Organizations as work settings, organizational behavior and management’ learning about organizational behavior current issues in organizational behavior- high performance organizations, multiculturalism and diversity, ethics and social responsibility, issues and transitions in the new workplace organizational behavior across cultures global context of organizational behavior cultures and cross-cultural understanding cultural diversity and people at work a global view of organizational learning

Individual behavior and performance: personality and individual differences personality, personality differences, values and attitudes individual differences and diversity. cognitive abilities: intelligence creativity and problem solving the perception process, common perceptual distortions, managing perceptions attribution theory. motivation: content and process theories of work motivation, reinforcement: classical operant and social learning theories

Group dynamics and teamwork: how groups work, groups in organizations, stages of group, foundations of group performance, decision making in groups. teams and teamwork. team building, improving team processes, teams in the high performance workplace leadership theories and emerging leadership perspectives power and politics: power and influence, power. formal authority and obedience empowerment, organizational politics

Conflict and negotiation conflict in organizations, conflict management, negotiation: negotiation strategies, how to be an effective negotiator, manager as a negotiator change in organizations planned change strategies resistance to change over coming resistance to change innovation in organizations dynamics of stress and managing job stress

Organizational structure and design: strategy and goals of organizations basic attributes of organizations, organizing and coordinating work, bureaucracy and beyond, strategy and organizational design, information technology and organizational design, environment and organizational design organizational culture understanding organizational cultures, managing organizational culture, organizational development: nature scope objectives and intervention strategies