BITM Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Organizational behavior: concept, nature, importance. challenges and opportunities of organizational behavior. Emerging issues in organizational behavior. Models of organizational behavior.

Individual perception: meaning, process, affecting factors. perceptual bias and errors. perception and individual decision making. Personality and individual differences: meaning of personality, determinants of personality, big five personality model.

Motivation: meaning, need, Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Theories of motivation: Need theory, goal setting theory, equity theory, expectancy theory. Organizational justice: concept, types. Leaders and Leadership: concept, leader's traits, General understanding of leadership approaches: transformational and transactional leadership, charismatic and visionary leadership, servant leadership, contingency leadership.

Organizational diversity: concept, reasons, benefits, challenges. Multi-generational workforce in workplace. Differences between deep level of diversity and surface level of diversity. Diversity practices in Nepalese organizations. Inclusion in Nepal: provisions, practice, impacts.

Power in an organization: Concept, bases of power, dynamism. Influence tactics: concept, application. Politics in an organization: perceived organizational politics, political behavior, political skills. Functional and dysfunctional organizational politics.

Human Resource Management: concept, characteristics, functions, hard and soft approaches of HRM. Human resource as a source of competitive advantage. Outcomes of human resource management: quality of work life, productivity, readiness for change. Contemporary issues in human resource management in Nepalese organizations.

Job-related terminology: task, job, position, and occupation. Concept of Organization and management, process of Organization and management, components of Organization and management and their concepts and needs, practice of organization and management survey. Human resource planning: concept, process. Role of human resource information system in human resource planning. Human resource planning practices in Nepalese business organizations.

Recruitment: concept, methods. Selection: concept, process. selection tests. Practice of recruitment and selection in diverse Nepalese organizations.

Human resource development: concept, objectives, needs. Difference between training and development. Types of training. Determining competency gap and training needs. Training and development practices in Nepalese business organizations.

Emerging trends in human resource management. Digitalization of human resource activities. Remote work and flexible work practices. Gig workforce. Ethical human resource management. Integration of artificial intelligence in human resource management. Green human resource management and sustainability.