Organizational Behaviour

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

Periodical assessment : team work – 50.0% and trabalho individual- 50.0%
Exam assessment: written test – 100.0%

Learning Results

This course aims to provide a technical and scientific knowledge in general about Organizational Behavior, stressing the importance of people in their individual and group level, as the key factor of competitiveness of any organization.To achieve this goal it will be addressed the topic of organizational behavior that serve as starting point and as key feature for the identification and discussion of the causes, obstacles and challenges that are currently posed to the different actors of the organizational systems enabling the development of organizational culture and an healthy organizational climate, able to give the best answer to the expectations of organizational effectiveness.

Program

Organizational Behavior as a field of research: levels of analysis and contribution from different scientific areas. Relations with HRM and organizational policies for human resource development are analysied. To analyze and debate the challenges that individuals, families, organizations and communities face in managing the multiple roles of life at work and in the family.

Curricular Unit Teachers

Grading Methods

Exam
  • - Exam - 100.0%
Periodical evaluation
  • - Individual and/or Group Work - 100.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

Allen T. D. & Eby L. T. (Eds.) (2016). The Oxford handbook of work and family. Oxford University Press.

Allen, T. D., Johnson, R. C., Kiburz, K. M., & Shockley, K. M. (2013). Work–family conflict and flexible work arrangements: Deconstructing flexibility. Personnel Psychology, 66(2), 345–376. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12012

Chambel, M.J. (Ed.) (2011). Novos desafios para a gestão de recursos humanos: O caso dos trabalhadores temporários. Lisboa: RH Editora. 27-10-2021 09:13

Kossek, E. E. (2016). Managing work-life boundaries in the digital age. Organizational Dynamics. 45, 3, 258- 270. http://: 0.1016/j.orgdyn.2016.07.010

MacDermid, S. M. (2005). (Re)Considering conflict between work and family. In E. E., Kossek & S. Lambert (editors) Work and life integration: Organizational, cultural, and individual perspectives, pp 19-40, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.