SYLLABUS for
Motivation / Satisfaction /
Leadership
APPL 642 Spring
2012
Listed as: (APPL 779.085)
Instructor: Tom Mitchell, Ph.D. 837-5348
Email: TMITCHELL@ubalt.edu
Home Page: http://home.edu/tmitch
Office hrs:
Tues / Wed 12 - 2 PM
Class: Inclass:
Wednesdays 6:30 PM to 8:PM (on even numbered sessions)
Classroom:
AC 208S
Webboard:
Sakai
Schedule of dates and assignments - Overview:
We will meet Inclass every other week on Even numbered sessions from 6:30PM to 8:PM
CASE 1 | CASE 2 | CASE 3 | ||||
Date | Session | Activity | Meeting | Sedalia | 1st fed | Mega |
25-Jan | 1 | Remote |
Organize |
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1-Feb | 2 | Inclass | ||||
8-Feb | 3 | Remote | Data report due | |||
15-Feb | 4 | Inclass | ||||
22-Feb | 5 | Remote | Team report due |
Organize |
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29-Feb | 6 | Inclass | Present | |||
7-Mar | 7 | Midterm Due |
Remote |
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14-Mar | 8 | Inclass | ||||
21-Mar | Spring break | |||||
28-Mar | 9 | Remote | Data report due | Organize | ||
4-Apr | 10 | Inclass | ||||
11-Apr | 11 | Remote | Team report due | Data report due | ||
18-Apr | 12 | Inclass | Present | |||
25-Apr | 13 | Remote | Team report due | |||
2-May | 14 | Inclass | Present | |||
9-May | 15 | Final Exam due |
Remote |
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Syllabus Resources:
B. Course description: Using motivation as a central concept, this course will provide the student with an in-depth understanding of how person and environmental factors interact to influence organizational behavior. Predominant motivational theories will be used to explain how group dynamics and cross-cultural influences affect motivation, and how attitudes toward the job and the organization relate to performance. Students will learn to apply motivational techniques to improve work performance and satisfaction.
(1) Analyze causes for organizational behavior and develop effective ways to improve work performance.
(2) Gain an experiential understanding of how group activity may facilitate or inhibit work performance.
(3) Improve their ability to work effectively with others to solve problems related to organizational behavior.
III. Class format: Assigned readings will be discussed. Ideas and conclusions generated from the discussions will be used by groups to solve problems presented in case studies. Case studies will be discussed in class and on Sakai
IV Texts required:
V. Course requirements for each student:
* NOTE: Failure to submit the summaries and questions may result in a 10% grade decrement
VI. Assessment: Exams:
Two written essay exams (midterm and final) covering course content
Team written case reports
instructions
Note: Participation online class discussions is Essential for course completing with a passing grade, but will not be graded
40 % 2 Exams (20% each)
30 % 3 Individual case data analysis
reports (10% each)
30 % 3 Team case reports (10%
each)
100% TOTAL Grade Scale:
90-100 A; 85-89 B+; 80-84 B;
75-79 C+; 70 C
Additional online syllabus Resources:
Session /location Date Chapters
/ Readings (see also Bibliography at end)
(1) Remote: Jan 25 (remote) Discussion
of syllabus / Group problem solving: Harvard cases
(Please stop by my office to pick up three
printed copies of HBS cases)
-> Case I Sedalia: Organize online
Northouse Chapter 1 Introduction
(2) Inclass: Feb 1 Northouse Chapter 2 Trait Approach
#1
Steers, et al. (2004). Introduction to special topic forum: The future of work
motivation theory. Academy of Mgt Rev. 29(3) 379-387
Article
questions
#2 Latham & Pinder (2005). Work motivation theory and research at the dawn of the
21st century. Annual Rev. of Psy., 56, 485-516.
Article questions
#3 Locke & Latham (2004) What should we do about motivation theory? Six
recommendations for the 21st century. Acad Mgt Rev.
Article Questions
McGrath outline of trait paradigm
(3) Remote: Feb 8 Northouse Chapter 3 Skills Approach
-> Case 1: Sedalia individual data reports due
(4) Inclass: Feb 15 Northouse Chapter 4 Style Approach
# 4
Ryan & Deci (2000) Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of
Intrinsic Motivation, Social
Development, and Well-Being. Am Psy.
Vol. 55 I
Article Questions NOTE:
Review:
(Note: article summary not needed)
#5
Deci,
E., Koestner, R. & Ryan (1999) meta-analytic review of experiments examining the
effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic.
