MGMT 340, Organizational Behavior

Purpose: to help other instructors teaching the same course

Common Course ID:   MGMT 340, Organizational Behavior
CSU Instructor Open Textbook Adoption Portrait

Abstract: This OER textbook is being utilized in a Management course for undergraduate students by Atul Teckchandani at CSU Fullerton. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to reduce course costs and include materials that are relevant for students. 

Course Title and Number
Brief Description of course highlights:  Individual, group and organizational influences on human behavior in organizations. Topics include personality and emotions, motivation, decision-making, group and team effectiveness, leadership, power and politics, organizational culture and change.

Student population: All business majors must take this course. There are no pre-requisites for this course. 

Learning or student outcomes:   The learning outcomes for this course are below. As a student in this course, you will learn how to:

• Be an effective leader and teammate.
• Understand yourself and others so you know how to motivate and support them to accomplish organizational goals.
• Improve how you and your team make decisions. 
• Diagnose and resolve conflict in group and organizational settings.
• Analyze, design and control organizational units and their activities.

Key challenges faced and how resolved:The key challenge I face in teaching this course is to facilitate engagement and make sure the students see how the course concepts apply in real-world settings. As such, I use lots of examples. Examples come from the book, short writing prompts that students must complete as homework, podcasts they listen to, and case studies we analyze in class.

Textbook or OER/Low cost Title: Organizational Behavior 

Brief Description:  Organizational Behavior: https://open.lib.umn.edu/organizationalbehavior/ Selected because it covered the same info as publisher textbooks but without the unnecessary cost.
Please provide a link to the resource https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/30

Student access:  Students get the text from https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/30
Supplemental resources: Slides are available on Canvas.
Provide the cost savings from that of a traditional textbook. $170.66-$234.66 /per student for the printed edition of Organizational Behavior, 18th Edition, by Robbins and Judge.
License:  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.  CC BY-NC-SA 

OER/Low Cost Adoption Process

Provide an explanation or what motivated you to use this textbook or OER/Low Cost option. I was motivated by saving students money and ensuring that all had access to the textbook.

How did you find and select the open textbook for this course? I participated in the “Open Fullerton Fellowship” program, where I was able to work closely with a librarian (Michaela Keating). Michaela found many open source resources I could use. After going through them I was able to settle on one that was equivalent to the previous non-open-source textbook I was using.

Sharing Best Practices: I wish I had known of all the open source repositories that are out there.

Describe any challenges you experienced, and lessons learned. The only challenge I experienced was getting the Titan bookstore to properly list the book as a no-cost textbook and to note in the course catalog that my course was a “no cost course.”

Instructor Name:  Dr. Atul Teckchandani
I am a Management associate professor at CSU Fullerton. 
Please provide a link to your university page.  https://business.fullerton.edu/academics/management/faculty-profiles?user=ateckchandani@fullerton.edu
Please describe the courses you teach.  I teach entrepreneurship, strategy, leadership, and organizational behavior.
Describe your teaching philosophy and any research interests related to your discipline or teaching.  Dr. Teckchandani’s research examines the interdependent relationship between organizations and the communities in which they reside. He is interested in how the different types of organizations in a community collectively affect economic outcomes, entrepreneurial activity and the founding and failure rates of other community organizations. This research draws upon work in community ecology, economic geography, social networks and entrepreneurship. He is also interested in business school pedagogy and has published a number of articles on how to improve how concepts are taught in business school classrooms.