Professor Connson Locke, MAR.4.14 and Dr Dorottya Sallai, MAR.4.10

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Management. This course is available on the BSc in Accounting and Finance, International Exchange (1 Term) and International Exchange (Full Year). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Students who have this course as a compulsory course are guaranteed a place. Places for all other students are allocated on a first come first served basis. The lectures for this course are open for students to audit, though priority for space in the lecture theatre will go to registered students

This course introduces students to social science theories, research and application related to understanding human behaviour in the workplace. That is, this course is about the people side of business and management. Each week focuses on a different topic investigating individual, group, and organisational issues.

Topics include: personality and performance, managerial decision-making, motivating others, fairness in organisations, the multicultural workplace, power and influence, the adaptive leader, team leadership.

Teaching hours in the AT will be commensurate with a usual half unit undergraduate course.

This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of AutumnTerm, in line with departmental policy.

In its Ethics Code, LSE upholds a commitment to intellectual freedom. This means we will protect the freedom of expression of our students and staff and the right to engage in healthy debate in the classroom.

Students will have the opportunity to submit a 1000-word essay during AT and receive formative feedback. Students will also work in groups to answer an essay question through an in-class presentation and will receive structured feedback based on the criteria for marking essays (e.g. structure, evidence).

Colquitt, J.A., LePine, J.A., & Wesson, M.J. (2009) Organizational Behavior: Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace (International edition).

Yukl, G. (2009). Leadership in Organizations. (7th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Essay (70%, 1500 words).
Class participation (15%) and quiz (15%) in the AT.

Class participation will be based on oral representations of weekly reading summaries, participation in classes, as well as engagement with lecture material.  Lecture attendance is strongly encouraged to enable students to fully engage with lecture material.

Essay topics will be available at the end of AT and due before the start of WT.

Quizzes will take place throughout AT. Students who do not attempt all quizzes will receive a mark of 0 for the missed quiz(zes) and will receive an overall average mark based on their score in the attempted quiz(zes) and a zero for the missed one(s). Students who fail to attempt any quizzes will be awarded a Zero Incomplete for the whole course and cannot be awarded the degree until they submit the work at resit.