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Understanding Organizational Behavior

This document provides an overview of organizational behavior including: 1. It discusses how organizational behavior has evolved from a focus on technical management skills in business curriculums in the 1980s to a more multidisciplinary field. 2. It defines organizational behavior as a set of tools to evaluate how individuals, groups, and organizational structures impact behavior in organizations. 3. It outlines several key anchors of organizational behavior including that it is multidisciplinary and uses systematic research methods.

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Understanding Organizational Behavior

This document provides an overview of organizational behavior including: 1. It discusses how organizational behavior has evolved from a focus on technical management skills in business curriculums in the 1980s to a more multidisciplinary field. 2. It defines organizational behavior as a set of tools to evaluate how individuals, groups, and organizational structures impact behavior in organizations. 3. It outlines several key anchors of organizational behavior including that it is multidisciplinary and uses systematic research methods.

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VNUK - Lecture 1

Organizational
Behavior
BUSINESS SCHOOL
CURRICULA 1980’S
• Technical aspects of management
• Economics
• Accounting
• Financing
• Qualitative techniques
a coordinated social group of
An more than two persons
Organization… working together towards a
common goal / goals.
Aggressive: to
Behavior attack or confront
others
the way one acts especially Assertive: to be
towards others. confident and strong
Passive: allow others
to direct
Passive Aggressive:
indirect resistance
Why is it important?

❖ impacts productivity
❖ impacts effectiveness
❖ impacts perception
❖ impacts profitability
DEFINITION
A set of tools that allow us to evaluate the impact
individuals, groups and structures have on behavior
in an organization.
Climate
Groups
Organizational
Behavior

Culture
Anchors of OB
Multidisciplinary Anchor

Sociology
❖ OB is developed both Psychology
through its own research but Anthropology
also by evaluation other Communications
disciplines
Marketing
Information Systems
Systematic Research Anchor

❖ Forming research questions


❖ Collecting data
❖ Evaluating Evidence Based
❖ Creating and testing
Management
hypothesis
Contingency Anchor

❖ Any single action may have


different consequences or
results
❖ There is not a one solution
for all
Multiple Levels Of Analysis

Organization

Group

Individual
Individual

❖ Individual characteristics and


their processes attributed to:
❖ Attitude and Job Satisfaction
❖ Diversity and Personality
❖ Emotion and Moods Foundation of group
behavior
❖ Perception and Decision
Making
❖ Motivation
❖ Values
Group

❖ Group interactions and


behaviors including:
• Team dynamics,
communication, power,
leadership, conflict
• Organizational power and
politics
Organization

❖ Organizational, how do
people interact in their work
relationships and how do
organizations interact with
their environment
Apply OB principles and theories to
enhance your

1. own awareness
2. knowledge
3. skills
4. proficiency to work well in a group
5. work well as an individual in an
organization
References
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❖ [4] [Link]
stephen-robbins-chapter-1-35339265

❖ [5] [Link]
References
❖ [6] [Link]
behavior-knowledge/

❖ [7] [Link]

❖ [8] [Link]
behavior

❖ [9] [Link]
prestashop

❖ [10] [Link]
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❖ [11] [Link]

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