BITM Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
bitmsemester 2
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Subject Code: MGT153
Course Title: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Course No: MGT153
Nature of Course: Theory & Practical
Full Marks: 60
Pass Marks: 30
Credit Hours: 3
Course Description
This course provides a fundamental and contemporary understanding of Organizational Behavior (OB) and Human Resource Management (HRM). The Organizational Behavior section focuses on understanding human behavior at individual and group levels in organizational settings. It covers concepts such as perception, personality, motivation, leadership, communication, diversity, power, and organizational politics. The Human Resource Management section emphasizes the effective management and development of human resources in organizations. It includes human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment, training, compensation, performance management, and contemporary HRM practices. The course also introduces emerging issues such as digital HRM, gig workforce, artificial intelligence in HRM, flexible work practices, and Green HRM with reference to Nepalese organizations.
Course Objective
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Explain the fundamental concepts, theories, and importance of organizational behavior in organizations.
Analyze individual and group behavior, motivation, leadership, communication, diversity, and organizational politics in workplace settings.
Apply organizational behavior concepts to improve interpersonal relationships and organizational effectiveness.
Explain the major concepts, functions, and practices of human resource management.
Analyze human resource planning, recruitment, training, compensation, and performance management practices in organizations.
Understand contemporary HRM issues and apply HRM concepts in Nepalese organizational contexts.
Course Contents
| Course Contents | Teaching Methodology | Teaching Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 1: Introduction to Organizational Behavior (4 Hrs.) | ||
| Organizational behavior: concept, nature, importance | Lecture | |
| challenges and opportunities of organizational behavior | ||
| Emerging issues in organizational behavior | ||
| Models of organizational behavior | ||
| Unit 2: Understanding Individual Behavior (4 Hrs.) | ||
| Individual perception: meaning, process, affecting factors | Lecture | |
| perceptual bias and errors | ||
| perception and individual decision making | ||
| Personality and individual differences: meaning of personality, determinants of personality, big five personality model | ||
| Unit 3: Motivation and Leadership (7 Hrs.) | ||
| Motivation: meaning, need, Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation | Lecture | |
| 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 | ||
| Unit 4: Workforce Diversity and Inclusion (5 Hrs.) | ||
| Organizational diversity: concept, reasons, benefits, challenges | Lecture | |
| 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 | ||
| Unit 5: Power and Politics in Organizations (4 Hrs.) | ||
| Power in an organization: Concept, bases of power, dynamism | Lecture | |
| Influence tactics: concept, application | ||
| Politics in an organization: perceived organizational politics, political behavior, political skills | ||
| Functional and dysfunctional organizational politics | ||
| Unit 6: Introduction (4 Hrs.) | ||
| Human Resource Management: concept, characteristics, functions, hard and soft approaches of HRM | Lecture | |
| 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 | ||
| Unit 7: Organization, Management and Human Resource Planning (5 Hrs.) | ||
| Job-related terminology: task, job, position, and occupation | Lecture | |
| 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 | ||
| Unit 8: Recruitment and Selection (4 Hrs.) | ||
| Recruitment: concept, methods | Lecture | |
| Selection: concept, process | ||
| selection tests | ||
| Practice of recruitment and selection in diverse Nepalese organizations | ||
| Unit 9: Human Resource Development (5 Hrs.) | ||
| Human resource development: concept, objectives, needs | Lecture | |
| Difference between training and development | ||
| Types of training | ||
| Determining competency gap and training needs | ||
| Training and development practices in Nepalese business organizations | ||
| Unit 10: Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Management (6 Hrs.) | ||
| Emerging trends in human resource management | Lecture | |
| 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 |
Text Books
1. Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2024). Organizational behavior (19th edition). Pearson
2. DeCenzo, D. A., Robbins, S. P., & Verhulst, S. L. (2016). Fundamentals of Human Resource Management (12th edition). Wiley.
3. Dessler, G., & Varkkey, B. (2020). Human Resource Management (16th edition). Pearson.
4. Buchanan David & Badham Richard (2020). Power, Politics, and Organizational Change (3rd edition). SAGE
5. Fred Luthans, Brett C. Luthans, & Kyle W. Luthans (2021). Organizational Behavior: An evidence-based approach, (14th edition). Information Age Publishing Inc.