Class Behaviour and Organizational Change

This curricular unit aims to enhance the understanding of how individuals and groups function within organizations, particularly in relation to managing organizational change in its different aspects and corresponding impacts: at the individual, group, and organizational levels. The objective is to equip students with information that enables them to identify key concepts and theories that elucidate how individuals and groups participate, respond, and interact within organizations, and the resulting consequences. Furthermore, the unit aims to foster the acquisition of diagnostic methodologies and intervention strategies applicable to organizational systems and subsystems, facilitating their application in processes and facilitating organizational change.

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  This UC explores processes related to diagnosis, intervention, and organizational behavior from three distinct but complementary levels of analysis. PC1 Individual, group, and organizational dimensions: top-down and bottom-up; organizational theories, organizational behavior, and change management; Organizational level PC2 Organizational diagnosis and change: models, phases, and resistance to change; models, methods, and instruments related to diagnosis;  ethical aspects to be considered diagnosis and organizational change processes; PC3 Change: planned and emergent, phases, project management, design, development, and presentation of reports and proposals.  Group and individual levels PC4 Diversity and individual differences, motivation, emotions, and well-being at work; PC5 Teamwork, decision-making processes, and leadership; PC6 Processes of social influence, power, and political behavior in organization; PC7 Organizational climate and culture.

The teaching-learning process of this UC includes the adoption of active methodologies focused on creating opportunities for reflection, collective debate, and student co-responsibility for the systematization and deepening of the program content. Specifically, this is achieved through the development of cooperative autonomous work throughout the semester, supported by tutoring, with the aim of producing an original product from the implementation, in a real context, of a consulting project that will include conducting an organizational diagnosis and the construction – and potential implementation – of an intervention proposal.

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