Group Dynamics

ABOUT THE COURSE:To familiarize the students with the functioning of individuals in group situations. To provide scholars and managers an understanding of human behavior at work and how to effectively integrate human and organizational resources. The course will focus on employees' positively oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement and optimum human conditioning. The course devises pathways to improve people’s quality of work-life and group situations in organizations and understand how managers can create positive change in organizations. This course will introduce the learners to the fundamental aspects of group behavior in detail.INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students from universities, colleges, and technical institutions and managers seeking to expand their scope of expertisePREREQUISITES: Graduation in any disciplineINDUSTRY SUPPORT: Banking, IT, and manufacturing sector; HR department, Police training, Medical practitioners, Army, Navy, and Air Force Personnel.

Week 1: Introduction of Groups: Groups and types of groups, their functions, stages of group development, reasons of joining groups.Week 2: Group Processes: Conformity, deviance, cohesiveness, social loafing and facilitation, cooperation and competition.Week 3: Interpersonal attraction and Social Relationship: Attraction, similarity and liking, measurement issues- Sociometry.Week 4: Group Communication: Process, formal and informal communication, verbal and non-verbal patterns of communication, social networks, rumors, and grapevine.Week 5: Interactive Behavior: Conflict and resolution strategies, transactional analysis, JOHARI window.Week 6: Impression Management: Tactics of impression management, self-presentation and attribution.Week 7: Organizational Justice, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Meaning and forms of organizational justice. Ethical behavior in organizations and difference between morals and ethics, the guiding principle of global ethics, factors promoting ethical and unethical behavior, Corporate Social Responsibility-meaning and its types, forms of socially responsible behavior, and the virtuous circleWeek 8: Positive Organizational Scholarship: Definition, the principle of POS, the scope of POS (Organizational Resilience, Meaning in work; Virtuousness, Engagement, Appreciative Inquiry, Mindfulness at work and well-being at work)