BMGT10170

This module is about the human side of organisations, with a focus on groups and active learning. People’s behaviour is often curious and always interesting. Taking a close look at behaviour inside organisations (starting with your own) will prove useful to you not just when you enter the workplace, but right now, in college. This is a module designed to develop your knowledge and insight relating to Organisational Behaviour (theories), observe and develop your OB skills though experience (application), and enhance your capacity for reflective, informed analysis (evaluation).

To help you achieve all this, for a significant part of the module you will be working collaboratively in teams to create, learn and deliver a series of group submissions involving research, content development and creative communication.

There are four specific learning goals:

1. Knowledge: Learning about a range of individual, group and organisational behaviour (OB) theories and concepts relating to a range of OB including personality, motivation, culture, and communication.
2. Skills: Getting to grips with groups: learning to understand and work with group dynamics and developing practical collaboration and teamwork skills, communication skills.
3. Application: Building awareness of contemporary working lives, organisational practices, and the future of work.
4. Mindset: Developing your self-awareness, psychological mindedness and sociological imagination.


A key intention of this module is to lay a foundation of vocabulary and insights concerning human behaviour in organisations that will be revisited throughout many of your future modules in the College of Business.

*All students taking this module should be aware that a high degree of personal participation and collaborative teamwork is required to support our focus on collaborative and communication skills*

The assessment for this module is fully team-based, and spans a series of activities across the full trimester, giving the opportunity to build and improve the team collaboration at each iteration.]

All teams complete a team interview in which the ability to connect their experience with core concepts studied during the module is assessed.

While team grades are the norm, individual grades are subject to moderation based on evidence-based delivery, contribution to learning and peer feedback.

Where extenuating circumstances hinder or prevent participation, please keep in close dialogue with your team and lecturer. Under no circumstances should you take credit for or expect to be given credit for, parts of the work you were not involved in. If a member does not for whatever reason participate, they must make this clear, and take responsibility for it, communicating directly with the team and with the module coordinator so that the team can move forward.