Roll Topics for assignment in OB & HRD

Numbers
1 to 7 COMMUNICATION IN ORGANIZATION

• Definition, components, process

• Methods, channels, and networks
• Barriers to communication
• Persuasive communication
• Transactional analysis
8 to 14 GROUP DYNAMICS

• Meaning, types, and functions

• Models of group development
• Processes, roles, and cohesiveness
• Effectiveness and management
• Groups to teams
15 to 21 LEADERSHIP

• Leadership and management

• Perspectives on leadership: Trait, behavioural, and
contingency
• Transactional vs. transformational leadership vs.
charismatic leadership
• Leaders and mentorship
22 to 28 CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

• Meaning, types, and stages of conflict

• Attitudes towards conflict
• Sources of conflict
• Conflict management
29 to 35 POWER AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR

• Power and control issues

• Sources of power
• Approaches to understanding power in organization
• Bases of power
• Organizational politics
• Conditions for the use of power and politics
• Power tactics
36 to 42 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

• Meaning and elements; types

• Functions of organizational culture
• Approaches to describing organizational culture
• Managing organizational culture
• Changing organizational culture
43 to 48 EMPOWERMENT
 • Meaning and features of Empowerment
• Empowerment as a motivational tool
• Empowerment v/s delegation
• Significance of trust
• Participation methods
49 to 56 ROLE ANALYSIS

• Meaning of task, job, position, role and work; match

between role and man :selection procedure and
assessment centre approach

57 to 62 SOCIALISATION, COUNSELLING, MENTORING AND

FEEDBACK
Objectives; methods; effective counseling; mentoring;
conditions and process

63 to 70 DEVELOPMENT OF ROLES

Performance and potential appraisal: Objective; components

;process

71 to 77 COUNSELLING AND FEEDBACK

Objectives; review of individuals and groups; effective

counseling: conditions and process

78 & above HRD OVERVIEW

• Importance; career planning and development; training
program; job enrichment; role efficacy