Psych Bull. Vol. 125
Article Questions
#6 e-reserves: M. Csikzentmihalyi, (1999). If we are so
rich, why aren't we happy? American
Psychologist.
Article questions
Pink, D. "More than a paycheck" WSJ 2-2-10
(5) Remote: Feb 22 Northouse Chapter 5 Situational Approach
-> Case 1: Sedalia Team Report due
-> Case 2: 1st Federal Organize online
#7
Locke & Latham (2002)
Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task
motivation: A 35-year odyssey American psychologist
Article
Questions
bonus article (please do not read): WSJ (2/19/2008): Modern Conundrum: When Work's Invisible, So Are Its Satisfactions
(6) Inclass: Feb 29 Northouse Chapter 6 Contingency Theory Contingency models of leadership
-> Case 1: Sedalia Present ppoint to instructor
(7) Remote: Mar 7 *** Midterm Exam Take home due *** Northouse Chapters 1-6; Articles assigned
(8) Inclass: Mar 14 Northouse Chapter 7 Path-Goal Theory (p125-146)
#8
Judge et al. (2002). Relationship of personality to performance: Motivation: A
meta-analytic review. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87,
797-807.
Article Questions
#9 e-article Judge, E. Bono, A. Erez, & E. Locke (2005). Core Self-Evaluations and Job and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Self-Concordance and Goal Attainment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90,
Article Questions#10 Yoav Vardi & Yoash Weiner (1996) Misbehavior in Organizations; A motivational Framework Organization Science. 7, (2)
Article Questions
Mar 21 *** Spring Break *****
(9) Remote: Mar 28 Northouse Chapter 8 Leader-Member Exchange Theory
-> Case 2: 1st Federal Individual data report due
-> Case 3: Megalith Organize online
#11 e-article M. Mount et
al. (2006). Relationship
of personality traits and counterproductive work behaviors: The mediating
effects of job satisfaction. Personnel Psychology
Article Questions
(10) Inclass: Apr 4 Northouse Chapter 9 Transformational Leadership
#12 e-article Bass, B. (1997). Does the transactional-transformational Leadership paradigm transcend organizational and national boundaries? AmPsych 52, 0-139. Article Questions
(11) Remote: Apr 11 Northouse Chapter 14 Women and Leadership
-> Case 2: 1st Federal Team Report due
-> Case 3: Megalith Individual Data Report due
# 13 e -article
Rogelberg, S. G.
(2007). Job satisfaction & job satisfaction measurement. Encyclopedia
of I & O Psych, p. 410-413
Article Questions
# 14 e-article
T. Judge et al. (2002) Five-factor model of
personality and job
satisfaction: A meta-analysis. J. of Applied Psych, 87,
Article Questions
(NOTE: following articles not required for online discussion)
Peter Warr (2007). Jobs and Happiness. The Industrial Psychologist, 44, p. 19
-> Case 2: 1st Federal Team presentation tp instructor
# 15 e-article Currall et al. (2005) Pay satisfaction and organizational outcomes. P Psych,
58,
Article
Questions
# 16 e -article
Colella, et al.
(2007). Exposing pay secrecy. Academy of Management Review, 32, 55-71
Article Questions
# 17 e-article McBriarty, M.
A. (1988).
Performance appraisal; Some unintended
consequences. Public Personnel Management, 17, 421-434
Article Questions
Bonus not a Cure-all
See: performance bonus out of reach? Move
the target
Animals
seem to have an inherent sense of fairness and justice WSJ 2006
(13) Remote: Apr 25 Northouse Chapter 16 Leadership Ethics
-> Case 3: Megalith Team Report due
#18
e -
article Judge, T., et al. (2002). Job satisfaction: A cross-cultural
review. Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organ Psych, V. 2
For
reference only *** not required reading
# 19
Frese, Kring, Soose & Zempel
(1996). Personal Initiative at Work: Differences between East and West Germany.
Acad Mgt J. V. 39(1), 37-53.
Article Questions
# 21 Hogan & Hogan (2010). Abstracting Leadership. PTC/MW Quarterly, March, 1, 6-7.
(14) Inclass: May 2 Review for Final Exam
-> Case 3: Megalith: Present Team Report to instructor
(15) Remote: May 9 *** Final Exam take home due*** Northouse Chapters 7-9; 14-16; Articles Assigned