Spring 2027

Managing Behavior in Organizations

Manages behavior in organizations by applying leadership and work motivation theories, emphasizing performance management and managerial skill building.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.44 GPA, 69.1% A/AB (n=55 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.88 GPA, 95.3% A/AB (n=64 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.65 GPA, 86.8% A/AB (n=53 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply the scientific method as an epistemological guide to first understand, then be able to predict, and consequently lead organizational behavior.

  • Evaluate research behind some of the foundational theories of motivation and leadership: operant conditioning, goal-setting, social cognitive, contingency model of leadership effectiveness, and transactional vs. transformational leadership paradigm.

  • Practice differentiating research-derived, cumulatively-built evidence from leadership myths, popular half-truths, idiosyncratic anecdotes, and complete nonsense.

  • Articulate deductive and inductive reasoning, understanding of chance and associated errors of inference, and characterizing of applied recommendations through the lens of their inferential probabilities, or the lack of thereof.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program. Not open to students with credit forM H R 604.

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.44 GPA, 69.1% A/AB (n=55 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.88 GPA, 95.3% A/AB (n=64 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.65 GPA, 86.8% A/AB (n=53 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Theories of leadership and work motivation
  • Operant conditioning, goal-setting, social cognitive theory, contingency model of leadership, transactional vs. transformational leadership
  • Critical conceptual and analytical assessment of organizational behavior theories

Skills

  • Application of leadership and work motivation theories; management of work performance; managerial skill building; enabling followers
  • Evaluating research behind foundational theories of motivation and leadership including operant conditioning, goal-setting, social cognitive, contingency model, and transactional vs. transformational paradigms
  • Articulating deductive and inductive reasoning, understanding chance and inference errors, and characterizing applied recommendations via inferential probabilities

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.14 GPA average error.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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MHR 704 · Spring 2027

Managing Behavior in Organizations

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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