Elmira College – Office of Continuing Education
PSY 5150-59 Organizational Psychology Winter 2000
Liverpool, Thursday, 4:15 to 7:15 PM
Ted Pietrzak, Ph.D.
Phone: 315-498-5699
Box 100
Jamesville, NY 13078
Email: tedpiet360 @aol.com
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Most people work in organizational settings. They will contribute individually, work in groups or teams and experience an organizational environment. They will be affected by interpersonal and group dynamics, leadership, motivational climates, change, communication effectiveness, transitions and pressures from organizational culture and strategies. This course will assist students in learning how organizations work on a variety of levels and how to contribute to ones own career growth and to increased organizational effectiveness.
Topics covered will include: socialization, motivation, group decision making, intergroup relations, communication, leadership, personal growth, planned change and organization development. An experiential approach to learning will be used. Students who are in or plan to enter industrial, educational or governmental organizations will find the learning and experience very useful for their understanding and success in organizations.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The students will be able to:
LEARNING PHILOSOPHY
The instructor believes in self-directed learning with the use of the learners’ particular life experiences both with and within organizations. Along with this comes the use of observation, reflection, interpretation, inquiry, reference to theories and hypotheses, conceptualization, dialogue, prediction and understanding.
Learners are considered limited only by their perceptions of boundaries and barriers to learning and intellectual growth. Efforts should be made to stretch oneself outside current patterns of thinking and take insight and knowledge from a variety of credible pertinent sources.
RESOURCES
Required WORKBOOK: Bowen, Lewicki, Hall and Hall (1997) Management and Organizational Behavior, 4th edition. New York: J. Wiley & Sons.(EMOB)
Required READER: Bowditch and Buono (1997) A Primer on Organizational Behavior, 4th edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons. (POB)
Accessible journals, websites and books will also be recommended.
COURSE FORMAT
Class discussions, self-assessments, case studies, sharing of student organizational experiences. Class exercises from the workbook and readings from the Reader. Working in small groups and a group project will be undertaken. Individual advising and coaching meetings will be implemented.
It is highly advisable that students have access to an email account and the internet.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
KEY EVALUATION CRITERIA
1. Participation, preparedness, informal presentations 15%
2. ICAP – application, clarity, interpretation, completeness 20%
3. TLC – specificity, measures, commitment, progress 15%
4. GP - perspective, methodology, completeness 20%
5. GAP – analysis, insight, honesty 20%
6. GPP – completeness, clarity, application 10%
APPROXIMATE
SCHEDULE |
TOPICS | PRE-READ
POB Chaps. |
---|---|---|
WEEK 1 | Course Organization, Psychological Contract, Socialization,
OB Research |
1, pp. 108-
111 |
WEEK 2 | Organization as an Open System, Organizational Models,
Project Discussion |
9 |
WEEK 3 | Managing People, Differences, Motivation | 3, 4 |
WEEK 4 | Group Project and Individual Work, Individual
Meetings/Advising |
2 |
WEEK 5 | Interpersonal Communication/Preferences | 5 |
WEEK 6 | Leadership and Decision Making, Individual Meetings/
Advising |
8 |
WEEK 7 | Problem Solving across the Organization | 6 |
WEEK 8 | Group Project and Individual Work, Individual
Meetings/Advising |
- |
WEEK 9 | Values and Ethics | - |
WEEK 10 | Collaboration, Conflict, Negotiation | 7 |
WEEK 11 | Power and Influence; Group Project Work, Individual
Coaching |
(8) |
WEEK 12 | Organizational Learning and Culture | 11 |
WEEK 13 | Group Presentations | - |