Organisational Misbehaviour: Individual Deviance and Collective Resistance MGT5381

  • Academic Session: 2023-24
  • School: Adam Smith Business School
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No

Short Description

This course examines aspects of workplace behaviour that are inconsistent with broad expectations of proper conduct in organisations. It analyses collective as well as individual acts of 'misbehaviour'.

Timetable

6 x 3 hour sessions.

Requirements of Entry

Please refer to the current postgraduate prospectus at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Individual assignment of 2,500 words.

Main Assessment In: April/May

Course Aims

1. To analyse workplace behaviour that is inconsistent with broad expectations of proper conduct in organisations.

2. To examine collective as well as individual acts of 'misbehaviour'.

3. To explore the economic and social dimensions of 'misbehaviour'.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

Intellectual skills 

On successful completion of this programme students will be able to understand and critically assess:

 

1. the main forms of misbehaviour, including absenteeism, pilfering, sabotage, work 'rationing' (going slow), joking, playing, gambling, bullying

2. economic factors in organisational misbehaviour

3. authority and power in workplaces and organisations, as revealed by misbehaviour

4. the search for meaning and autonomy in work, as revealed by misbehaviour

5. misbehaviour as evidence of employee resistance to work regimes

6. gendered roles in workplaces and organisations, as revealed by misbehaviour

7. the boundaries between individual and collective forms of individual misbehaviour, industrial relations and collective bargaining.

 

Transferable/key skills

On successful completion of the programme, students will be able to:

 

1. Communicate clearly and appropriately both in writing and orally

2. Work independently within an established intellectual and scholarly framework

3. Demonstrate oral and presentation skills, especially to present and defend an argument developed on the basis of scholarly literature.

4. Manage their time effectively, to prepare for effective class participation and complete course assignment.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.