Instructor:               Jill Young

Office:                      College of Business Administration, BSA A422

Telephone:               330-672-1149

E-mail:                     jyoung7@kent.edu

Office Hours:           4:30-5:00pm Tuesday/Thursday or after class

Course Website:     http://jillyoung.pageout.net

Kreitner, R. & Kinicki, A. (2004) Organizational Behavior, McGraw-Hill, New York. 

ISBN:  0072535253, (6^th Edition).

 

The syllabus, PowerPoint presentations, grades, and other class information will be available on the course website.  To view your individual grades, you must register on this website, setting your own user ID and password.  This website and the information on it is not linked to Web for Students.  http://jillyoung.pageout.net

This course analyzes the behavioral and structural aspects of organizations. It looks at the world of organizational behavior, individual behavior in organizations, groups and social processes, organizational processes, and the evolving organization.

 

The fundamental purpose of this course is to provide students with an increased understanding of the content and processes involved in individual and group behavior.  Upon successful completion of this course, a student can expect to have mastery of the vocabulary, concepts, and theories of Organizational Behavior as well as the ability to analyze problems in actual organizations and to provide insightful recommendations.

 

Two exams are scheduled for the semester.  Both exams will cover text readings, handouts, assignments, class activities and lecture material.  The format of the exams will be multiple choice.  Information not covered in class but found in the text is fair game.

 

 

Three take home assignments are scheduled for the semester.  Each assignment will come with its own instruction sheet on how it is to be completed.  They will be based on the chapters covered so far in class.  Late assignments will be reduced by one letter grade (10 points) for each day they are late.  You must be in class to receive the assignment.  They will not be posted to the website nor available by email.  Also, watch your grammar!  I will grade heavily on your use of the English language.

 

 

Each of you must write a journal as part of the course requirement.  The purpose of the journal is to help reinforce the learnings from the readings, lectures and class materials. 

 

Journals will be graded based on the following:

 

                   Professionalism (neatness)                  10 points

                   Content                                             60

                   Grammar                                           30                            

                                                    Total                100 points

 

You are to do your own work on your journal, based on your individual assessments from the CD included with your text, as described below.  Journals are due at the beginning of the class period, on November 22^nd.  Late journals will be subject to a 10-point deduction for each day they are late.  November 22^nd is the last class session before Thanksgiving.  Please plan ahead.

 

Journals are to be typed, properly margined (that means 1” all around), and otherwise as professional as you can make them.  Please use a staple to keep your pages together.  Do not use paper or plastic binders as these make them more burdensome to carry!                   

 

Your journal should contain four sections.  Each section is a self-assessment from the CD provided with your text.  Seven assessments are available.  Please choose the four that are of the most interest to you.  Each assessment should take 2-5 minutes to complete.  Once you have completed each assessment, print your results.  Include these in your journal.  Then, based on each assessment, write a 1-2 page personal response to the assessment feedback.  You can relate it to a personal experience or how you might use this information to make different choices in the future.  Please make your personal responses double-spaced, use 12-point font, and start on a fresh page for each assessment response.

 

 

Your journal should be organized as follows but include only FOUR of the seven assessments:

 

Self-Assessment #1:  Active Listening Skills Inventory

Personal Response

 

Self-Assessment #2:  Assessing your Leader-Member Exchange

Personal Response

 

Self-Assessment #3:  Corporate Culture Preferences Scale

Personal Response

 

 

Self-Assessment #4:  Identify Your Preferred Organizational Structure

Personal Response

 

Self-Assessment #5:  Team Roles Preferences Scale

Personal Response

 

Self-Assessment #6:  Type “A” Scale

Personal Response

 

Self-Assessment #7:  What is Your Primary Conflict-Handling Style?

Personal Response

During the course of the session, your group will be responsible for presenting one chapter to the class.  Your assigned chapter presentation will be based on the following elements.   All group members will receive the same score.  You will be provided a chance to evaluate your team members at the end of the class session.

 

 

 

 

Organization:                                                                                                   ______/40 points

Was your presentation clearly organized?

Did it have an introduction, body and conclusion?

