ILROB 1750 Behavior, Values, and Performance
Fall and spring. 3 credits. Not open to ILR students. Staff.
Examines the modern technology-based organization as a workplace. With global competitive dynamics as a backdrop, the course explores how organizational structures, processes, and practices have evolved to meet environmental challenges and will define the behavioral implications of those changes for practicing engineers and designers and managers who work with them. Interpreting such changes and building a capacity for professional effectiveness in this environment requires students to develop a working familiarity with an array of social and behavioral science literature, dealing with such matters as personal identity, motivation, and job design; creativity and the organizational enablers to innovation; group dynamics and project effectiveness; perception, communication, and cross-cultural understanding; and ethical decision making in a high-stress environment. The teaching cases/situations used reflect the orientation of the course toward technology-based organizations.