Organizational Behavior

CHAPTER 1: What Is Organizational Behavior?

by NORESH SYAZWANI NAJWA BINTI ESHAMMUDIN

Learning Objectives

  • Demonstrate the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace.
  • Define organizational behavior (OB). Show the value to OB of systematic study.
  • Identify the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB.
  • Demonstrate why few absolutes apply to OB.
  • Identify managers’ challenges and opportunities in applying OB concepts.
  • Compare the three levels of analysis in this text’s OB model.

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Introduction

Organizational behavior (OB)

  • The study of the way people interact within groups. Normally this study is applied in an attempt to create more efficient business organizations. The central idea of the study of organizational behavior is that a scientific approach can be applied to the management of workers.
  • The study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organization, and the organization itself.
  • Directly concerned with the understanding, prediction, and control of human behavior in organizations.” — Fred Luthans.

 Main goals of organizational behavior

  • To revitalize organizational theory and develop a better conceptualization of organizational life.

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CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Posted on 21 May 2018, 11:39 AM
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WHAT I LEARN

  • the meaning of organizational behavior
  • the main goal of organization.
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