 

Major Concepts:                                                                                             ______/40 points

Did you present the major topics of the chapter?

 

Correct Usage of Organizational Behavior Terms:                                       ______/20 points

Was your content accurate? 

Did you use the terms in the book correctly?

 

Clarity of your message:                                                                                   ______/20 points

Did you present your ideas clearly or were they difficult to interpret?

 

Interaction:                                                                                                      ______/40 points

Did you involve your audience in the learning process? 

Did you use activities or self-assessments to help communicate                                                      the material?

                  

Presentation style:                                                                                            ______/20 points

Were you engaging as a speaker? 

Could the audience hear you?

Did you use eye contact?

 

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Time length:                                                                                                     ______/20 points

Do you stay within the 60-90 minute time frame?

 

 

                                                                                                                       ______/200 points

 

 

 

At the end of the semester, you will have the opportunity to grade your team members on their contributions.  During the final week of classes you will be expected to complete a form asking for your confidential remarks regarding your team members’ effort, idea generation, decision-making involvement, share of the workload, etc.  Your individual Team Member Evaluation grade will be an average of the scores given to you by your group members.

 

 

 

Your attendance is required during all class sessions where your classmates are presenting chapter material.  For each group presentation, you will receive 10 points for attending.  You have one opportunity to miss a group presentation with no penalty.

 

 

 

Grades will be calculated according to performance on two exams (100 points each for a total of 200 points), three take home assignments (100 points each for a total of 300 points), a journal  (100 points), a group presentation (200 points), a team member evaluation (100 points) and attendance (100 points), for a total of 1,000 points.  Final grades will be assigned as follows:

 

A	A-	B+	B	B-
93 - 100%	90 – 92%	87 - 89%	83 - 86%	80 – 82%
930-1,000 pts	900-929 points	870-899 points	830-869 points	800-829 points

 

C+	C	C-	D+	D
77 - 79%	73 - 76%	70 - 72%	67 - 69%	60 - 66%
770-799 pts	730-769 points	700-729 points	670-699 points	600-669 points

 

F

< 60%

599 points & below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.      Office hours are set for Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:30 – 5:00 pm, or after class each day.  The most efficient way to contact me is by email:  jyoung7@kent.edu.  My office phone is 330-672-1149.

2.      Please tell me about any problems you are having while there is still time to do something about them.

3.      Reading assignments are expected to be completed prior to class attendance so that you may participate in class discussion.  We will not discuss every aspect of the assigned chapters, however this does not release the student from the responsibility of knowing the material for examination purposes.  In addition, I may include material in class not covered by the text (you are also responsible for this information).

4.      Attendance at class is expected.  If you miss a class, you are responsible for obtaining lecture notes and other material from another student (please do not ask to borrow my notes).  You may also be penalized for an absence (see Attendance section above).

5.      LATE REGISTRATION:  No late registration forms will be signed following the first exam. If you wish to register for the class, you must register before the first exam – no exceptions. 

6.      Students have responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes.   You are advised to review your official class schedule to ensure you are properly enrolled in this class and section.  Should you find an error in your class schedule, you need to correct the error with your advising office no later than Sunday, September 11 for Fall Semester, 2005.  If registration errors are not corrected by these dates and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class in which you are not properly registered.

7.      Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite risk being deregistered from the class.

8.      For Fall Semester 2005, the course withdrawal deadline is Sunday, November 6, 2005.   Course withdrawal before the deadline results in a "W" on the official transcript; after the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.

 

 

University policy 3342-3-18 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access equal access course content.  If you have documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments.  Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for these through the Student Disability Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit www.kent.edu/sds for more information on registration procedures).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students are expected to exercise total academic honesty in the completion of all course requirements.  Academic dishonesty includes plagiarism, cheating on examinations, or assisting another student in committing acts of academic dishonesty.  The use of academic dishonesty in the completion of this course will result in the appropriate academic and university penalties as found in the KSU Handbook.

 

Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., tests, papers, projects, assignments) so as to get undeserved credit.  The use of the intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense.  It is the University's policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or course.  Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University.