Leadership and Organizational Behavior

4 Gholipour A. 2007. Leadership and Organizational Behavior, MBA Course – Sharif
University of Technology: Graduate School of Management and Economics.
Topics: Personality, Values, Attitudes and Emotions
Week 5:
Topic: Learning and Behavior Modification
Week 6:
Topic: Stress Management
Week 7:
Topics: Group Dynamics and Teams
Week 8:
Topics: Power, Influence, Empowerment and Politics
Week 9:
Topic: Organizational Communication
Week 10:
Topics: Conflict and Negotiation
Week 11:
Topic: Organizational Culture
Week 12:
Topic: Leadership
Week 13:
Topic: Sociology of Organizational Behavior: Critical Review
Week 14,15,16:
Paper Presentations
Week 17:
Exam 2
VI. Guidelines for Papers
Topics: The paper topics should be drawn from any of the O.B areas lectured on in the
class. You may also choose an O.B issue that has not been directly addressed in class, but it
should be related to issues that had been discussed and analyzed.
- The paper will be presented in class.
- Students are to work in groups of no larger than four.
Papers: Write-ups should be about 7to 10 pages long (Microsoft Word, Single-spaced,
Font: Zar, Font Size:14, Line Spacing: Single, one inch margins). A good write-up would
describe the issue, analyze the problems faced, and discuss previous proposals that have been
made. Justify your conclusions and clearly discuss your recommendation(s). Succinctness
will be rewarded. The papers will be due on the day the in-class presentations are made.
VII. Citation Style for Papers
Embed the reference in the text with the form (author last name, year: page) .".."
(Gholipour,2005:23).
If the same author has more than one reference in a given year append a letter - a,b,c, - to
the year. (Gholipour, 2005a; Gholipour, 2005b).
You need a bibliography at the end of the paper that gives the full citation for each
reference. The bibliography should be alphabetical by author last name. It takes the form:
For a journal article:
Author last name, first name .year. "Article Title," Journal Name. Vol. No. Pages.
Example:
Gholipour, A. 1381. "The Sociology of Public Administration," Management
Knowledge.15/57:51-70.
For a book:
Author last name, first name .year. Book Title .Publishing City: Publisher.
Example:
Gholipour, A.1380. The Sociology of Organizations. Tehran: Samt.