Develop a comprehensive Organizational Behaviour analysis for a Canadian company of your choice. With the help of the concepts learned in this course, the students will critically analyze an OB System/ sub-system utilizing secondary data research (peer-reviewed journals, published case-studies, company websites, google scholar – research articles, videos, newspaper/ magazine articles) to identify problems and recommend constructive improvements.
Remember to not only describe what the organization is doing in each of these areas, but also to analyse how well they are doing in each area, which includes looking at how the competition might be doing. Good analysis considers both the good and the bad when looking at an organization.
List of recent research topics in Organizational Behaviour: (choose 1 topic from the below list)
· Workplace Emotions, Attitudes, and Motivation
· Applied Performance Practices, Work-Related Stress and Stress Management
· Team Dynamics and Team Development
· Job satisfaction
· Organizational Commitment
· Conflict and Negotiation
· Power and Influence in the Workplace
· Leadership in Organizational Settings
· Organizational Change
· Emotions in organizations
· Employee internalization of workplace values
· Employee involvement and worker co-operatives
· Ethnicity and diversity at the workplace
· Identity and self
· Implementing downsizing
· Institutional change and information systems implementation
· Inter-organizational issues in outsourcing relationships
· Leadership and identity
· Technology-based organizational change
· Performance improvements through people
· Role of trust and commitment in organizations
· Team dynamics and culture
· Women in management
· Individual, interpersonal and team effectiveness
· Gender issues at the workplace
· Work-family conflict
· Role of emotions
· Management of creativity and innovation
· Human Resources Development
· Quality of work-life
· Organizational culture
· Cross-cultural issues in management
· Organizational dynamics and design
· Organizational learning and management of change
· Managing organizational transformations and downsizing
· Business ethics and institution-building
The topics to be covered, and headings of the Project Report should include:
· Title Page
· Table of Contents
· Executive Summary
· Company History/Background
· Organizational Vision, and Mission
· Critical Analysis and industry comparisons of your chosen OB sub-system (as mentioned above)
· Key Findings/Strengths, Recommendations and Development Opportunities, Implications
· References
· Appendices
APA writing conventions should be followed in the report (7 pages) with a minimum of Four (4) sources referenced and cited including in-text citations (if you are presenting another author’s ideas in your own language you still have to provide the in-text citation of that author), report format and references in APA format. The report must demonstrate an analysis of the material and its application to the workplace. Title of the company cannot be your report title due to copyright reasons.
