06211165 - Organisational Behaviour

This course focuses on discovering the different organisational behaviours and how they are influenced from organisational factors and also context. It links also to ‘how collective behaviours’ evolved throughout history. Focus on new emerging organisational needs in terms of togetherness at work. Explore how they are organised and how they work… and why some seems more adapted to current and other to future ways of working and even living/behaving together.
This course on ‘Organisational Behaviours’ will be about experimenting on the top of learning.

DIMENSION OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

This course emphasizes on the current frustrations and pressions working environments can create subconsciously leading to disengagement and also stress and sociopsychological risks. It gives clues on how to transform an organisational environment to ensure sustainable social development.


TARGETED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• define and understand context of organisations and grasp current organisational paradigms shifts. It includes what Pandemy crisis enlighted in terms of managerial behaviours for instance
• understands existing and new coming organisational models and their influence on inner behaviours.
• understand the difference layers of identity and how they trigger our behaviours (ex: belief system).
• understand how culture and leadership modelise behaviours at work.
• understand how to transform organisation for bette rbehaviours for the organisation itself and the people being part of it.

COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction - context and challenges of organisations currently (incl. pandemic)
I. Different models of organisations and how they influence behaviours
II. How external factors will influence behaviours too
III. Behaviours at work
IV. The influence of the leader and its leadership practice
V. The cultural impact on behaviours, and some elements on how it works in an international environment

Conclusion - why emerging ways are still better and how to move towards the new performing ways of working together

PRESCRIBED TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS :

Esther Cameron & Mike Green – Making sense of change management
Frederic Laloux – Reinventing Organisations
Ricardo Semler: Maverick / the 7 days weekends
Ken Wilber – A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
Jenny Wade - Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness
Simon Sinek – Start with why

RECOMMENDED TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS :
Otto Scharmer – Theory U
Peter Senge - The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization
Deepak Chopra - The soul of leadership
Suzanne Georges – whose crisis, whose future
Richard Barrett - The Values-Driven Organization: Cultural Health and Employee Well-Being as a 
Pathway to Sustainable Performance

Individual grade
Case-study analysis, 10p

Other grade(s)
Oral presentation, 4h
In a group

Weight : 60% / 40%

TEACHING METHODS

This course will be mixing concepts and practices based on real cases. It will alternate theory, debate, 
practice on case studies. it aims to be highly interactive. 

It therefore use Reverse learning philosophy: 
They use cases of organisations they have worked for in order to understand the model they were in and see how they could have helped it evolve.
We debate on different upcoming topics during the course
We watch some interviews of leaders to understand the dynamics of new coming models

NATURE OF MATERIALS
Flipchart, consulting organisational profiling tool. Videos. Real life cases. Powerpoints.

TEACHING INNOVATIONS AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY

Open space technology. Mind mapping. Self-evaluation: they evaluate their peers

PRE-REQUISITES IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
ADVISED PRIOR READING :
All previous work on Leadership, organisational culture, management and organisational models will be an asset for this course.