This course provides students with an introduction to the fundamental principles and practices of research method across various disciplines. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities, students will develop essential skills in designing, conducting, analysing, and reporting research.
Learning Objectives
Organizational Behavior is a three credit unit course offered by three hundred level students. It investigates the manner that people interact, think feel and do in organizations. It is a field of study which draws its worth on a number of disciplines and is recognized for teaching and research purpose as a distinct subject domain in its own right. The purpose of this course is to help students understand behavior in organizations. The knowledge of this course is not only relevant for managers and leaders but is useful to anyone who has anything to do with organizations. In this course, we will introduce you to the field of organizational behavior and the theory, outline the main reasons why you should know more about it, describe the fundamental perspectives behind the study of organizations, and introduce the concept that organizations are knowledge and learning systems
At the end of this course, it is expected that the following learning objectives would be achieved.
1. Explain the concept and significance of understanding behavior in organizations.
2. how to manage people in organizations
3. Understand the concepts that organizations are knowledge and learning systems
4. Explain and illustrate the main processes in person perceptions
5. Understand that individuals are different and to develop an understanding of the behavior of people in complex social settings
6. Understand that culture is a powerful template that shapes what happens in the workplace
7. Understand leadership and leaders as defined by the people they serve
8. Understand that power and politics are necessary tools to coordinate organizational activities
9. Understand the fundamental processes in organizational structure
10. Understand the dynamics of conflicts in organizational settings
Course Outline
1. An overview of organizational behavior
2. Managing people and organizations – the challenges of informal and emergent work systems
3. Learning in organizations ( behavior modification)
4. Perception and attribution in organizations
5. Theories of organizational behavior and their relevance to Nigeria behavioral model building
6. Exercise in simple models of behavior observable in Nigeria in Nigerian organizations.
7. Theories of behavioral change,and managing resistance to planned change
This is a three-credit core course offered by students of Business Management in the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Jos.
Introduction to Business Economics I is a two-credit unit course that gives students an understanding of economic principles which enable managers to make optimal decisions and also makes students aware of some government policies which affect the decisions managers can make. The course encourages students to develop a critical and evaluative approach to the principles they are taught. The course topics include an introduction to the various issues, the nature of economic science, the methodology of economics, major areas of specialization in economics, historical development of ideas, major findings in the various areas of specialization
This is a two-credit unit core course offered by students of Business Management in the Department of Business Administration.
There is undoubtedly a growing need for
entrepreneurship education as a basic skill in the Nigerian educational system.
Integration of Entrepreneurial Studies into Nigerian educational system will
prepare the youths to be responsible enterprising individuals who will become
entrepreneurial thinkers and contribute to economic and social development and
sustainable communities. Entrepreneurial skills revolve around attitudes such
as persistence, networking and self-confidence on the one hand and enabling
skills on the other hand, including basic start-up knowledge, business
planning, financial literacy and managerial skills. Effective entrepreneurship
education policies and programmes focus on developing these entrepreneurial
competencies and skills, which are transferable and beneficial in many work
contexts. The goal is to empower the youths, irrespective of their areas of
specialization, with skills that enable them, not only to strengthen their
capacity and desire to start their own enterprises, but also to develop an
entrepreneurial culture and mindset in our society. It is a re-orientation from
the take-a-job mentality to give-a-job mentality.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
The goal of this course is to help students understand the role of human resource management practices in creating and sustaining organizational performance and competitive advantage. Public sector contexts are different from Private sector contexts- applications will not be assumed, they will be explained topic by topic . It is erroneous to assume the principles are the same for business contexts and not for profit enterprises