Faculty

Organizational Behavior

Minoru Noda

Title: Professor, Meiji University Graduate School President

Course Outline/Objectives

Organizations are behavioral systems composed of many people organized in such a way that they will work cooperatively. The system can be broken down as follows:

• Partial Responsibility of the Roles,
• Grouping of the Roles,
• Lines of Command System Among the Roles,
• Information Transmission, and
• Regulation of the Roles

In this course, an outline of organizational theory will be divided into two sides - the micro and the macro. Students will follow six themes and apply them to past and present organizations.

• Leadership (Style, Organization Culture)
• Individual Behavior (Motivation, Commitment)
• Decision Making Process and Group Behavior (Decision Making, Communication)
• Structure of the Organization (Design, Complexity)
• Function of the Organization (Function, Line Staff, Adjustment Mechanism)
• Organization　Network （Network of the Organization, Grouping　Organization）