Organizational Theory & Behaviour

Individuals in organizations; including personality perceptions, learning, and motivation; group processes, including work groups, leadership, communication, decision making, and the management of organizational change. Organizational theory, research and design; including overview of theories such as bureaucracy, open systems, organizational ecology. Issues of departmentation, differentiation, integration, power and politics; governance structures including agency and stakeholder theories. Interorganizational networks and organizational sets. Priority may be given to Management Sciences students.