1. International Organizational Behavior
Diya Das
Office Hours: 1-2pm Monday to Thursday

2. My locations

3. Making It Overseas Why did Alan fail his assignment?
What does it take to succeed in international assignments?
What can firms do to make successful international managers?
What can you do?
How does this course fit in your scheme of things?

4. The Three Pillars to Building a Global Mind-Set
Intellectual capital
Psychological capital
Social capital
How can we build that?
How can this course help?

5. What is Organizational Behavior?
Why do we need to know that?
How will this help me in my career?

6. Organizational Behavior
A multidisciplinary field engaged in studying individuals, groups and organizational processes in order to understand human behavior within an organization
Overall aim is to increase organizational effectiveness

7. Why Pay Attention to that?
What predicts organizational success?
How do we make people work?
Human beings as the most unpredictable factor of production…
Career derailment
Cost of employees

8. Labor costs in European Countries

9. Some findings… Satisfaction leads to less employee turnover
Perceived unfair treatment – leads to greater stealing and other negative behaviors at work
Employees experiencing mistreatment are likely to fall sick
Better employee perceptions lead to more profitability and productivity

10. How can we study human behavior?
Research Methods:
Experiments
Surveys
Field Studies
Case Study
Can we really understand and predict human behavior?

11. OB – Historical Approach
Scientific management and Taylorism
Hawthorne experiments
Human Relations
Contingency theory

12. Contemporary Concerns
Dynamic organizations
Global perspectives
Diversity concerns
Technological mediations
Social Media
Virtual work
Health
Communication
Retention

13. Course Objectives
Understand human behavior in organizations through an analysis of theories and real life cases;
Develop and appreciation for differences in human motives, attitudes and behaviors in different parts of the world;
Develop tools to manage employees in a global workplace,
Develop deeper insights into individual skills and behaviors in order to manage one’s own career.

14. Course Methodology Case teaching Case discussions
Inductive method of theorization

15. Grading Items
Case Quizzes – 10 points. Conducted at the beginning of each class. Based on the facts of the case. Will drop lowest score
Case Discussions – Led by teams. Teams will generate a class discussion. Identify important issues in case and provide recommendations.
Group Project. Detailed instructions in Syllabus
Final Exam
Reflections Essay
Class Contributions

16. Policies Breaks Attendance No Laptops or other equipment in class!
Academic Integrity
Participation

17. Making it International!
Why do we study international organizational behavior?

18. Introductions Introduce yourself – name, background, global interests
Tell us something why someone would want to be on a team with you?

19. Find your team members! Rules –
1. first person on your team: someone you have not been on a team with
2. Someone who you are not friends with
3. Someone you never sat next to in class and don’t know much about
4. Someone who you think is very different from you

20. Team Exercise: 2 truths and a lie!
Find out what is true and what is a lie about each of your team members.
I went to the United States for my undergraduate education
I am a trained classical dancer
I love seafood!

21. Case Assignment
Case Discussion

22. Questions for tomorrow: Roaring Dragon Hotel, Tuesday January 10
What was HI trying to do in RDH?
How did they try to achieve their aims? What went wrong in that?
What should they have done different?