MBA

HRM-401 Group Dynamics and Leadership Excellence

Max. Marks: 100

External: 70

Internal: 30

Time 3 Hour

Note: The examiner will set nine questions in all. Question No. 1, comprising of 5 short answer type questions of 4 marks each, shall be compulsory and remaining 8 questions will be of 10 marks out of which a student is required to attempt any 5 questions.

Objective: This course offers to teach students the importance of raising groups , leadership and turning them into passionate teams in organizations. It gives an understanding of how individuals as team member and as an effective leader must behave to sustain teams

Course Contents:

Nature of Groups at Work: Definition, Types of groups, Dynamics of group formation, Models, Group Decision making Techniques: Delphi Technique; Nominal Group Technique; Traditional Brain Storming; Electronic Brain Storming. Negative Brain Storming Workgroup Vs. Teams: Transforming Groups into Teams, Stages of Team Building and its Behavioral Dynamics; Interpersonal Competence & Team Effectiveness: Measuring Interpersonal Competence FIRO-B. Context; Goals; Team Size; Team Member Roles and Diversity; Group Dynamics: Norms, Cohesiveness, conformity, polarization, obedience, group shift and group think; Transactional analysis & Johari window helping process ; Team Effectiveness and influencing factors of team effectiveness. Role of Interpersonal Competence in Team Building; Developing Collaboration in Teams: Functional and Dysfunctional Cooperation and Competition; Interventions to build Collaboration in Organizations; Social Loafing, Social facilitation, Synergy in Teams, Self-Managed Teams and Interpersonal Trust; Communication and Creativity: Communication Process; Communication Effectiveness &Feedback; Fostering Team Creativity;

Leadership– Leader v/s manager- Leadership styles, Concepts, Theories and Styles: Trait, Behavioral and situational; Transactional and Transformational Leaderships, Leadership effectiveness, effective leadership communication;

Suggested Readings :

Robbins, S. P. (2004). Organizational Behavior. Pearson Education.
Luthans, F. (2002). Organizational Behavior. McGraw-Hill International Edition.
Pareek, Udai. (2004). Understanding Organizational Behaviour. Oxford University Press.
Kolb, ( 1991) Organizational Behaviour: An Experiential Approach. 5th ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc.,
Moore, MD, (1988) Inside Organizations: Understanding the Human Dimensions London, Sage
Clifford T Morgan, Richard A King, John R Weiz, John Schopler (2009) Introduction to Psychology, Tata MC Graw Hill,
R.K.Sahu ( 2010), Group Dynamics & Team Building, Excel Books,

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Semester 1 7/7

Semester 2 7/7

Semester 3 56/56

Semester 4 58/58

HRM-401 Group Dynamics and Leadership Excellence

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