BMGT10170 Inside Organisations

Academic Year 2020/2021

This module is about the human side of organisations, with a focus on groups and active learning. People’s behaviour is often curious and always interesting. Taking a close look at behaviour inside organisations (starting with your own) will prove useful to you not just when you enter the workplace, but right now, in college. This is a module designed to develop your knowledge and insight relating to Organisational Behaviour (theories), observe and develop your OB skills though experience (application), and enhance your capacity for reflective, informed analysis (evaluation).

To help you achieve all this, for a significant part of the module you will be working collaboratively in teams to create, learn and deliver a real time project involving research, content development and creative communication.

There are four specific learning goals:
1. Knowledge: Learning about a range of individual, group and organisational behaviour (OB) topics including personality, motivation, culture, and particularly communication.
2. Skills: Getting to grips with groups: developing insight into group dynamics and practical collaboration skills - including virtual teamwork.
3. Application: Building awareness of and reflection about contemporary working lives, organisation practices, and the future of work.
4. Mindset: Developing your self-awareness, psychological mindedness and sociological imagination.

A key intention of this module is to lay a foundation of vocabulary and insights concerning human behaviour in organisations that will be revisited throughout many of your future modules in the College of Business.

Note on Delivery and Participation Requirements:

This module will be delivered through a combination of online lectures and highly collaborative peer to peer learning and group project assignments throughout the trimester. Lectures will follow a scheduled weekly timetable and should be followed in real time, with recordings available. The collaborative element - entitled OBLive - is scheduled weekly from the second week of the module. You will be assigned to a team, and will work together weekly to devise, manage and deliver all elements of the OBLive group project.

All students taking this module should be aware that a high degree of teamwork is required to develop and deliver the OBLive group project. In 20/21, there is no final exam, and the OBLive project has been expanded throughout the full trimester incorporating both individual and group components. Each team will and work together to build, plan, do and review this work. Project deliverables and final individual grades will be highly dependent on your active participation and require collaboration during and beyond scheduled class time, using virtual tools for meetings and project management skills which we will explore in class. The team may also collaborate in person, where agreed by all members.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

1. Build a vocabulary and conceptual framework to help you think about life inside organisations

2. Describe, apply and reflect on some key concepts in Organisational Behaviour (OB) relating to the individual, the group, and the organisation/workplace.

3. Collaborate as a team to create and deliver real outcomes

4. Use the experience of working in a group to observe, reflect and talk about OB theory and ideas

5. Learn through experience about about group dyanamics and identify strategies and develop your skills for effective and constuctive group work

6. Relate these ideas to the workplace and debates about how work is organised and managed, demonstrating an ability to think critically and sociologically about the human dimension of organisations.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24

Seminar (or Webinar)

24

Specified Learning Activities

24

Autonomous Student Learning

48

Total

120

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This module will be delivered through a combination of online lectures and highly collaborative peer to peer learning and group project assignments throughout the trimester. Lectures will follow a scheduled weekly timetable and should be followed in real time, with recordings available. The collaborative element - entitled OBLive - is scheduled weekly from the second week of the module. You will be assigned to a team, and will work together weekly to devise, manage and deliver all elements of the OBLive group project.

All students taking this module should be aware that a high degree of teamwork is required to develop and deliver the OBLive group project. In 20/21, there is no final exam, and the OBLive project has been expanded throughout the full trimester incorporating both individual and group components. Each team will and work together to build, plan, do and review this work. Project deliverables and final individual grades will be highly dependent on your active participation and require collaboration during and beyond scheduled class time, using virtual tools for meetings and project management skills which we will explore in class. The team may also collaborate in person, where agreed by all members.



 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Incompatibles:
BMGT10100 - Intro to Org Behaviour, NMHS20060 - Interpersonal&Teamwork Skills


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Oral Examination: Final Group Presentation and Discussion Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

20

Continuous Assessment: Individual groundwork and peer review Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

40

Group Project: Highly Collaborative OBLive Group Portfolio Assignment Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

40


Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Group discussion and feedback, peer and personal reflective review, feedforward learning.

Name Role
Dr Brona Russell Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Dolores Smith Heffernan Lecturer / Co-Lecturer