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Understanding Human and Organizational Behavior

Human behavior refers to the physical and emotional actions of individuals and groups across the lifespan from prenatal to adulthood. Organizational behavior studies how individuals and groups act within an organization, and how their actions impact the organization's performance. Elements of organizational behavior include an organization's culture, values, leadership, communication, group dynamics, and how these influence worker motivation and satisfaction to impact performance.

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Understanding Human and Organizational Behavior

Human behavior refers to the physical and emotional actions of individuals and groups across the lifespan from prenatal to adulthood. Organizational behavior studies how individuals and groups act within an organization, and how their actions impact the organization's performance. Elements of organizational behavior include an organization's culture, values, leadership, communication, group dynamics, and how these influence worker motivation and satisfaction to impact performance.

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Human behavior refers to the array of every physical action and observable emotion associated

with individuals, as well as the human race as a whole. Some behavior changes with age.
Human behavior
The capacity of mental, physical, emotional, and social activities experienced during the five
stages of a human being's life - prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
Includes the behaviors as dictated by culture, society, values, morals, ethics, and genetics.
Organizational behavior
Actions and attitudes of individuals and groups toward one another and toward the organization
as a whole, and its effect on the organization's functioning and performance.
Organizational behavior is the study of both group and individual performance and activity
within an organization. Internal and external perspectives are two theories of how
organizational behavior can be viewed by companies.

Elements of Organizational Behavior

The organizations base: rests on managements philosophy, values, vision and goals.
This in turn drives the organizational culture which is composed of the formal
organization, informal organization, and the social environment.
The culture determines the type of leadership, communication, and group dynamics
within the organization.
The workers perceive this as the quality of work life which directs their degree of
motivation.
The final outcome is performance, individual satisfaction, and personal growth and
development.
All these elements combine to build the model or framework that the organization
operates from.

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