MBS5082: Organisational Behaviour and Management

This unit introduces students to concepts and theories of organisational behaviour useful to managers. The unit considers behavioural impacts at the individual, group and organisational levels. Topics include motivation, job attitudes, stress, issues of group processes and relations, leadership, communication, power and conflict, and organisational structure and design. Theories of how to manage the organisation during times of change and development will be a focus. The unit combines lectures and tutorials and has a practical, problem solving and experiential approach.

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Points	4
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: W4-internal
Contact Time	Taught intensively during the Winter term.
Prerequisites	This unit is restricted to students enrolled in C1083 Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration (Masterclass).
Exclusions	Students cannot enrol in both MBS5082 Organisational Behaviour and Management and MBS508 Organisational Behaviour and Management for credit.
School	School of Business
Unit Coordinator	Mr Ian Firns Position: P/T Teaching Casual E-mail: Location: Phone: Prefix: +618
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Mr Ian Firns MURDOCH W4: Internal (14/06/2010 - 23/07/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)