MANAGING BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATIONS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program. Not open to students with credit for M H R 604 . Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply the scientific method as an epistemological guide to first understand, then be able to predict, and consequently lead organizational behavior. Audience: Graduate 2. Evaluate research behind some of the foundational theories of motivation and leadership: operant conditioning, goal-setting, social cognitive, contingency model of leadership effectiveness, and transactional vs. transformational leadership paradigm. Audience: Graduate 3. Practice differentiating research-derived, cumulatively-built evidence from leadership myths, popular half-truths, idiosyncratic anecdotes, and complete nonsense. Audience: Graduate 4. Articulate deductive and inductive reasoning, understanding of chance and associated errors of inference, and characterizing of applied recommendations through the lens of their inferential probabilities, or the lack of thereof. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply the scientific method as an epistemological guide to first understand, then be able to predict, and consequently lead organizational behavior. Audience: Graduate 2. Evaluate research behind some of the foundational theories of motivation and leadership: operant conditioning, goal-setting, social cognitive, contingency model of leadership effectiveness, and transactional vs. transformational leadership paradigm. Audience: Graduate 3. Practice differentiating research-derived, cumulatively-built evidence from leadership myths, popular half-truths, idiosyncratic anecdotes, and complete nonsense. Audience: Graduate 4. Articulate deductive and inductive reasoning, understanding of chance and associated errors of inference, and characterizing of applied recommendations through the lens of their inferential probabilities, or the lack of thereof. Audience: Graduate