I: Organizational Behavior

  1. Unit 1: Introduction (6 LHs)
    1. Organizational behavior: concept, levels, system and assumptions
    2. Contributing disciplines
    3. Individual behavior as input-output system
    4. Beliefs, attitudes, values, needs, motives, emotions and cognitive dissonance
    5. Managerial challenges in OB
  2. Unit 2: Perception and Learning (4 LHs)
    1. Perceptual process, determinants and individual decisions
    2. Attribution theory and errors
    3. Learning principles; cognitive and social learning
    4. Behavior modification
  3. Unit 3: Personality (4 LHs)
    1. Personality types, traits and determinants
    2. Emotion and personality
    3. Attributes influencing organizational behavior
  4. Unit 4: Job Satisfaction (2 LHs)
    1. Concept, importance and measurement
    2. Effects on employee performance
  5. Unit 5: Organizational Conflict and Stress (4 LHs)
    1. Conflict types and sources
    2. Conflict management and negotiation
    3. Functional and dysfunctional conflicts
    4. Stress causes and management
  6. Unit 6: Organizational Change and Development (4 LHs)
    1. Forces of and resistance to change
    2. Lewin's three-step model
    3. Organizational development concept and features

2. Part II: Human Resource Management

  1. Unit 7: Introduction (6 LHs)
    1. HRM concepts, objectives, functions and system
    2. Work-life quality, productivity and readiness to change
    3. HRM challenges
    4. Human resource planning process and importance
  2. Unit 8: Job Design and Analysis (4 LHs)
    1. Job, task, position and occupation
    2. Job-design methods and benefits
    3. Job-analysis purposes and information sources
    4. Job description, specification and evaluation
  3. Unit 9: Talent Acquisition and Development (5 LHs)
    1. Talent management and development
    2. Recruitment and selection methods and tests
    3. Socialization process
    4. Human resource development and training needs
    5. On- and off-the-job training; management development
  4. Unit 10: Performance Appraisal, Reward Management and Motivation (6 LHs)
    1. Performance appraisal uses and methods
    2. Reward types, qualities and Nepalese practices
    3. Need Hierarchy and Motivation-Hygiene theories
    4. Employee participation, quality of work life and self-managed teams
  5. Unit 11: Employee Maintenance and Emerging Issues in HRM (3 LHs)
    1. Health, safety, welfare and social security
    2. Grievances and discipline
    3. Empowerment, downsizing and work-life balance
    4. e-HRM, green-HRM, outsourcing, ethics and privacy
    5. HRM in Nepalese organizations