Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Foundations of Organizational Behaviour Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Module 1: Understanding Organizational Behavior

• 1 What is Organizational Behaviour?
• a What is management? Evidence based management
• b Disciplines that contribute to Organizational Behavior
• c Challenges and opportunities for Organizational Behavior
• 2 Organizational Structure
• a What is it?
• b Common organizational designs
• 3 Workforce diversity
• a Ability
• b Implementing diversity management strategies

Module 2: Psychological factors in organizational behavior

• 1 Attitudes
• a Components of attitudes
• b How does attitude affect behavior?
• c Major job attitudes - consequences at workplace
• 2 Job Satisfaction
• a Measuring job satisfaction
• b Causes of job satisfaction, impact of job satisfaction
• 3 Personality & Values
• a What is Personality?
• b Importance of values
• c Person-Job fit, Person-Organization fit
• 4 Psychological Capital
• a Understanding resilience, optimism, and self-efficacy
• b Improving productivity using psychological capital

Text Books

• 1 Robbins, S. P., Judge, T. A., & Vohra, N. (2019). Organizational Behavior (18th ed.). Pearson Education.

Reference Books

• 1 Singh, K. (2015). Organizational Behaviour: Text and Cases (3rd ed.). Vikas Publishing House.
• 2 Pareek, U., & Khanna, S. (2016). Understanding Organizational Behaviour (4th ed.). Oxford University Press.
• 3 Luthans, F., Luthans, B. C., & Luthans, K. W. (2021). Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach (14th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.
• 4 Spector, P. E. (2021). Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice (8th ed.). Wiley India.
• 5 Gupta, C. B. (2014). A Textbook of Organisational Behaviour. Sultan Chand & Sons.
• 6 Sinha, J. B. P. (2008). Culture and Organizational Behaviour. SAGE Publications India