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Specialization Seminar in Organization Behavior/HR

The course aims to introduce students to the leading concepts and current discussions in Organizational Behavior (OB). OB is a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, teams/groups, and structure/context have on behavior within and across organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge to how organisations can be effective, and in turn can facilitate productive and healthy employees’ participation.

Dr. Evgenia Lysova

Dr. Evgenia Lysova

Course Description

Each week will be dedicated to a discussion on one of the following six topics that are relevant in current research on the ‘happy & productive worker’:

a) Leadership – Content and interrelationships of different types of leadership, including ethical leadership, transformational / charismatic leadership, and leadership / (employee) ‘followship’.

b) Employee proactive work behavior and citizenship (OCB, voice, initiative, etc.), as well as job crafting, self-effectuation, proactivity, and employability. What to do with more passive ’employees?

c) Careers research, in particular employees interorganizational career mobility, global career mobility, and organizational learning /innovation.

d) Groups/teams – including teams research on team effectiveness, teamprocesses, and team outcomes.

e) Diversity – from a multifaced perspectives of race, age, gender, identity, culture, but also work and career orientations.

f) Emotions and motivations – including passion, grit, perseverance, aswell as fear and forgiveness, and how these lead to effective (or less effective) employees behaviors in organizations.

Study Characteristics

  • Discipline: Business and Management, Organization Behavior and Human Resources,  Social Science
  • Type of education: In class
  • Academic skill: Discipline related
  • Graduate School: School of Business and Economics
  • Start date: Period 5
  • End date: Period 5
  • Minimum number of students: 5
  • Maximum number of students: 20
  • Admission criteria: Due to the entry requirements of the programme, the courses of the Research Master Business in Society are only available for students registered for this master’s programme and, upon approval of the programme director, to other Research Master programmes or PhD students.
  • Concluding assessment: Yes
  • Assessment type: Specifically, for each of the session, students will be asked to write a blog input guided by a learning question from the instructor (40%).
    The courses will be concluded with an open-questions exam (60%)
  • With Certificate: Yes
  • Schedule info: N/A
  • Number of lessons: Four hours of classroom interaction per week
  • Total course duration in hrs.: N/A
  • Sign up period: From October 2020
  • Anticipated hrs of study: 168
  • Available to: PhD students VU and VU RMA students
  • Course Description & Study Characteristics

    Course Description

    Each week will be dedicated to a discussion on one of the following six topics that are relevant in current research on the ‘happy & productive worker’:

    a) Leadership – Content and interrelationships of different types of leadership, including ethical leadership, transformational / charismatic leadership, and leadership / (employee) ‘followship’.

    b) Employee proactive work behavior and citizenship (OCB, voice, initiative, etc.), as well as job crafting, self-effectuation, proactivity, and employability. What to do with more passive ’employees?

    c) Careers research, in particular employees interorganizational career mobility, global career mobility, and organizational learning /innovation.

    d) Groups/teams – including teams research on team effectiveness, teamprocesses, and team outcomes.

    e) Diversity – from a multifaced perspectives of race, age, gender, identity, culture, but also work and career orientations.

    f) Emotions and motivations – including passion, grit, perseverance, aswell as fear and forgiveness, and how these lead to effective (or less effective) employees behaviors in organizations.

    Study Characteristics

    • Discipline: Business and Management, Organization Behavior and Human Resources,  Social Science
    • Type of education: In class
    • Academic skill: Discipline related
    • Graduate School: School of Business and Economics
    • Start date: Period 5
    • End date: Period 5
    • Minimum number of students: 5
    • Maximum number of students: 20
    • Admission criteria: Due to the entry requirements of the programme, the courses of the Research Master Business in Society are only available for students registered for this master’s programme and, upon approval of the programme director, to other Research Master programmes or PhD students.
    • Concluding assessment: Yes
    • Assessment type: Specifically, for each of the session, students will be asked to write a blog input guided by a learning question from the instructor (40%).
      The courses will be concluded with an open-questions exam (60%)
    • With Certificate: Yes
    • Schedule info: N/A
    • Number of lessons: Four hours of classroom interaction per week
    • Total course duration in hrs.: N/A
    • Sign up period: From October 2020
    • Anticipated hrs of study: 168
    • Available to: PhD students VU and VU RMA students

Would you like to register or want to know more?

Please register with the Apply Now button at the top of this page. For more information please contact the course coordinator dr. Evgenia Lysova:

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