Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

I. General Objectives

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

A) Understand the fundamental theories and most substantive and up-to-date methodologies of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Administration.
B) Analyze organizational problems and work out administrative solutions with a systematic and strategic focus.

II. Contents

1. Introduction
a. Problems
b. The Administration of Human Resources
c. Focuses

2. A Model of Analysis
a. Frame of Reference of the Theory of Social Action
b. Personality, Organizational Systems, and Organizational Culture

3. The Person at Work
a. The basis of individual behavior
b. Motivation at work
c. Systemization of models

4. The Organizational System
a. Organizational structure
a. Technology and Organization
b. The basis of group behavior
c. Leadership
d. Organizational power

5. Organizational Culture
a. Definition of organizational culture
b. Organizational socialization

6. The Social Environment
a. Change and organizational development

7. Studies
a. Satisfaction in the workplace
b. Organizational climate
c. Quality of life in the workplace

III. Evaluation
a. 1st Test (10%)
b. 2nd Test (20%)
c. 3rd Evaluation, (30%)
d. Final Exam (40%)

Outline for Research Report

1. Names of the coordinator and group members
2. Formulation of the investigative problem (basic questions, definition of variables, specification of the aspects that present the problem)
3. Objectives of the investigation
4. Population and selection (university, center, or corporation selected)
5. Bibliography
6. Stages of the research (chronogram)
a) Formulation of the problem

IV. Bibliography:

• Chiavenato, Idalberto. Administracion de Recursos Humanos. Mexico: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
• Dessler, G. Administracion de Personal. Mexico: Prentice-Hall, 1993.
• Drucker, P.F. Direccion de instituciones sin fines de lucro. Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1992.
• Drucker, P.F. La Gerencia. Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1990.
• Drucker, P.F.c I. Nakauchi. Tiempo de desafios. Tiempo de reinvenciones. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1997.
• Elorduy, J.I. Estrategia de Empresa y Recursos Humanos. Mexico: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
• Gibson, J.I, Ivancevich, J.M., Donnelly,J.I.I., Jr. Las organizaciones. Madrid: Irwin, 1996.
• Gomez-Llera, G. Dirigir es educar. Madrid: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
• Hunt. J.W. La Direccion de Personal en la Empresa. Madrid: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
• Ivancevich, J.M. y otros. Gestion. Calidad y Competitividad. Madrid: Irwin, 1996.
• Kast, F.E. Administracion en las Organizaciones. Mexico: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
• Kreitner, R. y Kinicki, A. Comportamiento de las Organizaciones. Madrid: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
• Maslow, A. El hombre autorrealizado. Barcelona: Kairos, 1993.
• Maslow, A. La personalidad Creadora. Barselona: Kairos, 1990.
• Maslow, A. Motivacion y personalidad. Madrid: Diaz de Santos, S.A., 1991.
• Milkovich. G.T. y boudreau, J.W. Direccion y Administracion de Recursos Humanos. Wilmington, E.U.A.: Addison-Wesley Iberoamericano, 1994.
• Morris, D.Y Brandon, J. Reingenieria. Bogota: McGraw-Hill, 1995.
• Ouchi, W. Teoria Z. Mexico: Fondo Educativo Interamericano, 1982.
• Robbins, S.P. Comportamiento Organizacional. Mexico: Prentice-Hall, 1994.
• Sherman, A.W. y Bohlander. Administracion de los Recursos Humanos. Mexico: Grupo Editorial lberoamerica, 1991.
• Werther, W.B. y Davis, K. Administracion de Personal y Recursos Humanos. Mexico: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
• Zeithaml, V.A. y otros. Calidad total en la gestion de servicios. Madrid: Diaz de Santos, 1993.