Organizational Development

Paper Code: 
DPSY 813
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO86: Understand the foundations of organizational behaviour, its challenges and opportunities in the current scenario.

CO87: Critically evaluate the potential effects of important developments in the external environment (such as globalisation and advances in technology) on organisational behaviour.

CO88: Understand one’s own management style as it relates to influencing and managing behaviour in the organisation systems.

CO89: Analyse individual human behaviour in the workplace as influenced by personality, values, perceptions, and attitudes.

CO90: Enhance critical thinking and analysis skills through the use of management case studies and small group exercises.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Definitions and Historical Overview of Organizational Development:

History of organizational development; the laboratory training stem; the survey research and feedback stem; the action research stem; the sociotechnical and socio-clinical stem; second generation OD; Extent of application

Unit II: 
Values, Assumptions and Beliefs in OD:

Early Statements of OD Values and assumptions; Implications of OD Values and Assumptions; A values study; OD Consultants- knowledge and competencies; Octapace situations in sales/marketing functions

12.00
Unit III: 
Foundations of Organization Development:

Models and theories of planned change; systems theory; participation and empowerment; teams and teamwork; parallel learning structures; A normative-re-educative strategy of changing; applied behavioral science; recent developments in OD research

12.00
Unit IV: 
Managing the OD Process

Data collection and diagnosis; the action component- OD interventions; the program management component

12.00
Unit V: 
Action research and organizational development:

Action research- a process and approach; examples of action research in OD; Indian case studies; genesis of OD in the company; the OD process- a diagnostic study

Essential Readings: 
  • Luthans, F. (1998). Organizational Behavior (8th Edition). Irwin: McGraw Hill.
  • Robbins, S.P., Timothy A.J and Vohra N. (2013). Organisational Behaviour (15th Ed.) Noida: Pearson India Education.
  • Schultz D.P. and Schultz, S.E. (1998). Psychology and Industry Today: An Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology (6th Edition). New York: Mac Millen.

 

References: 

Suggested Readings

  • Gann, D. M.,  & Dodgson, M. (2018). The Playful Entrepreneur: How to Adapt and Thrive in Uncertain Times. Yale University Press. EISBN: 978-0-30024-068-9. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv6hp30m
  • Hollway, W. (1991). Work Psychology and Organizational Behavior: Managing the Individual at work. New Delhi: Sage.
  • Khandwalla, P. N. (1994). Designing Organizational Effectiveness. Tata McGraw Hill.
  • Muchinksy, P. M. 1997). Psychology Applied to Work: An Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology. California:  Brooks & Cole.
  • Neufeld, E. P. (1969). A Global Corporation: A History of the International Development of Massey-Ferguson Limited. University of Toronto Press. EISBN: 978-1-48758-613-3. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv5j03qh
  • Rao, T.V. (1990). Human Resource Development. New Delhi: U.B.S.

E-Resources

  • ResearchGate
  • JSTOR
  • Proquest
  • Shodhganga
  • Delnet
  • Google Scholar
  • National Digital Library (NPTEL)
  • Academia

Journals

  • International Journal of Business and Applied Social Science (IJBASS)
  • Journal of Industrial Psychology
  • Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy
  • Psychology of Leaders and Leadership

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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