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Table of Contents

Part 1 - Organizational Behavior/ Human Relations in Organizations

Chapter 1 - Individual Differences: Personality, Stress and Emotions 

Chapter 2 - Motivation and Performance 

Chapter 3 - Managing Groups and Teams

Chapter 4 - Leadership 

Chapter 5 - Power and Influence

Part 2 - HRM (Human Resource Management) for line managers

Chapter 6 - Legal Side

Chapter 7 - Planning for and Recruiting Human Resources

Chapter 8 - Selecting Employees 

Chapter 9 - Managing Employee Performance 

Chapter 10 - Total Rewards


This textbook is created through multiple channels of Open-source information including:

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Organizational Behaviour by

Nina Burokas, Mendocino College, Saddleback College
Barbara Egel, City Colleges of Chicago
Freedom Learning Group

licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0

Human Resources Management - Canadian Edition by Stéphane Brutus and Nora Baronian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.



As discussed, I am providing you with the topics covered in each chapter:

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR / HUMAN RELATIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS  

  1. Individual differences: Personality, Stress, Learning and Perception 
Personality 
stress types
locus of control
intro/extro- version
learning styles
emotional intelligence
+ self-assessments 
  1. Motivation & Performance 
Hertzberg’s TWO-FACTOR theory      intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation  

NEEDS THEORIES
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Alderfer  ERG Theory
McClelland Manifiest Needs Theory
McGregor Theory X and Y

PROCESS THEORY : 
Locke's GOAL setting
Management by Objectives (MBOs)
  1. Team Dynamics 
group vs team
groupthink vs synergy
team development
problem members and how to deal with them
  1. Leadership 
leader vs manger
transactional vs transformational
leadership grid
level 5 leadership 
situation leadership + Daniel Goldmans 6 leadership styles
  1. Power and Influence
Position and personal power
legitimate, reward, coercive
expert, referent, information connection
empowerment
influence tactics  (acceptable vs devious)


The HRM section (below) is fairly straightforward - but  I would appreciate cases on discrimination and harassment in the workplace ... that's where the juicy part is!

HRM (Human Resource Management) for line managers

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