Managers increasingly face a complex dilemma where the massive entrance of technology advancement is combined with other global pressures, such as sustainability. Although the World is recovering from Covid-19 pandemic, the impact and the future workplace may require a new set of organizational behavior. As a result, transforming organizations becomes imperative, requiring leaders to have astute competencies to manage people at the workplace. All leaders are indeed people managers who need to ensure that every element, from individual to group and organizational levels, has purposeful values, mindsets, and behaviors. By applying the basic tenet of input, process, and output, this course will equip students with multidisciplinary knowledge and tools to shape the input (personal and situational factors), design the process (at three different levels), and ultimately achieve the output of sustainable organizational performance.

This course is designed to response and anticipate business dynamics where leaders have to effectively deal with human resources by understanding and applying organizational behavior (OB) science. OB is a discipline to help leaders comprehend individual and group behaviors, as well as the influence of organizational process in achieving organizational effectiveness. Students will be encouraged to move from being a player with individual-oriented competencies to become more of team players and contributors.

This course is directed for first semester students and equips them with basic aspects in managing and leading human resources in organizations. The first aspect is related to understanding and building self-awareness both as team members and leaders so that they can effectively capture behavioral phenomenon that occurs in their surroundings. The second aspect concerns with understanding and building capability in influencing others’ behaviors in order to achieve group and organizational performance. In doing so, this subject will equip and polish students with cognitive, leadership, motivating, and integrating capabilities. The third aspect is related to comprehending organizational change and how organizations can leverage from the individuals and groups.